Allergien Anhängsel 3
[Robert Medhurst]
These allergy homeopathic remedies may be worth considering for general
allergy symptoms.
Remedy Comments /
Modalities
Allium cepa Sneezing, profuse, fluent burning
acrid nasal discharge with conjunctivitis, itchy eyes, photophobia, a bland
lachrymal discharge, ticklish throat and a dull frontal headache are often seen.
<: in a warm room/evening; >: in open air/cold;
Antimonium tart Dyspnoea, a chesty cough, nausea and fatigue respond well
to this remedy. <: warmth; >: motion/belching;
Apis mel Commonly used for bites and stings
by insects, those with hives, swelling of the throat, and general swelling and
burning symptoms may benefit from Apis.
Skin symptoms > cold application.
Arsenicum alb Violent sneezing, photophobia, burning tears and a thin,
watery, excoriating nasal discharge appear here and there may also be swollen
eyelids, dyspnoea, restlessness and anxiety. Symptoms are worse after exertion,
after midnight and are better in a warm room
Euphrasia Catarrhal
headaches, profuse burning tears, conjunctivitis and a bland nasal discharge
characterise this remedy. Symptoms are worse in the cold air, in sunlight or
wind, for warmth and during the evening and better in bed and from coffee.
Nat mur Weakness,
photophobia, itchy eyes, lachrymation, swelling of
the eyes and migraine headaches that are worse from sunrise to sunset, numbness
and tingling of the tongue, sneezing and coryza may
be seen here. >: open air/rest; <: mid-morning/mental exertion;
Nux vomica Cough associated with bursting
headache, fluent nasal discharge by day and nasal congestion at night with
sneezing and irritability will often respond well to Nux
vom. Symptoms are worse in the early morning and in
cold, open air.
Pulsatilla Occipital
or one-sided headache, shortness of breath, bland, yellow, nasal discharge
during the day and congestion at night may indicate the need for Pulsatilla. Symptoms are worse in a warm room, at twilight,
at night and while lying down and better for cool and open air.
Rhus tox Restlessness, swelling and oedema of
the eyelids, photophobia, drowsiness after eating, occipital headache, sneezing
with fluent coryza, hives, extreme itching and joint
stiffness characterise this remedy. Symptoms are worse for exposure to cold and
better for hot applications.
Urtica urens Erythema,
hives and contact allergies resulting in Itching and burning skin symptoms
which may alternate with arthritic symptoms are often seen here. Symptoms are
worse for exposure to cold or from touch.
Allergy Specifics
The authors noted in the bibliography have also made mention of a
numbers of remedies that correspond to specific allergies. These may be miasmatic or symptomatic in action but in all cases the
characteristics of the remedy should be matched to the presenting symptoms.
Allergy to Remedy
Animal Dander Tuberculinum
Asparagus Carcinosin
Bananas Phosphorus
Bees Apis mel
Butter Sulphur
Buckwheat Pulsatilla
Carrots Phosphorus
Castor Bean Alumina, Antimonium
ars.
Cats Phosphorus,
Tuberculinum
Celery Apium grav
Chocolate Sulphur
Cod Liver Oil Pulsatilla
Dogs Phosphorus
Dust Blatta orientalis
Eggs Ferrum met, Nat mur, Sulphur, Tuberculinum
Fats, Animal Pulsatilla,
Sulphur
Feathers Sulphur
Fish Sulphur,
Tuberculinum
Flour Aspidosperma
Flowers Sanguinaria
Fruit Arsenicum alb, Pulsatilla
Glutamate Nat mur,
Phosphorus
Grass, Freshly Cut Allium cepa, Dulcamara,
Pulsatilla, Sabadadilla
Grass Pollens Medorrhinum,
Natrum sulph, Phosphorus, Senega
Guinea Pig Hair Kali carb, Lycopdium
Hair Dyes Sulphur, Tuberculinum
Hazelnuts Phosphorus
Honey Nat mur
Hornets Vespa crabro
Insect Bites Carbolic acid
Meat Nat
mur, Sulphur, Tuberculinum
Metals Sulphur
Milk Calc
carb, Homarus, Nat mur, Sepia, Sulphur, Tuberculinum,
Urtica urens
Mosquito Culex
Onion Nat
mur, Thuja
Oranges Pulsatilla
Oysters Lycopodium
Pollen Blatta orientalis
Pork Pulsatilla, Sepia
Ragweed Ambrosia
Sardines Sulphur, Tuberculinum
Shellfish Arsenicum
alb., Terebinthina, Urtica urens
Starch Nat mur
Strawberries Carcinosin,
Fragaria vesca
Sugar Saccharum officinale
Tamarind Seed Blatta orientalis, Carbo veg
Wasps Vespa crabro
Weevils Grindelia, Ipecac
Wheat Nat mur, Psorinum
Specific Desensitisation
Another more direct, but not necessarily homeopathic method of dealing
with allergies, is by desensitisation using the specific material associated
with the generation of the allergy symptoms. The normal method here is to
isolate the causative agent (allergen) and treat the sufferer by using 10 drops
of a 15c preparation of the allergen every second day for 16 days (therefore 8
doses), then use 10 drops of a 9c preparation of the allergen every second day
for 16 days. This cycle should be repeated on alternate months for
4 to 6 months if the situation requires it, although regular challenges
via muscle testing etc may need to be made to monitor the patient’s progress.
In acute episodes, 10-15 drops of the 9c preparation of the allergen may
be used along with 10-15 drops of Histaminum 30c, 3-5
times daily or as required.
[Dr. Manisha Bhatia]
Histamine – allergic to
dust, strong perfumes
Nat-m. – allergic to bread;
acidic food
Kali-bi. – allergic to beer;
malt liquor
Sepia – allergic to warm
boiled milk
Hepar
Sulph – allergic to cod liver oil
Carb-v.
– Allergic to aspirin; bad liquors, salt butter, bad eggs, poultry items
Sulph.
– allergic to antibiotic
Bry.
– allergic to castor oil
Nux-v.
– allergic to coffee
Apis
– allergic to heat
Ars.
- Allergic to cold drinks; fruits; rotten foods, iodine
Dulc.
– allergic to dampness
Ailanthus – allergic to smell
of flowers
Thuja
– allergic to sweets; fatty meats, onion
Arg-n.
– allergic to sugar
Tellurium – allergic to rice
Petroleum – allergic to
cabbage
Nitri-spiritus
dulcus – allergic to cheese
Justicia
adhatoda – allergic to dust; coryza
with profuse nasal discharge and sneezing in the evening
[Manfred Mueller]
For asthma, look at Arsenicum, Ipecac, Eucaluptus, Chlorum and Nat-s.
Homeopath Manfred Mueller finds that most allergic reactions nowadays
are due to toxic factors like radiation, chemicals, and medical drugs. He
shares his special approach
to treating these reactions, including reverse chronological tautopathy.
“Some persons are apt to faint from smell of roses and to fall into many
other morbid and sometimes dangerous states from partaking of mussels, crabs
and fish roe, or from touching the leaves of some kinds of sumach.”
S. Hahnemann, Organon
117.
Allergies are systemic disorders that make the sufferer susceptible to
certain triggers with a wide range of clinical reactions. Many of these
triggers can be identified with diagnostic tests and some cannot. Many triggers
are natural.
For example, common syndromes such allergic respiratory congestion or
rhinitis, often called hay fever, with nasal discharge, sneezing, eye
irritation and lachrymation, are usually reactions to
natural allergens. Other common allergic reactions include the widespread
syndrome of spasmodic constriction of the bronchial tubes, known as asthma.
The triggers for asthma are similar to those of hay fever such as pollen
from trees and grasses, mold, dust, animal hair,
animal dander and others. These occur only in susceptible individuals while
other more fortunate people remain unaffected.
Natural allergens can also cause symptoms in some of allergic dermatitis
with skin symptoms like hives and blisters that follow contact or even mere
proximity to certain plants, such as poison sumac or poison ivy. Most of these
plants are not common in Europe but very common in the US. Especially in the
southern US, ordinary outdoor activities give ample opportunity to test your
homeopathic knowledge for allergies.
Then, there are the allergic reactions to insect bites and stings,
mosquito bites, spider bites, tick bites, skin mites, and many others. The
susceptibility to these varies widely
from person to person, and this is one of the most fascinating things
about allergies: One person can die from a single bee sting, while others might
not even get localized swelling from the same. So, the condition of being
“allergic” to something appears to be a state of health or a condition of the
whole organism.
Furthermore, some allergies clearly run in families. Research conducted
on allergies has confirmed a genetic component, suggesting that some allergies
can be hereditary. Genetic factors for developing food allergies have been
observed in several studies.
In addition to the above environmental allergies we see more and more
food allergies. You may know people that have had local or systemic allergic
reactions to ingesting certain foods. Apparently, food allergies are increasing
in frequency.
What causes allergies? Noted allergologist and
author of You are what you ate, Sherry Rogers MD, believes allergies are the
result of metabolic cul-de-sacs from toxins that block the normal metabolic
pathways in our bodies. But does this account for all allergies?
Some allergies appear to develop as a result of triggers that somehow
change our state of immune health. In some people, allergies gradually increase
along with general sensitivity. Old age or “depletion of cortisols”
are often mentioned in the literature as factors in developing allergies.
Recently a friend named Lisa, a woman in her late thirties, ate at a
restaurant for Valentine’s Day. What promised to be a lovely evening was
followed by a hasty trip to
the ER because of an apparent systemic reaction to the shrimp she ate.
She had never had such a reaction to shrimp before. The specialists were unable
to diagnose any
known allergy to shrimp. Was she reacting to another ingredient in the
meal?
Events such as this have caused many to question the whole theoretical
basis of allergology. Many have found it is a good
idea to carefully study the content or exact ingredients of the foods they eat.
In the US, we have an advantage that all ingredients of processed foods must by
law be listed on the label.
This seems to be especially important for those with food allergies, and
especially with commercially processed food purchased in the store.
However, when it comes to restaurant food the ingredients are rarely
disclosed.
In the United States, at least, there is no legislation that requires
restaurants to disclose all their ingredients. It is largely an issue of “caviat emptor—buyer beware!”
People with food allergies are usually limited to eating at home.
After taking Lisa’s acute case, I came to the conclusion that she was
reacting to the common pollutant of seafood—mercury. Shrimp is not one of the
high-mercury content seafoods, unlike tuna fish.
However, Lisa had a history of an adverse reactions to a flu shot. Some flu
shots contain up to 30mcg of mercury in form of thimerosal.
Lisa had possibly become sensitized to mercury during that event. She
quickly recovered from her acute symptoms with low potencies of Dr. Hahnemann’s
chief mercury antidote, Hepar sulphur calcareum, which, in a
way, may have confirmed my hypothesis, because her symptoms did not fit those
of Hepar at all.
This leads me right into the topic of the selection of acute remedies
for allergic reactions. It is really no different from any other urgent care
prescribing. As in all acute cases,
it is important not to loose sight of the forest for the trees.
The most important homeopathic considerations in selecting any remedy
for an acute case, including cases of asthma, hay fever, or contact dermatitis,
are the general symptoms. So, you ask questions like, “since this reaction
started, how have you been feeling in general?” or more specific, “have you
been thirsty or not thirsty, warm
or chilly, what makes it worse or better, is this worse of better from
getting warm or chilly, outdoors or indoors, etc?
So if you have general weakness, with sneezing, and not thirsty, it
could mean Gelsemium, whereas weakness, sneezing and thirsty could
require, say, Natrum m.
In non-thirsty cases, you have a choice between several common acute
remedies, Gels., Puls, Apis,
Bell., etc.
In hives, or itching eruptions, chilly and thirsty could mean Rhus-tox (thirsty for milk). On the other hand, if a victim
is not thirsty and < heat, it might mean Apis and so on. By the way, why is such an important general
symptom “thirstlessness” not listed under “general
symptoms” in our Complete Repertory? Instead, it is found under stomach! Thirst
is neither a condition nor a function of the stomach.
It helps to consider what types of allergic reaction you are dealing
with: Hayfever remedies abound,
but do not forget: Aralia, Naphtalinum,
and Limulus.
For asthma, look at Arsenicum, Ipecac, Eucaluptus, Chlorum, and Nat-sulph.
Contact dermatitis with hives may also be helped by Antipyrinum,
Copainum, and Fragaria. In
common cases of mold and dust allergies, especially
if there is wheezing, remedies like Blatta, Kali-bi
and Nat- sulph should be considered. Lycopodium has been a most successful remedy for general
chronic tendency to react to mold.
Natrum muriaticum
is a wonderful remedy for patients becoming hypersensitive to everything they
love like chocolate, etc.
Animal hair allergies have responded well to Ant-t., Gallium, Kali-ars, and Sulph. If it is a cat
allergy, Arsenicum has often provided relief.
In dog hair allergies, I have tried Haliaethus
lycocapitus without much success. I have done better
with a combination of dog hair mix. Dust allergies sometimes respond
to acute treatment of Brom., Hep. and Puls. and are often relieved permanently with chronic
treatment of Ars. Sil. or Sulph.
Another important consideration during acute case taking is the fact
that we cannot simply switch randomly from one remedy to the next. Each remedy
has its specific interactions. And it has its relative duration. This you could
look up in Gibson Miller’s charts.
Vermuellen’s Concordant has one of the most
complete references on interactions or “relations”, and so has my Oncology Materia Medica. Some remedies
follow well,
while others do not. Some are inimical to each other. You need to know
these and what to do in that case.
And what do you do when you have overlooked an interaction problem, when
you realize you have aggravated a case, by choosing, say, Rhus
tox after Apis?
Or after giving Caust. and you now needed Phos.? You have to know your “inimicals”
and their homeopathic antidotes like the back of your hand.
I wrote about such a situation, published in the American Homeopath,
entitled Prelude to Surgery. Or, what if you encounter as case of a yellow
jacket sting with
symptoms resembling Apis, on top of a severe
dermatitis reaction to poison ivy resembling Rhus-tox.?
I recommend you study my article carefully. In food allergies, it is not
always the natural ingredients but the unnatural ones that are the culprit,
such as preservatives or pollutants, as possibly in Lisa’s case, or perhaps
chemical poisons that are involved in the production and processing of food.
This was possibly also the cause in the swelling the lady in Prelude to
Surgery had encountered - a surgery, which by the way, homeopathy could
prevent. But it looked like the situation was started with a serious
allergic-type swelling of the fingers, possibly after eating in a Chinese
restaurant. Sometimes you need to proceed like a detective in these acute
cases. And you need to have a scientific rather than a dogmatic mind.
Here is another case for a detective: Elaine, a highly sensitive woman
ate a new brand of yoghurt and promptly developed symptoms of anxiety with
ravenous hunger.
Under different circumstances, this would have probably led to a
referral to a psychiatrist, had she not been one of my students.
After she called me and told me of her symptoms, I immediately suspected
that she was suffering from iodine sensitivity. She confirmed that she had
never been able to
take iodized multivitamins without adverse reactions. Arsenicum album quickly antidoted
the reaction, which was followed by a prolonged course of treatment with Iodum
for the existing chronic iodine allergy.
Curious where the iodine could have come from, I had consulted with a
client of mine who had a dairy farm and who confirmed that dairy farmers
commonly wash the cows’ udders with a solution of iodine.
I once personally witnessed a tragedy in the making waiting in line at a
steakhouse, where I was eating lunch, when an individual who had partaken from
a salad bar suddenly collapsed after what appeared to be an adverse reaction to
something in the salad.
It turned out the gentleman had an allergy to [Manfred Mueller]
sodium metabisulfite and other sulfite-based preservatives, which are commonly used in the
US in commercial salad bars.
I was later told by the manager of the steakhouse that the victim died
on the way to the hospital.
For some people, an innocent glass of red wine containing natural sulfites can be a death sentence! There are natural sulfites in wine, and additionally, sodium metabisulfite
is commonly added to many California wines. Restaurants can be dangerous
places!
Even the conventional medical treatment of choice for anaphylactic
reactions, while often lifesaving, does not always work; it can have
devastating effects on some individuals, especially those with drug allergies.
Apparently, drug allergies are a common cause of death in United States hospitals.
The CEO of a major global pharmaceutical company stated recently that
drug allergies and sensitivities are becoming a more and more serious problem
for the industry. Anyone who has ever worked in an ER knows that this is,
indeed, the case.
Not all people respond the same to a drug. This is also true for
injected vaccines. The US CDC reports a relatively high incidence of allergic
reactions to standard childhood vaccines, some of them systemic and
life-threatening.
We should also learn about the difference in sensitivity to homeopathic
medicines.
I have written about this too. I will briefly discuss the solution to
this. Hahnemann recommended the olfactory dose be tried first in these cases,
then additional dilutions
of the potency without further potentizing—in
other words, without succussing the mixture. Only
gently stirring the solution after each step of dilution will do.
This would be impossible if you were only taking globules, so, for acute
cases, except for the first dose, we need the water potencies.
I have reports from some highly sensitive persons who had adverse
reactions to sniffed doses of q-potencies. I recently worked with a young man
named Jean from Belgium. Jean got anxiety attacks and chills every time he took
the remedy Arsenicum.
And a patient from Mexico, Carlos, had tried classical homeopathy
several times before, and it always failed, because every time previously he’d
developed proving symptoms of whatever remedy he took. But after I had
explained to him how to make further dilutions of that potency, Carlos found
out he could take his remedy in 800 dilution cups. Likewise, Jean discovered he
needed to dilute his remedy to 900 cups.
I have a list with probably several hundred cured cases and not all of
allergies, but of a wide variety of disorders, each of them accomplished with
more than fifty dosage cups of additional dilution. Theses cures support the
observation that persons who were too sensitive and developed the proving
symptoms from the standard globules could be cured, even after they had
“flunked out” of standard homeopathy.
By taking the remedy with olfactory doses with additional dilutions they
discovered this could be accomplished by increasing the dilution dramatically.
They were cured, not only from their diagnosed conditions, but also from their
hypersensitivity to homeopathic remedies!
I am currently working with a British attorney, a woman who was reacting
to any remedy in the regular dose, and it took weeks to recover each time she
had tried it.
She recently reported she took Pulsatilla by
the olfactory route in a liquid dose diluted in a series of 96 dosage cups and
had a wonderful positive response.
These are exponential dilutions, without succussions!
You may read up in the Organon on this method
proposed by Hahnemann, except going to these extremes by trial and error to
suit the highly sensitive patient. I
recommend my latest translation of this section in the Concise Organon (aphor. 248, p. 110).
I pioneered this method for these sufferers of preparing seemingly
extreme exponential dilutions that suit the patient through additional steps of
dilution, without increasing the potency through succussion.
(For more information on how to obtain my tutorials including, please call our
clinic at 001-619-741-5795 during business hours EST).
Another common allergic reaction, the vaccine allergies are
often-discussed these days. I remember the case of a mother from Tennessee who
called my office about an allergic reaction her eleven-year-old son had to his
two-year childhood vaccines. The parents stopped all vaccines after that.
However, a few years later, the couple ended up divorcing. During the child
custody proceedings, the father’s attorney advanced the mother’s concern over vaccines
as cause to prove she was not suitable as a mother.
The judge ordered the boy be taken straight to the health department and
vaccinated. Predictably, this was followed by another serious anaphylactic
reaction that required emergency medical treatment and follow up treatment in
the ICU!
For cases like this, and perhaps for all, homeopathic immunization would
be the safest course of action to protect against infectious diseases. If you
wish to learn more about this method, please feel free to consult my latest
book on the subject.
This brings me to another often-discussed subject in homeopathic
circles: the state of health or that of the vital force. I hinted above that
the general state of health of an individual was possibly responsible for some
extreme allergic reactions.
The expression “state of health” is, admittedly, about as blurry as the
term “State of the Union” in American politics.
However, nevertheless, it is meaningful to homeopaths that see the
difference between the sick and healthy state every day as a result of
treatment.
According to the Hahnemannian definition of
health, health is the predictable result of extinguishing of all signs and
symptoms of a disease with a suitable (homeopathic) remedy. But what about
persons who feel basically healthy, who are fit, young and seemingly have no
signs or symptoms of any disorder and still get serious anaphylactic reactions?
Unless they have reason to believe that this can be changed, they would
not likely even seek treatment. This is unfortunately very common. The symptoms
of the typical allergic individual only occur, when there is a trigger. Doesn’t
this constitute impaired health?
Of course, as homeopaths, we know there are latent states, lopsided or
“defective” disorders, where no symptoms are manifest! Surprisingly, in his Organon, Hahnemann described exactly that state of healthy
persons with certain “idiosyncrasies” that under certain circumstances
predisposed the sufferers to serious hypersensitivity reactions
to certain foods and plants, even without exhibiting any other signs of
illness:
“Some persons are apt to faint from smell of roses and to fall into many
other morbid and sometimes dangerous states from partaking of mussels, crabs,
and fish roe, or
from touching the leaves of some kinds of sumach.”
Does this description not remind you of cases of the typical
environmental allergies we have presented above? As it turns out, Hahnemann was
of the opinion that these individuals are, in fact, basically healthy, and he
thought that they were even the ideal candidates for becoming volunteer
subjects for our homeopathic provings or pathogenetic trials!
Some prominent homeopaths have theorized that allergies and
hypersensitivities are encountered in persons suffering from a “tuberculous miasms” that had to be eradicated. No doubt, many people do
suffer from such a derangement.
And yet, there are many allergic individuals who do not show any such tuberculous signs or characteristics. Some homeopaths have
pointed to the allergic condition as seen in persons afflicted with the “sycotic misam”. This may well be
the case. However many do not!
Chronic Psora is also being
blamed for allergic characteristics, and, indeed, it is often the antipsoric remedies that resolve stubborn chronic allergy
cases. However, not all! What about the
modern miasms? Some theorize that for these,
homeopathic treatment might reduce their hypersensitivity. I hope it works for
their sake.
But what if they tell these people to take a single globule because they
don’t understand that for some sensitive patients, a single globule of a homeopathically suitable remedy could send them straight to
the ER?
Carlos or Jean, for example, could not be treated of these miasms using the single dose globule routinely given with
the standard regular wait and watch high-centesimal-potency method. They needed
the milder q-potencies in extreme dilutions!
The only task we have as investigating homeopaths is to prove our
theories by getting results! If you can show that your method works, I invite
you to write about it and publish it. Homeopathic science is a constant
dialogue, or at least it should be, although sometimes it has been more like
heated discussions, alternating with total silence.
Are we proceeding like scientists in homeopathy? We should be at least
open to investigate through experimentation.
Not all sickness is caused by underlying emotional derangements.
Sometimes a person’s emotional derangement is the result of the sickness!
Remember, I am saying this
as a trained former psychotherapist! Having said this, there is no doubt
that emotional states can play a significant role in allergies.
Fear and anxiety are common among sufferers, sometimes justified, as the
reactions can be quite scary. That’s why Acon.,
Staph., Ignatia, etc. can be very helpful in certain acute
allergic reactions and maybe a constant companion for chronic allergy sufferers
or highly sensitive persons during their treatment.
In my paper on cancer published in the The
American Homeopath, Vol 16, 2010. I noted that
persons suffering from this diathesis are also apt to being highly physically
sensitive in a very general way. I pointed out that this state could be the
result of an accumulation of poisons, and that more and more people are
suffering from this affliction.
In other words, our modern miasms may be
generated by cortisone, ionizing radiation and glyphosate
rather than by microbes.
[Manfred Mueller]
They form the blockages or injuries to the metabolic functions that Dr.
Sherry Rogers talked about. These miasms are caused
by chemical compounds or perhaps a single toxin interfering with our bodies’
proper functioning, including their protective response against harmful
microbes.
Let us take, for example, one common indoor pollutant present in almost
every single household—formaldehyde. Formaldehyde gas is inhaled and once in
the body can block its ability to process or break down certain common protein
foods into ordinary aldehydes, such as from eggs, and
suddenly we have a serious problem.
This is an example of an aldehyde metabolism cul de sac or blockage in metabolizing aldehydes.
This causes the immune system to kick in and even form antibodies against that
food. This then leads to an egg allergy.
There appears to be a connection between toxicity from multiple
chemicals in the body, and the systemic condition multiple chemical
sensitivities (MCS), causing adverse
or allergic reactions to many chemicals such as to the odor of a big box store, and the condition of generalized
allergies, which can cause the individual to develop immune reactions even to
common natural substances.
In my article on the cancer diathesis, I pointed to the natural tendency
of the immune system to try to solve a problem in the body, when it has become
overwhelmed by generalized chemical overload to prevent the next stage of
degeneration, which, should the hypersensitive phase fail, would be cancer. You
see, instead of thinking of the body as a set of mechanistic reactions we ought
to think of it as teleological life-preserving operating system.
This sensitivity stage is part of an evolutionary protective mechanism,
in the sense of a reverse of Hering’s Law, from a
healthier more sensitive, irritable state to the less sensitive or
insensitive/asymptomatic cancerous state. In this sensitive state, the immune
system begins to manufacture antibodies to all sorts of natural and unnatural
compounds, including found in common foods.
A similar situation seems to be present when living bodies are exposed
to pulsed high-frequency microwave radiation, such as from Wifi
(= Wlan) or cell phone technology.
Which is now for most people, all the time, and everywhere they go! This
constant overload of microwave exposure seems to lead to electromagnetic
hypersensitivity and allergic-like symptoms resembling in some patients the
symptom picture of allergic dermatitis.
For example, one woman installed a wifi system
in her office, and the next day developed hives all over her body. They did not
disappear until she had the wifi uninstalled.
One study on ionizing radiation used for telecommunication has found
that those with symptoms from that type of radiation have a lower risk to
developing cancer.
This might indicate that there is an adaptive function at work. Many
studies on toxicological phenomena show that the body can adapt to serious,
even life-threatening toxins by being exposed first in minute doses. We are
talking about a universal principle of toxicology here—possibly a way the
organism can adapt to remain healthy or return to health, known as hormesis. There clearly is a relationship between allergy
and toxicity, and the body’s failure to adapt versus adaptation at a
cost—allergies!
This also matches our clinical observations in homeopathy. Often the
very same medicines are needed to treat cases of intoxication and allergic
reactions, precisely because
the symptoms resemble each other. So, food allergy cases often present
very much like food poisoning. Radiation sensitivity can present like radiation
poisoning.
The chronic health effects seen from electromagnetic non-ionizing
radiation have been thoroughly studied for decades by the US NAVY, by Soviet
Russia, and by numerous universities in the US and elsewhere, and long before
cell phone technology was introduced. The studies predicted that non-ionizing
radiation could have serious consequences for all persons, not only those
susceptible.
I recall the case of a nineteen-year-old patient who was seeking help
from me in person, coming to my door with his mother instead of calling,
because he was so sensitive to even mild electrical fields from an ordinary
line phone that could cause intense discomfort. The mother and son ended up
camping out in the middle of a nearby wild life reserve because that was the
only place where he could feel comfortable.
Clarke reports on the case of an electrician who as a result of mercury
intoxication was unable to continue his occupation because he suffered from an
extreme sensitivity to
the electrical field.
To summarize, in addition to the typical and common seasonal allergies
already known to homeopaths at the time of Hahnemann, and for which we have many
common remedies in our materia medica,
we now are also facing numerous chemical allergies so bizarre that afflicted
individuals simple no longer have anyone to turn to except homeopaths. But
especially those homeopaths that understand the serious problem of sensitivity!
These unfortunate afflicted souls, unless they join the Amish, simply have
no place to hide any more in our industrial society.
We no longer live in the idyllic horse and buggy days of Hahnemannian times, when natural contagious diseases made
up the majority of all acute and chronic disorders
and could quickly matched with a similar medicine that in many cases
cure with a single dose. Today, the majority of disorders are due to insidious
toxic factors like
radiation, chemicals and medical drugs, and it is also those that are
responsible for most allergic reactions.
Even from the Hahnemannian viewpoint, today’s
allergic and hypersensitivity reactions are clearly special cases of sickness.
And special disorders require special solutions.
I have gone into details as to the several variations of sensitivity,
and my solutions to this are discussed in detail in one of my tutorials called
The Sensitive Patient.
This includes the special measures in our Organon
already mentioned above but many more. I pioneered a systematic method to
expand these dilutions to an extreme degree, much beyond what was suggested in
the Organon. With this I have been able relieve many
highly sensitive individuals from their chronic conditions gently and
permanently.
These methods should be investigated scientifically, because they may
represent the only medical solution left for mankind if this trend continues.
We already have quite a few scientific studies of the standard
homeopathic treatment that show homeopathy works against various allergic
reactions, especially for the acute
or symptomatic treatment of allergic rhinitis.
As I have pointed out in another of my papers published in the American
Homeopath, Vol 23, 2017, on the scientific evidence
on tautopathy, many of our scientific studies that
found efficacy of homeopathic treatment of allergies were actually “isopathic” or “tautopathic” (= eine Behandlungsmethode, die unerwünschte Nebenwirkungen herkömmlicher Medikamente aufhebt, indem dieselben Mittel – und nicht nur ähnliche
wie in der Homöopathie – in potenzierter
Form verabreicht werden.)
studies, not homeopathic ones!
Dana Ullman, in his excellent 2010 Review of
Homeopathic Research in the Treatment of Respiratory Allergies, concluded that
“no studies have evaluated the efficacy
of long-term homeopathic constitutional treatment.” According to Ullman a number of clinical trials were conducted that
evaluated the efficacy of certain homeopathic medicines for treating various
acute allergy symptoms.
I personally find the lack of studies on the constitutional approach
unfortunate, though understandable, because they are difficult to design.
Constitutional treatment is difficult to define and to standardize to fit into
the standard parameters of scientific studies.
As we have seen, not only do the majority of studies on homeopathic
treatment of allergies actually investigate isopathy
using homeopathic potencies, but also even in
our record of published cases we are hard-pressed to find many published
purely “homeopathic” cases that have relieved chronic allergies.
BTW, regarding the difference of the terms “tautopathic”
and “isopathic”, please refer to my first paper on
the subject. In my talk today, I am using the two terms interchangeably.
In my review of Tautopathic Treatment During
the Classical Era of Homeopathy, The American Homeopath, vol
17, 2011, I quoted WA Dewey, M. D., of Ann Arbor,
Michigan, in his book Essentials of Homeopathic Therapeutics, in which he
reported on the use of the tautopathic method among
his colleagues for the treatment of allergies.
According to Dewey, in the 1870’s, homeopaths treated food allergies
with the potentized foods, reporting many apparent
cures:
And I quote:
“Dr. Samuel Swan, and Dr. Thomas Wildes of New
York and Dr. P.P. Wells of Brooklyn and many others in the latter “seventies”
reported many cases of supersensitiveness to various
foods, among which was a case where common garden celery when eaten produced
itching, changing locality frequently and other disagreeable symptoms.
Apium graveolens (Celery)
in a high potency removed the condition and permitted the patient to ever
afterwards eat celery with no untoward effects.
People exist who cannot eat strawberries. These susceptible individuals
suffer from urticarial rashes, sometimes difficulty
in breathing as if a weight were on the chest. Potentized
Fragaria vesca relieved at
once. This was first advocated perhaps by Dr. W.P. Wesselhoeft
of Boston and amply verified by Drs. Swan, and Wells.
The writer used it successfully in a case having similar symptoms
whenever strawberries, of which she was most fond, were eaten. Fragaria vesca in a high potency
not
only removed the condition, but so completely that the patient was ever
after able to eat strawberries without symptoms for the remainder of her life,
which ended some
30 years subsequent.
There are numerous cases of over susceptibility to Apis
poisoning which is remedied by taking Apis mellifica in minimum doses. Bee keepers and those who
handle bees
are rendered immune, and do not mind or suffer from bee stings, nor do
they produce swellings or edema when the person is
thus immunized.”
Apparently, some patients recovered permanently from tautopathic
treatment alone, and no additional treatments such as “constitutional
treatment” were mentioned.
What is true about foods also apparently works for pollen and all sorts
of other allergies. Many of our best hay fever remedies are prepared from known
allergens, such
as Ambrosia, Arundo, Arum triphyllum,
Euphrasia, Gelsemium, Sabadilla, Solidago, Wyethia and many others.
And many of our asthma remedies are prepared from allergens. This not
only includes plant medicines but also the cockroach Blatta
orientalis, and halogens like bromine
and chlorine, which are known to cause asthmatic reactions.
In urgent care situations, the selection is sometimes greatly alleviated
by using the isopathic method. I have seen many quick
cures of acute asthma attacks in children who could not partake in swimming in
a chlorinated pool, and even their chronic asthma, cured with doses of Chlorum repeated over months.
What I have shown for cancer remedies in the [Manfred Mueller] Oncology Materia Medica, is true for our
allergy remedies: the quality of proving experiments of some
of our best allergy remedies still varies widely. Some are thoroughly
proven, such as Gelsemium, while for others we cannot
find any provings at all (in Fragaria
vesca).
These remedies are used simply on clinical observations and sometimes on
tautopathic indications! But in spite of the
advantages of the tautopathic method, we must resort
to the homeopathic method in cases when the triggering allergen is not
known. In these cases, the symptoms of the acute attack are the most reliable
indications for the selection of a remedy.
Dewey also acknowledged the use of constitutional characteristics or
constitutional type for remedy selection in chronic treatment of allergies. I
myself have seen this work many times, and I have also seen even more dismal
failures. Dewey in his chapter declared
the action of the tautopathic medicine is simply
homeopathic! He pointed out
that many foods that can cause disease are already in our material medica, and some have even been proven.
I myself have counted 86 food remedies in Boericke
alone.
Quoting Dewey:
“In 1867 Adolf Lippe had a case of chronic
poisoning by cane sugar (in other words a super sensitiveness to this
substance). He removed it completely by Saccharum officinalis. (Hahn. Mo. Oct. 1867.) A case of quininism cured by Cinchona sulphuricum
in high potency. (Organon Vol. iii p. 208.)
The susceptibility to parsley can be cured by Petroselinum
30C, says Dr. James W. Ward, one of our best and most careful observers. Asthma
from eating scallops cured
by Pectens jacobaeus,
which in a high potency cured permanently.
Asthma due to susceptibility to the proteid
substance in eggs, cured by repeated doses of Egg White. (Boericke’s
Materia Medica p. 491). I
have personally cured many
cases of hay fever due to the rag-weed by Ambrosia artemisiaefolia
in potency. The pharmaceutical houses of today are making much capital out of
the pollen extracts
of the various hay fever producing plants.
The hypersensitiveness to Rhus poisoning has
been removed many times by the use of Rhus toxicodendron, and why it does not relieve in all cases is
simply owing to a difference in sensitiveness in different people and to the
many varieties of the plant. It has been clinically observed that allergic
persons are less susceptible to contagious and infectious diseases. (Ward.)”
Dr. Dewey did not see much of
difference between homeopathic cures and isopathic
cures, or, for that matter, isopathic treatment for
the prevention of infectious diseases,
a subject he covers elsewhere in his book. Like many others, he felt
that once all of these agents have been proven, it will become evident that the
action of all isopathic treatment is simply
homeopathic:
“A study of epidemic remedies, which physicians have often reported will
be explained along similar paths, also constitutional remedies, and it will be
found that SIMILIA SIMILIBUS CURANTUR is the law of all curative medicine.”
He was of the opinion that isopathic (and tautopathic) treatment was homeopathy, so long as it was
done in potency—plain and simple.
He quoted Swan:
“Isopathy would give raw cucumbers to a person
made sick by eating cucumbers and would make him worse. Homeopathy would give
him Cucumis in a high potency
and not only cure the patient but also enable him to eat cucumbers with no
untoward symptoms.”
This position avoided the controversy surrounding the isopathic method. I showed in my paper on Tautopathy during the Classical Era of Homeopathy that this
has caused some American Homeopathic teaching institutions and professional organizations
to dismiss their professors and students of homeopathy on dogmatic grounds.
I also showed that the real controversy was about the method of
selection of the remedy, not really on the remedy’s efficacy or its action.
This distinction was also made
by the Scottish homeopathic physician J. Compton Burnett in his famous
remark:
“I maintain that choosing the remedies according to the totality of the
symptoms is only one way of finding the right remedy; and, moreover, sometimes
totally inadequate. You may find the right remedy once in a way according to
the old doctrine of signatures; and, even though so found, it acts homeopathically; the way of choosing is poor and crude, but
it is a way. You may find the right remedy by organ-testing after the manner of
Paracelsus, and the remedy acts homeopathically
although found that way. You may find the right remedy purely hypothetically,
after the manner of Von Grauvogl and Schüssler, the mode of action remains the same, i.e.,
homeopathic…
and now, please pay attention:
You may use dynamized salt (= Nat-m.) to cure
marine cachexia, sea side neuralgia, sea-side
headache, and the like, and still the action of the remedy is homeopathic.”
I myself, in the absence of having a homeopathic emergency kit
available, have followed Dr Clarke’s advice and taken unpotentized
grains of salt and saved the day in many
a yellow jacket or wasp sting. This tried and true home remedy can
remove all pain and swelling quickly. Of course, it helps only the acute
condition and yes, I would quite prefer to use Apis mellifica.
Homeopathic treatment of acute allergic reactions can save lives. I
spend considerable time outdoors and have treated hundreds of acute cases of
allergic reactions to natural allergens like plant and insect allergies,
localized swelling and discomfort from insect bites and stings, more or less
severe cases of contact dermatitis, numerous and multiple cases of asthmatic
crises and many cases of anaphylaxis. I can attest to the efficacy of both—the
homeopathic and the tautopathic method. This is true
for chemical and drug allergies in addition to the standard natural allergies.
A middle-aged fellow came to office one day, and by the time he sat down
on his desk, he had broken out all over with an itchy red rash that quickly
spread all over this body. He had seen a truck parked outside the office that
looked like it carried a tank of herbicide spray, so he reasoned this may have
had something to do with this sickness.
He confronted his boss about it and was told, yes, they did spray an
herbicide. By now he was feeling absolutely livid over his skin reactions and
at the same time was on the verge of going into anaphylactic shock. He ran to
his car, but instead of going to the ER, while he drove home he called my
office, and over the phone after quickly reviewing his symptoms, I recommended
he try Rhust-t from his wife’s home remedy kit.
He called back an hour later and reported he felt much better. He took
the remedy as recommended in “plussed” liquid doses
every hour or so, and by the next day, he was back to normal. 3 weeks later, he
developed all sorts of other unpleasant symptoms. I asked him if he could find
out what the poison was, and he did. So we sent him the 30C potency of Telar XP Bayer, and over the next month he recovered from
all his chronic symptoms, simply with the tautopathic
treatment of the acute reaction.
Or the case of a teenager who went to his dentist to get his new braces
attached. He had an apparent anaphylactic reaction to the adhesive they used,
and the dentist called
an ambulance. However, the boy’s mother did not want the epinephrine
treatment offered by the EMT for him, and drove him straight to my office.
I received a call, “we are on our way to you with an emergency! John’s
choking from increased swelling in his throat, and he has difficulty breathing,
and we are right around the corner from your office!”
My assistant and I rushed down to the parking lot and were waiting for
them with several potencies of Apis on hand. By the
time they arrived the young man had turned blue in the face, his tongue was so
swollen he could hardly breathe. The first dose was a globule of the Apis 30C, and he took a deep breath. This was followed in
five minutes by
a globule of the 200C. He now looked relieved and said he was feeling
better. I looked at my assistant and saw she had turned pale. A trained EMT,
she said, “I could think
of only one thing: epinephrine, epinephrine, epinephrine…” But Apis had saved the day!
I had a middle-aged client with an allergy to sesame seeds, with regular
signs and symptoms. He would eat at a restaurant and react even to salad
dressing containing sesame oil. This was usually followed by a hasty trip to
the ER and a week or so of recovery from epinephrine treatment.
After carefully evaluating his symptoms, I chose Apis,
and from then on he carried a small vial with Apis
globules in his pocket. Whenever he had a reaction to sesame seed,
he placed one of them under his tongue and soon felt relief—much more
relief that he ever got from the epipen!
However, to cure his chronic allergy required recurrent doses of Natrum muriaticum and
simultaneous desensitization against sesame seeds with a remedy I prepared
myself through potentization of crushed seeds,
because I could not find it in any of the common pharmacies. Usually, we get
our pharmacodes from Helios and Ainsworths
because the US pharmacies are prevented by the FDA from marketing or selling
anything other what is listed in the HPUS.
Homeopathic remedies have also worked for me in many cases also as
preventives of anaphylaxis. I once attended an outdoor wedding, and during the
ceremony, there was
a loud scream of a woman’s voice followed by calls for my name. I moved
towards the commotion and was told, a little girl Sara who had a bee allergy
and gets anaphylactic reactions to bee stings had just got stung on her finger.
“We forgot our epipen”, sighed the mother. “I
am told you have something to help?” I explained, it was a homeopathic remedy
and walked calmly to my car, got my travel kit out and gave her a pellet of Apis 30C. The girl took it, calmed down, and within five
minutes, her mother declared in amazement, “it’s working.” I waited another ten
minutes, by then she said, “I can’t believe it, Sara is fine. By now, I would
be scrambling to get to the ER!”
These are just a few of hundreds of examples, when a homeopathic remedy
quickly resolved or prevented acute systemic allergic reactions. And not all
cases responded to Apis. Some cases of anaphylaxis
required the use of Camph., Carbo-ac.,
Carb-v., Torul., Vespa crabro and others. I could
tell you similar experiences with asthmatic attacks. I will now read to you a
few testimonials from clients on our website of successful allergy treatment:
5 years ago I was unable to be around grass or hay without extreme
itching and wheezing. Today we stacked 200 bales of hay into the barn. I am so
thankful for homeopathy!”
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