Auto Immune Diseases A Homoeopathic Perspective And Protocol

Posted by Dr. S. G. BIJU on July 19, 2012 at 8:30am

Auto immune diseases are one of the major medical challenges in new millennium. The list of autoimmune disease is stretching day by day and it touches almost all tissues and cells of human body. No cell of body is spared by auto immune diseases. So, all auto immune disease needs a constitutional treatment. Only Homoeopathy can offer a constitutional treatment in such a disease. Miasms of each disease shall be assessed by the interpretation of pathology and symptomatology. Symptomatology shall vary from disease to disease but pathology is same or similar in almost all autoimmune diseases. A protein developed in the body during a viral or bacterial infection for the protection of tissues and cells turns against all cells and tissues of the body; in turn is the pathology in auto immune disease. Anti-bodies are producing against cell, its nucleus, mitochondria, and even double strand DNA of cells. Once an antibody against cell, mitochondria, nucleus or double strand DNA develops it will try to destroy its target destination. So the destruction will take place because of the following fight.

ANA (antinuclear antibody) Vz Nucleus Ant Ds DNA (anti double strand DNA) Vz double strand DNA End of these fights will be always destruction. From pathology one can reach in to an assumption that pathology of all autoimmune disease is damage and destruction and comes under syphilitic miasm. The theme of auto immune disease is Fight ends in destruction. Symptomatology of various auto immune diseases is different ,but there is a general symptom that all auto immune diseases are symptomatic before pathology starts. Symptoms of auto immune disease starts in the functional level before structural changes start. Even after structural changes start functional symptoms will persists. A symptomless autoimmune disease seldom occurs.

Destructive pathology of autoimmune disease indicates its syphilitic nature and functional symptomatology contribute to its psoric part. A miasmatic prescriber shall very easily reach a conclusion that autoimmune disease is a combination of syphilitic and psoric miasm with a prominence of syphilitic miasm. The picture of a disease that originated in the psoric level, which gradually advanced to a syphilitic pathology we see crystal clear in auto immune diseases. We shall find out an inherited syphilitic trait in a majority of cases of auto immune diseases, if we investigate the cases further.

Though the basic miasm of auto immune disease is syphilitic the disease will be triggered by the outburst of latent psora. A bacterial or viral infection or an exposure to an allergen or even an exposure to an emotional excitement may trigger latent psora that further proceeds to the destructive inherited syphilitic miasm. Sycotic symptoms may also present in autoimmune disease, but its percentage is much less. One

who sees autoimmune disease only through rheumatoid arthritis or SLE shall find some sycotic symptoms like swelling of joints, fiber formation in joints or pigmentation. But in RA and SLE later pathology will end in destruction of joints and total destruction of tissues and cells. A psoric symptom persists very rarely in autoimmune diseases. Persistence of functional symptom if any indicates dominance of psoric miasm and cure rate in such cases will be high always. As a general rule, miasmatic protocols in auto immune diseases begin with an anti-tubercular remedy and switches over to a syphilitic prominent remedy as pathology advances. Tuberculinum shall be an intercurrent in initial stages of auto immune disease and Syshillinum serves the same purpose in later stages. Selection of remedy is an important task in auto immune disease. As we know, "fight ends in destruction" is the theme of autoimmune disease. We restrict our prescription to Animal kingdom. Fight for survival is the theme of animal remedy. Almost all animal remedies come under syphilitic miasm except a few like Lamenitis bredowii californica (butterfly). Unfortunately animal remedies are rarely prescribed in autoimmune diseases and the most prescribed remedies are from vegetable kingdom. Animals are classified in to the following headings for convenience

Conceivable Classification Ophidia Spiders Insects Fishes List of common remedies under each group is given below OPHIDIA (Snakes) Lachesis (Surukuku) Naja Tripudians(Cobra Venom) SPIDER Arania Diadema (Spider Papal Cross) Aranea Scinencia (Gray Spider)

Elaps Corrallinus (Coral Snake)

Tarentula Hispanica (Spanish Spider)

Crotalus Horridus (Rattle Snake) Crotalus Cascavella (Brazillian Snake) Cencheris Contortrix)

Theridion Curassavicum (west Indiaan organ Spider) Lateroductus Mactans (American Black Widow Lateroductus Hassaelti (New South Wales Spider) Latroductus Katipo (New Zealand Spider) Mygale Lasiodora (Black Cuben Spider)

Bothrops Lanciolatus (Yellow Viper) Vipera Berus (German Viper)

Vipera Torva Hydrophis Cyanociatus (Sea Snake) Toxicophis (Moccasin Snake) INSECTS Apis Chenopodi Glauci Apis Mellifica (Honey Bee) Blatta Americana (Cockroach) Blatta Orientalis(India Cockroch) Bombyx Processionea Cantharis Vesicatoria (Spanish Fly) Cimex Lectuloria (Bedbug) Coccinella (Lady Bug) Coccus Cacti (Cocchineal) Culex Musca (Culex Mosquito) Doryphora Decemlineta (Colorado Poteo Bug) Formica Rufa (crushed live ants) Oniscus Ascellus (wood Louse) Pecten Jacobaeus (head louse) Pediculus Capitis Pulex Irritants (Common Flea) Scolopenda Morsitans) Triatema (red Acraus of fly) Trombidium Muscae Domesticae Vespa Crabro (Live Wasp)

Tela Aranearum (Spider Web)

FISH Erythrinus Limulus (King Crab) Medusa (Jelly Fish) Murex (Purple Fish) Sepia (Cuttle Fish) Trachinus Draco (Sting Fish) Ambra Grisea (Ambergris from Whales) Astacus Fluviatalis (Shell Fish) Asteria Rubens (Red Fish) Homarus(Lobster) Oleum Jacoris Aselli (Cod Liver oil) Propylamine Trymethlamin (Herring Brine) Serum Anguilla ichyotoxin (Eels Serum) Pyrarara (Amazone Fish) Ichthyolum (Fish Fossil)

It is our duty to differentiate various groups of animals first and then reach to the right remedy of a group. BASIC DIFFERENCE BETWEEN ANIMALS Sympt. Type Snakes Spiders Blood, Liver, Nervous system, Pathology Nervous system. Psychosis Mind Insects Renal, Skin, GI, GU Fishes Female Genital organs, Skin, Spinal

Constitution Dark or red bleeding diathesis Ailments Jealousy, Alcoholism Temperament melancholic Choleric/

Behavior, skin. Kidney Cancers Colorful Artistic Waxy, edematous

Yellow anemic

fright, Sea travelling, sepsis Nervous/Choleric

Suppressions, Stings Nervous

Overwork. Business embracement, Tobacco, laundry, thunderstorm Chaotic /nervous

b>During Sleep, Morning, Tightness Modalities > >Discharge, awake General Lt sided Modalities /b> D: Alcohol, Oysters MIND

< Eating, Night, Damp <Touch, Cold

< Washing Cold air

>Friction, Daytime Smoking Clock Periodicity D: raw food, tobacco. AV: Bread, milk, chocolate.

> exercise, warmth > Open air, rubbing Increased sexual Menopause/puberty. desire. Sensitive to D:Sweets, AV: Bread Milk heat Exertion Physical irritability Irritability due to forgetfulness. Awkwardness Peevish Drowsy Weeping from trifles. Indifference Abnormal excitement with emotionalism and frenzy.

Loquacity in COLORFUL selective phrases ARTISTIC ACTIVE Prophetic Cunning like a fox. Destructive & Quarrelsome. Mischievous Misanthropy. Secretiveness. Courageous (Audacity) Greedy Mistrustful Violence Hyperactive feign Nervous and jerky ridiculous

MIASM

Sycosyphilitc

Tubercular

Multimiasmatic

Tubercular

In autoimmune diseases our prime focus will be spiders and fish, as they are anti tubercular. As pathology advances, one shall think about ophidian (anti cancerous) group and if things are more complicated, select a medicine from insects (multimiasmatic). Minerals like Aur Met, Fluoric acid, and Calc fluor are seldom indicated in auto immune disease. While selecting a mineral, one should give preference to anti-syphilitic mineral remedies. Minerals are indicated when auto immune diseases get complicated either with osteo arthritis, osteo porosis, ankylosing spondulitis or with other syphilitic disorders with structural changes. Structure is the theme of Minerals. Plants shall be used in autoimmune disease but we cant expect a curative action from plants if it is not well indicated. If a plant is well indicated in a case then an autoimmune disease shall not be represented well. Sensitivity is the theme of plants. So plants shall be used for relief of pain or for relief of functional symptoms in auto immune disease. PULS shall be given for shifting rheumatic pain, Urtica Urens for joint

inflammation with skin symptoms, Guiacum for throat symptoms preceded by rheumatism, staph after mental strain and suppression etc shall be tried to win the heart of patients. Nux Vom 1M shall try for pain neck, Stramonium for hip pain, Bryonia for knee pain, Menispermium for pain elbow, actea spicata for pain wrist, Ruta for pain ankle will help to relieve pains only but the auto immune disease will grow inside. It is not the duty of a Homoeopath to give relief to pain in autoimmune disease that a modern medicine practitioner can do very well.

As a general rule any auto immune disease shall start either with a fish remedy or with a spider remedy and shall be finished with a dose of Tuberculinum in 1M or 10 M potency. Advances cases of autoimmune diseases shall start either with snake remedy or with an insect and end with a dose of Syhilinum 50 M potency. Selection of plants may help you to relieve symptoms but remember to select a tubercular or syphilitic remedy.

Above statements shall be substantiated by the statistics made by treated and documented 440 auto immune cases. Remember Tuberculinum and Syphilinum are heroes in curative treatment of autoimmune diseases and Fish and Spiders are heroines in this fighting movie of nature! Never step back from taking the challenge of treating and curing autoimmune disease because only YOU can offer and deliver a curative treatment for autoimmune diseases. And the list of auto immune diseases is stretching day by day from organ to organ and from system to system. Get ready to fight against an internal fight! Dr.S.G.BIJU BHMS MD (Hom), Chief Medical Officer, The Homoeopathic Multi Speciality Hospital & Research Center Auto-immune diseases are produced when bacteria and viruses enter into human body and take shelter in various organs inside cells. When they accumulate in large numbers, the immune system produce antibodies to attack and destroy them. During this process of action, they by mistake produce antibodies against the cells inside which the viruses have taken shelter. These antibodies destroy the viruses together with the cells. This can take place against the Kidneys and cause a disease named Glomerulonephritis. This disease is very commonly found and the only treatment is using steroids named Prednisolone injection, which slowly damages the kidneys and the next step is dialysis and kidney transplantation. These are all expensive treatments and involve a huge amount of money for the people as well as for the nation. The following is a list of Auto-immune diseases which are caused by the viral attacks, which damages various organs and the conventional treatment is almost the same, that is to use the steroids to suppress or make the immune system inactive so that the body cannot produce the antibodies to destroy the viruses as well as the cells giving shelter to the viruses. These Auto-immune diseases are the majority of the diseases called non-communicable diseases, which make millions of people disabled and destroy their capability to contribute to the economy of the nations of the world. Some of the Auto-immune diseases are: Autoimmune thrombocytopenic purpura, Autoimmune urticaria, Autoimmune pancreatitis, Autoimmune hepatitis, Autoimmune hemolytic anemia, Autoimmune aplastic anemia, Ankylosing Spondylitis, Alopecia areata, Bergers disease, Diabetes mellitus type 1, Discoid lupus erythematosus, Celiac disease, Glomerulonephritis, Gastritis, Myasthenia gravis, Rheumatic fever, Rheumatoid arthritis, Vitiligo, Psoriatic arthritis, Psoriasis, Systemic Lupus erythematosus (SLE), etc.

If Homeopathic treatment is applied for all these diseases before the viruses can enter deep into the cells and excite the immune system to make wrong decision to destroy the cells containing the viruses, that is before the onset of the process of autoimmunity, (which means the immune system acts against ones own self), there would have been no occurrence of so many diseases and no loss of so many lives and consequently no loss of national and global exchequer. To achieve this goal to combat Auto-immune diseases, the homeopathic practitioners should not feel disturbed by the cumbersome names of the diseases. We shall have to remember only few aspects, such as: (1) The Auto-immune diseases are caused by repeated suppression of symptoms like fever, pain, etc. from our early life by the application of anti-pyretic (anti-fever), anti-allergic, anti-diarrheal, medicines of conventional (allopathic) system of medicine, which prevents the killing of bacteria and viruses. (2) Suppression of skin diseases like eczema, dandruff, etc. by non-steroidal or steroidal ointments; ear, nose and eye drops, etc. which stop the process of elimination of toxic substances. (3) Surgical removal of organs like tonsils, appendix, gall bladder, etc. which damages normal functioning of the immune system. (4) Use of cosmetics for screening sunrays and help anti-aging, which destroys saprophytes (healthy bacteria). Above all, all the diseases from the early life should be treated homeopathically and it possible, would be parents should be treated, even at the time of pregnancy, by homeopathy to prevent bacteria and viruses from entering into the fetus by crossing the placental barrier. For those, who are already attacked with Auto-immunity, can be treated and cured by homeopathy by selecting medicines which arouses the reactive vitality of the system to bring the suppressed symptoms to the surface (as Dr. H. C Allen wrote in his book The Materia Medica Of Nosodes), and to apply homeopathic medicine based on the new symptoms. In this way, we can achieve the goal of keeping the mischievous micro-organisms from entering and establishing their domain inside our healthy human body, to confuse our intelligent immune system to take wrong decisions to generate antibodies to destroy our vital cells instead of viruses. There is an old adage, A stitch in time saves nine. When a child suffers from allergic symptoms, if we apply anti allergic drugs, the symptoms subside but the intensity of diseases increase day by day and we ultimately take the help of steroids, which damages the capacity of the immune system to fight bacteria and viruses and their toxic products. This helps the children to be attacked with more virulent viruses and become store house of toxic deposits. This leads our children towards more severe diseases and end up in cancerous diseases. Instead of using anti allergic drugs, if we use homeopathic medicines which help the liver to digest the toxins and throw them off through the excretory system, the toxins cannot reach the skin to produce allergic symptoms and child will grow up with a healthy immune system to fight with all types of bacteria and viruses which lead us towards cancer by changing the DNA of healthy human cells. If we, the homeopathic practitioners can convince the people about this simple beneficial aspect of homeopathy, the modern hospitals would not be crowded with sick people all over the world. The suppression of the toxins by the help of anti allergic drugs compels our physiological system to be saturated with toxic substances which cause the kidneys to produce renin to excite the heart to raise the blood pressure of human body to help increase the flow of blood through the kidneys and to get free from toxic products.

At that time, if we use Rauwolfia Serpentina, Berberis Vulgaris, Thalaspi bursa pastoris, etc. homeopathic drugs, the blood will be free from toxic substances and the kidneys will stop production of renin and the blood pressure will become normal (vide internet for Renin-angiotensin system). But according to the conventional medicine, medicines are used for vasodilation, ACE inhibition, calcium channel blocking, etc. which does not help to throw off the toxin like homeopathic medication and cause damage to the kidneys.This leads the people to go for the expensive system of treatment called hemodialysis. When innocent people start taking anti-hypertensive drugs for decreasing blood pressure, they do not know the ultimate goal of kidney failure and the painful expensive process of hemodialysis. This is a sheer process of causing damage to the national economy and productivity of human population (To be continued). Understanding homeopathy in the light of immunology, to develop an alternative medicinal formula, to overcome the impediments of immunology and homeopathy, to combat diseases due to immunological disorders. (For more than a century, the homeopaths tried to establish homeopathy as scientific method to cure diseases, but failed to do so. The doctrines of organan were based on some hypothetical concepts which could not be explained on a scientific basis. In order to establish homeopathy on a more dependable ground for the benefit of suffering humanity, we decided to take a different approach which is going to be explained in this text. An alternative approach to explain homeopathy in the light of immunology to make it acceptable to the followers of modern allopathic system of medicine and to show them how homeopathy can be used in the fields where modern allopathic medications like cytokines, failed to achieve their desired goals to combat diseases caused by immunological disorders. This article was presented at the four international seminars held in Bangladesh in the year 2000). Efforts to increase the capacity of the immune system, to keep human body free from diseases by the method of detoxification, started from the development of the science of immunology. The bone marrow, which produces blood cells, is the source of that capacity of the immune system to combat external invaders. Due to various reasons, especially due to lack of exposure to the Ultra violet rays from solar radiation, the bone marrow gets weaker and produces weak and inefficient blood cells like the farm animals. No medicine has yet been developed in any system of medicine, which can make the bone marrow healthier and stronger to generate healthy and efficient blood cells to fight foreign micro-organisms. The failure on the part of the scientists to increase the efficiency of bone marrow to produce healthy blood cells, has compelled them to develop the system of controlling the receptors, enzymes, ion-channels and the carrier molecules with the help of medicines called channel blockers, inhibitors, etc. By controlling these bio-chemical processes in the cells, with the help of drugs, majority of the diseases caused by immunological disorders like hypertension, hyperacidity, gastric ulcer, allergy, etc. arebeing controlled now a days. But this method of palliation is short acting and needs regular use of drugs. These drugs do not help to detoxify the human body but keep the disease symptoms under control and help people to lead an apparently normal life. But a careful study shows that the intensity of the diseases go on increasing which require to increase the dosage of drugs. In the long run, due to controlling various natural processes of the physiological system by external means of medication, the complexity of the diseases go on increasing and various organs like kidney, liver, heart, etc. gradually get damaged and ultimately stop functioning properly. But people are happy with these palliative drugs due to the prompt relief they get from this mode of medication and also due to their ignorance about the damage which is being done to the immune system

by this mode of treatment, which is the root cause of all the malignant incurable diseases from cold allergy, asthma, diabetes, cancer, etc. called diseases due to immunological disorders. But if we consider the curative action obtained by the use of the naturopathic medicines in the systems of Ayurveda (Herbal) & homeopathic medicine, we can find that the curative processes are long lasting which keep the human body free from the burden of toxins and people enjoy much more healthier disease free life without the tendency of getting attacked with the malignant and deadly diseases mentioned above. From our observation, it appears that the curative processes rendered by those naturopathic systems might have acted like the systems proved by the scientist Dr. Jules T. Freund in the year 1942, who used the adjuvants in the injectable form to obtain the process of immunostimulation in animal models but was found to be highly toxic for human use (vide internet for Freunds complete adjuvant). Freunds system of immunostimulation or immunomodulation could not be used extensively on human body due to the failure to develop adjuvants suitable for parenteral (injectable) use for human being. Experiments were carried out by the scientists, to find adjuvants suitable for parenteral (injectable) use for a period of 20 years and was then abandoned forever. The failure to utilize such an ideal method of cure by detoxification by modulating the immune system with the help of natural toxic substances, stopped the way of utilizing the toxic substances as modulators of the T and B-cells, to take measures to identify and eliminate the disease producing toxins called antigens in the language of immunology. But the scientists found out substances called cytokines produced in human body to control the immune system. These cytokines are now produced in-vitro and used for controlling immune system. But after clinical trials, they are found to be toxic and almost failed to do the task of immunomodulation to detoxify and make human body disease free, like the naturally generated cytokines produced by the immune system in-vivo in case of any attack from micro-organisms. Our attempt is to compare the ancient oral use of toxic drugs from plants, minerals, animals and bacterial origin with the use of Freunds complete adjuvant. If the oral use of toxic drugs of naturopathic systems can be proved to be an alternative to the injectable method of Freunds complete adjuvant for the process of immunopotentiation, the impediments of modern medicine to use the ideal method of cure by the help of detoxification could be overcome. This effort to give a scientific explanation of the ancient systems of naturopathy, will help to avoid the use of palliative and immunosuppressive drugs and will stop the process of gradual degradation of the immune system leading towards the immuno-compromised condition of human body prone to be attacked with viruses like HIV, bird flu, mad cow disease and other malignant diseases and will save billions of dollars in health care research globally. In the ancient times, all the systems of medicine, including the allopathic system, used the toxic substances obtained from natural sources of plants, minerals, chemicals, animals and bacterial origin (vide the book of Materia Medica by William Hale-White 1935 edition). But they did not have the clear conception about how those natural toxic substances helped to cure diseases, due to their lack of knowledge about immunology. In order to increase the curative effect, scientists of conventional medicine tried to isolate the alkaloids from plants which increased the toxic effects of the drugs further, which produced medicinal aggravation called drug disease, which was reduced by the system of attenuation developed by homeopathy. With the discovery of bacteria and antibiotics, the followers of germ theory became more confident about their concept over the concept of the followers of naturopathy. Simultaneously, a new branch of medicine named immunology was developed which discovered the systems of vaccination. This brought a great success for the followers of germ theory. But the scientists of modern medicine still faced great hindrance to deal with the non-infections diseases, which consisted of majority of the diseases from allergy to cancer. Scientists found out that the immune system, which helped to keep the human body free from antigens or toxins to maintain healthy life, sometimes failed to act with accuracy. The over or under activity of the immune system developed various illnesses caused by reactions like (i) hypersensitivity, (ii) Cytotoxicity, (iii) Immune complexity, (iv) autoimmunity & (v) immunodeficiency. The bulk of non-infectious diseases are caused by these five reactions of immune system, which we are

going to explain in brief. The white blood cells are known to the common people as the soldiers of defense mechanism, which keep the human body free from foreign invaders with their act of scavenging. These white blood cells (WBC) possess an inherent capacity to differentiate and identify the toxic and non-toxic ingredients of human body. While destroying the toxic ingredients, they sometimes excite the healthy cells to produce substances called histamine which cause allergy, this reaction is called Hypersensitivity reaction Sometimes they destroy healthy cells and cause anemia, that reaction is called cytotoxic reaction. Sometimes they combine with toxic substances called immune complex substances, which damage adjacent healthy tissues and cause diseases like eczema, psoriasis, leprosy, hepatitis, rheumatoid arthritis, liver cirrhosis and even cancer, etc., which is called Immune complex reaction. Sometimes the army of defense system makes mistakes and begins to destroy substances like insulin and cause diabetes and other deadly diseases like SLE, glomerulonephritis, infertility, etc. This reaction is called autoimmunity. The fifth reaction is caused when the defense mechanism becomes totally inactive allows the invaders to enter into the human body and roam about freely and render the person subjected to the continuous processes of diseases beginning from cold allergy to cancer, this reaction is called immunodeficiency. To handle the diseases caused by these five reactions called immunological disorders, scientists developed anti-allergic drugs and also drugs called steroid etc., to suppress the immune system to stop the overactivity of the defense forces. To increase the under activity called immunodeficiency, they developed immunoglobulin (IG) to apply from external sources, which is very expensive and not very much accurate in activity. The other method is called bone marrow transplantation which is both expensive and risky. This failure on the part of the scientists of conventional medicine to control the immunological disorders by the method of detoxification, could be overcome by the oral application of natural toxic substances as is done in the naturopathic systems of medicine together with the oral use of the products of bacterial endotoxins used in homeopathy. This mode of application of combined form of antigenic (toxic) substances resembles the system of application of Freunds complete adjuvant (toxic natural substances with the bacterial product). The difference lies only in the mode of administration. The naturopathic systems like Ayurveda (herbal) system do not use the bacterial products, which is only done in homeopathy. This similarity of alternative mode of application of the Freunds complete adjuvant was observed by us in the year 1973 and we named the homeopathic use of natural toxins with the bacterial products as combined oral micro-immunotherapy (COMIT) previously named as Dynamised Micro-immunotherapy by Dr. O. A. Julian. But this concept of immunomodulation probably acted in the humoral and cellular level and could not fulfill the task of bone marrow stimulation, which is the actual site of origin of immunological activity, where the products used as adjuvants could not reach to fulfill the purpose of rectification of the controlling center of the immune mechanism. In our research, this point was taken into consideration and the modified concept of oral immunomodulation based on Freunds concept of immunomodulation with the help of adjuvants was modified by making the use of radioactive products like Uranium and Radium in the minute dose together with the natural herbal and the bacterial products simultaneously. This made the breakthrough in achieving the effect of bone marrow stimulation which could not be achieved by the use of natural herbal and bacterial products alone. The use of radioactive products like Uranium and Radium in the minute dose together with the natural and the bacterial products simultaneously as is done in homeopathy, makes it more competent in curing diseases by the immune system than any other systems of medicine. This makes homeopathy superior to the system of modern conventional medicine, which failed to achieve its desired goal of immunomodulation with the help of cytokines (vide internet). This is possible by homeopathy because it can achieve the effect of bone marrow stimulation. The use of various toxic substances in the attenuated oral formmakes homeopathy effective in modulating the immune system in the humoral,cellular and medullar levels i.e. antibody mediated, cell mediated and bone marrow (stem cell) mediated immune reactions respectively.The use of radioactive products like Uranium and Radium for the purpose of bone marrow stimulation was made more effective and with less medicinal aggravation by the use of two other

homeopathic medicines named X-ray and Sol, both developed by Dr. Bernhardt Fincke MD (vide A Dictionary of Practical Materia Medica by Dr. John Henry Clarke MD). The systematic use of the above mentioned homeopathic medicines based on the concept of homeopathic symptomatology together with the concept of immunomodulation in immunology for the purpose of total annihilation of the genetically inherited toxicity called miasmatic defects in classical homeopathy, gave us tremendous success in curing diseases due to immunological disorders, which is beyond the imagination to be achieved by classical homeopathy alone. Autoimmune disease: An illness that occurs when the body tissues are attacked by its self immune system. The immune system is a multifarious organization within the body that is planned normally to "seek and destroy" invaders of the body, including infectious agents. Patients with autoimmune diseases regularly have abnormal antibodies circulating in their blood that target their own body tissues. Examples of autoimmune diseases include systemic lupus erythematosus, Sjogren syndrome, Hashimoto thyroiditis, rheumatoid arthritis, juvenile (type 1) diabetes, polymyositis, scleroderma, Addison disease, vitiligo, pernicious anemia, glomerulonephritis, and pulmonary fibrosis. Autoimmune diseases are more frequent in women than in men. It is felt that the estrogen of females may influence the immune system to predispose some women to autoimmune diseases. Moreover, the occurrence of one autoimmune disease increases the chance for developing another concurrent autoimmune disease.

The Emotional Cause of Autoimmune Disease GUILT Guilt is emotional self punishment and an autoimmune condition is the PERFECT bodily match for such a state. It's unfathomable seated guilt. Most of us suffer guilt to some degree, but people with an autoimmune condition, suffer from it time and time again The cure for guilt is self acceptance. You are fine as you are; You are lovable as you are is the lesson to be learnt. But even then the physical body needs some help, where Homeopathy can be put to use . Homeopathy can get rid of the condition in a swifter manner, but the patient has to be prepared to release the guilt. The homeopath has to figure out what the person is feeling guilty about in particular. With hashimotos, it's the feeling that you may say something bad and wrong, and if you do, you will be punished. Other forms of autoimmune conditions are Lupus, Rheumatoid arthritis, and AIDS. Aids: I feel bad and wrong.....for whatever reason, and therefore I am defenseless against it. Arthritis: I feel guilty for.........whatever reason......and unwilling to bend despite it.