Oscillococcinum Anhängsel Pyrogenium
Einnahmehinweise: ABC
Bakteriolysat aus Kulturen von Oscillococcus-Mikroben nach Dr. Joseph Roy.
Herz und Leber der Barbarieente werden bei 37°C fermentiert und 4 Wochen kultiviert. Die Suspension wird keimfiltriert und zur C200 hochpotenziert.
In seinem Buch „Vers la connaissance et la guerison du Cancer" (Erkennung und Heilung von Krebs), erschienen 1925, beschreibt er die Mikroben, die er in
Krebstumoren, aber auch in gonorrhoischem Eiter und in den Sekretionen von schweren Grippeerkrankungen findet. Nachdem das Mittel ungefähr 40 Ratten
injiziert worden war, starben dieselben an „Grippe" innerhalb 24 - 48 Stunden. Die einen wiesen eine gastrointestinale Grippe auf, die anderen eine
Bronchopneumonie. Erst durch die klinische Arbeit von Dr. Chavanon bekam diese Nosode einen praktischen Wert. ABC C200 in Globuli-Fom erwies sich
als günstig bei den folgenden klinischen Indikationen.
Indikationen
Grippale Otitis
Mastoiditis
Grippe.
Jede beginnende Grippe, jedes Kind, das über Ohrenschmerzen, über beginnende Angina, über Schnupfen klagt, sollte sofort und vor allen anderen Mitteln
eine Gabe ABC C200 bekommen. Der Kranke, die Familie und der Arzt werden durch dieses Vorgehen gleichermaßen belohnt werden.
ABC C200 und Eupatorium perfoliatum C12 sind zwei Hauptmittel bei jeder beginnenden Grippe.
Bei den ersten Anzeichen von Grippe oder grippalen Infekt alle 3 Stunden 5 Globuli ABC C200 auf der Zunge zergehen lassen. 15 Minuten vorher und nachher nichts
essen und trinken. Solange einnehmen, bis die Symptome beginnen, sich zu verändern, dann absetzen.
http://www.homeowatch.org/history/oscillo.html
[Dr. Nienhuys] a retired mathematician, formerly at Eindhoven University
of Technology in The Netherlands. He is also secretary of the Dutch
organization Skepsis.
An earlier version of this article appeared in the organization's
magazine, Skepter.
The Story of Oscillococcinum [freely adapted from Jan Willem Nienhuys]
Osc. discovered by Joseph Roy (1891-1978), a French physician at the
time of the Spanish flu in 1917. Examining the blood of victims he found a
strange microorganism:
a bacterium that consisted of two unequal balls that performed a quick
vibratory motion.
Sometimes they shrunk so much that he couldn't see them with his
microscope. But they could also grow and get one or two more balls.
Next
sufferers. Also people who had eczema, rheumatism, mumps, chickenpox and
measles turned out to harbor this "universal germ."
It is not clear today what
not caused by microbes, and mumps and measles are caused by viruses,
which can't be seen with an ordinary microscope. No other bacteriologist has
ever reported seeing
do not exist. He thought possibly vague environmental factors may play a
role (scabies and syphilis were such factors, which he called "miasmas“).
Other parts of
Hahnemann's theory was that diseases can be cured if one imparts to the
patient an artificial disease that produces similar life force disturbances as
the real disease.
The short-lived artificial disease will drive out the real disease and
then the patient is cured. The remedies act by their spiritual power and this
spiritual nonphysical power
can be imparted to alcohol or milk sugar by a process of shaking or
rubbing, just like iron can be made magnetic by rubbing it with a magnet.
homeopathically. Just take any abundant source of oscillococci, and
after homeopathic reinforcement, it will become a panacea.
As a remedy is named in Latin with the wrong name, "Anas Barbariae,
Hepatis et Cordis Extractum," even though Anas ducks are quite different
from Cairina ducks.
Since 1925, Osc. has been prepared as follows. Into a one litre bottle,
a mixture of pancreatic juice and glucose is poured. Next a Canard de Barbarie
is decapitated and
35 grams of its liver and 15 grams of its heart are put into the bottle.
Why liver? Roy: "The Ancients considered the liver as the seat of
suffering, even more important than the heart, which is a very profound
insight, because it is on the
level of the liver that the pathological modifications of the blood
happen, and also there the quality of the energy of our heart muscle changes in
a durable manner."
Maybe the French tendency to call any form of not well-being a
"crise de foie" ("bilious attack") had also something to do
with it. After 40 days in the sterile bottle,
liver and heart autolyse (disintegrate) into a kind of goo, which is
then "potentized" with the Korsakov method.
Doctor Roy: this concoction worked against cancer, syphilis, scabies and
Tb., but Boiron only recommends it for "flu-like states".
Exaggerated: Diabetics who are afraid when during a thunderstorm their
husband seems to be late, while they have a feeling of electric currents
through their varicose
veined legs, anal itch and itchy bumps on their wrist, that they keep
trying to wash off in a maniacal way, (having a runny nose and stubbornly
resist advice not to worry).
Tuberculosis patients sensitive to chilling.
Luetic patients having
obsessive ideas.
[Dana Ullman]
"Oscillococcinum ist das einzige frei verkäufliche Grippemittel, dessen Wirksamkeit von mindestens VIER unabhängigen großen Arzneimittelstudien belegt wird.
Oscillococcinum -wegen der umständlichen Aussprache des Namens von vielen auch kurz „Oscillo“ genannt- ist ein ausgezeichnetes Grippemittel, das seine Wirksamkeit
am besten entfaltet, wenn es gleich zu Anfang einer Grippeerkrankung (48 Stunden nach Eintreten der ersten Symptome) eingenommen wird.
Die Ausgangssubstanz für dieses Mittel wird aus Herz und Leber einer Ente gewonnen. Während sich jetzt der Verdacht der Quacksalberei aufdrängt - das Wortspiel
sehen Sie mir an dieser Stelle bitte nach – haben Biologen und Epidemiologen nachgewiesen, dass 80% einer Entenpopulation jeden uns bekannten Virus in ihren Verdauungsorganen tragen. Oscillo enthält also homöopathische Mengen dieser Viren und ihrer Antikörper.
Folgende Studien konnten die Wirksamkeit von Oscillococcinum nachweisen: Ferley (1989), Cassanova (1992) und Papp (1998). Jede dieser Studien war relativ groß
angelegt (mit jeweils 487, 300 und 372 Patienten) und wurde als placebo-kontrollierte, doppelblinde Multi-Center-Studie durchgeführt. Darüber hinaus waren zwei
der Studien randomisiert. Alle drei Studien konnten statistisch signifikante Ergebnisse aufweisen. Sogar das angesehene Cochrane Netzwerk bezeichnete die Ergebnisse
als vielversprechend."
The True Story of Oscillococcinum
[Jan Willem Nienhuys]
Whenever the flu season nears, prudent consumers get immunized against
the most virulent strains of flu that are expected. This is especially
recommended for people who
are elderly or have chronic lung disease, diabetes, or various other chronic
diseases. In France, however, lots of people arm themselves against this by
taking Oscillococcinum. What a strange name! Where does it come from, and what
does it mean?
Oscillococcinum was discovered by Joseph Roy (1891-1978), a French
physician who was on military duty when the Spanish flu hit the world in 1917.
He examined the blood of victims and found a strange microorganism: a bacterium
that consisted of two unequal balls that performed a quick vibratory motion.
Roy called them "oscillococci" and thought they could vary much in
size. Sometimes they shrunk so much that he couldn't see them with his
microscope. But they could also grow and get one or two more balls.
Next Roy discovered these bacteria in the blood and the tumors of cancer
patients, in syphilitic ulcers, in the tubercles of tuberculosis patients and
in the pus of gonorrhea sufferers. Also people who had eczema, rheumatism,
mumps, chickenpox and measles turned out to harbor this "universal
germ."
It is not clear today what Roy saw through the eyepiece of his
microscope. But one thing is certain: he did not see the causes of those
diseases. Rheuma, eczema, and most forms of cancer are not caused by microbes,
and mumps and measles are caused by viruses, which can't be seen with an ordinary
microscope. Moreover, no other bacteriologist has ever reported seeing Roy's
special cocci again.
Roy thought he had made a new and thrilling discovery on the road to the
cure for cancer. He even wrote a book about it. In his time, many people
doubted the idea that
every disease has its own cause (such as its own microbe). Such skeptics
embraced Roy's discovery.
Roy thought immediately of a homeopathic application. The fundamental
teaching of Samuel Hahnemann (1775-1843) is that disease is a disturbance of
"life force" and that specific causes for diseases do not exist.
Possibly vague environmental factors may play a role, he thought, and his idea
was that scabies and syphilis were such factors, which he called
"miasmas." Hahnemann first published his views in 1796. Other parts
of Hahnemann's views were that diseases can be cured if one imparts to the
patient an artificial disease that produces similar life force disturbances as
the real disease. The short-lived artificial disease will drive out the real disease
and then the patient is cured.
The remedies act by their spiritual power and this spiritual nonphysical
power can be imparted to alcohol or milk sugar by a process of shaking or
rubbing, just like iron can
be made magnetic by rubbing it with a magnet.
Roy's finding fit perfectly with the homeopathic view that diseases do
not have specific causes, and he thought that his discovery could be adapted to
treat cancer homeopathically. Just take any abundant source of oscillococci,
and after homeopathic reinforcement, it will become a panacea. Now oscillococci occur virtually everywhere, but for
reasons nobody knows Roy took as source the muscovy duck, which French cooks
use to prepare duck breast. These cooks call the animal Canard de Barbarie, but
biologists know it as Cairina moschata. Completely in line with the
unscientific traditions of homeopathy, Oscillococcinum is denoted in Latin with
the wrong name, "Anas Barbariae, Hepatis et Cordis Extractum," even
though Anas ducks are quite different from Cairina ducks.
Preparation
Since 1925, Oscillococcinum has been prepared as follows. Into a one
litre bottle, a mixture of pancreatic juice and glucose is poured. Next a
Canard de Barbarie is decapitated and 35 grams of its liver and 15 grams of its
heart are put into the bottle. Why liver? Doctor Roy writes: "The Ancients
considered the liver as the seat of suffering, even more important than the
heart, which is a very profound insight, because it is on the level of the
liver that the pathological modifications of the blood happen, and also there
the quality of the energy of our heart muscle changes in a durable
manner." Maybe the French tendency to call any form of not well-being a
"crise de foie" ("bilious attack") had also something to do
with it. After 40 days in the sterile bottle, liver and heart autolyse
(disintegrate) into a kind of goo, which is then "potentized" with
the Korsakov method.
Semyon Nicolaevich Korsakov (1788-1853) was a modest landowner in the
village Tarusovo near Moscow. After 1813, he held a not-too-demanding desk job
in the Ministry of Internal Affairs, enabling him to dabble in lay medicine. In
about 1829, he converted to homeopathy and invented a quicker way of preparing
high dilutions.
The glass containing the remedy is shaken and then just emptied and
refilled, and the dilution factor is assumed to be 1:100.
In ordinary homeopathy one has to use a new clean glass for every
dilution, so the Korsakov method is very cost-effective. In preparing Korsakov
potencies, distilled water
is used rather than alcohol (sometimes only after the 30th
dilution), which saves a lot of money if one has to repeat the dilution step
200, 1000 or even 50,000 times. Oscillococcinum's manufacturer (Boiron) uses
"ultrapure water" from the first step on. Oscillococcinum is
designated as "200K" -which means that the original amount is
subjected to 200 Korsakov dilutions- and the resulting fluid is used to moisten
small 5 milligram balls of milk sugar. Some packages have been labeled "200CK."
("C" is the abbreviation for centesimal, which means 1-to-100
dilution, and "CK" stands for "centesimal Korsakovian." )
Other packages have been labeled 200C," which does not specify which
dilution method was used.
Korsakov's first name is often incorrectly transcribed as Semen, and
some biographers use the nonexistent first name Iseman or Isemen. In German
transcription he is Simon Korsakoff. Various myths say that he was a nobleman
or count, a physician with or without PhD, the czar's personal physician, or
even a general who invented the Korsakov method on the battlefield. None of
this is true. Hahnemann addressed him as "Monsieur le comte de
Korsakoff" in a time that foreigners customarily used noble titles for any
Russian who could speak French. Korsakov's method gained Hahnemann's approval
in 1832.
Dubious Claims
The good doctor Roy thought that his concoction worked against cancer,
syphilis, scabies and tuberculosis, but Boiron only recommends it for
"flu-like states" and asks just over a dollar per gram for it.
Hundreds of thousands of French buy this energetically advertised nonsense
product. It is recommended for prevention (one dose per week
in the flu season) and as cure. And, contrary to classical homeopathic
usage, one has to gobble up a one-gram doses, rather than take a single 5 mg
ball as a lifetime dose.
There's no logical reason to believe that anything in duck liver or
heart will be an effective flu remedy. But even if there were some magic
substance, the manufacturing process guarantees that it will not be in the
finished product. The laws of chemistry indicate that after the 12th
dilution, it is unlikely that a single molecule from the original organs
will remain. Moreover, at "200C" (or "200K" or
"200 CK") the concentration of the original substance would be 1 part
in 100200, which is a 1 followed by 400 zeroes.
A 1 followed by 100 zeroes is called a googol. The estimated number of
particles in the universe that we can see is a googol, give or take a few
zeroes. So in order for one of the original molecules to be present in a
container of Oscillococcinum, the mass of that container would have to be about
a googol googol googol times our world, which would be incomprehensibly larger
than the visible universe.
How, then, could anyone conclude that Oscilloccinum is effective?
Homeopathic theory holds that if large amount of a substance can produce
symptoms in healthy people, infinitesimal amounts can cure diseases with those
symptoms. The alleged effects are determined through experiments (most done over
100 years ago) in which people ingest the substances and report what they
experience afterward. These reports have been compiled into huge books that
supposedly provide the "drug picture" of each substance. The books,
called materia medica, are said to comprise "all the recorded mental,
general and local (particular) symptoms and signs, modalities, pathological
changes and test findings" for each substance."
Oscillococcinum's drug picture illustrates irrationality to the nth
degree. I received it after I complained about an ad. A Dutch Boiron
representative responded that the drug picture supported the company's claims
of curative powers. The drug picture alleged that oscillococcinum can can help:
Diabetics who are afraid when
during a thunderstorm their husband seems to be late, while they have a feeling
of electric currents through their varicose veined legs, anal itch and itchy
bumps on their wrist, that they keep trying to wash off in a maniacal way,
especially when they have a runny nose and stubbornly resist advice not to
worry.
The list of relevant individual symptoms included:
Tuberculosis patients
sensitive to chilling.
Luetic patients having
obsessive ideas.
General symptoms: Lean, pale,
chronic invalidity, weakness, need for fresh air even when afraid of cold.
Stiffness, shivering, feeling too hot, headache, weakness,
repeating shakes descending down the body.
Feeling of electric current running through the diseased part. Bitter and
grayish secretions, not much.
Aggravates: when you think
about it, by moisture, fog, changes of weather, in the night, when resting,
after eating eggs or drinking milk.
Improves: in free air, at the
seaside, by heat, resting, after evacuations.
Sleep: sleepless with
agitation during the night.
Mental symptoms: Latent
anxiety (when someone doesn't return on time) fear, unquietness without clear
cause. Impatience, improves when one is busy.
Quick speech and understanding. Futility, tendency to be maniacal.
Pettyness. Can't stand disorder, fear of dirt and pollution. Urge to often wash
hands. Afraid to shake hands for fear of contagion. Stubbornness. Depressed,
thinks back of his past fear of thunderstorms.
Local symptoms: Clouding of
the senses. Sudden vertigo. Pain in the right of the head, with repeated
shaking. Heavy feeling in the head. Sudden feeling of decoupling
in the head. Headache in the front of the head, also occipital, < in
the morning than in the evening, > when one blows the nose. Pain in the
maxillary region.
Feeling of something running across the face on the right half. Feeling
of a bug that runs over the face during the night.
That's about half. The rest include:
Violent needle-like pain in
the ears; flu-like state; runny nose; yellow conjunctiva; dry painful cough;
wet cough with mucopurulent expectoration; whole tongue putrid; vomit; pain in
the appendix region; abdominal cramp followed by fetid smelling diarrhea;
persistent obstipation; full feeling in the belly; anal itch, worse in the
warmth of
the bed, with or without hemorrhoids; itch after antibiotics;
hyperglycaemia; painful micturation; cloudy urine; sugar in urine; fetid and
yellow leucorrhea; hypotension; hypertension; varicose veins; phlebitis;
ulcerations in the legs, painful in the night; chronic streptococcal eczema;
feelings of electric shocks in the lower leg; little bumps that itch on the
inside of the wrist.
Do you believe that any product can provide such wide range of benefits? I certainly do not!
[László Bóna]
László
Bóna discusses the influenza remedy Oscillococcinum that is incubated for 40
days, and the historic significance of that time period.
Edited by Péter Hassmann / Translated by: Tibor Sebestény
This
series was driven by how we could give advice based on remedies that can be
easily obtained and used. One such useful remedy is Oscillococcinum.
Usually
we can find it even in those pharmacies which do not sell homeopathic remedies
otherwise. Boiron registered it and this remedy reached the highest sales
volume
of
all homeopathic remedies. The remedy is made from the ‘muscovy duck’, also
called ‘Anas Barbariae’.
Peter
Fraser wrote a book, titled “Birds”, about the homeopathic remedies made from
different kind of birds’ feathers or a drop of their blood. In his book he
states that Oscillococcinum is similar to the Carconisinum nosode. “The remedy
indicates a gentle picture of Carcinosinum. It is worth using if the patients’
reaction to Carcinosinum would be too intense.”
Because
the remedy did not have a regular proving, its symptoms were collected mainly
by practical experiences of those who took the remedy. “Oscillococcinum is
mainly used in colds or in the initial phase of influenza by most people. … Influenza
symptoms of the remedy are as follows: fever, cold shivering, shattered
sensation, throbbing headache, pain of the sinuses, stopped up nose, coryza and
sneezing. The lungs may also be affected along with dry, painful cough, with
hoarseness and loss of voice. …. Digestive problems may also occur….,
distension in the abdomen, painful cramps, putrid, forcible diarrhoea… The
patient is anxious, pale and very chilly.
Usually
warmth and rest ameliorates all symptoms.”
The
remedy has many mental symptoms that are characteristic of this epidemic, such
as fears and compulsive behaviour. Fraser writes: “It is typical that,
many times and
for
a long time, the patient is anxious, with no reason whatsoever, about either
herself/himself or about her/his family. The patient desires tidiness and
neatness, and has
fear
of dirt and untidiness. If the patient’s fear of dirt or diseases becomes
extreme, then compulsive symptoms can show up, eg. in the form of excessive
handwashing.
At
this pathological level the patient may even reject handshaking and touching
others.”
Therefore,
no other medicine is available at home or we cannot buy anything else, we can
immediately use this remedy when the mildest typical symptoms of influenza
appear,
or when in an epidemic situation we have anxiety or fear.
It
can easily be understood why homeopathy is looking for the most suitable remedy
for influenza among the bird remedies. I am quoting Fraser again: “Birds are
related
to
influenza in many ways. In the past, all massive influenza pandemics started
off with the bird populations. … The symptoms of the influenza are mainly
similar to that
of
the birds, so that it is not surprising that the most popular influenza remedy,
Oscillococcinum, is also made from a bird.”
There
is another peculiar timely relevance of the remedy. Again Fraser wrote: “The
homeopathic remedy is made from the animal’s liver and heart that have been in
an incubator for 40 days.” The word “quarantine” originated from the Italian
expression of “40 days”, i.e. “Quaranta giorni”. This is the time a
merchant-ship had to wait
in
the port of Venice in the 14th century, in order to establish that
the ship was not bringing in any disease along with her commodities.
There
had already been a tradition of this earlier when Hippocrates already wrote
that all acute diseases show up within 40 days. Towards the end of the first
millennium AD, a Persian physician, Ibn Sina, introduced the 40-day waiting
period into the history of healing. In ancient Persian language he called his
method “the 40”.
Béla
Hamvas wrote in his paper “One drop from the perdition” about 40-day fasting:
”Adam lived for 40 years in the paradise, Israel and was wondering for 40
years.
Jesus
was in the desert for 40 years. Christ was laying in the grave for 40 hours.” And
we may also add to it, that we are born after 40 weeks from conception,
Buddha
was meditating under the trees for 40 days before his enlightenment. So 40 is a
mystical number, and 40 days is not just mere waiting time but the period
of
a great transformation, the mystical turn, the period for transformation,
offering the possibility of transubstantiation. Or the downfall as a
possibility.
So,
the most common and best-known homeopathic influenza remedy – by way of
preparing it – can be related to the mystical state of shamanic hell-going;
being broken
into
pieces and to reconstruction, the life between worlds, the life of an embryo,
the after birth isolation or the temptation in the desert. This remedy may
include the power
of
40 days and the healing power hidden in the birds.
It
appears that the 40 days is not avoidable. We must go through those internal
processes of what the 40 day is meant for. But in order to stay healthy the
duck helps, as the healing power of a sacrificial animal that was transformed
by potentisation.
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