Genus epidemicus Anhang 2

Homeopathy medicines are widely used for prevention of Dengue fever. Used as per the concept of Genus Epidemicus, given in aphorism 102 of Organon of Medicine.

What is Genus Epidemicus?

GENUS EPIDEMICUS is that homeopathy remedy which is found to be a suitable remedy for many cases of that particular epidemic and also act as a preventive remedy

for that particular epidemic for majority of people who have not been infected yet.

Dr. Hahnemann gave this concept of genus epidemicus in his book Organon of Medicine in paragraph 102.

Aphorism 102

In the course of writing down the symptoms of several cases of this kind the sketch of the disease picture becomes ever more and more complete, not more spun out and wortreich, but more significant (more characteristic), and including more of the peculiarities of this collective disease.

On the one hand, the general symptoms (e.g., loss of appetite, sleeplessness, etc.) become precisely defined as to their peculiarities; and on the other, the more marked and special symptoms which are peculiar to but few diseases and of rarer occurrence, at least in the same combination, become prominent and constitute what is characteristic

of this malady.

All those affected with the disease prevailing at a given time have certainly contracted it from one and the same source and hence are suffering from the same disease;

but the whole extent of such an epidemic disease and the totality of its symptoms (the knowledge whereof, which is essential for enabling us to choose the most suitable homeopathic remedy for this array of symptoms, is obtained by a complete survey of the morbid picture) cannot be learned from one single patient, but is only to be

perfectly deduced (abstracted) and ascertained from the sufferings of several patients of different constitutions.

Footnote.1 The physician who has already, in the first cases, been able to choose a remedy approximating to the homoeopathic specific, will, from the subsequence cases,

be enabled either to verify the suitableness of the medicine chosen, or to discover a more appropriate, the most appropriate homeopathic remedy.

Here in aphorism102, Dr Hahnemann wants to explain that the physician should carefully observe and note the chief complaints of several cases (both sexes, of different

age group, and of different constitutions) of that particular epidemic.

Here the physician will find 2 types of symptoms

General symptoms like malaise, skin rashes, body ache, etc. These symptoms are found in almost all cases of that particular epidemic.

Particular symptoms rare, uncommon and peculiar symptoms with concomitants.

Now the general symptoms of that particular epidemic becomes the characteristic of that disease. For e.g. Body pain is noticed in dengue. You can make that general

symptom becomes more better by noting it more precisely for e.g. body pain during day time in 1st case, body pain during day only on jar in 2nd case. So this is how your general symptom become more characteristic.

The physician should need to carefully pay attention on particular symptoms also, so that he can reach to more suitable remedy and get towards more suitable GENUS EPIDEMICUS of that particular epidemic.

Merits of Genus Epidemicus in clinic

It saves time of the physician in finding remedy of that particular epidemic.

Act as a preventive medicine (prophylactic medicine) for particular epidemic for those who have not been suffered by that particular epidemic.

Can be used for majority of the patients.

[Harry van der Zee]

Genus epidemicus – A or the remedy for a disease

H. himself already laid down the foundation for successful treatment of epidemic diseases. The rule is very simple:

• Take a good number of cases and put their symptoms together

• Include all disease specific symptoms

• Exclude all patient specific symptoms

• Select one or more remedies based on the disease totality

In the American Homeopath (1998 – ‘As If One Patient’) Greg Bedayn describes how H. discovered how to treat epidemic diseases:

• ‘In 1799 H. first applied the genus epidemicus; the single homeopathic remedy to treat a similarly affected population, during a scarlet fever epidemic he treated

in Königslutter, Germany.

The story of how he accidentally discovered the genus epi is interesting: There was a large family that had members with scarlet fever.

H. noticed that one of the children who had been taking Belladonna for another reason did not have symptoms of scarlet fever. He discovered that by giving the other members of the family Bell., as a prophylactic, they did not get scarlet fever. Hahnemann concluded that a remedy that rapidly cures at the onset of an illness would

be the best preventative.

This serendipitous discovery led Hahnemann into developing the principle of genus epidemicus where if one takes the symptom-totality from each person in a epidemic population and then puts those features together into one case, as if one person, and gives the indicated simillimum to the entire affected population - that it will cure.’

This approach, as H. found out, worked well. Bedayn continues:

• ‘The curative results of the genus epidemicus were so positive during the epidemics in the ensuing decades that they not only cured the majority of those affected

where nothing else had worked, but they also drew international acclaim towards homeopathy, the new, the rational, medicine. There is something intrinsically powerful

about the success of homeopathy in curing large populations that is undeniably attractive to anyone gifted with the power of observation, and it was through these early

cures with epidemics that Hahnemann was able to quickly and widely spread the word: Homeopathy. It was from his discovery of the genus epi that Hahnemann later developed his theory of miasms; the taints that color and shape all family trees, as representing the basis of chronic disease.’

Hahnemann later writes about the genus epidemicus principle in his ‘Organon’ §101:

• ‘It is possible that a physician meeting with the first case of a certain epidemic should fail to perceive at once its perfect image, because every collective disease of this

kind will not manifest the totality of its symptoms and character until several cases have been carefully observed. But after having observed one or two cases of this kind

a physician may approach the true condition of the epidemic that he is enabled to construe a true characteristic image of the same and to discover the true homeopatic remedy.’

H. broadens this general principle in §102, when he says the complete knowledge is only to be obtained in a perfect manner by observations of the affections of several patients of different bodily constitutions.

Using this as-if-one-person approach homeopaths impressed the medical establishment with their results. Here are a few quotes to illustrate this:

• Epidemics in general: “In epidemics the mortality per 100 patients is 1/2 to 1/8 in homeopathic hospitals compared to allopathic hospitals.” (Dr. Thomas L. Bradford's

‘The Logic of Figures ...’ (1900) ‘Homeopathy had become very popular in North America during its early years due to its amazing successes obtained by the "old guard" during the epidemics – epidemics of diphtheria, scarlet fever, cholera, malaria, yellow fever - especially yellow fever; the death rate for that was 55% when allopathic treatment was used, but less than 5% in cases with homeopathic treatment; and it was the same for cholera. It is here with the "old guard" that homeopathy obtained its golden letters.’ (‘From its Roots Upwards’, Interview with André Saine, N.D., D.H.A.N.P., Vienna January 1994.)

“Ever since H. homeopathy has time and again been able to successfully treat epidemics/pandemics with a small number of remedies.” (Stahl, Hadulla, Richter, AHZ 2006)

• Cholera in Europe: “In den Ja 1830 und 1831 wurden in Russland in den von Cholera ergriffenen Gouvernements Saratoff, Tambtoff und Twer 1270 Patienten homöopatisch behandelt: 1162 davon genasen, 108 starben... d Verhältnis dem Ergebnisse der homöopatische Behandlung der Cholera in Ungarn, Maehren und Wien fast ganz gleich ist.” (Gebhardt 1929) (Of 1270 Russian cholera patients treated with homeopathy only 108 died which is ± 8%)

“When in the year 1854 cholera came to Palermo 1513 soldiers fell ill ... Of these 902 were treated with allopathy of which 386 died, a bit more than 42%; 611 were treated with homeopathy, of which only 25, so almost 4%, died.” “In the abovementioned years cholera also visited the Caribbean, and on the ‘pearl’ of these islands, Barbados, 2113 people fell ill. Of the 346 treated with allopathy 154 died, but of the 1767 treated with homeopathy only 370.” (Gebhardt 1929)

• Cholera in USA: 3% of the cholera patients under homeopathic treatment died (Cincinnati 1849). Mortality rate of cholera patients under allopathic treatment was 40-70%.

• Spanish influenza: Homeopathic treatment of the Spanish influenza during the pandemic of 1914-1918 was effective (Isaac Golden, Vaccination & Homeoprophylaxis?

(A Review of Risks and Alternatives).

“Homeopathy has been used with great degree of success in influenza and other epidemics for 200 years … In 1918 flu pandemic homeopaths reported around 1% mortality in their cases, while conventional doctors were losing 30% of their patients.” (www.life.us/flu)

NB! The Spanish influenza virus we know now was an avian virus. 40 million people died in just 18 months.

“Dr. T.A. McCann from Dayton, Ohio reported that 24,000 cases of flu treated allopathically had a mortality rate of 28.2% while 26,000 cases of flu treated homeopathically had a mortality rate of 1.05%. This last figure was supported by Dean W.A. Pearson of Philadelphia (Hahnemann College) who collected 26,795 cases of flu treated with homeopathy with the above result.

Dr. Herbert A Roberts from Derby, CT, said that 30 physicians in Connecticut responded to his request for data. They reported 6,602 cases with 55 deaths, which is less

than 1%.” (The Journal of the American Institute for Homeopathy, May 1921)

“The most severe epidemic of all time was the Great Influenza Pandemic of 1918. 20% of the entire world population was infected and 20-40 million people died.

The epidemic was so devastating that the average lifespan in the United States was decreased by ten years. During this epidemic homeopathic medicines were used widely both for treatment and as prophylaxis. The average mortality under standard treatment ran from 2.5-10%, while 1% or fewer patients died under homeopathic treatment.” (Homeoprophylaxis Fact or Fiction - Todd Hoover MD)

• Yellow Fever in USA: The success of the homeopathic treatment of yellow fever was so great that the report of the U.S. Government's Board of Experts mentioned several homeopathic remedies, despite the aversion to homeopathy of some of its members. (Haris Coulter, ‘Divided legacy’). (Treated in allopathic hospitals the mortality was around 55% and homeopathy decimated that percentage!).

These are clearly impressive figures, certainly if we compare them with the results of contemporary studies. If homeopathy could come up with similar significant results in our time and age general acceptance might follow a lot easier.

Building On The Past:

Infectious diseases and miasm.

In his Organon at §78 Hahnemann declares that true natural chronic diseases are those that arise from a chronic miasm. In his analysis H. defines three miasm: Psora, Sycosis and Syphilis, of which

in modern terms Psora could be seen as the mother of all chronic diseases. According to Hahnemann uncured miasm cannot be eradicated by the life force (§79) and only homeopathy can do this. A too bold a statement I believe for the like cures like principle is broader than homeopathy but a general law underlying all creation. More miasm have been recognise since Hahnemann. Not all homeopaths are accepting them that easily, but I have no doubt that somewhere in the future it will be broadly accepted and recognise that many influences besides infectious diseases, let be only

the three Hahnemann pointed out, determine the state of health and can cause a miasmatic disturbance. It is very clear to me that our understanding of miasm needs to be updated to be able to bring homeopathic treatment of collective issues to a higher level.

Miasma’s and Process:

My own understanding of the miasm underwent a revolutionary change based on an accidental observation that I made. Knowing the work of Stanislav Grof (psychiatrist) on the birth experience I noticed a marked analogy between Hahnemann’s miasm and the stages of birth (See the books ‘Miasm in Labour’ and ‘Homeopathy for Birth Trauma’). I’m not going to repeat

all of what I’ve written on the subject here but will summarise some conclusions relevant to this article:

• The birth process shows us life in a nutshell. All phases of human development and of the individuation process are represented. Analysis of an individual birth shows amazing similarity to the state observed later in life, so the birth experience already displays the central theme of an individual. Birth is not causing that state but expressing it, since in cases where there is information from pregnancy, conception or beyond the same patterns can be observed.

• All the miasm we have come to recognise -psora, sycosis, syphilis, tubercular, cancer, leprous etc- can be clearly retraced as belonging specifically to a certain phase in the birth process, and the main remedies representing them can be understood using the symbolical language of that aspect of the birth experience. Since birth is a process it became clear that miasm are related to development, and each of them to a specific phase or theme in development, both on an individual as also a collective level.

• Miasm have a role and serve a purpose. In homeopathy we have only highlighted the pathological side of them, the results of something going wrong during development.

• Disease induces change within an individual, and miasmatic diseases that we could also call collective diseases, induce change within society, the group, tribe, nation or mankind as a whole.

• Diseases and miasm induce the development of qualities within an individual and within humanity. Miasm are subconscious Archetypes. Only if the normal process of development and growth is blocked diseases can come forward to bring this to awareness and to induce the change needed.

• Diseases and miasm are both the problem as well as the key to growth. Actually diseases and miasm are the teachers of mankind, and in infectious diseases microorganisms carry the message.

• 95% of our DNA stems from viruses and bacteria. This means that these germs bring pieces of information to us and that integrating these pieces is what drives evolution. This also makes very clear why killing the bug, allopathy, can never support the role and purpose of the disease, and forces the organism to own the same lesson following a different route, one that can be expected to involve more suffering. This is the deeper meaning of suppression.

Logics of Miasm:

• Symptoms are a sign of the Dynamis restoring balance (Hahnemann)

• A disease is a combination of symptoms

• A disease is a sign of the Dynamis restoring balance in an individual by bringing it to a higher level of functioning. That balance is restored does not mean that the individual is brought back to

a previous state, but rather moved on to a new one that includes the qualities induced by the disease.

• An epidemic disease is a sign of the collective Dynamis restoring balance and inducing growth and awareness in a group

• Miasm can be expressed in humanity through a variety of afflictions

• Miasm are a sign of the Dynamis restoring balance and inducing growth in the collective

• Epidemic outbreaks are acute collective manifestations of this process involving a large group, whereas miasmatic diseases are more of a chronic expression of the same energy afflicting those individuals that apparently work on the same issues in their individual development.

• Epidemics that are endemic for long periods of time, like malaria and TB, are concerned with major shifts in humanity that take many generations.

When in 2005 Peter Chappell was in Rwanda to treat AIDS he soon found out that on top of AIDS people were especially still suffering from the genocide that took place ten years before. He recognised this to be a collective trauma that should be dealt with using the genus epidemicus approach. He prepared a resonance that he called PC War/Genocide Trauma and gave that first to his patients that responded remarkably well. This feeling as if it had happened yesterday, the flashbacks, nightmares and all other ways in which this traumatic miasm was being expressed in them,

all of this subsided rapidly. (PC Resonances are not the subject of this article and could be replaced with other remedies based on an analysis of genocide or any other disease or trauma totality.

See www.peterchappell.com and ‘The Second Simillimum’ for more information on PC Resonances).

So I decided not to individualise this case but, to start treating the genocide trauma using the above mentioned PC Resonance: PC304x 5 drops daily. The response was wonderful! Five weeks later: “I am very much surprised. There is a change I had never expected to be possible. I feel a completely different person. A dramatic change.

For a short period I continued crying but since then it has not come back. It is a completely new period. I feel optimism, trust, love for life. It is miraculous. This weeping

has travelled with me all of my life. The last couple of years it was constantly there. Before that in episodes.

I dream again, quite lucid, remember them better. My sleep is much deeper and I waken up less. On waking up in the morning I am okay.

No more panic or fear of being abandoned. I can continue with my life like this. I’m no longer afraid to move on, to be forsaken. A great trust has come. It is okay what happens or is about to happen. There is more peace inside. I can enjoy the simple things of life again. Before this all joy was lacking.

Before I started taking this remedy I had the feeling being wiped out, taking no space. I just as well might not be there. Now I take a space and that has meaning.”

Two months later there was no further improvement and we discontinued the drops. She says now: “A complete layer has been dealt with, this layer of collective grief.

The insecurities I have now have to do with every day practicalities. Like building my house. Then I feel a lack of stability and go back to the time our family was broken up. Like a sea without borders. I love the sea because it gives space, quiet and openness.

In the morning I have a bit troubles starting the day, a little sadness. In the evenings I am feeling great. What I didn’t tell you before is that I have a strong fear of spiders. Since the last couple of months my menses has returned.”

So she’s free now from the collective trauma and the complaints she still has now she relates to her own history, for which now a personal simillimum is indicated.

Regarding her personal trauma the broken relationship with her mother is essential. She was disconnected from her mother, causing feelings of forsakenness and insecurity. This definitely happened at the age of nine when her mother could no longer cope it, but also before that time her mother was depressed and not the source of warmth and comfort she needed. Later in her life we see a tendency toward bulimia with a desire for sweet dairy products, including ice cream and chocolate.

In short, she received one dose of Lac humanum MK and eleven weeks later she reports:

“I’m beautifully out of the dependency in my recent relationship (a friend she got after her divorce). I’m on my own feet now. There have been no dips any more and my base has become firmer. All the symptoms that have improved on the first remedy never returned. Since this last remedy my asthma is a lot better, my stomach problems are gone and I no longer have abdominal pains.

I dream about my recent relationship. I dreamed of getting a clear view by literally putting on other glasses to be able to see further away.”

Three months later: “I’m totally fine and suggest to cancel the appointment. I’ll contact you in case anything new will come up.”

Of course we do not know what would have happened had I started with Lac humanum, but I honestly doubt whether she would have responded as she had done now.

By fully clearing up the collective trauma just one dose of her simillimum was enough to clear up all the remaining symptoms and to my knowledge a repetition of either remedy has not been indicated until today.

Trauma and Miasm

Let us look at an example of collective trauma in our time:

Kashmir (Washington Post September 2008)

“The number of patients seeking mental health services surged at the state psychiatric hospital, from 1,700 when the unrest began to more than 100,000…

The patients have insomnia, learning disabilities, anxiety disorders and what Kashmiri therapists call the ‘midnight-knock syndrome’, a fear stemming from the many pre-dawn raids by Indian security forces aimed at rooting out suspected insurgents…

Mental health groups estimate that 60,000 Kashmiris committed suicide last year, a record number, said Mushtaq Margoob, head of the Government Psychiatric Diseases Hospital in Srinagar…

More than 15% of Kashmiris are afflicted with post-traumatic stress disorder, according to a recent study by Margoob … In January, the army recruited 400 psychiatrists

after more than 100 soldiers, including officers, killed themselves … "etc.

The symptom in all these people described above may differ, but it is very clear to me that an as-if-one-person approach would be very effective in a fast majority of the cases. And this is only Kashmir. I’m writing this part of the article on my way to Burundi and East Congo, another area full of heavily traumatised people. Just watch the news for some time and you can see that many millions of people are suffering from collective trauma. It’s the collective that is ill, out of balance, and it’s the collective that needs to be treated. If we don’t see that and act accordingly we will never be able to heal these collective derangements. For in the time we need to treat one single traumatised patient using individualised treatment ten new ones get traumatised. It is also a lot more practical to start with a genus epidemicus remedy -genus traumaticus if you like- and to later individualise those cases where the collective approach is not enough. Following such a strategy we would be able to help many more patients and perhaps even be able to induce a real change in the collective.

It seems as if unresolved trauma lies at the basis of many chronic conditions. If we look at the language of Vital Sensation these are all expressions of trauma. These are sensations fitting a traumatic experience to a life form.

Some ideas on the role of trauma:

• An Individual Trauma can express itself in an Individual Disease. This is something we know from experience. For instance an unresolved grief can be expressed in recurrent throat infections, or as a result of sexual abuse a woman can have recurrent bladder infections.

• Trauma is hereditary. See the case above. See also the work of Hellinger. If we go a few generations back there are lots of traumas that can be at the root of symptoms we come across in our patients. These include wars, periods of starvation and crashing stock markets, stillborn babies, rape, incest etc.

• A Collective Disease can follow a Collective Trauma. A good example is cholera following the horror of war. Interesting to see that for instance Cuprum is a remedy fitting both war (the typical Cuprum state is that of a soldier) and cholera. Of course there are also circumstances on the physical level like lack of clean drinking water etc but that doesn’t mean that trauma at the energetic level is not an essential part of the expression of the disease. By looking solely at material manifestations and circumstances school medicine denies energetic disturbances in many conditions. Let’s not make that same mistake. Besides that we know from research that traumatic events cause malfunctioning of the immune system, so circumstances and susceptibility come together to create disease.

• The language of the Vital Sensation is the language of Trauma. If we read all the different ways a vital sensation is expressed this becomes very obvious. Whether it is being pressed together, falling to pieces, torn apart, exploded, scattered etc. These are all very physical expression of ways in which the integrity of an organism can be threatened.

• There seems to be a chain reaction:

o Trauma - Miasm

o Miasm - Infection

o Infection - Genetic damage (genetic trauma)

o Genetic damage - Chronic Disease

• Collective trauma

Epidemic; a collective trauma can be both cause and effect of an epidemic; if for instance due to Avian Flu millions of people die that causes a trauma to many more million survivors. And staying with that example the fear and panic that comes up if such an epidemic is broad-casted is the first symptom of the epidemic, the first way in which the collective shows signs and symptoms before

or without the virus itself ever reaching the individual.

• Trauma seems to be Primary. So in the chain of diseases and traumatic events -a limited two-dimensional way of cause and effect- it seems with that the wheel starts turning.

• Separation, the delusion that we are separated instead of one, the mythological departure from paradise, is the Basic Trauma.

Follow the river to its source:

If we look at the role homeopathy can play in the world it makes sense to analyse what would be the most effective way of using our resources – the knowledge on how to heal using the law of similars that is present in a considerable but limited number of homeopaths.

• Treating individuals and their miasmatic diseases alone is clearly not enough.

• Besides treating miasmatic effects we can and should treat the causes.

• These causes start as trauma or infectious and epidemic diseases - often based on trauma.

• The roots of miasm lie in collective themes as the infectious and epidemic diseases causing them, or the bacteria and viruses instrumental in them, have nothing to do with the individual.

• To be able to effectively address miasm at an earlier phase, we need to understand and treat the totality of these collective diseases.

• The totality on which we base our prescriptions to treat collective derangements of the vital force (trauma and epidemic diseases) should include the symptoms & the role and purpose of the disease.

• Chronic diseases that prevail in a certain culture or era have strong collective roots. The more prevalent they are the less important an individual approach becomes, and the more important it is to treat the collective issues. E.g. obesity and diabetes mellitus in our time and age.

• Ideally we always do both if one approach doesn’t fully cure – treat the individual and the collective picture.

• Practical is to start as early as possible with the collective before it branches off in a variety of individual expressions.

Homeopathy for the World:

So I feel that homeopathy needs to develop a practical approach to make its best asset top priority. Treating the collective is what we do best and is what has a larger curative and prophylactic impact on humanity. Treating the collective is like using a wider filter that will take out the big chunks effectively. The smaller chunks that it lets through can be filtered out using the more refined filter of individual treatment. By overemphasising the individual expression of collective issues our filters are clogged by a lot of collective debris and the effects of individual treatment is therefore often limited.

• The higher purpose of homeopathy on a global level is to know what needs to be cured in the world, a continent, country, society etc.

• For this we need to be able to read the signs and symptoms of our time.

• An epidemic is an expression of a need for collective change.

• Treating today’s trauma is preventing tomorrow’s epidemics.

• Treating today’s epidemics is preventing tomorrow’s chronic diseases.

• Healing today’s collective diseases is preventing tomorrow’s individual diseases.

Impossible?

This sounds very ambitious, and it is. It may take decades to make this vision a reality. Impossible? Here are some quotes from the past that history falsified:

• “Heavier-than-air flying machines are impossible.” (Lord Kelvin, president of the Royal Society, 1895)

• “Unworthy of the attention of practical and scientific men.” (British Parliamentary Committee report on Edison’s electric light bulb)

• “X-rays will prove to be a hoax.” (Lord Kelvin, president of the Royal Society, 1883)

To use a more contemporary quote: “Yes we can.” With the emphasis on we. In theory this is what homeopathy can; to make it a reality it needs dedication and doing by us, homeopaths. At the end of the article I will give some short cases showing what is already a reality using this approach in Africa.

Homeopathy Should Take Its Responsibility in Epidemics!

The easiest and most practical way of starting to address collective derangements of the vital force is by treating epidemics. There are lots of reasons why this is a more than good idea and why luckily several homeopaths are practicing this, especially in developing countries:

• Because it creates no side-effects

• Because it is safe for pregnant women, babies and elderly people

• Because it is not expensive

• Because production, storage and distribution is simple

• Because it does not induce therapy resistance

• Because it does not create more dangerous viruses and bacteria

• Because it has been effective in many epidemics in the past is effective in today’s epidemics

Strategies that need to be developed:

• For treating collective trauma

• For treating epidemics

• For treating chronic diseases in the case the individual Simillimum alone is not sufficient

• For inducing Wellness and Spiritual Growth – this is another step we can make to enhance peace and health. Without it being the main reason for performing them doing provings is an expression of this possibility. Hahnemann himself already said that doing a proving is beneficial for the prover. It awakens people. By doing provings on a larger scale, meaning including many individuals world-wide, and by selecting substances that address the needs of our time, collective wellness and spiritual growth can be stimulated.

Genus morbicus:

We need to broaden the genus epidemicus principle to include other collective conditions that can be approached using the ‘as-if-one-person’ principle, either with or without complementary individual treatment. The following terms we could use:

• Genus epidemicus

o Based on the totality of the symptoms of an epidemic disease

• Genus traumaticus

o Based on the totality of the symptoms of collective or endemic trauma

• Genus endemicus

o Based on the totality of the symptoms of an endemic disease

• Genus chronicus

o Based on the totality of the symptoms of a chronic disease

Super Simillimum:

The ideal simillimum for a patient would include all typical symptoms:

• Those that individualise the patient, including the vital sensation, and

• Those that individualise the disease.

In some rare indications we see this in patients, like in a Mercurius case of colitis ulcerosa, where the characteristics of the patients as also of the disease all fall within the totality of the remedy.

Chronic diseases: prescribe for …

The reality of homeopathic practice is that a super simillimum is only rarely found. In all other cases the homeopath has several options to prescribe on:

1. The patient

2. The causal factor (infection/trauma)

3. The consequence (miasm)

4. The expression (chronic disease)

5. Any combination or sequence of 1-4

A simple and workable motto in where to start if indeed several totalities are discovered in a patient is: start with what is staring you in the face! In advanced cases of chronic diseases as also in epidemic diseases and serious trauma starting with that is to be advised for several reasons:

1. The individual simillimum is often hard to discover as the energy of the condition is overruling it.

2. The individual simillimum has only very limited or even no effect because of the same reason.

3. It works in practice and is the reason why also clinical homeopaths have their success cases.

Vorwort/Suchen. Zeichen/Abkürzungen. Impressum.