WHAT IS WRONG WITH HOMOEOPATHY


This writer also wants all the remedies listed not in alphabetical order but classed under Botanical, Zoological and Mineralogical order and contends that by doing so it will bring the Homoeopathic Materia Medica in line with the other Science and thereby gain its rightful place in Modern Science. Some are keen that homoeopathic remedies in potency should be scientifically analysed to prove its action on disease.


Health Through Hom. April, 1950.

In an Editorial which appeared in the May, 1949, issue of “Health Through Homoeopathy” it is stated that the Homoeopathic Medical Schools will still further widen the breach between the two schools of thought, whereas our aims should be to explore ways and means of bringing them together. The result of bringing Homoeopathy and Allopathy together would be the production of a Hybrid — The Eclectic. You must try to convert Allopaths to Homoeopathy but certainly not to incorporate one system with the other. This is not Homoeopathy and those responsible for such an act would be doing the greatest disservice to Homoeopathy.

We must not on any account allow our most precious Legacy to fall into the hands of Vandals who will not hesitate to desecrate it in order to suit their own ends and convenience. I do hope you will realize that this is a matter of vital importance to Homoeopaths all over the world. I appreciate very much indeed the attempts made to convert Allopaths but in doing so we must aim at producing Kents and Herings, Burnetts and Tylers and not Eclectics. For what does it profit us if we gain all the Allopaths in the world and lose Homoeopathy ?

I have often read articles with the heading “What is wrong with Homoeopathy?” May I be permitted to state that there is nothing wrong with Homoeopathy. There never was, nor ever will be anything wrong with Homoeopathy but there is something radically wrong with some of the so called Homoeopaths of to-day.

Contrast the splendid article by Dr. Alfred Pulford in your September, 1949, issue with some article by so-called Homoeopaths who attempt to simplify Homoeopathy by various means, such as the use of mixtures of remedies in potency without making provings of them, and so such statements as “We accept and are prepared to use any of the drugs in the British Pharmacopoeia and the Codex even to the Sulpha drugs and Penicillin.” “If Homoeopathy wants to remain as a Science, then it must speak the language of science and miracle cures and fights into the mysticism of the mentals must give place to rationalism.”.

“The Homoeopathic Materia Medica as it stands to-day is a mere register of symptoms and a bad one at that because of fallacies of certain uncritical observers and of breaking up of Syndromes under the heading of Organs. The picture of Typhoid noticed in Bryonia is broken up into Symptoms under the MInd, Head, Abdomen and stools. The unsatisfactory way of getting a composite idea of the drug action was improvisation by way painting impressionistic pictures with a lot of imagination called “Drug Pictures”.

This writer also wants all the remedies listed not in alphabetical order but classed under Botanical, Zoological and Mineralogical order and contends that by doing so it will bring the Homoeopathic Materia Medica in line with the other Science and thereby gain its rightful place in Modern Science. Some are keen that homoeopathic remedies in potency should be scientifically analysed to prove its action on disease. All this is a waste of time, energy and money. These things will never help the spread of real Homoeopathy.

What you need is to Specialise in Homoeopathy and Homoeopathy alone. To all those ridicule Drug Pictures I will say without Drug Pictures you will never be a good Prescriber. All the lectures of Kent on Materia Medica are Drug Pictures. The Dictionary Materia Medica of Clarke contains Drug Pictures of all remedies given. All the greatest Prescribers from the Great Hahnemann, Hering and Kent down to Tyler have given Drug Pictures in their Lectures and Writings. Could the present day Electics who ridicule Drug Pictures prescribe as efficiently as the great Physicians of the past? Who have made finer cures than the old fully proven remedies?

But they knew each one through and through in a way that few of us do nowadays and in their hands had a comparatively few remedies which were in the majority of cases sufficient for all their work. No the only way to turn out Homoeopaths like them is to do as they did. Study your Organon thoroughly. Read it not once or twice but a hundred times if need be, until you have thoroughly understood its instructions and their implications. Study over and over again your Materia Medica.

Read and learn what all the great Prescribers have to say about the same drug until you know it so well as to recognize its anywhere, just as you would an intimate friend. Study the variations in similar drugs that go to differentiate one from the other. Drugs are like Personalities. You must know all their little idiosyncrasies, like, dislikes, aggravations, ameliorations and general character as well as, their particular mannerism which go to prove their identity to the hilt. You may not be able to do this with all the remedies of the Materia Medica but you certainly must do so with the Polychrests and as many of the others as possible. Go through

as many Repertories as you can lay hands on. Kents Repertory is absolutely essential for all homoeopathic practitioners and should be read from cover to cover many times by all who aspire to be good Prescribers. Repertory to Herings Guiding Symptoms and Boenninghausens famous Therapeutic Pocket Book are also great aids to prescribing Kents New Remedies and Lesser Writings and Lectures on Homoeopathic Philosophy as well as the Lectures on Philosophy by Close must be read by all Homoeopaths as it will help them to understand the meaning and practice of true Homoeopathy.

It is only when you know your remedies thoroughly well and have a good working knowledge of your Repertories that you will be able to prescribe with almost miraculous accuracy. To be a first class homoeopathic doctor you need a thorough knowledge of the Organon, Materia Medica and your Repertories along with a knowledge of anatomy, Pathology, Physiology and Surgery. A knowledge of the Allopathic Materia Medica would rather be a hindrance than an aid to good homoeopathic prescribing.

Your mind would be warped, except in very rare cares, and you would be inclined to prescribe almost purely on diagnosis, instead of on the totality of symptoms and without giving due consideration to the all important mental symptoms. For the edification of those who want to speak the language of Science and ridicule miracle cures and flights into the mysticism of the mentals I will give three cases from my own Case Book.

Case No. 1.

I was called late one evening to treat a case of right sided Hemiplegia in a woman 54 years of age. This was the 21st day after the attack and she had been treated by Allopaths all the time. Even her mouth and tongue were paralysed and she was being fed through a tube. I was unable to get any useful symptoms from the older members of the family who only said that she had high fever at the beginning.

Suddenly one of her little daughters said, Mother was very funny. She kept on asking us to take her home although she was at home. I instantly recognized my friend Bryonia. On that symptom and that alone I prescribed Bry and one dose Bry. 200. This cured her completely in three weeks. Ask the Scientists to prove if they can what that mental symptom had to do with Bryonia.

Case No. 2.

I was at dinner one night and half way through it the lady of the house complained of a sudden pain in her ankle. She thought it was a trivial matter and rubbed some Oriental Balm. Suddenly she cried out that it was worse after rubbing the Balm and said she felt the pain going up. I inquired whether she knocked her foot against anything that day and was told that nothing like that happened but that a servant was impertinent to her that morning and that she could not get over it the whole day.

By this time the pain had reached her knee and she cried out that her leg was paralysed up to that point and that it was going up. She was immediately carried to bed and I went for my medicine case which was in the car. When I got back I was informed that the whole of that leg was lifeless. On the indications of the altercation with a menial, the effects of which she could not get over the whole day, and the aggravation from pressure I gave her a powder of Staph. 200, dry on tongue.

In five minutes she said she felt the life coming back to her leg and in exactly twenty minutes from the administration of the dose she was perfectly well and able to get up and walk. Can the Scientists explain what the remedy had to do with the cure?.

Case No. 3.

A young married woman, mother of a child of two, suddenly started crying for her Grandmother who was not there. This had been going on for nearly three weeks and getting worse daily. Her husband who had been advised by the Allopaths to remove her to the Asylum for the Insane cane to me in great distress and asked for help. The woman who was rather plump was said to have been very hot tempered before she got this attack. As she was not in a state to give any symptoms there was no other symptoms to be had. Guided chiefly by the mental symptom “Fixed Ideas” I gave her Puls 10m one dose.

C V S Corea