COMPARISONS TO OTHER DISCIPLINES
This section will attempt to survey the question of the relationships of remedies, with an attempt to come to a working hypothesis.
Starting with a definition of ‘relationship’ from a dictionary, I will firstly look at the allopathic attempts to relate their drugs, and to look at their concepts of disease. Read the rest of this entry »
Hahnemann warned us about using the Doctrine of Signatures to determine a causal relationship between the substance and the remedy (1). He was ridiculing the false pictures of the medicinal effects of remedies previously obtained this way and advocating the practice of proving a remedy to find its exact medicinal action. Read the rest of this entry »
Aug 25
The Philosopher’s Stone, the Hermetic androgene or pure energy? The elixir vitae, aqua vita or vital force is a concept familiar to homeopaths, a sexless concept, a god/dess head which has had so many names throughout the ages, it is now quite difficult to grasp the concept behind it all. Read the rest of this entry »
Developments in chemical analysis over the last few decades has opened up the molecular world to us in exquisite detail. Read the rest of this entry »
Aug 25
So now we come to the geochemistry of the Earth and the biochemistry of the living things upon it.
Since the 19th century, chemistry had advanced sufficiently for detailed analysis to begin in earnest. Of course, our ancestors have delved deep into the Earth since the dawn of time, emerging with flints, shells, precious metals, gems and minerals, red ochre, white chalk and black charcoal. These were the original paints, the original decorations and the earliest commerce. Read the rest of this entry »
I wasn’t studying homeopathy for very long before I realised I had to learn a bit of chemistry! I was frustrated that I kept coming to the end of my knowledge. Unfortunately, they didn’t teach chemistry to Secondary Modern schoolchildren. They never taught us any of our history either, see the history blogs! Read the rest of this entry »
Homeopathic remedies are transformed from the material form by dilution, succussion and potency. Potency can be high or low – or in between! Read the rest of this entry »
Aug 25
Hippocrates first coined this term, which basically means taint or fault. Today it is defined as “a noxious substance from an imponderable origin.” Read the rest of this entry »
Aug 25
Constantine Hering founded this Law of Cure, which homeopaths use to negotiate around symptoms to determine how healthy or how ill the person actually is. We can use this law to monitor the healing process. It is in effect a route map back to health and an explaination of the course of the original dis-ease. Read the rest of this entry »
Aug 25
In Paragraph 30 of The Organon, Hahnemann states that the right medicines cure and overcome natural dis-ease, thus is appears that the vital force is more affected by medicines than by natural dis-ease. Read the rest of this entry »