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Austesten von Arzneimitteln
Aves. Anhang = Vogelmitteln
Anthroposofische. Mitteln
Compound = „Mischung“, „Verbindung“, „Verbund“
Dilutions (Ron Harris)
Herstellen. von einem Mittel
Mittelbestimmung. nach Sankaran und Boller und systemische Ansatz
Remedy. finding by Passive + Active
witnessing
Pflanzen comparison ethanolic
tincture and trituration of fresh plant material. (Dellmour, 1994)
Potentization and the Peripheral form. Homeopathic coffee puts you
to sleep, and homeopathic alcohol sobers you up!
[Elaine Lewis]
Krishnan Method: I think you can see that in
this way, a world of cures opens up for things where previously no hope was to
be found!
Q- potencies and C-potencies
[Hans Weitbrecht]
Discusses
Q and C potencies, offering his personal experiences in using them. The method
of administration and benefits are also included.
H.
introduced the (LM) = Q-Potency scale in his sixth and last edition of the Organon. It differs completely from the C-potency scale in
preparation and application. Experiments, which he carried out from 1839
onwards, were only shared with close friends such as Clemens von Boenninghausen, G.H.G Jahr, Dr. Crosserio and his wife Melanie. Melanie Hahnemann continued
using Q-potencies for a number of years after Samuel Hahnemann’s death.
First
indications were given in the second edition of the Chronic Diseases, when he
already advises to give remedies in watery solution, rather than single doses
dry on the tongue. The sixth and last edition of the Organon
was not published till 1921.
Even
then, these breath-taking innovations nearly passed unnoticed as the
homoeopathic community was deeply divided between high potency and low potency
prescribing and was used to using C-potencies. For the next 20 years little was
published on Q-potencies in the Homoeopathic journals.
In
1956 Pierre Schmidt, a famous French homoeopath, was showing promising results
with Q-potencies. The eighties and nineties saw their slow introduction into
the day-to-day clinic in continental Europe. To date very little is published.
Organon
The
manufacturing process of Q-potencies is accurately described in Organon 6th, ed. paragraphs: 269-271 of the Organon, 6th Ed. (Hint: Q- potencies are not
made from
3c-potencies
arrived by dilution and succussion. Instead, the Q-1
stage is always done by triturating. (Check with your pharmacy.)
Other
paragraphs relating to LM’ are: 161, 238, 246, 247, 248, 270, 271, 272, and
280, 281, 282.
Hahnemann
claims that through this latest innovation he has solved the problem of
aggravation hampering the use of C-potencies and also paved the way to a
quicker and
even
more gentle way of treatment.
For
C-potencies see Organon fifth edition
(1835).
My practical application of Q-potencies:
In
the following paragraphs, I will present my way of using the Q’s, which follows
closely Hahnemann’s instructions taken from the Organon
(sixth edition).
—
LM’s (Q,) are stored in granular form.
— One (or a few) granules are dissolved in a 150ml glass bottle (Stock bottle),
which is filled ¾ with water.
— The water should be clean and without any added chemicals.
— A small amount of high % alcohol is added next. (In my experience, this is
only necessary if the medicine is not used up within 4 weeks)
— A scale, dividing the liquid into 7 parts is stuck to the side of the bottle.
(Mark a dash every centimetre.)
— The bottle is shaken 10 times against something hard before every use. The
patient does this preparation.
The remedy is applied in the following way:
Basic method:
1)
one portion of the stock (1/7) is given into a 250ml glass and half filled up
with water and stirred around.
2) Of that mixture 2 to 5 teaspoons are taken orally, the rest of the glass
goes down the sink. (Alternatively the solution can be rubbed into the skin —
(effective in infants), or inhaled)
In
a normal case the remedy is repeated every 1 or 2 days. A bottle then
lasts 7 to 14 days.
I
usually leave 5 to10 days without remedy after finishing the bottle, to see
what symptoms are expressed. This break enables the life force to freely
express itself in symptoms, often indicating the next remedy through a change
in the symptom- picture.
However,
the remedy does not stop acting immediately, when the patient stops taking it.
Deep and long acting remedies can act beneficially for months.
I
instruct my patients to discontinue taking the remedy if following the first
dose a striking improvement is noticed and to get in contact with me. This is
often a sign that one dose is all it needs — every further repetition would
spoil the case. I tell my patients to discontinue taking the remedy should
there be any adverse reaction to the remedy.
Modifications to the basic method:
This
basic method can be modified in many ways to suit the individual situation.
Frequency of repetition:
The remedy can be given only once every 7 days, even once a month in nicely
advancing more chronic cases. The remedy can be given a few times a day out of
the same glass, stirred around before every application. I gave up to 4 times 2
teaspoons in quick succession in fast advancing disease, before taking out the
next lot from the stock bottle.
Strength of the individual dose:
The strongest single dose is one tablespoon taken straight from the
bottle. This has caused aggravations similar to C-potencies. A
somewhat weaker dose is one teaspoon straight from the bottle; an application I
use more frequently.
If
the standard application from the first glass is still too strong the impact of
the single dose can be further weakened: One teaspoon from the first glass is
given into a second glass, -this half filled with water and then one- three
teaspoons taken orally. The medicine can be weakened further by going up
to the seventh glass.
Simultaneously
or alternatively to the oral application, or the remedy can be applied by
olfaction (smelling it) or cutaneous (rub it in the
skin).
Reactions after taking the medicine:
Reactions straight after taking the medicine:
Aggravation
of single symptoms felt shortly after taking the remedy is due to sensitivity
towards that remedy. Before changing to another remedy, the strength of the
next dose should be weakened. Likewise, a drop of energy straight after taking
the remedy is a certain sign of an impact on the upper limit.
If
I still get the same reaction with a significantly weaker dose, I stop this
remedy and retake the case. In many cases a remedy related to the former worked
well.
I
find that robust persons with good nerves can usually tolerate a teaspoon
straight from the bottle without feeling any aggravation. Tense, stressed-out
individuals only tolerate the first glass or even the third glass. If the third
glass is tolerated a few times, I usually go back to the second glass and
eventually to the first.
Adverse reactions after a few days:
If there is aggravation after a few days of taking the remedy, I stop giving
the remedy and reassess the case as soon as the symptoms have settled. If this
happens, it happens after 5 to 7 days. A more suitable remedy, which at the
same time brings the case forward towards cure automatically stops the former
remedy from acting.
During my 30 years of Q-potency use, I did different experiments:
I gave 10,15 or 20
doses from one stock bottle, shaking it ten times every time before use. After
about the tenth dose the results were getting poorer and after the eighteenth
dose proving symptoms were showing up. Currently I use up to single 10
applications from one Q-potency, and if the medicine is still indicated then
after move on to the next higher potency.
Single
proving-symptoms also showed quickly in susceptible individuals if I shook it
only once or twice. This occurrence stopped when I shook it more than 5 times.
It seems to me that after about 100 succussions to
the bottle the remedy does not increase in potency any further and rather
sharpens its action.
I
also found that this limit of 100 successions is much lower if a smaller size
stock bottle is used (50 or 100 ml.). This shaper action is sometimes desirable
in very acute situations, where I need clear indications within a short period
of time.
I
have no experience in the use of 10 ml dropper -bottles containing the remedy
in a 30% alcoholic dilution. I also tried to use up the stock bottle in only 3
lots, giving it about 25 succussions every time
before each repetition. It worked out okay in acute cases, but there was no
advantage in chronic cases.
Changeover from one potency scale to another:
If
I change from the C-scale to the LM-scale I do it in the following way: 200c to
Q2 –Q4 and 30c to Q1 – Q2. In return, every C-potency above the 30C follows any
Q’ well.
When
I return to an original remedy after a long time (1/2 year+, during which I
gave other remedies), I start off with Q2 again. Not so if only one or two
inter-current remedies were given in single doses. This suits the situation
where the action of a deep and long acting remedy was interrupted by
inter-current remedies, tackling acute situations.
Application of C-potencies:
I
stock C-potencies in granular form in the strengths: 30C, 200C, 1M, 10M CM. I
dissolve 1-2 granules or 1 tablet in a half empty ½ pint glass of water and give
after a good stir 1 to 4 teaspoons as a single dose. Before repeating from the
same glass: stir around ten times. I would not repeat more than 3 times
of the same glass. This kind of repetition works well in acute cases if the
glass containing the remedy is used within two days.
For
more repeats, one can prepare C-potencies in a stock bottle like Q-potencies
and apply accordingly. I usually divide into 7 to 10 doses and shake more than
10 times before every application. This application works much better than the
application of a single dose dry under the tongue. (see Hahnemann, Chronic
diseases vol.6)
If
the same medicine is still indicated after the first bottle is finished and
some time has lapsed, a higher or lower c-potency may be applied in the same
way. The exact same potency twice in succession did not work well for me.
Adverse reactions to C-potencies are dealt in the same way as with Q-potencies,
using the above method.
Sources:
I use my own stocks
of C’, Q’s and LM’s. I get them from Helios in
2gr-granual vials. Lately, I also use Remedia
(Austria) remedies. Remedia differentiates between LM
and Q- potencies.
C-potencies
are easy to get worldwide. I use granular form. It is important to be
sure of the producer’s credentials. I am inclined to trust producers
which document their source and production of their remedies.
Sending remedies:
I usually send out
2 or 3 granules of the same potency packed airtight in a sachet approximately
the size of 3cm by 3cm. I send out more than one granule because they are very
small and easily lost when the sachet is opened. I make and seal the sachets
with a small machine otherwise used for sealing freezer bags. Normally I send
them out by post attached to an information leaflet. This gives instructions on
how to make up the stock-bottle and how to take the remedy. In cases that are
more urgent, I use courier services here in Ireland.
Philosophical thoughts:
Administering a C-
potency in a single dose is like giving the car a push and then leaving it roll
on, till it eventually comes to a halt. With Q’s you drive the car through the
gears until you reach the maximal comfortable speed and then keep it at the
right speed. Your dosage follows the signals of the life-force. With Q’s you
are in the driver’s seat all the time.
You
can create a much more dynamic artificial disease with Q-potencies, which is
similar to chronic diseases. Hahnemann reported, that through the use of LM’s the recovery time in chronic cases was more than
halved, which is documented in his Paris journals.
Q-potency.
Chronic
diseases, especially Psora with its kaleidoscopic
nature, have dynamism in themselves. The behaviour of this class of chronic
diseases is far better matched by the nature of the Q’s.
Acceptance of Q-potencies by the patients:
Some
C-potency using practitioners were concerned about the acceptance of
Q-potencies by the patients, as the use of Q-potencies requires more
involvement of the patient.
It
is my personal experience that using the Q-potencies had the opposite effect.
My
patients feel safer, and more involved in their own recovery process. To be
able to take medicine not only once off is more what my patients were
accustomed to when taking allopathic medication. There is another advantage of
the Q-potencies: The remedy’s action is very hard to disturb from the
outside, as every successive dose puts the patient back on track.
Conclusion:
The use of
Q-potencies reduces the recovery times significantly compared to
C-potencies. In this fast moving world, the Q-potency is the answer to
fast acting allopathic medications. A well-chosen fully potent remedy
applied in Q-potency in the most suitable way has affected positive results
quicker and with less side-effect’s than standardised allopathic medication.
I
hope, that this concise article encourages other homeopaths to use Q-potencies
in the best interest of their patient’s health and wellbeing.
[Vimbulaka Nhlakanipho Brian Ngobese]
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1.The Law of Similars, which states that a
substance that is able to produce symptoms in a healthy human being, has the
ability to cure those same symptoms in a diseased individual (Kayne, 2003).
2. Law of simplex –only one single, simple medicinal substance is to be
administered in a given case at a time, which is called a simillimum
(Chauhan and Gupta 2007).
3. The Law of Infinitesimal dose, which states that the greater the
dilution of the remedy, prescribed according to the Law of Similars,
the greater the effect (Kayne,2003).
[Boericke, 1994: 288-290]
Hahnemann in the 1st edition of Chronic Disease compared
medicines made from solutions and triturations, and
stated his preference for trituration.
In the same concentration and with the same number of potentizing stages, the trituration-based
medicine proved more powerful.
He stated that plant material should be triturated with saccharum lactis 3 distinct times
before potentising the medicine in an aethanolic solution
[Borland]
Advice on role of potencies:
With too low potencies you avoid
the complications of the disease, make patients more comfortable and reduce
mortality rate. But by this method you do not reduce
the duration of disease.
By the administration of higher
potencies, - you will find that you abort the disease. It does not run its
normal course; the duration of the illness is very much shortened
and you have an anticipated crisis.
As far as the high potencies are
concerned, I think it is wiser to give the drug every 2 hours, the reason being
that you want a number of stimuli in a comparatively short
period of time in order
to obtain the crisis within 12 - 24 hours.
[Clarissa Peter]
The most common sources of Homoeopathic animal remedies are milk, as is the case
of the remedy Lac felinum (cat’s milk) and venom, as
is the case of the Lachesis mutans.
Homoeopathic remedies may also be produced by using the whole animal, as
is the case of the remedy Blatta orientalis
(= Indian cockroach) (Forbes, 2008:3).
The utilisation of nail shavings proposes a potentially new source of
Homoeopathic animal remedies, and such crude substances may be obtained from
most animals without causing them harm in any way.
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[Y.R. Agrawal] A practical solution to potency
problem
Nature of the Medicine
Remedies act on three planes,
1. Organopathic plane the symptoms of diseased
organs predominate. In this plane the remedy acts best in tincture or dilutions
in drop doses.
2. Biochemic plane the symptoms of the tissues
organs and blood predominate. The symptoms belonging to the lesion of the
disease are considered for finding
out simillimum. When biochemic
symptoms guide, we can use low, medium or high potencies according to the
acuteness of disease.
3. Dynamic plane the symptoms of the sick persons predominate. These symptoms
belong to Generals (Kent) or to totality of symptoms (Boenninghausen).
In such cases we can go for high potencies.
The nature of medicine includes, the nature of substance in preparation of
the medicine, the type of proving done and the type of symptoms produced.
Remedy should be given in low attenuation when we have to combat a
disease with symptoms analogous to those produced by toxic or massive doses of
the
drug and in infinitesimal doses when we have to deal with symptoms
similar to those produced by the small doses of the drug.
Provings often show that drugs produce
different effects according to the cases in which they have been employed.
Certain medicines have their source from poisonous substance. Their
preparation in lower dilution remains poisonous. Pharmacopoea
thus warns us about the use
of such medicines below certain potency. Such warnings have been given
against such medicines.
Certain drugs are quite inert in their crude form but potentisation is necessary to unfold their medicinal
virtues. They should, therefore, be used in higher potencies (Sil./Lyc./Carb-v. etc.).
If the medicine is nosode - give high potency.
Poorly or partially proved medicines prescribed on partial symptoms
picture should always be used in low potencies.
This rule will apply to drugs like Orni./Crat./Hydr./Card-m./Fic-i./Calc-f.
Low Potencies required when high potencies fail or vice versa. The
medicine which have not been properly proved should be given in low potency
only. When a number
of generals and particular characteristic symptoms are present high
potencies do miracles.
Low potency produces a modifying effect on the system with not
necessarily covering up the whole case in all aspects. The high potency has a
range of its action deeper.
So its action is naturally on a wider sphere. It goes deep into the
system to explore out and to envelope all the necessary peculiarities of the
disease, which otherwise
remains unattacked under low potency. The
experience puts it as a rule that the low potency hastens suppuration while the
high potency aborts it. This gives us a clear understanding that the low
potency goes only so deep as to cover up the already excited condition found in
the process of elimination and as such it helps only to adjust
the superficial condition. It does not meet the condition prior to the
establishment of the elimination which is the actual condition of the disease
effect to match with.
The high potency creates the condition whereby the disease force is made
to minimize its power of influence and to retreat. The high potency envelopes
the disease
condition in a broade and deeper area.
[Dr. S.P. Koppikar]
“Clinical reflections” has brought out that Podophyllum C 200 was quite useless in the constipation of children
where as 6th worked splendidly
In high fever of children, with threatening or actual convulsions, he
found that 6th potency increased fits in fever, while 30 or 200
cured without any aggravation at
Similarly he observed that diarrhoea of Bryonia
responds well with 3rd to 6th potency. But in the usual
constipation of Bryonia potencies above C 30 are
excellent.
Thus conclusion can be drawn that "If in a remedy there are
opposite symptoms in the proving, one set obviously primar
potency in deafness and affections of heart. Mercury acts better in
massive doses in syphilis while it acts better in dilutions in dysentery and
angina. In syphilis while
Mercury acts better in the 30th dilution. In intermittent
fever where sulphate of quinine acts better in massive doses than in a potency,
Ars. and Nux-v. on the
other
hand act better in a potency.
"But broadly it may be suggested that whenever the purpose of a
drug is to improve metabolism of a definite or tissue by gentle stimulation,
low potencies and repeated
doses are suitable while if the aim is to influence a central mechanism
of life, the higher potencies and infrequently repeated doses are of more
value." - G.E. Wheeler
potency in deafness and affections of heart. Mercury acts better in
massive doses in syphilis while it acts better in dilutions in dysentery and
angina. In syphilis while
Mercury acts better in the 30th dilution. In intermittent
fever where sulphate of quinine acts better in massive doses than in a potency,
Ars. and Nux-v. on the
other
hand act better in a potency.
[G.E. Wheeler ]
"But broadly it may be suggested that whenever the purpose of a
drug is to improve metabolism of a definite or tissue by gentle stimulation,
low potencies and repeated
doses are suitable while if the aim is to influence a central mechanism
of life, the higher potencies and infrequently repeated doses are of more
value." -
Certain medicines act best both in high or low potencies while others do
not develop curative power below certain potency. There are medicines which are
mostly given
in low potency/mother tincture and also in some cases the action of the
medicine varies according to the potency. A study of some of the medicines will
act as a guide in selection of the potency. Here we will realise the value of
the two statements of two learned physicians i.e.,
Abrot.: 30th to 200th in
infrequent doses in marasmus and wasting. 5 to 10
drops of tincture in an ounce of cod liver oil rubbed over the body of children
twice a week has
a curative effect in marasmus. 3x serviceable
in rheumatic complaints and oozing of blood from navel of new born.
Acalypha Indica:
0, 3x, 6x generally used.
Acetic Acid: Hard chancre. 1x
solution will soften and cause formation of pus. (Boericke)
Achyranthes: Use 6x. (Boericke)
Acidum butyricum:
Not to be dispensed below 3x.
Acidum hydrocyanicum:
Not to be dispensed below 6x.
Acidum hydrofloricum:
Avoid inhaling the vapours. Not to be prescribed below 4x.
Actaea racemosa:
3x, 30, 200, 1M and higher.
Actaea spicta:
3x
Aegle folia: 30, 200 (sexual weakness;
night pollutions)
Aethiops antimonalis:
In lower dilutions and sometimes in the 30th, 2x in psoriasis.
Aethusa: The 6th has been mainly
used. 200th for students who can not think during examination. A
dose in the morning and before each part of the examination.
Herstellungsverfahren
[Elaine Lewis]
https://hpathy.com/homeopathy-papers/how-to-make-your-own-remedy/
The sky was night and day full of airplanes spraying (Greece). Even
politicians complained to the government about it.
Do you mean spraying campaign messages? Sky-writing?
There is much research regarding what they are spraying - aluminum, barium, heavy metals, fungus, mold….
It is not a theory, it is actually happening. You probably won’t believe
it, but just keep it as information at the back of your head. People all over
the world are getting sick from the chemicals and they don’t realize it!
My brother complained about a tickling pain in the lower abdomen. I
asked him if he ate or drank anything that might have caused this. He answered
just the usual stuff
he normally drinks and eats.
I could not come up with a remedy. Then I began to think about the chemicals
they had been spraying for so many days. So, remembering your article, I placed
on the balcony a glass of water for a day and night so the chemicals they were
spraying would go into the glass.
I took this glass, poured it in a bottle of water, leaving room at the
top for succussion (shaking), then I
emptied-refilled, emptied-refilled, 6x all together, and sucussed
C 40
in between as you explain, and he took one sip. The tickling pain in his
intestines immediately vanished!
I have kept the bottle and labelled it “Chemtrails
6C” and stored it in the fridge for future use.
God forbid you should ever need to use it again. See, it’s like Robin
Murphy saying, “Etiology over-rules symptomatology!” (The etiology in
this case being chemicals in the air.) And what’s our motto? “Whatever
something can cause, it can cure in small doses.” And that’s exactly what you
just proved! But you know what? Don’t be surprised if the exact same remedy
doesn’t work again if they change the formula that they’re spraying!
[Robin Murphy]
“We have to learn to become ‘antidoters’.”
House-Guest Attacked By Make-up!
So, a friend of mine came to our house to stay for the weekend. In the
evening she complained of pimples that appeared suddenly on her face, all of
them on the right side! After a while they appeared inside her mouth and also a
terrible numbness appeared on her right cheek.
She couldn’t sleep! The pimples were starting to itch…
…and the cheek numbness was also very annoying.
She came to my room and asked for help. Like a good aspiring homeopath,
I asked her when these symptoms appeared and if she ate, drank or did anything
unusual.
She answered, “They appeared in the morning,” and further declared that
she didn’t do anything unusual… EXCEPT that she put on her face her new make-up
powder by Clinique.
While she was talking I was thinking, “Hmmm all the symptoms are on the
right, that is a good clue.” All I had to do was to repertorize,
but I didn’t, because I remembered the golden rule from the articles you wrote,
namely: Etiology overrules symptomatology!
I took my friend’s make-up powder, scratched some powder into a small,
half-filled, spring water bottle, gave it 40 succusions
and repeated the dumping-and-refilling technique 6x (succussing
40x after each refill), and, essentially, in the end, I had made a 6C remedy
bottle: “Clinique 6C”.
She took a sip and started to immediately feel better!
I’m not surprised, to tell you the truth! This is what happens when you
give the exact thing that caused the complaint–In Potency (as we say).
After an hour she had a relapse and took another sip, with 5 succusions first. The itching and numbness vanished and she
slept like a baby. In the morning she took a
last sip and even the pimples went away!
We bought Dr. Christopher’s Female Reproductive Formula in the hopes it
would prevent the period cramps from ever taking place, but I guess we were
wrong!
ut, somehow, I got the idea to make a 6C remedy
out of it, and that changed everything!
I’ll say it did! The cramps stopped right away!
Nothing could possibly be easier than making a remedy out of an herbal
tincture!
female-reproductive-formula
I just put 5 drops into an ounce of water, swished it around, poured it
into a small half-filled bottle of spring water, succussed
40x, dumped out, refilled, succussed 40x…
[Henriette Kress]
The question: I've seen lots of info on this list, but I would like to
get specific. (This is an easy one) How do you make your own tincture?
The answer: A fresh herb tincture
a) official
Take: 1 part of fresh herb (by weight, eg. 100
g) to
2 parts of 95 % alcohol (by volume, eg. 2 dl)
Chop up your herb. Leaf roughly, 1" is good enough, root more
finely, as it's harder, 1/5-1/10" is good for that. (Don't use your vitamix or oster, if you do
you'll get lots of inerts into your tincture,
as cell walls rupture). Pour herb into glass jar, cover with alcohol,
close tight lid tightly, let sit in a coolish shady
spot for 2-4 weeks. Strain (I use a cheesecloth, and wring), pour into dark
glass bottles, label (1:2 95 % Yarrow flowering tops, July 2000).
b) simples
Take enough chopped-up herb to jam a glass jar full, add enough 95 %
alcohol to cover, close tight lid tightly, let sit in a coolish
shady spot for 2-4 weeks, strain, bottle, label.
A dried herb tincture
a) official
Take: 1 part of dried herb (by weight, eg. 100
g) to
5 parts of a mix of alcohol and
water (by volume, eg. 5 dl)
Crush up your herb (don't powder it), pour into glass jar, add menstruum (this is your alcohol-water-mix), close tight lid
tightly, let sit in a coolish shady spot for 2-4
weeks. Strain, bottle, label
(1:5 50 % Yarrow flowering tops, July 2000).
b) simples
Take enough crushed-up herb to jam a glass jar full, add enough
alcohol-water-mix to cover, close tight lid tightly, let sit in a coolish shady spot for 2-4 weeks, strain, bottle, label.
>What percentage of alcohol should I use for dried herb?
You'll find a good Materia Medica
here: http://chili.rt66.com/hrbmoore/HOMEPAGE - go for the manuals. This will
tell you the alcohol percentages for dried herb.
Note that Michael Moore assumes you know that fresh herb should be
tinctured at 95 % alcohol; thus his notation for fresh herb tincture is 1:2,
not 1:2 95 %.
>What kind of alcohol?
Vodka is good, but when it says 40% somewhere on the label that means
that the rest is water.
So get as high as you can lay your hands on, and yes, it's expensive, if
you're not close to the Mexican border. In Mexico 95 % alcohol is USD 5 a
gallon, and it's got a nice sweet taste, because it's made from sugarcane.
Everclear is a brand of pure alcohol
available in some states in the US; there are other brands, and pure alcohol
(95% or 190 proof) is not available in all states.
Note: if you use lower percentages than indicated for dried herb your
quality suffers immensely.
Note: if you use significantly less than 95% on fresh herb you have a
large risk that your tincture will rot while it's still in the glass jar, or
later on in the bottle.
The rule of thumb is, you want the water either in the plant or in the menstruum, except for herbs that are resins (myrrh, for
instance, needs 95% alcohol even though it's "dry").
Terminology: menstruum is your alcohol, or
your alcohol-water mixture; in teas the menstruum is
just water, in herbal vinegars it's vinegar.
>How long is the tincture fresh?
Depends on the herb, but a rule of thumb would be about 10 years. Except
for Capsella bursa-pastoris
(Shepherd's purse), Lobelia, and Melissa officinalis
(lemon balm), off the top of my head; these are good for a year, max, so you
need to tincture them fresh every summer if you use them.
Aus Alkoholauszüge aus Pflanzen
Aus Trituration (= Verreibung)
Aus bestrahlte Substanzen z.B. X-ray
Aus nach bestimmte Kriterien zusammen verarbeitete Substanzen o. Potenzen = Kombinationsmittel.
Spezielle Verfahren:
Hahnemann changed substances by alchemic procedures:
Aur-met.
Calcium aceticum
solutum Hahnemanni
Caus.
Hep.
Merc. = Mercurius solubilis Hahnemanni
Dunham
Fincke
Korsakowa
Anhang. (Prasad Beeraka/Hans Wolff)
Anhang. 1 anthroposofische Herstellungsverfahren/ Elaine Lewis/Diane Fuller
Anhang 2. (David Little)
Kodierung
In englische Literatur wird der C-Potenz mit x angegeben und der Zahl steht den Buchstabe voran. Z.B. C 6 wird 6x.
Leider wird in englische Übersetzungen aus der anthroposofische Literatur der D-potenz mit einem x angegeben, so wird D 6 - 6x.
Als niedrige Potenzen werden in Homöopathie (in etwa) C 6 bis C 30 bezeichnet.
Als mittlere Potenzen werden in Homöopathie (in etwa) C 30 bis C 1000 bezeichnet.
Als hohe Potenzen werden in Homöopathie (in etwa) C 1.000 bis C im Unendliche bezeichnet.
Als niedrige Potenzen werden in Anthroposofie (in etwa) D 1 bis D 8 bezeichnet.
Als mittlere Potenzen werden in Anthroposofie (in etwa) D 8 bis D 20 bezeichnet.
Als hohe Potenzen werden in Anthroposofie (in etwa) D 20 bis D 30 bezeichnet.
Substanzen
Aus Gewebe (Porcus.)/Weleda
[preparations differ in minor aspects from Wala]
Wala [Bovines are the donors for most organ
preparations. A closed herd of cattle from a small group of Demeter
(bio-dynamic) farms has been the source. Animal meal has never been fed at
those farms. The amount of organic material required (1 mg/ampoule is
calculated per ampoule of D 6) is minimal compared to
meat consumption for food.
Calves or bovine embryos are used because, in them, organ-configuring
powers are still highly active. The organs and tissues required are collected
immediately after slaughter. The organic form is broken down by mincing and trituration in sterile sea sand and finally a glycerin and electrolyte mixture. The original
form-creating forces being released in the process and becoming part of the
solvent mixture. Solids removed by sedimentation, and the fluid decanted as
ground substance and potentized. The material aspect
has gone completely at this stage (even the ground substance has an extremely
low protein content), with the released power of configuration increasingly
enhanced].
Aus Krankheitserreger.
Parenchymorgane: Arsenite. Arsenate. Hypophosphite. Acetate. Sulfate.
Hohlorgane:
freie Metalle. Oxide.
Carbonate.
Nervensubstanz: Fluoride. Phosphate.
Oxide führen Energie zu.
Halogenide haben mehr Wirkung auf Parenchym und Drüsen.
[Paul Francis]:
Fast-vibration-remedies: Wellen/B.B./gems
Mid-vibration-remedies: Most of homoepathy/spagyrik
Slow-vibration-remedies: Mother-tinctures/tissue-salts/phytology/nutrional supplements/allopathy/diet
Potenzen
D Potenzen = 1 Teil Substanz mit 9 Teilen Trägersubstanz
‡ Folgendes hat anthroposofische Einschlüße ‡
[Bob Witsenburg]
The motto, "low potency for the metabolic system and high potency
for the nerve-sense system" is as one-sided as it is over-simplified. From
Steiner's lectures between April 11 and 18,1921,
I will attempt to show that
this motto is a half-truth, perhaps even a falsehood.
R.S.: if something is amiss in the metabolism, one should use low
potencies; in the rhythmic system, middle dosages; and in that which has to do
with the spiritual in the head, the highest
potencies are demanded. He elaborates on that in the following:
The battle between homeopathy and allopathy shall
not end if we do not complete the statement that what in large doses (low
potencies) causes sickness is healing in small doses (higher or high
potencies). We make it understandable through spiritual science in the
following way: that which in large doses causes sickness in the lower part of
the human being, acts as healing in small doses
if one introduces it from the upper part of the human being and vice
versa".
This is to say, that which in large doses (low potencies) causes illness
from the upper part of the human being acts as healing in small doses (high
potencies) if one introduces it from the lower
part of the human being.
Which substances in material form (low potencies) work from the
metabolic system causing illness or poisoning and which from the upper pole?
How can we understand that some substances are related to the upper pole in
their matter-side and others in their high potencies? In the first lecture of
the series, Steiner describes the example of quartz.
Substance and process
Matter is generally seen as the end of a process. The process is
something non-material, an energy, dynamic, moving. If the process slowly
becomes denser, the result is the movement-come-to-rest (= matter). The process
permeates the universe; as it comes to a standstill as quartz, it crystallizes.
Silica is a process working from the cosmos into the plant world and
mineralizing into quartz (siliceous earth). All quartz comes from a plant
origin; it is a de-vegetablization process from a
plant to a mineral form. In the head, an opposite process occurs - from quartz
back into a process. Quartz, as matter, is related to the head.
Similarly, an animalizing process occurs with limestone in the head:
limestone in nature is of animal origin, a de-animalization process has taken
place. Calcium works as substance in the head and, from there, into the body,
animalizing into calcium as process.
In the head, silica acts as a process-come-to-rest. In the rhythmic
system, the silica process becomes stronger and is strongest in the metabolic
system. In the head, silica acts
as substance in the sense of the formative power of the I. In the
metabolic system, silica acts as a process - dynamic - as energy, as movement,
supporting the I in its
metabolic function.
"If we conceive of silica as substance, we must say that the
strongest action is in the head. If we conceive of silica as process, we must
say that this action is the weakest in the head.
If it is said that the strongest action of a substance is on the nerve
sense system and elsewhere that the strongest action from that substance is
actually in the metabolism, perhaps the first time what is meant is the
material substance and the next time the process, reflecting two sides of the
same coin that are continually opposite each other.
These processes are in balance with each
other if the person is healthy; moreover, they are in opposition to each
other in direction as well as in action.
Strengthening the I in
different gradations, quartz acts from the outside inward (nerve sense process)
and simultaneously from the top down, toward the metabolism.
Also I strengthening, quartz
acts from the lower pole, uniting and synthesizing - as does all which comes
from the lower pole - from the inside outward (metabolic processes) and from
below upward, toward the upper pole.
Via
the quartz, the I has a polar action
in the human being: from the top down via the nerve processes: forming,
analyzing, differentiating from the outside in. Steiner speaks
of
it being free of egoism. From below upward, the I works uniting, forming into a whole, synthesizing. Here, the I acts egoistically. This is meant
practically, not morally.
These
two actions are in balance with each other. If one becomes stronger, the balance
threatens to become disturbed (Stoss), which calls up
a counter-reaction from the other pole (Gegenstoss)
through which the balance is restored. This Stoss-Gegenstoss
principle, as basis for a natural restoration and beginning of healing, is also
the principle of action-reaction described by Steiner in the lecture on
"The Invisible Man Within Us".
Finally,
in the explanation about quartz, Steiner describes the place of natural
scientific data in relation to the question of where quartz is found in the body.
Quartz appears, for example, in hair and in urine. What does this mean? Quartz
is found as substance in hair because it works materially from there in the
sense of the forming nerve-sense function. However, quartz appears because, as
matter, it does not belong in the metabolism and in urine excreted as matter by
the kidneys. In the lower pole (in the kidney),
the
(high potency) quartz exits in the same amount as the kidney can eliminate
quartz as matter = kidney excretion. In the hair, silica is found because it is
needed there, in urine because it is superfluous.
Art as knowledge
From
the above, it seems clear that the low potency - metabolism" grouping is
one-sided. For which substances does it work and for which is the opposite
true, namely that substantial action is actually related to the upper pole? It
seems that the planets above the sun are related to the upper pole as matter.
Belladonna poison is related to the
upper
pole as matter; chamomile is related to metabolism as matter.
The
chance exists that the schematic grouping of high potencies - upper pole, low
potencies - lower pole becomes displaced by a more subtle diagram. If one
realizes that the lower pole and that warming the substance (for example, a
plant decocti) or a metal mirror (preparatum)
can related the substance precisely to the opposite pole, then we can be
assured that the choice of the potency level of medicines in a situation is not
merely knowledge related to understanding, but an art related to intuition.
Injection
via the rhythmical organism restores harmony between astral body and ether
body.
‡ [Ehrenfried E.
Pfeiffer and Erica Sabarth]
In medieval chemical manuscripts descriptions of how to produce chemical
and therapeutical substances spoke of the
"repetition" of one and the same procedure, a process which might
appear unnecessary to the chemist of today because seemingly no new
transformation resulted from it. This procedure mainly concerned processes of
dissolving and distillation. Yet the old literature makes it clear that these
processes, when repeated in definite rhythms, have the effect of purifying the
substance involved and intensifying the intended process. When elaborating on
the production of metal mirrors R.S. explained that a substance undergoing distillations
is brought back to its cosmic origin and rendered able to receive cosmic
forces.
One can well imagine that a single distillation may not be sufficient
when one considers the strong relationship to the physical conditions, the
permeation with not only material impurities but also with earth processes. The
purely chemical rectification requires several repetitions. In the old
instructions the distillation products are reunited with the original substance
so that no purification – in the sense of "removal of impurities" -
seems to take place. Thus the processes themselves are influenced.
Can one verify the effects of such distillation processes through an
experimental test? The most suitable, practical way seemed to be to use the
method of Sensitive Crystallization and to study the "biography" of
the remedy with single crystallization pictures. This provided an opportunity
to observe both an obvious effect and a specific influence.
Concerning the method and its possible applications, we refer you to the
book. Sensitive Crystallization Processes, A Demonstration of Formative Forces
in the Blood by E. Pfeiffer in which medical consequences of this method are
specifically represented.
Weleda gave an insight into the production
processes of Kalium aceticum cum stibio.
Directives for the production:
"distilled wine vinegar is poured onto Tartar (Potassium tartrate) and distilled off several times so that, after
the distillation, it tastes as sour as at the start.
Then Antimony is finely ground together with the above end product.
Next, an alcoholic extract of Croc-s. is added to the powder and this again
treated by distillations.
Further distillations with pure alcohol follow until the "spiritus" no longer shows a red color.
Then Coral is finely pulverized together with this intermediate product,
covered again with alcohol and distilled. This has to be repeated several times
until finally there results the finished remedy“.
To investigate the effect of the formative forces which might accompany
the whole process, a small amount was taken each time from all the single
intermediate states, added in high dilution to a 5% solution of copper chloride
(CuCI2) and crystallized according to the established method. The resulting crystalizations showed that, with the help of the obtained
form, pictures of each single stage of the whole process could be clearly fixed
as to its effect; especially the last stage in each case can be observed as a
specific and characteristic form-picture.
Praxis für Homöopathie
[Thomas Mickler]
Die Potenzierung von Arzneien in der Homöopathie - Fakten und Meinungen in der Diskussion
Über kein Thema die Homöopathie betreffend streiten ihre Gegner und Befürworter so viel und so emotional wie über die Wirksamkeit von Hochpotenzen. Diesen Streit kann man ohne große Mühe 150 Jahre zurück verfolgen, nur damals wurde die Wirksamkeit der Hochpotenzen erstaunlicherweise weniger mit der Wirksamkeit der Homöopathie gleichgesetzt. Das mag daran liegen, dass die homöopathische Behandlung ohne Hochpotenzen damals noch bekannter und gängiger war.
Häufig wird die Homöopathie schon allein wegen der Herstellungsweise ihrer Arzneimittel (keine Materie = kein Wirkstoff = keine Wirkung) als unwirksame Quacksalberei betrachtet. Dabei gibt es viele Missverständnisse über die Herstellung und Anwendung der Arzneimittel. Wie werden die potenzierten Arzneien wirklich hergestellt? Was hat es auf sich mit der Verdünnung?
Potenzierung: Hahnemann entwickelte ein eigenes Verfahren zur Herstellung von Arzneimitteln und führte dieses nach jahrelangen Experimenten in die Homöopathie ein.
Die genaue Beschreibung der Zubereitung kann man in seinem Organon der Heilkunst, §§ 270 ff, nachlesen.
Die Arzneien werden stufenweise verdünnt und zwischen jedem Verdünnungsschritt verrieben bzw. verschüttelt.
Im Gegensatz zu dem weitverbreiteten Irrtum, es handle sich lediglich um eine Verdünnung, kommt der Verreibung bzw. dem Verschütteln eine große Bedeutung zu.
Erst dadurch, zusammen mit der Verdünnung, wird die Arzneikraft in vollem Maße erschlossen - selbst bei Metallen wurden so bis dahin unbekannte Arzneiwirkungen entdeckt.
Dieses Verfahren nennt man Potenzierung, abgeleitet von dem lateinischen "Potenz" (Kraft, Fähigkeit, Leistungsvermögen).
Die Verdünnung erfolgt mit den Substanzen Alkohol o. Milchzucker. Bei der ersten Verdünnungsstufe (z.B. im Verhältnis 1:100) wird 1 Teil des Arzneistoffs mit 99 Teilen Milchzucker verrieben o. mit Alkohol verschüttelt das Ergebnis ist die C1. Dann wird im selben Verhältnis weiter verdünnt, d. h. 1 Teil dieser C1 wird mit 100 Teilen Milchzucker bzw. Alkohol verrieben bzw. verschüttelt, so bekommt man die C2 usw. Schon bei der C3 ist nur noch ein Millionstel der Ausgangssubstanz enthalten. Jenseits der statistischen Nachweisgrenze (Gesetz von Avogadro), also ca. ab der C12, ist keine Materie mehr in den Arzneien enthalten.
Hahnemann bezeichnete so hergestellte Arzneien deshalb auch als "geistartig" oder "dynamisch" (modern ausgedrückt energetisch), die Potenzierung wurde auch "Dynamisation" genannt.
Es gibt in der klassischen Homöopathie drei verschiedene Verfahren zur Potenzierung mit je unterschiedlichen Verdünnungsschritten:
D (Dezimal) - Potenzen: Verdünnung 1:10
C (Centisimal) - Potenzen: Verdünnung 1:100
Q oder LM (Quinquagintamillesimal): Verdünnung 1:50.000
Hahnemann hatte anfangs das Problem, dass bei der homöopathischen Anwendung von Arzneien vor einer Heilung oft unangenehme Reaktionen auftraten, insbesondere bei Stoffen, die sehr giftig sind wie z.B. die Atropa belladonna = Tollkirsch. Er trat dem zunächst damit entgegen, dass er die Arzneien verdünnte, wobei sie jedoch immer mehr an Wirksamkeit verloren. Um dieses Problem
zu lösen, experimentierte er so lange, bis er die Potenzierung entdeckte. Hahnemann konnte beobachten, dass die Arzneien auf solche Weise zubereitet keine so starken Reaktionen hervorriefen und zudem eine ungleich höhere Wirksamkeit entfalteten als in roher Form.
Er machte die Erfahrung, dass selbst Stoffe, die normalerweise keine große Arzneikraft besitzen, zu arzneilich hochwirksamen Mitteln wurden - wie z.B. das Kochsalz, verschiedene Metalle, Graphit, Kalk... .
Häufiges Missverständnis
Auch bezüglich der Anwendung der potenzierten Mittel gibt es einige Missverständnisse. Sie werden im allgemeinen Sprachgebrauch "homöopathische Mittel" genannt.
Diese Bezeichnung ist eigentlich falsch, und sie führt zu Missverständnissen. So denken viele, sie würden homöopathisch behandelt, wenn sie eine potenzierte Arznei
oder ein Komplexmittel erhalten, die nicht individuell nach der Gesamtheit der Symptome verordnet sind, sondern nach ganz anderen Kriterien. Erst durch die
Verschreibung nach dem Ähnlichkeitsgesetz wird eine Arznei zu einem homöopathischen (= ähnlichen) Mittel für eine Krankheit. Erst dann, wenn die Arznei auch nach
den Regeln der Homöopathie Hahnemanns angewendet wird. Wenn man es ganz genau nimmt, so ist eine Arznei ist erst dann wirklich homöopathisch, wenn sie ähnlich
genug zur Krankheit des Patienten ist, um diese zu heilen. Nur wenn die bestehenden Symptome der Krankheit den Symptomen ähnlich sind, die durch diese Arznei bei
einem gesunden Menschen hervorgerufen werden können, kann man eine heilende Wirkung erwarten.
Wenn Sie also ein so genanntes "homöopathisches Mittel" verordnet bekommen, so haben Sie noch keine Gewähr dafür, dass das Mittel auch nach dem Ähnlichkeitsgesetz verordnet wurde. Die Verordnung eines "homöopathischen Mittels" allein ist noch lange keine Homöopathie, das ist sehr wichtig zu wissen! Denn der Begriff Homöopathie
ist nicht geschützt, jeder kann ihn nach Bedarf verwenden. Die Homöopathie ist jedoch eine klar definierte Arzneitherapie.
Elaine
Lewis shows us how to make our own remedies when we don’t have access to
regular ones. If you’re sick from vacationing in Mexico, you can make a remedy
out of the local water. The list of possibilities is endless! Remember that
whatever something causes, it can cure in small doses.
Eine potenzierte Arznei ist keinesfalls mit einer homöopathischen Arznei gleichzusetzen.
[Thomas Mickler]
Viele Homöopathen sind im Laufe der Zeit durch eigene Erlebnisse zur Homöopathie gekommen.
Der 2003 verstorbene Homöopath Willibald Gawlik wurde während fast 6 Jahren Kriegsgefangenschaft in Rußland durch einen deutschen homöopathischen Arzt von Fleckfieber geheilt, an welchem damals viele starben. Das heilende Mittel war potenziertes Opium. Das bewegte Gawlik nach dem Krieg dazu, die Homöopathie selbst
zu erlernen, die er dann mehr als 50 Jahre praktizierte.
Clemens von Bönninghausen (1785-1864), ein geachteter Jurist und Botaniker, schrieb 1828 einen Abschiedsbrief an seinen ärztlichen Botanikerfreund Dr. med. August Weihe, dass er keine Öffnung auf Genesung mehr haben könne und nun an Tuberkulose sterben müsse. Er wusste nichts davon, dass Weihe sich mit der Homöopathie vertraut gemacht hatte, da sich die Korrespondenz sonst nur um botanische Themen drehte. Dieser rettete ihn mit einer Gabe Puls. C30, der er 4 Wochen später eine Gabe Sulph. C30 folgen ließ. Mehr war zur Genesung nicht nötig. Bönninghausen widmete in einer ausgedehnten Praxis den überwiegenden Teil seines restlichen Lebens der Homöopathie.
Er behandelte über lange Zeit auch die Schriftstellerin Annette von Droste-Hülshoff, die man bis zur Einführung des Euro auf unserem 20DM-Schein finden konnte.
Als Hahnemann noch an der Universität von Leipzig lehren durfte, sollte der Medizinstudent Konstantin Hering im Auftrag anderer Professoren diese neue Lehre erlernen
und quasi von innen ihre Unwirksamkeit belegen. Es kam nie zur gewünschten Widerlegung, da seine Erfahrungen mit der Homöopathie, u. a. seine eigene Heilung von einer Sektionsverletzung, die ihn vor der Amputation eines Fingers bewahrte, ihn eines anderen belehrte. Er wurde nun wirklich zum Schüler Hahnemanns und später ein bekannter homöopathischer Arzt. Diese Beispiele ließen sich beliebig vermehren.
Die Erfahrung, so man sie einmal selbst gemacht hat, lässt sich durch nichts wegdiskutieren - selbst wenn es dem wissenschaftlich geschulten Geist zuwider läuft und man heute immer noch nicht genau weiß, auf welche Weise potenzierte Arzneien (bei richtiger Anwendung) heilen können.
Diskussionen um die Wirksamkeit
Am Thema der Potenzierung entzünden sich die Gemüter schon seit deren Entstehung im 19. Jahrhundert. Die Diskussion darüber wird meist sehr emotional und ohne die eigentlich gebotene nüchterne Wissenschaftlichkeit geführt - verständlich nur insofern, als es auf den ersten Blick nicht besonders plausibel erscheint, dass funktionieren könnte, was die Homöopathie von der Potenzierung behauptet.
Doch mit bloßem Plausibilitätsdenken hat man in der Wissenschaft schon oft genug zu kurz gedacht! Man macht es sich leicht und handelt überdies unwissenschaftlich,
wenn man sich damit begnügt, einfach nur darauf hinzuweisen, dass in den Arzneien kein Wirkstoff mehr nachweisbar ist, um die angebliche Unwirksamkeit der
Homöopathie zu begründen.
Das setzt die (meist selbstverständliche, fest im Weltbild verankerte) Annahme voraus, Arzneien könnten prinzipiell nur durch materielle Wirkstoffe wirksam sein.
Diese Annahme wird nicht in Frage gestellt, doch genau genommen ist das ein Glaube, den wir durch das, was wir kennen, gewohnt sind. Das ist jedoch keineswegs ein Beweis!
Die Gegner der Homöopathie behaupten gerne, man könnte genauso gut einen Tropfen eines homöopathischen Mittels in den Bodensee werfen und dann dieses Wasser trinken wie ein homöopathisches Mittel einzunehmen.
An dieser Stelle eine persönliche Bemerkung: Ich erinnere mich gut daran, wie ich als Biologie-Student vor fast 20 Jahren über Homöopathie gedacht habe, als ich während einer Diskussion hörte, dass in von Homöopathen verwendeten Medikamenten keinerlei Wirkstoff mehr enthalten sei. Damit war die Diskussion damals für mich beendet. Ich kann mich erinnern, wie empört ich war, und obwohl ich kaum etwas über die Homöopathie wusste, war damit alles, was damit zusammenhing, disqualifiziert. Vielleicht hätte es mir damals geholfen zu erfahren, dass die Homöopathie nicht prinzipiell vom Verfahren der Potenzierung abhängig ist, wie die geschichtliche Entwicklung zeigt: die Homöopathie gab es schon, als Hahnemann das Herstellungsverfahren der Potenzierung in die Homöopathie einführte.
Man muss leider feststellen, dass die meisten Diskussionen um die Wirksamkeit der Homöopathie dabei stehen bleiben, darüber zu streiten, ob potenzierte Arzneien eine Wirkung auf den menschlichen Körper haben können oder nicht - über die Prinzipien der Homöopathie wird gar nicht erst diskutiert. So passiert es, dass die Homöopathie mit der Anwendung potenzierter Arzneien gleichgesetzt wird. Das hat selbstverständlich erheblichen Einfluss auf die Art der Untersuchung der Homöopathie durch Studien usw. Denn es wird dabei leider selten differenziert, ob wirklich nach homöopathischen Prinzipien behandelt wurde oder nicht - Hauptsache, die Arzneien sind potenziert und es steht "homöopathisches Arzneimittel" drauf?
Sehr viele heute selbstverständliche wissenschaftliche Wahrheiten waren anfangs nur durch Experimente darstellbar. Sie wurden zunächst abgelehnt, weil sie mit den zur Verfügung stehenden theoretischen Grundlagen noch nicht zu verstehen waren. Doch dass man etwas nicht verstehen kann, beweist nichts, und schon Hahnemann hat ausdrücklich von seinen Kritikern verlangt, seine Erfahrungen und Gedanken zu diesen im Experiment nachzuvollziehen und beliebig oft zu reproduzieren, um seine gewonnenen Erfahrungen entweder zu widerlegen oder zu bestätigen .
Übrigens können die Arzneimittelprüfungen am Gesunden aus Hahnemanns Zeit heute noch reproduziert werden, sofern man sie mit der nötigen Sachkenntnis durchführt, auch immer wieder neue Arzneien werden an Gesunden geprüft. Wenn man so etwas selbst nachmachen will, um die Unwirksamkeit der Homöopathie zu beweisen, so sollte man die Vorgehensweise in der Literatur Hahnemanns studieren oder erfahrene Homöopathen dazu befragen.
Im Gegensatz zum Ähnlichkeitsgesetz ist die Potenzierung der Arzneien also kein unerlässlicher Bestandteil der Homöopathie - das wissen die allermeisten Kritiker leider nicht, obwohl es eine einfache historische Tatsache ist. Die Methode ist grundsätzlich auch mit unpotenzierten Arzneien wirksam - sofern ihre Wirkungen der Krankheit ähnlich sind. So wurde in der Anfangszeit der Homöopathie noch ohne die Potenzierung von Arzneimitteln gearbeitet, z.B. war es möglich, Malaria mit der Chinarinde in nicht potenzierter Urtinktur zu heilen, wenn die Malariasymptome den China-Symptomen ähnlich waren - allerdings oft mit noch zu starken Reaktionen auf die Arznei.
Einen Fall von Hahnemann finden Sie auch bei den Fallgeschichten, wo er einer Wäscherin einen Tropfen Zaunrebensaft (Bry.) verabreicht.
Hahnemann beschreibt 1796 in seinem Artikel in Hufelands Journal (der damals bedeutendsten Medizin-Zeitschrift, die von dem berühmten Arzt C.W. Hufeland herausgegeben wurde), seine neue Methode der Arzneifindung – mit zahlreichen Beispielen versehen. Die Methode der Potenzierung ist hier noch nicht entwickelt, auch wenn Hahnemann zu dieser Zeit schon anfing, Arzneien immer
stärker zu verdünnen, um die teilweise starken Reaktionen auf die rohen Arzneistoffe abzumildern. So wäre die Homöopathie als erfahrungswissenschaftliche Methode selbst dann noch nicht widerlegt, wenn die Potenzierung sich als unwirksam herausstellen würde, das für die Homöopathie grundlegende Ähnlichkeitsgesetz wird davon nicht berührt.
Noch etwas Interessantes, was nicht sehr bekannt ist: Wissen Sie, wann der erste Doppelblind-Versuch in der Geschichte der Medizin durchgeführt wurde? 1835 in Nürnberg, bei einer homöopathischen Arzneimittelprüfung, wie der Medizinhistoriker Prof. Robert Jütte berichtet!
Die Diskussion um die Wirksamkeit von potenzierten Arzneien spielt freilich in der täglichen Praxis von Homöopathen keine allzu große Rolle - sie erleben den Beweis dafür oft und genug, und sie sind gewohnt, die Arzneiwirkungen genau einschätzen zu müssen, dazu gehört auch die Unterscheidung von Placeboeffekten zu echten Arzneiwirkungen.
Warum letztendlich Hochpotenzen wirksam sind, ist noch nicht eindeutig zu klären - wichtig ist einstweilen, dass sie wirken. Die Kraft und die Wirksamkeit der Arzneien nimmt mit der Potenzierung zu, wobei gleichzeitig unerwünscht starke Reaktionen auf die Arzneigabe weitestgehend ausbleiben, wenn man sie richtig anzuwenden weiß.
Hahnemann selbst sei hierzu zitiert: Er sagte zu diesem Thema 1835 (in Bezug auf die Wirksamkeit der C30, also einer hoch potenzierten Arznei, in der keine Materie mehr zu erwarten ist):
"[...] Indeß gehört dieser wahre Satz nicht unter die zu begreifen seyn sollenden, noch auch zu denen, für welche ich blinden Glauben fordre. Ich fordre gar keinen Glauben dafür, und verlange nicht, dass dieß Jemandem begreiflich sey. Auch ich begreife es nicht; genug aber, die Thatsache ist so und nicht anders. Bloß die Erfahrung sagt's, welcher ich mehr glaube, als meiner Einsicht."
Ein vom Sinn her sehr ähnliches Zitat gibt es übrigens von Charles Darwin. in einem Brief an William Darwin Fox vom 4.9.1850:
"Sie sprechen über die Homöopathie, was ein Thema ist, das mich sogar noch wütender macht als die Hellseherei: Das Hellsehen überschreitet unsere Überzeugungen in einer Weise, dass normale Fähigkeiten gar nicht in Frage kommen, doch bei der Homöopathie kommen gesunder Menschenverstand und allgemeine Beobachtung ins Spiel, und beides würde vor die Hunde gehen, wenn die unendlich kleinen Dosen irgendeine Wirkung hätten."
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