THE

HOMOEOPATHIC PHYSICIAN
LMHI Publication devoted to Hahnemannian
Medicine

Vol. 1, Issue 1, February 2020

Edited by Dr. Renzo Galassi M.D.

Published by LMHI – Liga Medicorum Homoeopathica Internationalis

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 Index to The Homoeopathic Physician n.1, 2020
Some words from the Editor Dr. Renzo Galassi (pg. 4)
Editorial of the LMHI president Dr. Gustavo Cataldi (pg.5)
Intro to Homoeopathic Physician n.1, by the Editorial Board. (pg.6)
History
• Samuel Hahnemann on his 265th birthday,by Dr. K.H.Gypser (pg. 7)
• Hahnemann’s examination, submitted and translated by Dr. Ulrich Fischer (pg.10)
• Visit to Hahnemann in Köthen, by Dr. Ulrich Fischer (pg.11)
• Treatise on the effects of Coffee, by Dr. Renzo Galassi (pg. 13)
• A clinical case of Hahnemann, by Dr. Ute Fischbach Sabel (pg. 22)
Clinical cases
• A case from the experience of Dr. Will Klunker, by Dr. Bernhard Zauner (pg. 26)
• Clinical Experiences, by Dr. Renzo Galassi (pg 28)
Research
• Multi-centre PROVING, by Prof. Ashley Ross (pg. 31)
Quiz Corner
• Quiz corner, by Dr. Pietro Gulia (pg. 38)
• Solutions of the Quiz corner of LMHI News n 25, by Dr. Pietro Gulia (pg. 40)
Next Congress
• LMHI world congress 2020, Izmir, by Dr. Altunay Agaoglu (pg.42)

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Editorial Board

Dr. Altunay Agaoglu, Turkey Dr, Gustavo Cataldi, Argentina Dr. Daniel Cook, USA

Dr. Ulrich Fischer, Germany Dr. Andrea Flores Sanchez, Mexico Dr. Renzo Galassi, Italy

Dr. Klaus-Henning Gypser, Dr. Jose Matuk Kanan, Mexico

Dr. Pietro Gulia, Italy Germany

Dr. Bernhard Zauner,

Dr. Bernardo Merizalde, Dr. Aditya Pareek, India Austria
USA

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Some Words from the Editor, Dr. Renzo Galassi

Dear readers, dear colleagues, when I proposed to give our scientific publication a new title and
especially this kind of title, “The Homoeopathic Physician”, it was only for the immense respect
and love I have for the old American Masters of the Homeopathic Golden Age.
Now sitting and writing a few lines for this editorial, I feel a great emotion, because I realize that
this name, the Homoeopathic Physician, is part of the best history of our Medicine, and the
responsibility to offer our community a magazine with this title obliges us to try to follow the high
standards of the old one.
Of course, nowadays there are not geniuses like the stalwarts of that time, so we can’t reach that
altitude, but our aim is to give a tool, especially to the younger colleagues, highlighting the basic
rules of our Medicine, left to us first by Hahnemann and successively put in practice by a number
of fantastic prescribers, many of whom arrived from Germany, with most of them living in the
area of Philadelphia, New York, Chicago, Ann Arbor, Cleveland and small towns nearby.
Our idea is to give different topics in every issue: 1) History of our Medicine, dedicating every
issue to a special author and his teachings, 2) Clinics, offering new or older studies and analyses of
clinical cases, 3) Research and Drug Provings, 4) Pharmacy, 5) Application of our Medicine in the
field of Veterinary medicine or Agriculture, 6) Tips and findings concerning Materia Medica, 7)
Philosophy of Homeopathy and Organon, 8) the Quiz Corner to train our young colleagues and 9)
Miscellaneous.
The goal, I realize, is very ambitious, but we will try, with your help and contribution, to do our
best. Every colleague who is interested in Hahnemannian Homeopathy is invited to contribute
articles, advice or simple feedback, positive or negative.
The only requisites we ask of contributors, will be to adhere to the principles of the Organon and
follow the same rules in the Constitution of the International Hahnemannian Association, which
you will read in the following article: “Invitation to the reader”.
This does not mean that we want a schism in the homeopathic world, but that, since one can easily
find both in the publishing companies and on the web homeopathic publications about the new
approaches and methodologies of our Medicine, we want to give a “Home” to the true Classical
Homeopathy, such as Hahnemann created it and such as the first good followers preserved it.
A special thank to the editorial board for the effort to accept this new challenge and in particular
to Dan Cook of Dallas, who helps us with the review of the English style.
I do hope that we will be guided in this effort by our immortal predecessors from Heaven or the
place where they are resting for the Eternity.
Sincerely yours, Renzo Galassi

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Editorial of the LMHI President

It is an honor for me as President of the LMHI to inaugurate a new

cycle of our journal, now with the illustrious name The
Homoeopathic Physician, which takes up the ideals of that
publication that began in February 1881 after the death of
Constantine Hering (1800 – 1880), and which was carried out by
prominent homeopaths of that golden age of American
homeopathy.
I congratulate the working group of the Newsletter Secretariat and
especially its secretary, our dear Renzo Galassi, for the initiative
and the excellent work they are doing.
The name of the journal evokes the condition of being a
"homeopathic doctor", to whom its articles are directed.
Dr. Gustavo Cataldi
There is the question: what does it mean to be a homeopathic doctor?
In this same issue you will find what Hahnemann (1755 – 1843) thought about who could be
considered a true homeopathic doctor: one who could adequately answer the questionnaire he
composed, which we include in this issue.
These questions refer to the defense of the inalienable principles that he had discovered, and which
he saw threatened by the arrival of adherents to the new method who subverted the essence of his
teachings.
The American homeopaths of the time when The Homoeopathic Physician was founded, as well as
their inspiring teacher, Constantine Hering –who was mentioned in that first issue as the
"American Hahnemann"– faithfully maintained those Hahnemannian principles.
The founder of the School where I studied, a man who is also Honorary President of the LMHI,
Tomás Pablo Paschero (1904 – 1986) added in his teaching the conviction that the homeopathic
doctor should guide the patient in his healing process, and enable the patient to leave a selfish vital
attitude (manifestation of vital imbalance) and open up to his fellows in a giving attitude.
In this way, we can affirm that the true homeopathic doctor must not only have the knowledge of
the technique and mastery of the science of homeopathy, but also of the art of treating his patient
with a proper approach to humanistic medicine.
This means that the homeopathic doctor should not only train to know how to detect the most
characteristic symptoms, but also understand their meaning as a whole of the chronic disease in
the patient.
While research must be encouraged to show that homeopathy is a medical science, it should not be
forgotten that its practice is also an art, and that the true homeopathic doctor must rely on these
two aspects (science and art), which actually come from a single source.
I do not doubt that The Homoeopathic Physician will continue the legacy of the masters and that
those who read carefully the different articles published in each issue will have more tools to be
able to declare ourselves as true homeopathic doctors.

Let's welcome this renewal and the initiative that has driven the Newsletter Secretariat!

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 Invitation to the Reader, by the Editorial Board
We introduce this worldwide homeopathic journal, sponsored by LMHI, with a title that is new
and yet old: The Homoeopathic Physician. It recalls one of the most famous, revered, and classic
homeopathic journals of America. Started in 1881 in Philadelphia after the death of Constantine
Hering to carry on his understanding of homeopathy, The Homoeopathic Physician began with a
memorial to Hering by Adolph Lippe and an article on Organon Paragraph 153 by Dr P. P. Wells of
Brooklyn.
More than 170 different homeopathic journals were published for shorter or long periods of time
in bustling America between 1850 and 1914, but three stand out for their authors and
contributions, universally recognized still today for their essential instruction and clarification of
homeopathy: Hahnemannian Monthly, Homoeopathic Physician, and Transactions of the
International Hahnemannian Association.
The two journals, Homoeopathic Physician, and Transactions of the International Hahnemannian
Association, were begun in the same year, 1881, probably the high point of homeopathy in
America. The International Hahnemannian Association was a membership group that aimed to
closely follow the precepts of Hahnemann and the Organon. Its annual meeting consisted of
lectures and discussions, which were transcribed and bound as Transactions for its members,
who included H.C. Allen, Cyrus Boger, Eugene Nash, Edmund Lee, Adolph Lippe, E. W. Berridge,
James Kent, J.B. Bell, W. J. Guernsey, R. R. Gregg, and Wm Wesselhoeft. When these great
homeopaths were not practicing or preparing lectures for the IHA meeting, they were often
writing articles for The Homoeopathic Physician. The staff and contributors to both publications
were overlapping.
The impetus for The Homoeopathic Physician were words of Hering that served as the opening by-
line of every issue of the journal: “ If our school ever gives up the strict inductive method of
Hahnemann, we are lost, and deserve to be mentioned only as a caricature in the history of
medicine.”
The IHA clarified and expounded on this in the resolutions that rallied and united its members,
and were the reason they founded this organization. They are the spirit of this present journal:
• The Organon is the anchor and our reliable guide in therapeutics
• A homeopathic physician adheres to the law of similars, the totality of the symptoms, the single
remedy, and the minimum dose of the dynamized drug – these tenets practiced together, not
selectively or singly.
• The mixing of two or more medicines is non-homeopathic
• Treatment that suppresses symptoms by the toxic action of the drug is not homeopathic
• Testing medicines on the healthy is the basis of the Materia Medica.

This journal will offer logical arguments and clinical proof to establish these principles, and
confirm the natural law that homeopathy expresses – “that law which has never failed its editors
in the sick room,” proclaimed the original Homeopathic Physician in the first pages of its first
issue in 1881.
So please read on! the English reviewer of
all the texts…

Dr. Dan Cook of

Dallas, Texas, USA
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During the last years people
worldwide remember the
end of World War I one
hundred years ago, but
forgetting the 265th
birthday of Samuel
Hahnemann who was the
greatest physician mankind
has ever seen.
But why does Hahnemann deserve this
superlative? Because his 27,000 printed pages of
work already exceeded the publication volume of
other doctors during his lifetime? Or because he
recognized the importance of the side symptoms
that are still ignored by traditional medicine
today? Or because he discovered Mercurius
solubilis, a more harmless remedy for syphilis
therapy? No - but because he created a completely
new, comprehensive medical-therapeutic
procedure in its foundations and practical
instructions. If contemporary medicine has not yet
treated him with the attention he deserves, it is
because its representatives mostly come from a
tradition of thought limited to natural science and
thus Hahnemann's discovery, i.e. homeopathy,
becomes a problem case for them
What motivated the already well-known physician
to open himself to a fundamentally different
therapeutic approach? The considerable
uncertainty regarding the predictability of the
treatment result, i.e. it was not possible to know
in advance whether the applied therapeutic
measures would lead to a cure or not. This insight
plunged him into a deep crisis, in the course of
which he gave up medical practice and turned to
literary works. When translating the chapter on
Chinese bark in W. Cullen's (1710 - 1790) Materia
medica, which incidentally had been appointed to
the Chair of Chemistry at the University of
Edinburgh in the year of Hahnemann's birth, he
had the first inkling in 1790 of how he could be
sure of the result of the treatment in advance, as
far as it concerned pharmacology and not surgery:
China officinalis was established in the treatment
of Malarial fever..
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Samuel Hahnemann on his
265th birthday,
Dr. K-H. Gypser, Glees,
Germany
Hahnemann took the remedy in overdoses as
an experiment, poisoned himself, so to speak,
and then experienced symptoms that were
usually present in untreated patients with
Malarial fever. Should, according to his
assumption, the healing power of the cinchona
bark in cases of malarial fever consist in the
fact that it can cause similar phenomena in
healthy people?
With this the basic idea was born, which he
elaborated further in the following. Similar to
the actual healing ability of the cinchona bark,
he now examined other established medicines
of his time - also on his family members - and
carefully noted the resulting symptoms. While
resuming his practice, he soon treated the first
patients according to the principle of
similarity: If he found their symptoms among
those of a medicine tested as described above,
he administered it to the patient and observed
rapid improvement or, not infrequently, even
healing of the suffering.
In the beginning, however, he was still
suffering from excessive agravations, which he
soon found to be due to excessive dosage. This
is linked to his second major discovery, namely
the so-called drug potentiation: In order to
alleviate this initial increase in symptoms, he
reduced the drug dose. What could be more
obvious than to convert all drugs into soluble
form and then dilute them in a later
standardised ratio? When applying the
dilutions, he noticed that, as expected, the
initial aggravating effect decreased, but not the
healing effect. While it was initially necessary
to shake the solutions to ensure good mixing,
Hahnemann later discovered that the shaking
itself contributed to an increase in the
effectiveness of the medicine despite the
mathematically decreasing concentration of
the original substance. Thus he called his
remedies, which he later produced in the ratio
of one remedy to one hundred solvents,
potencies.
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With the drug proving on healthy persons, the
choice of a drug according to similarity of
symptoms and the corresponding application of
the drug, he had succeeded in discovering an
efficient and side-effect free healing method
which can be considered for the treatment of
curable diseases which are in principle accessible
to drug therapy. The untheoretical, simple basic
approach is astonishing: The physician is not
dependent on epoch-dependent interpretations of
the respective illness, as the history of medicine
has richly offered until today (organ- or cellular
pathological, bacteria-, virus- or gene-related or
psychological), but he stays with regard to the
choice of remedy with what is primarily and
directly given in the case of illness, namely the
symptoms themselves. Their totality forms the
actual being sick, i.e. the restriction of the human
being with regard to his or her quasi natural
possibilities of execution. If he has carefully and
in detail compiled the symptoms, compared them
with the corresponding medicine produced on
healthy people, dosed them appropriately and
removed obstacles to healing, healing follows
according to the law.
Even if the principle of similarity is already
alluded to in Paracelsus and in the Hippocratic
writings, the decisive point remained hidden from
them, namely the insight into the lawfulness of
the healing process and, as a prerequisite, into the
systematic proving of drugs on healthy people. So
Hahnemann could also say: "Similia similibus
curentur." (Similar diseases shall be cured by
similar ones).The life of Christian Friedrich
Samuel Hahnemann began on 10 April 1755 in
Meissen. His father, a porcelain painter at the
famous manufactory, made him attend the
princely school St. Afra of the city, which had
already produced Gellert, Lessing and Schelling.
His medical studies, which he earned through
tutoring and translations, led him to Leipzig in
1775. From 1777 he received his practical training
at the hospital of the Barmherzige Brüder in
Vienna under Joseph von Quarin (1733 - 1814),
personal physician to Empress Maria Theresa. "I
owe to Quarin what can be called a doctor in me",
he said later. After a stay in Hermannstadt (Sibiu)
he received his doctorate in Erlangen on 10
August 1779.
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This was followed by an unstable period of
travel, which led him to Hettstett, Dessau,
Gommern, Dresden, Leipzig, etc., filled with
medical and literary activities and an
increasing interest in chemistry. In Dessau he
married Johanna Henriette Leopoldi-ne
Küchler (1764 - 1830) in 1782. Around 1785 he
withdrew from medical practice until the
discovery of homeopathy, about which he first
made public statements in 1796 in Hufeland's "
Journal der praktischen Arzneikunst ".
Hahnemann's first systematic writing on
homeopathy appeared in 1805 with the
"Heilkunde der Erfahrung" and also 200 years
ago the "Fragmenta de viribus
medicamentorum" as a list of the medicines he
proved. His main work, the "Organon", was
published in its first edition in 1810, which was
followed by four more and translations into 15
languages during his lifetime. In June 1812 he
habilitated at the University of Leipzig and
lectured on homeopathy for almost a decade.
During this period, he published his six-volume
"Reine Arzneimittellehre", to which drug
provings by students who had in the meantime
been won contributed. After a series of
disputes with the Leipzig pharmacists, who
resented him for preparing his own medicines,
he moved to Anhalt-Köthen in 1821, where
Duke Friedrich Ferdinand (1769 - 1830)
granted him freedom of dispensing and
appointed him Court Councillor the following
year. It was here that Hahnemann achieved
international renown and his work reached
maturity with the publication of the four-
volume "Die chronischen Krankheiten" (1828 -
1830). Five years after the death of his first
wife, he married the French woman Marie
Melanie d'Hervilly (1800 - 1878) and moved to
Paris in June 1835. There he looked after
clients from various European countries as
well as Paganini or the Rothschilds. He died on
2 July 1843 and his grave is in the Père
Lachaise cemetery.
At this point there is the opportunity to point
out some world-historical data or data relevant
for Ho-moeopathy:
• 235 years ago Bönninghausen (1785 - 1864)
was born and
• 215 years ago Jose Nunez (1805 - 1879),
founder of homeopathy in Spain was born;
• 190 years ago Hahnemann completed the
first edition of "Chronic Diseases" and
homeopathy reached France as well as Spain;
furthermore Hahnemann published a largely
unknown greeting² to the assembly of the
"Association for the Homeopathic Healing
Art" (Vereins für die homöopathische
Heilkunst) founded in the previous year,
which deals with two adjuvant measures in
the treatment of old chronic local diseases: 1.
Application to the skin with a local plaster of
pitch and lark turpentine, applied to healthy
skin, after which an itchy rash develops, and
2. application of mesmerism. This greeting
ends with the following lines: "Finally, I wish
that every homeopath who wishes to be
worthy of this high profession and thus also
to enjoy the blessings that come from the
faithful practice of this unique art of healing,
never disgrace himself by adding any
allopathic method, but rather perform this
divine art purely and sincerely, with regard
to as many moments of illness as possible, by
means of the most authentic homeopathic
remedies, always only in a dilution of a
million times the potentised and in the
smallest dose of one, two, at most three of
the finest straws moistened with it, and
never presuming to force healing in a shorter
time by giving larger doses or by changing
the medicine more quickly, and thus harming
the sick person and his good reputation,
without being able to make up for the
missteps by late repentance.“
• 140 years ago C. Hering (1800 - 1880) died,
the IHA was founded, and Kent converted to
homeopathy; T.F. Allen's (1837 - 1902)
"General Symptom Register" was also
published and with it he completed his
Encyclopaedia.
²Archiv fuer die homöopathische Heilkunst 9(1830), 3, 72-79
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One of the curiosities of history is why, as
things stand, homeopathy plays an
insignificant role in health care in its home
country. The scientific understanding of the
world and human beings is not able to
comprehend anything beyond numerical
calculability. Max Planck (1858 - 1947), for
example, said: "Only what can be measured
is true." Since Hahnemann's potencies do not
correspond to this understanding of truth,
whereby one repeatedly uses the Lohschmidt
number to show that a C30 cannot contain
anything effective, the natural science that
dominates thinking categorically rejects
homeopathy. References to the unmistakable
healing successes or the fundamental
problem of calculation (e.g. two bricklayers
need three days to build a wall; do one
million bricklayers do this work in the
millionth time?) remain unheard. Even
recent studies from non-homeopathic circles,
which show that molecular solutions tend to
build molecular conglomerates of increasing
cohesive forces with increasing dilution, are
ignored. In the end, the question remains,
will society be able to afford to continue to do
without homeopathy on a broad front in the
face of the constantly growing costs of
medical technology, which is becoming
increasingly inhumane, and a flood of drug-
related damage - all due to the decline in
scientific thinking? A few words of Mahatma
Gandhi (1869 - 1948) may easily be thought-
provoking:
"I bow to his [Samuel Hahnemann's] art and
the Herculean work he has done. The
memory of him shakes us awake and tells us
to follow him. But his opponents hate the
existence of the principles and practice of
homeopathy, which in fact performs a
greater percentage of cures than any other
treatment method and is undoubtedly safer
and more economical.”
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 «Exam Questions For Homeopathic Physicians»
by Samuel Hahnemann, Köthen, June 20, 1834

1) What kinds of procedures does the genuine 8) Why does the true physician never prescribe
(homeopathic) physician follow to clearly a remedy for one single symptom (for one
perceive what is to be cured in every case single health problem) of his patient ?
of disease (knowledge of disease, 9) After prescribing successfully a small dose
indication) ? of a remedy (respecting the similarity of the
2) Why does a homeopathic physician always most important, singular and peculiar
need more information than just a name of symptoms of the patients with the drug
a disease, to be able to cure his patient ? proving symptoms of the selected remedy),
Why does a homeopathic physician e.g. when will be the most proper time to repeat
never prescribe China off. just because a the remedy ? What kind of criteria does the
patient tells him that he has a fever (as it homeopathic physician use to decide which
is common in allopathy) ? remedy will follow ?
3) How does the true homeopathic physician 10) Why can it not be allowed for pharmacists
perceive what is curative in medicines to give homeopathic remedies directly to
(knowledge of medicinal powers) and in patients?
which pathological conditions they will be
curative ?
4) Why it is an intolerable situation for a true
physician if several single remedies are
mixed up in one prescription (complex
remedies) and prescribed for a certain
disease ?
5) Why are all varieties of bloodlettings
(including leeches and cupping glasses) Submitted and translated By
unacceptable for a true physician ? Dr. Ulrich Fischer
6) Why does the true physician refuse the
allopathic procedure of prescribing Opium
against all kind of pains, also against
diarrhea and sleeplessness ?
7) Why does the homeopathic physician
prepare gold, lead, Lycopodium clavatum,
salt and other substances by triturating
them for hours with an indifferent
substance like sugar of milk ? And why
does he shake one small part of this
photo by Renzo Galassi
powder dissolved in a mixture of alcohol
and distilled water, which is called
potentization ?

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 „Some Impressiones of a traveling Homeopath“
Visit of Dr. Griesselich in the house of Hahnemann, Köthen, 1832
Griesselich describes Hahnemann with the fiery
behaviour of a young man. It was hard to
believe that he is 77 years old. He was small,
quick in his movements. Every movement
expressed life and was full of energy. His eyes
revealed the scientist within tho his features
were sharp. His speech was fiery and fluent and
often directed against his adversaries. He
showed an excellent memory and returned
easily after many excursions to different topics,
to the original theme. When he talked about
friends and enemies or about science and
philosofy he talked without breaks, got warm,
started sweating, had to take of his little hat
and had to wipe of the sweat. He often had to
have his big pipe relighted. For that purpose
the whole day a candle was burning on the
table. And don´t forget the beer – over the whole
day a big –covered- glas of beer was found on
the table. He didn´t drink wine. His way of
living was quite simple, not at all fancy,
patriarchal. Hahnemanns talks often had
something polemic and critical. They were not
all directed exclusively against allopathic
colleagues but also against his homeopathic
colleagues. He even critized work and attitudes
of friends. Often he demanded more agreement
under the homeopaths for the approach of
common goals.
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He considered e.g. the agreement concerning
the fundaments of homeopathy as very
important to defeat the attacks of the allopathic
colleagues. He critized here and there the
tendency of publishing more and more books on
homeopathy, but insisted in giving everybody
free space to gain experience with the purpose
to correct eventually what has already been
discovered (including his own experiences). But
he rejected everything published on pure
presumptions.
Hahnemann talked with me also about patients
he was unable to cure- especially he named
Ascites, pathologies related to Gonorrhoea and
certain types of intermittent fevers which
showed a big variety of symptoms.
I also had the chance to admire Hahnemanns
case taking. He explored every detail and
documented it inmediately in his book which
was a protocol for continuing documented
cases. When I was visiting Hahnemann here in
this house- he was working and experimenting
about the “Chronic Diseases”. And the most
important information I got from Hahnemann
was a change in the strategy concerning the
repetition of remedies in chronic diseases.
Different to earlier statements Hahnemann
considered now the frequent repetition of
remedies in chronic diseases as a major
progress. He told me that “ the sick nature can´t
resist the frequent impulses of the remedy, it
has to progress…”
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 This means Hahnemann did not wait any more
until the effect of the remedy, e.g. Calcarea
carbonica, stopped acting. He repeated the
remedy every 7, 8 or 14 days, administering
only a few globuli each time.
We talked a lot about Psora. (You might
remember that Hahnemann wrote the “Chronic
Diseases” here in Köthen, in this house)
Hahnemann expressed his opinion that the
origin of the chronic –non-veneric diseases are
caused by an earlier scabies
infection. He also insisted that the transfer from
diseases similar to Psora from parents to
children is possible (with other words he
accepted a “psoric”genetic disposition).
We talked about different acute events like an
unhealthy mode of living, taking cold, physical
and mental over exertion or an acute grief
which can be able to awake latent Psora and
develop chronic diseases related to Psora.
Hahnemann at that time was involved in an
intense discussion with Hartmann (one of his
students), because Hartmann published an
article which mentioned that there exist other
types of non-veneric chronic diseases which are
not related to Psora. Hahnemann was specially
upset that Hartmann didn´t prove his hypothesis
by showing new facts and developments in
practice. Discussing these topics Hahnemann
expressed his displeasure with angry and
impatient gestures and facial expressions.
I also talked with Hahnemann about drug
provings. He explained that lately he used the
30 th potency for all his drug provings. All those
colleagues with major doubts with his method
he recomended to take a few days Natrium
muriaticum C 30 (10-12 globuli each dose) and
“then he should tell me that he doesn´t feel
sick…” Hahnemann said.
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We also talked about diet. I heard from
Hahnemann that he follows basically the
recommendations he gives us in his books of the
“Chronic Diseases”. His recommendations were
not as rigorous as I thought. Hahnemann
explained that the diet has to be adapted
individually to the needs of the patient as we do
it with his remedy.
The diet has to be adapted to the personality as
well as to the disease of the patient.
Hahnemann had the opinion that we should
allow the patient everything that:
1.has not a specific relationship to the patient´s
diseases (e.g. no spicy herbs for urinal
diseases), 2. has no relationship as antidot to
the given remedy ( no wine with Nux vomica)
and 3. is not able to alter the nervous system in
a way that our remedy stops to act (coffee!).
When ever it was possible Hahnemann was very
rigorous with the prohibiting of coffee. He
recommended green tea. But he admitted that
he has seen cases where Nux vomica did a good
job in patients with regular coffee consumation.
Hahnemann talked finally about the need of a
homeopathic hospital under direction of an
experienced homeopathic colleague. It is
absolutly not sufficient, he said, to have an
homeopathic department inside of an allopathic
clinic because too many obstacles from the
allopathic colleagues impide a successful
homeopathic work. A very critical exchange of
letters between Hahnemann and Hufeland from
that time show that Hahnemann had the opinion
that Hufeland has not undertaken every effort
to succeed in this aspect.
Submitted and translated by Dr. Ulrich
Fischer
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An old lecture on Hygiene by our Master C.F.S.
Hahnemann. By Dr. Renzo Galassi
Dear Colleagues, dedicating
this first issue of the
Homoeopathic Physician to
the memory of the founder
of our Medicine, Samuel
Hahnemann, I think that
it’s very important to
consider his important
advice as regards our daily
practice. In § 3 of the 6th
edition of the Organon he
gives us the conditions to
be followed in order to be
“a true practitioner of the
healing art” and after
four basic conditions he puts a fifth one: the
knowledge of the obstacles to recovery, as you can read
below: “If the physician clearly perceives what is to be
cured in diseases, that is to say, in every individual
case of disease (knowledge of disease, indication), if he
clearly perceives what is curative in medicines, that is
to say, in each individual medicine (knowledge of
medicinal powers), and if he knows how to adapt,
according to clearly defined principles, what is
curative in medicines to what he has discovered to be
undoubtedly morbid in the patient, so that the recovery
must ensue—to adapt it, as well in respect to the
suitability of the medicine most appropriate according
to its mode of action to the case before him (choice of
the remedy, the medicine indicated), as also in respect
to the exact mode of preparation and quantity of it
required (proper dose), and the proper period for
repeating the dose;—if, finally, he knows the obstacles
to recovery in each case and is aware how to remove
them, so that the restoration may be permanent: then
he understands how to treat judiciously and rationally,
and he is a true practitioner of the healing art.” I have
to say, after so many years of practice and teaching,
that this last sentence of Hahnemann is often
overlooked by Homeopathic practitioners in the
clinic and, unfortunately, in their own life.
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So that, in addition to other articles by
and about Hahnemann, I propose the
reading of this small treatise on the
effects of coffee, written by him in 1803.
You can object that 1803 is a very early
date in the medical life of Hahnemann and
maybe afterwards he changed opinion.
But this is not true, because Hahnemann
in the introductory volume on the
treatment of the Chronic Diseases (many
years later) treats again the subject in the
chapter about diet and mode of life, using
the following words:
“What is the most difficult part of the
treatment, is to regulate the drinks of the
patient. Coffee has pernicious effects upon
both body and soul ; they may be found
enumerated in my little work, (Wirkungen
des Kaffees, Leipsic, 1803.) Unfortunalely
coffee has become so necessary to the so-
called civilized nations that, unless the
homoeopathic physician interdicts the use
of coffee once for ever during the
treatment, he will find it just as difficult to
abolish the use of that beverage as it is
difficult to eradicate superstition and
prejudice. Young people of twenty and even
thirty years, may be deprived of it at once,
without any injury. Persons of a more
advanced age ought to be persuaded to
abstain from the use of coffee little by
little, taking a little less of it every day ;
most of them will be found willing to leave
off the use of that beverage at once, and
they do so without experiencing any
disagreeable consequences, except perhaps
for the first two or three days. Even as late
as six years ago -I was under the
impression that coffee might be permitted,
in a small quantity, to old people, in case
they should find it difficult to give it up.
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But I am now convinced that the protracted use of coffee
does not make it harmless, and that the physician who
is bound to take care of the best interests of his patients,
ought to insist upon their depriving themselves of coffee
altogether. If they have the necessary confidence in their
physician, they will all conform to his reasonable wishes
with great readiness. Roast rye or wheat smell and taste
very much like coffee, and procure a beverage which is
now much used by both rich and poor people in different
countries.” So, considering the abuse that nowadays
our society is doing with coffee, I consider advisable
to read the following pages and follow the instructions
of Hahnemann both for our patients and, why not, for
ourselves.
The writing was translated in 1875 by a very good
American doctor, William Lamottine Breyfogle, of
Louisville, Ky. The following is his short biography:
He was born in 1845 and started to study medicine at
the age of eighteen. He graduated after 3 years, 1866,
at the Homeopathic Medical College of Pennsylvania.
He started working in New Albany, Indiana, and there
he found himself engaged in a very active practice. In
that city he found time and energy to publish his great
work entitled: Breyfogle’s Homeopathic Epitome. In
1868 he moved to Louisville, Kentucky, where he
devoted his attention to the cares of a large and
increasing practice.
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He was a contributor of several
Homeopathic periodic and was the editor
of the department of Materia Medica in
the Western Observer. He worked hard for
many years, he visited Europe, especially
Austria, where he attended as an assistant
to the work of the famous Dr. Adam
Politzer. Though offered several
professorship, he declined them all,
preferring to labor in his practice making
the homeopathic treatment of ear and eye.
In the last years of his life he turned his
attention to railroads and was the first
president of Chicago, Indianapolis and
Louisville Railroad. He died in San
Francisco, after 3 days’ illness of
pneumonia.
I have cut some parts from Hahneman’s
article, so as not to give you too long an
article, but I have tried not to change the
sense of the paper.
Good reading, the editor.
INTRODUCTION by WM. L. BREYFOGLE.
This TREATISE was written and
published by Dr. Hahnemann, in Dresden,
in I803. It was then translated by E. G.
De Brunnow into the French language in
1824. It is from this latter the present
translation is made. I regard this little
treatise as invaluable, not only by reason
of its being the only treatise on this
subject, but for the thorough, conclusive,
and satisfactory manner in which the
subject has been presented.
Through the assistance of my friend, Mr.
James B. James, of New Albany, Indiana, I
am enabled to present as accurate a
translation as the construction of the two
languages will allow.
With these few remarks I commend the
work to the careful study of the medical
profession.
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TREATISE ON THE EFFECTS OF COFFEE. BY DR.
Samuel HAHNEMANN. Written in Leipzig in 1803, with
the title:”Der Kaffee in seinen Wirkungen…”
To enjoy perfect health and a long life, we should only
make use of purely nutritive food, free from irritant
and medical particles; our beverages should likewise
be only moistening or both moistening and nutritive,
but equally free
from the above mentioned particles, such as pure
spring water or milk.
So far as seasonings which flatter the taste are
concerned, there are but three, common salt, sugar,
and vinegar, which, employed in small or moderate
quantities, have been recognized as harmless and fit
for the humaft body. All other ingredients which we
call spices, as well as all beverages reduced.to spirits
or similar to alcohol, partake more or less of the
nature of medicaments. The more they resemble these
last, and the more frequently and copiously they are
introduced into our bodies, the more do they become
equivocal and injurious to our health and opposed to
longevity.
It is especially dangerous to make dietetic and
frequent use of purely medicinal substances endowed
with great strength.
Wine was the only purely medicinal beverage of the
ancients; but the Greeks and Romans, wiser than
ourselves, never partook of it without having first
mixed water with it copiously. Modern times have
introduced the use of many other medicinal beverages
and luxuries, such as smoking tobacco and snuff,
brandy, several kinds of irritant beers, tea, and
coffee.
Medicinal products are substances which do not
nourish our bodies, but alter its state of health; but
every such alteration is a condition opposed to
nature, that is, a species of disease.
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COFFEE IS A PURELY MEDICINAL
SUBSTANCE.
All medicaments, given in large doses,
make a disagreeable impression on the
sensibilities of a healthy person. No one
ever smoked tobacco for the first time
without experiencing some disgust; no
healthy person, with equal certainty, ever
took with pleasure pure and unsweetened
coffee for the first time. It is nature
herself that admonishes by this of the first
violation of the laws of health; it is herself
that exhorts us not to despise trivially the
preserving instinct of life.
By continuing the use of these medicinal
products (a usage to which we are
enslaved by fashion and the force of
example), the habit, by degrees, dispels
the disagreeable sensations which they at
first produce in us. These things finally
please us, that -is, the disgust which they
at first caused us becomes less striking by
their continued use, and, on the contrary,
the agreeable effects which they
apparently produce upon our organs
insensibly become necessities. The vulgar
man seems to find happiness in artificial
necessaries, and by degrees attaches to
their satisfaction a sensual pleasure.
Having once become sick, as it were, by
the continual use of these medicinal
products, it may be, too, that our instinct
requires them as palliatives, to assuage,
at least momentarily, the evils which they
produce themselves from time to time.
That they may understand this better, I
beg my readers to pay attention to the
following remarks. All medicaments
produce two quite opposite states in the
human body: the primitive effect which
manifests itself when the remedy begins
to operate, and the secondary effect which
appears only after the lapse of several
hours, when the primitive effect has
ceased.
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 Most medicaments cause disagreeable and painful
sensations to a healthy person, as well in their
primitive as in their secondary effects; both cause
trouble in the organism, though in a different
manner, and even a continued use of these objects
will never produce agreeable effects in a healthy man.
There are but few of the medicinal substances, chosen
by a refined and pleasure-seeking world as dietetic
objects, that, so far as their primitive effects are
concerned, form an exception to the above mentioned
rule. They have, then, the remarkable virtue of
producing a species of artificial augmentation of the
ordinary state of health, and of exciting almost none
but agreeable sensations, while the disagreeable
results of the secondary effects remain insignificant
for some time, supposing, at all events, that the
person in question makes a moderate use of above
named substances, that he enjoys pretty good health,
and that in other respects, he leads a life conformable
to nature.
Among that small class of medicinal products forcibly
received among the number of our dietetic luxuries,
coffee is also found, the effects of which, agreeable as
well as disagreeable, are still considerably unknown.
The inordinate use of this beverage at almost all
hours of the day, the difference in its quality and
quantity, finally its general. use in all classes of
society, of all ages and of the most varied
constitutions, make it very difficult for the observer
to abstract the true effects of coffee from this chaos
of phenomena, and to deduce therefrom pure and
certain results. It is like a writing attached to a
swiftly revolving target; however distinct the
characters and words may be in themselves,
everything becomes confounded and illegible even to
the best eyes.
It is only by continued, exact, and sincere
observations, removed as far as possible from all
illusions; it is only by carefully referring the
phenomena to their causes, that one can succeed in
discovering the nature of the most important of
beverages, that of coffee. The primitive effect of
coffee consists, in general, of an increase more or less
agreeable of vital activity; the animal functions,
natural and vital (as they are called), are found
during the first hours in a state of artificial
perfection.
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But the secondary effects, which manifest
themselves only insensibly after the lapse
of several hours, produce exactly the
contrary of all this, that is, a disagreeable
sentiment of our existence, an oppressed
activity, a species of paralysis of
theanimal, natural, and vital functions.
If anyone not accustomed to coffee
should take a moderate portion of it, or if
someone who is accustomed to this
beverage should take an immoderate
portion of it, he will experience during
the first hours a more active sentiment of
his existence; the pulse is higher and
more frequent, but also softer. His
cheeks assume a circumscribed redness
which does not insensibly vanish in the
adjacent parts, but presents itself apart
like a red spot. The forehead and the
palms become humid; he feels more heat
than before, and this sensation causes
him an agreeable uneasiness. The heart is
agitated in a voluptuous palpitation, as it
is on occasions of great joy; the veins of
the hands swell. By touching him
externally one also observes a
supernatural heat; however, this heat
never becomes ardent, even after taking
a large portion of coffee, but it rather
passes into a general sweat.
The presence of mind, the attention, the
sympathies are more active than in the
regular and natural condition of the
body. It seems to the person in question
that all the objects which surround him
have received a seducing appearance;
everything seems to be covered with a
gay varnish and shines with an infinitely
agreeable luster, especially if the portion
of coffee has been greater than usual.
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 During the first hours one sees on the lips of the
coffee drinker self-complacency and a satisfaction
with everything that surrounds him; and this is just
what elevated coffee to the rank of a social beverage.
Every agreeable sentiment, which is communicated to
one's self, rises rapidly to the degree of enthusiasm
(though but for a short time). All vexatious
recollections are effaced from the memory; all
disagreeable sensations are silenced during this
species of enchanting fever. Man, in a regular and
healthy condition, should experience agreeable and
disagreeable sensations alternately; the wise
organization of our nature demands this. But during
the primitive effects of this medicinal beverage all is
but pleasure, and even the corporal functions, which,
in a natural state of health, are accompanied by rude
and almost painful sensations, now operate with an
astonishing facility and even with a species of
pleasure.
Whoever no longer lives in the primeval simplicity of
nature will well experience, during the first moments
after awakening (especially when it has taken place
earlier than usual), a certain physical and mental
dullness; the sentiment of existence will be less
active, the head heavy, the limbs somewhat dull and
less agile than usual; rapid movements require
efforts, and thought is sluggish.
But coffee almost instantaneously dispels this
disagreeable and natural sensation, this uneasiness of
body and mind; we suddenly revive.
Having finished our daily task, nature also desires us
to be fatigued; a disagreeable sensation of languor in
our physical and natural forces now renders us
morose and obliges us to give ourselves up to
necessary sleep and repose. But let us take coffee,
and this state of moroseness and inactivity, this
disagreeable lassitude of body and mind, will
suddenly disappear; an artificial vivacity will succeed
the desire of sleeping, and we wake in spite of nature.
In order to live we need food, and nature obliges us to
seek it through hunger, a gnawing sensation in the
stomach, joined to a tormenting desire for food, to a
quarrelsome humor, to debilitation, etc. In like
manner thirst, an equally wise institution of nature, is
a very inconvenient sensation; for, besides a
languishing desire for liquids, which our bodies need
to repair their losses, we experience also a parching
dryness in the throat and mouth, a dry heat of the
body which somewhat hinders respiration, a certain
uneasiness, etc.
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We take coffee and we feel nothing more
of the painful sensations of hunger and
thirst. Real coffee drinkers are almost
ignorant of natural hunger and thirst; this
is especially the case with women who
take no exercise in the open air, which
deprives them of an advantage which
annihilates, at least from time to time, the
vexatious consequences of this beverage.
The body is thus cheated out of its food
and drink by a sort of illusion, and the
cutaneous vessels are, at the same time,
forced, in a manner contrary to nature, to
absorb from the air as much moisture as
the organism absolutely needs for its
existence. This is the reason that
professional coffee drinkers discharge
much more liquid through the urinary
duct than they have actually swallowed. It
is thus that we refuse the body the
enjoyment of its prime necessities; it is
thus, thanks to the divine beverage, that
we insensibly approach the state of the
blessed. What a beautiful foretaste of
transfiguration in this world below!
The Supreme Preserver of our days also
ordained that, after satiating ourselves
with food, a short interruption should
intervene in our affairs, and that we
should give a little rest to our bodies and
minds, that the important function of
digestion might quietly begin. The
disagreeable sensations which arise from
pursuing an opposite course should
induce us not to violate said law. Wishing
to make physical efforts immediately
after meals, a certain stupor of body and
mind, an oppressive weight in the region
of the stomach, a sort of disagreeable
compression of plenitude and tension in
the abdomen, etc., remind us that the time
to taste repose is at hand.
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 In like manner, if we wish to make mental efforts, a
dullness of the intellectual forces follows
immediately, the head becomes dull, the limbs are
cold, while the face is warm, and a disagreeable
compression of the stomach, joined to an
inconvenient tension of the abdomen, still increases.
For it is but too certain that the efforts of the mind,
made when digestion begins, are still mare opposed
to nature and more pernicious than physical labor.
But coffee rapidly banishes this lassitude of body and
mind, as well as the inconvenient sensations in the
abdomen. This is the reason that refined sybarites
take this beverage immediately after meals, and they
fully enjoy the above mentioned effects. They recover
their good humor and feel as light as if their stomachs
contained but little or nothing at all.
Nature also desires that the evacuation of the
excrement should be made with a certain effort, and
she forces us to it by pains and very inconvenient
necessities which suppress all agreeable sentiments
of life until the necessary function is
in operation. But the refining spirit of this century
has also provided for this inconvenience and has also
sought to elude this natural law. It is coffee that
accelerates and aids the work of digestion in an
artificial manner, which, in the ordinary order of
things, would only take place in the course of several
hours. For the intestines, being excited by the
primitive effect of this beverage, have a more rapid
peristaltic movement: they convey their contents
more promptly toward the anus. But as the aliments
cannot be sufficiently digested in so short a time, and
as the chyle cannot be sufficiently modified in the
stomach, nor sufficiently absorbed by the absorbents
of the intestinal canal, the mollified mass passes
through the intestines so that the body does not
receive one half of its nourishing particles, and
reaches the orifice still in a semi-fluid state. Oh, the
excellent digester! Oh, the admirable method of
correcting nature!
The primitive effect of coffee also incites the anus to
open and close more rapidly
during the evacuation, so that the same takes place
almost without effort and more frequently than
among those who do not take this beverage.
It is thus that coffee diminishes and almost
annihilates the disagreeable sensations analogous to
the wise organization of our bodies, so that we do not
perceive, nor even suspect, the sad consequences
which result therefrom.
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The primitive effect of this beverage, more
than all other artificial means, also excites
the sexual instinct, which the refinement
of our age has placed in the rank of
principal pleasures. […] The simple and
honest man, in considering the moral and
physical condition of those persons,
recognizes therein everywhere the
opposite of nature, and the stamp of an
irregular excitement. He observes an
exaggerated gaity or sentimentality which
far exceeds the nature of its object, a
tenderness almost convulsive or an
extreme sadness, or sallies which surpass
the limits of reason, or contortions of the
muscles of the face, which degenerate into
true caricatures, instead of a mild smile, a
little irony, a moderate affliction or
compassion. Even the muscles of the
remainder of the body now exhibit an
extraordinary mobility contrary to nature.
[…]
Man in his natural state must make some
effort to recollect things long since passed;
but immediately after taking coffee the
memory's magazine spreads itself, so to
speak, upon the tongue -and imprudent
chit-chat and the revelation of important
secrets are but too often the result.
Moderation and just bounds are
everywhere exceeded. […]
The ballet dancer, the improvisator, the
juggler, the boatman, the banker of a
Pharoah bank, the modern virtuoso-
physician with his extraordinary rapidity,
and the fashionably omnipresent physician
who wishes to make ninety visits in a
single morning -all these people
necessarily need coffee.
Let us abandon to these people their
excitants opposed to nature, with all the
vexatious consequences which result
therefrom for their own health and for the
good of others.[…]
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 Finally, what could, like it, banish the torments of
hunger and thirst, remove sleep from fatigued
members, and produce an artificial wakefulness,
while the entire creation of our hemisphere are
tasting the sweets of repose in the quiet
shades of night!
It is thus that we conquer the wise institutions of
nature, but to our great detriment.
After a few hours, the primitive effect of the coffee
being passed, an opposite state, the secondary effect,
insensibly follows. The more the former has been
marked and agreeable, the more will the latter be
sensitive and disagreeable.
I shall, however, state beforehand that the noxious
consequences of this medicinal beverage are not
similar for each individual.
Our bodies have such an excellent organization that a
few faults against diet become almost imperceptible,
if in other respects we lead a life conformable to
nature. In this way, for example, the peasant and the
journeyman in Germany
take brandy, a very injurious beverage in itself,
almost every morning; but if they take it in small
quantities they, nevertheless, reach a very advanced
age. Their health suffers but little from it, for their
good constitutions and the healthy mode of life which
they lead in other respects, overcome the injurious
effects of this beverage to such an extent that they
suffer very little from it.
If the father of a poor family of journeymen or
peasants takes a few cups of weak coffee instead of
brandy, the result will be the same. The vigor of his
body, the violent exercise which he gives his limbs,
the pure air which he inhales every day in abundance,
all this removes the sad consequences of the beverage
in question, and his health suffers but little or not at
all.
But the noxious effects of coffee become much more
evident among those persons who do not enjoy the
advantages of the above-mentioned favorable
circumstances. It is true that some persons spending
their time in sedentary occupations, and even some
men of a feeble complexion, fixed for the most part to
their rooms by sedentary pursuits, enjoy a sort of
health, provided they observe in other things
a regimen suitable to their situation.
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This regimen requires that we take none
but simple aliments, easily digested,
purely nutritive, mild, and little seasoned,
as well as beverages equally innocent; that
much sobriety be exercised in the use of
said enjoyments;that the air of apartments
be frequently renewed; finally, that all
passions be moderated with wisdom. […]
The secondary effect is similar to the
uneasy state in which they find themselves
before taking coffee, but it is a little more
severe.
The primary effect of this medicinal
beverage, that is, the totality of this vital,
exalted, and artificial activity having
disappeared after a few hours, a desire to
sleep, joined to yawnings and a greater
inactivity than that of the
ordinarycondition, insensibly follow; the
motions of the body become more difficult,
and the extreme serenity which reigned in
the mind during the few preceding hours
now passes into a gloomy, downcast
humor. While the digestion and secretion
of the aliments had been artificially
accelerated during the first hours after
taking coffee, painful flatulency and a
slower and more difficult secretion now
follow than in the preceding condition. If
the persons in question had been
penetrated with an agreeable heat by the
primary effect of the coffee, this artificial
fire now becomes insensibly quenched;
they become chilled and have cold hands
and feet. All external objects appear to
them less agreeable than before.
The sexual desires, excited during the first
hours, now become the more feeble and
lax. Their bad humor increases, and they
are more easily vexed. The natural
appetite is replaced by a kind of canine
appetite, easily satisfied, and yet food and
beverages load their heads and stomachs
more.
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 They have more difficulty to recover sleep, which is
more feeble, and on awaking they are more sleepy,
more sad and melancholic, than they usually were
before they become acquainted with coffee. But they
repeat the use of this injurious palliative, and, behold!
all the pains of which I have spoken are dissipated!
A new artificial life begins, with the only difference
that the happy period this time is a little shorter than
the first. The use of coffee must then be more
frequently repeated, or it must be made stronger and
stronger, if it is to excite anew the vital functions for
a few hours.
It is thus that the bodies of the inhabitants of
chambers continually degenerate more. The injuries
caused by the secondary effects of coffee enlarge and
take such deep roots that even more frequent and
stronger repetitions of this palliative can no longer
dissipate them, not even for a few hours.
The skin now becomes more sensitive to cold, and, in
general, to the influence of much air, even when it is
not cold; digestion becomes more difficult, the
evacuations are often delayed several days; flatulence
causes agonies and a number of painful sensations.
The constipation of the abdomen alternates only with
diarrheas, and not with natural stools. Sleep comes
only with difficulty, and rather resembles a slight
sluggishness which does not refresh. On awaking, the
persons in question have the head much engaged, a
drowsy imagination, and a sluggish memory; the
movement of the limbs is much constrained, and their
hearts are filled with an oppressive sadness, which
darkens the aspect of the beautiful nature which
surrounds them. […]
It would be difficult for me to describe all the evils
which lurk among the generation of coffee bibbers,
under the name of debility, or that of nervous or
chronic diseases, evils which enervate humanity and
cause it to degenerate in body and spirit. […]
Even trivial causes (which scarcely make any
impression at all on healthy men unaccustomed to the
use of coffee) cause a headache to the female coffee
drinker; often also toothache almost unendurable,
and generally nocturnal, accompanied by redness of
the face, and finally producing swelling of the cheeks;
sometimes also tearing and cutting sensations in
different parts of the body, now in a single side of the
face, then in this or that member.
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Anguish and flying sensations of heat are
their daily ailments, and unilateral and
nervous headache are theirs by preference.
[…]
Little infractions of regimen, as well as
vexatious passions, cause them painful
sufferings of the chest, stomach, and
abdomen, known under the false
denomination of cramps. The menses
never take place without pain, and do not
occur at their regular periods, or else they
are less copious than usual, and finally
they become quite trifling in quantity. […]
The act of coition sometimes causes pains.
[…]
Men suffer from painful hemorrhoidal
difficulties, and nocturnal pollutions. The
genital faculty insensibly dies away in both
sexes. The natural energy which a healthy
couple exercise in the act of coition is
reduced to a futile result. Men become
impotent, women sterile or incapable of
suckling their children. […]
No irregularity of diet occasions more
easily and more certainly the decay of the
teeth than the coffee debauch. Coffee,
grief, and the abuse of mercury, are the
most active destroyers of this ornament of
the mouth, this necessary organ of distinct
language and of an intimate amalgamation
of the saliva and the food. The confined air
of chambers and the nocturnal repletion of
the stomach also contribute thereto.
But coffee alone is capable of destroying
the teeth in a very short time, or, at least,
to make them black and yellow. The
incisors are especially attacked by it.[…]
After children, coffee, as I have said, has
the most injurious influence over women
and literary persons, for the occupations
of both oblige them to follow a sedentary
life in the air of chambers. Those artisans
whose trade is sedentary are joined to
these two classes of persons.
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 It is certain, as has been stated above, that much
exercise and an energetic activity in the open air are
the best means to attenuate the injurious effects of
coffee; however, they do not suffice in the end. […]
The principal means for curing sufferings caused by
coffee is to discontinue its use; the exercise taken in
the open air will accomplish the rest. […]

Convinced by the results of a long experience and by

the observations of very many years, I have just
depicted the daily use of coffee as very injurious, and
as the surest means of relaxing and attenuating our
physical and moral energies. […] It will be found that
the so-called beneficial effects which coffee drinkers
attribute to this beverage, to justify their habit, are
nearly all reducible to palliative reliefs against certain
sufferings. Now, the continual use of a palliative
medicament being a very injurious thing, the daily
and dietetic use of such a thing is, without
contradiction, the most pernicious of all.

If I esteem the virtues of coffee; I do so only in

relation to its medicinal employment. This enjoyment
consists:

1. In the properly curative application of this

substance against chronic diseases, the symptoms of
which have a great resemblance to the primary
effects of coffee.

2. In its palliative application against evils recently

engendered, which are eminently dangerous, and
which resemble very much the secondary effects of
this remedy.

Such is the rational and wise use of this medicinal

substance, of which very few persons know the true
value, but of which millions of men make a fatal
abuse.

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 Directly from Hahnemann’s practice: clinical case, from the
book «Clinical Journals of Hahnemann»
by Dr. Ute Fischbach Sabel
Introduction
After having read and studied Hahnemann's writings
with their fabulous structure of medicine, it is
interesting to see how he acted in practice.
To this purpose, a cross-sectional study of the clinical
journals that Hahnemann used to make his notes
during his practice has been carried out.
Around 1819, the master began his studies in depth of
the Psora. He intensively investigated the patients'
history of skin rashes, other diseases and the
respective therapeutic measures taken. He specifically
marked the symptoms that he considered to be
representative of Psora in his patients. He applied
Sulphur with great frequency, in an attempt to
eliminate Psora and obtain a clear picture of the
healing remedy the patient needed.
In this article, a case from D34, a clinical journal
registered in 1830, is presented. The Peters family
(father, two daughters, a son and a nephew) are being
treated by Hahnemann. In the 1830s (D34),
Hahnemann mainly used the 30C potency and
imposed several weeks or months of waiting before
he switched to another remedy. In the patients
referred to, 30C was the potency used.
Background
In March 1830, Father Peters and his daughter Agnes
consulted Hahnemann. The father could hardly walk,
because his feet were bent and he had severe cramps.
He also suffered from constipation and great
weakness, because of previous treatments. In the
months of March to August, he received in
chronological order: Sulphur (March), Lycopodium
(May), Sepia (June), Arsenicum (July) and Phosphorus
(August). Although the constipation and weakness did
not improve, the patient felt better and began to walk
again. His 6-year-old daughter Agnes was suffering
from epileptic seizures after having had measles.
Three days after receiving Sulphur in March, the girl
suffered a very serious seizure and had panic attacks
with fear she was going to die. However, after this
episode, she had no more attacks. She returned in
May, where Hahnemann prescribed her Lycopodium
for respiratory problems, diarrhea and because she
was hitting other children.
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However, the reaction to this remedy was
negative, so in June she gets Calcarea and
in July again Calcarea, and then Silicea. At
the end of August, the father reports that
the girl is fine and didn’t suffer any more
epileptic seizures. Peters’ 18-year-old
nephew also had epilepsy and suffered
from dizziness. His first visit was in April,
which may indicate that his uncle has told
him about the positive effects of
Hahnemann's treatment. He received
Sulphur (April) and Calcarea (May) which
did not cause a substantial improvement.
In July, Hahnemann prescribed him Silicea
twice, which reduced the frequency of
dizziness and epileptic seizures, but not
their intensity. Peters’ son, Carl (11 years
old), suffered from diarrhea, depression
and headache, although Hahnemann
considered him the healthiest of the family.
On the first visit in June he received
Sulphur and then Silicea. At the end of
June, despite his frequent urge to defecate,
he says he is more animated and less tired.
He no longer talks about headache.
Below the case of the second daughter of
Peters (Hannchen, 12 years old) will be
described thoroughly. Transcript of the
first visit (07 April 1830)
Headache attacks that start with images
like snakes in front of eyes or like a net on
the side; then she can't read properly. For
this she had received artemisia cina. It is
worst in the sunlight. These images in front
of the eyes last ½ hour, afterwards a sore
and prickly headache in temples presents.
She has to lie down.
The headache lasts ¾ - 1 hour and then she
gets very tired and has to sleep for a long
time. After waking up, she no longer has
headache.
These episodes appear every 8 to 14 days
from the morning on.
She has always been constipated or had
diarrhea with two bowel movements a day
She can only eat little even with things she
likes; she must also vomit
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 Transcript of the first visit (07 April 1830)
Headache attacks that start with images like snakes in
front of eyes or like a net on the side; then she can't
read properly. For this she had received artemisia
cina. It is worst in the sunlight. These images in front
of the eyes last ½ hour, afterwards a sore and prickly
headache in temples presents. She has to lie down.
The headache lasts ¾ - 1 hour and then she gets very
tired and has to sleep for a long time. After waking
up, she no longer has headache.
These episodes appear every 8 to 14 days from the
morning on.
She has always been constipated or had diarrhea with
two bowel movements a day
She can only eat little even with things she likes; she
must also vomit
A lot of problems with the nose, no air passing
through
Many freckles
Prescription: She has to stop drinking coffee; 28
doses and in nº1, two globules of Sulphur
Remarks [by U.F.S.]:
On this first visit we find following symptoms, which
could be repertorised:
Headache: worse in sunlight; better after sleep;
sleepiness after headache
Visions, illusions
Constipation alternating with diarrhea
Vomiting from minimal excess diet
Nose, obstructed
Freckles
Hahnemann gave her Sulphur and the instruction to
stop drinking coffee. In the period of 1830
Hahnemann almost always prescribed Sulphur at the
first visit, when the patient's history made him think
of a psoric condition as the origin of the patient’s
ailments.
He also gave them other recommendations/orders,
for example:
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1. Reduction of the daily coffee dose (as in
this case): Hahnemann was aware that
with an excessive consumption of coffee, it
was impossible for the patient to stop it
abruptly. Thus, patients had to gradually
reduce the number of cups or, if they drank
it black, mix it with milk. It also should be
mentioned that in Hahnemann’s time,
children drank regularly coffee (as well as
beer) in order to avoid the possibly
contaminated water. So it is not surprising
that the girl drank coffee.
2. Reduction of alcoholic drinks and
especially wine: hard alcoholic drinks, like
cognac, had to be stopped and wine had to
be mixed in equal parts with water. In the
case of beer, Hahnemann didn’t impose any
restrictions.
3. Diet: one recommendation that he
usually made to wealthier people was that
they should not eat meat at dinner,
especially no duck or pork.
4. More exercise: in patients who had not
sufficient movement, the recommendation
was to walk at least one hour a day.
5. Others: during the treatment, patients
had to avoid taking herbal infusions, no
matter how harmless they may seem to
them, as well as the use of spices,
perfumes, etc. Transcript of the second
visit (11 May 1830)
She received on April 7th 28 doses, in the
first one, Sulphur; therefore 34 days after
first dose
The discomfort in front of her eyes (like
snakes) has disappeared
On April 13th, severe headache
On 24th again severe headache that lasted 1
hour and then she slept deeply
On May 5th another headache but less
intense; each time it was accompanied by
nausea
She no longer has had constipation or
diarrhea, although much flatulence and a
swollen abdomen were present
Rhinitis was almost always there, but no
sneezing; right nostril free, she can breathe
through
Sometimes tearing pains in the knee after
walking
Prescription: 28 doses and in nº15 two
globules of Calcarea carbonica 30C
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 Remarks:
As we can see, Hahnemann is interested in knowing
the exact evolution and if new symptoms have
appeared. He also controls the time during which
Sulphur has been acting (34 days). On the first visit,
the patient received 28 numbered sachets, from
which she presumably had to take one each day. Only
the first sachet contained Sulphur, while the others
were only with placebo.
Hahnemann was aware that the patients were used to
taking a lot of medication and that they needed
something to cover the long intermediate periods.
That is why he frequently resorted to placebo.
mendations/orders, for example:
Transcript of the third visit (09 June 1830)
She received 28 doses, in nº 15 Calcarea carbonica
30C
Right after the dose she suffered a severe episode of
headache that didn't last long and afterwards she
slept: the next day another episode and then no more
Only one time a tearing pain in the knee
She often leaves food on the plate and eats little, now
bowel movements are fine; no more flatulence, but
still swollen abdomen
No obstruction in the right nostril
Prescription: 28 doses (without medication)
Remarks:
On the previous visit, Hahnemann had given her the
same amount of numbered sachets, but only number
15 contained Calcarea.
When the patient told him that just after the first
dose she had had a strong episode of headache,
Hahnemann knew that it could not be due to Calcarea.
During these long intervals of administration, it was
very important for the doctor to know how long the
remedy was acting so as not to give the next one too
soon. This was the reason why Hahnemann did not
introduce Calcarea until no. 15. Presumably, he
expected Sulphur would still continue acting for a few
days.
Hahnemann had many of his patients keep a diary, in
which they noted down the sachet intake and the
immediately after perceived effects. In this way he
could accurately assess the patient's progress.
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Transcript of the fourth visit (07 July
1830)
She received Calcarea on May 11
She only had very mild episodes of
headache and less frequently; she is still
not eating much
Nose is fine; knee pain is gone
Prescription: 28 doses (without
medication)
Remarks:
This time, it is noted that the patient has
had very mild attacks and seems to be
progressing favorably. As there is no talk of
bowel movements, flatulence or swollen
abdomen, these seem to have disappeared.
The nasal obstruction has completely
receded.
Hahnemann specifically mentions the
disappearance of the knee pain (a symptom
that had not been mentioned at the first
visit). This type of symptom can be
fortuitous or appear throughout the
treatment, as a symptom of the remedy
itself and, therefore, is of value for the
study of the Materia Medica. As he only
mentions it without additional comments,
he gave it a value of fortuitous symptom.
Transcript of the fifth visit (28 July
1830)
Received on 11 May Calcarea
She has had two episodes of severe
headache; face pale and loss of vision, as if
darkness in front of her eyes and then
strong headache; she had to lie down and
slept (from 7.00 to 12.00) afterwards
headache disappeared
Prescription: 14 doses and in nº1 two
globule of Sepia
Remarks:
Hahnemann considered the effect of
Calcarea was now concluded and that the
initial symptoms have returned. In many
occasions, when this happens, he consulted
the Repertory or the Materia Medica to
check which remedy could be most suitable
for these symptoms. If we consider the type
of headache with its modalities, Sepia is a
suitable remedy.
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 Transcript of the sixth visit (10 August 1830)
After Sepia she has not had any more episodes of
pallor and blindness; slight headache on a few
occasions; she has always been very obstinate
Prescription: 28 doses (without medication)
Remarks:
Even though the family Peters continued consulting
Hahnemann, the girl Hannchen didn’t return, which
may indicate that she was better and had stopped
because of no more episodes of headache.
Conclusions
The study of Hahnemann's clinical journals allows us
to see how he acted in practice. It provides important
information on his evolution in terms of potency,
prescription frequencies, the type of symptoms he
assessed, etc. It also demonstrates that all his
theoretical writings are based on many years of
experience and previous observations.
The case presented by this girl had a favorable
evolution. In the complicated cases of the rest of the
Peters’ family, improvements can also be noted.
However, this is not always the case. Hahnemann
treated very complicated cases of epilepsy, gout,
syphilis, etc. in which he was not always able to
achieve absolute success, but every case led him to
advance both on a practical level and in the study of
the Materia Medica and the theoretical bases of
Homeopathy.
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Bibliography:
Clinical Journals of Hahnemann by
Dr. Ute Fischbach Sabel
A detailed study of Hahnemann's medical
journals, preserved at the Institute for
the History of Medicine of the Robert
Bosch Foundation (Stuttgart, Germany),
provided interesting information about
the master's practice: case intake,
prescriptions and hygienic measures. In
addition, concrete historical-social data
could be established with regard to
patients, fees and other physicians who
were connected with Hahnemann.
Biography
Faculty of Medicine in the University of
Barcelona (Spain)
Studies of Homeopathy in Augsburg
(Germany)
Doctorate in Mainz (Germany)
Private practice in Barcelona (Spain)
Member of AMHB, LMHI and ECH
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 A clinical case of the late Dr. Will Kunkler,
Heiden, Switzerland
Introduction
Will Klunker, born in
Munich in 1923, is
regarded as the founder
of the definition of
genuine homeopathy,
and as a great protector
of the homeopathy
practiced by Samuel
Hahnemann.
He began his medical activity in the years after
1950 at dermatological clinics in Munich and
Zurich. Instead of accepting a position as a
senior physician in Zurich, he decided to take
up homeopathy and studied under Jost Künzli
and Adolf Voegeli. He was also strongly
influenced by Pierre Schmidt. He ran his
practice in Heiden, a small town in eastern
Switzerland. In addition to being a prolific
author on homeopathy, and serving as editor of
the Zeitschrift für klassische Homöopathie
from 1981 to 1985 - he was also very active as
a lecturer and instructor. Furthermore,
Klunker was extensively involved with the
philospohy of Martin Heidegger.
Klunker died in March 2002 in Heiden.
Homeopathy in a case of congenital
bronchiectasis
W. Klunker
From " Revue belge d` Homoeopathie " 1987/2
The patient L. M., born in 1940, suffered from
bronchiectasis since birth, which led to more
and more unpleasant complications with
increasing age.
¹The information in brackets (e.g. K43) refers to the page number in the Kent´s
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Medical history
Three vaccinations against smallpox, rubella
and whooping cough; sinus operation in
1966, because infections spreading from
there were suspected at that time; the
infections continued without improvement.
Bronchopneumonia in 1976; in recent years,
increase in respiratory infections, up to
several times a month. Frequent antibiotic
therapies.
Complaints
Yellow sputum every morning. Dyspnea on
physical exertion, especially when running or
walking uphill. Awake every night from
suffocating asthmatic coughing fits. Sleep is
severely disturbed, she has to sit up and walk
around, although this doesn’t really improve
her condition.
Full Intake of Symptoms
Panic in crowds. Extreme lack of bodily
warmth. Great aversion to bathing, which
worsens her condition. Metallic taste in the
mouth. Striking to the examiner are the cold
wet hands despite the summer heat on the
day of the consultation. No other
peculiarities.
Repertorisation¹
1) MIND; FEAR; crowd; in a (K 43) Ars, calc,
sulph
2) GENERALITIES; BATHING; dread of
(K1345) Calc, SULPH
3) GENERALITIES; BATHING, washing; agg.
(K 1345) CALC, SULPH
4) GENERALITIES; AIR; draft; agg. (K 1344)
CALC, SULPH
5) GENERALITIES; WAKING; agg. (K1411)
ARS, CALC, SULPH
6) COUGH; SUFFOCATIVE (K 806) Ars,
SULPH
7) TASTE; METALLIC (K 424) ars, calc, sulph
8) EXTREMITIES; PERSPIRATION; Hand; cold
(K 1181) Ars, Sulph
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Choice of the remedy Summary
Arsenicum album, Calcarea ostracum and
Sulphur come out from the repertorization. Neither the symptoms, nor the remedy, nor
Considering the constant suppression of her the course of this treatment are interesting.
infections by antibiotics, which complicated This case is notable only because homeopathy
her health condition, I decided to start could cure a patient of a congenital
treatment with Sulphur. irreversible disease with such severe
limitations. The chronic development of her
Course of treatment condition, which was getting progressively
17 July 1976: Sulphur C200 worse despite allopathic treatment, changed
16 August 1976: Dyspnoea, coughing and immediately after taking the homeopathic
sputum decrease gradually without any remedy, which proved repeatedly effective
particular initial reaction. For the first time in during the course of the treatment, and
years the patient can sleep without being ended in cure.
woken by her asthma. Despite a slight
worsening at the end of this period I wait and
see. Translation from the French: Sabine Simma
15 September1976: Sleep without problems,
white sputum. No colds or infections. The Editing and translation:
asthmatic complaints have decreased but tend
to relapse. Sulph 1M, one dose.
18.October 1976: no infection, no dyspnoea,
except when climbing. General well-being.
24 November 1976: She is doing very well.
Only shortness of breath during climbing.
Strong cold that heals spontaneously. Sulphur Dr. Bernhard Zauner
1M
22 February 1977: "Great condition". The
dyspnea has clearly decreased.
21 March 1977: Chesty cough for two days, she
can still easily go upstairs and uphill.
5 April 1977: relapse with shortness of breath,
dry cough, whistling inspiration, thick green
sputum. Sulphur XM
Dr. Daniel Cook
27 May 1977: coughing fits occasionally during
the night
6 July 1977: Good condition, except for some
short attacks of dyspnea. Sulphur LM.
23 August 1977: Some shortness of breath, but
good general condition
26 September 1977: Nothing special. The
patient got married.
14 November 1977: Some shortness of breath
for three days, otherwise great condition.
5 January 1978: Return of breathing
difficulties. Sulphur LM.
24 February 1978: Feels very well. Made a ski
outing of 15 km.
19 April 1978: "Excellent"
12 June 1978: Still no complaints.

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 Clinical Experiences, by Dr. Renzo Galassi.
3 years ago,
March 2017,
among other
visits, my
secretary let
enter in my
office two
young people,
a girl 17 years old and her boyfriend 21 years
old. They told me that they wanted my help for
their “bowels diseases”. I was curious to hear
something more about the bowels problems so
I invited the girl to start talking.
She told me that since childhood she has been
suffering from terrible CONSTIPATION, she
only can pass stools every 3-7 days. The stool
can be of different aspect, soft, perfect
normal, or knotty, but the common
characteristic is the absence of stimulus and a
great effort to evacuate them.
This situation started as soon as she left the
mother’s milk. With the weaning she started
with this constipation and notwithstanding
several means and therapies proposed by the
allopathic specialists, she never could evacuate
naturally more often than 3-7 days.
Both father and mother are in perfect health,
no constipation and nothing special, no
disease, in the past history.
The patient only suffered of recurrent
tonsillitis in the childhood and she received a
lot of antibiotics, 5 years ago she had a light
case of Herpes Zoster, solved naturally. Her
diet is correct, she drinks enough, but when
she feels too constipated she takes some
laxatives to “help her bowels”, she says.
Trying to find more symptoms helpful for the
prescription, nothing worthy appeared, apart
from some irritability before Menses that are
regular, with only occasionally pain.
Sleep is good, but, with a very peculiar
symptom: “every time she goes to bed in the
evening to sleep, she feels chills for the first
30-45 minutes”.
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The boyfriend talking of her says that she is
reserved, obstinate and scared after the strong
earthquake we had few months before. But it
was a common symptom of all of us living in
our area.
If we go to Hahnemann – Chronic diseases 2nd
edition under Alumina we find the following
symptoms:
«572» – “After a troublesome pressure in the
hypogastrium and long continued urging, the
stool ensues slowly and only by straining the
abdominal muscles; all the bowels seem inactive
from lack of the peristaltic motion; stool not
hard (aft. 2 d.). «573» - The rectum is inactive,
as if it lacked the power to evacuate the faeces,
and lacked the peristaltic motion; the stool is
soft and of thin formation, and can only be
evacuated by a great exertion of the abdominal
muscles (aft. 16 h.). «574» - The rectum is as if
paralyzed (2d d.).
«1143» - Shudderings one after another, in the
evening (2d d.). [Hb.]. «1144» - Every other
day, feverish shudderings over the whole body,
toward evening, without thirst, with lack of
appetite, sleeplessness and restless tossing in
bed. [S.].” The choice was for Alumina a 10M
Korsakovian single dose was prescribed.
Going to the boyfriend, he started saying he
had exactly the opposite situation of his
girlfriend.
He said that after a Mononucleosis, 3 years
before, he started with DIARRHOEA, every
morning 3-4 times as soon as he finishes
breakfast, and then again diarrhea every time
he has a meal. In the past he had a perfect
evacuation, but now this diarrhea is torturing
him and preventing him to go out in the
morning because every hour he has to sit in the
bathroom for stools.
He had to leave his work as gardener, that he
loved so much and now he can work only in the
afternoon in a furniture factory.
He also has diarrhea if he has to do something
important, for example go out with friends, or
to a disco. He feels anxiety of anticipation and
after a while he has abdomen pains and
diarrhea.
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 The girlfriend says that normally he is very
quiet and generous with everybody, but since
the beginning of this complaint he started to be
irritable, with a tendency to be critical with
her or his loved ones, but mainly anxious for
every trifle, and very anxious during the night,
with moments of sadness thinking about his
disease. He has fear of a severe disease and
that he will never recover. The parents are in a
very good health condition and nothing
especial has to be mentioned.
In this case, we can see, apart the physical
symptoms, the most important ones being
“Diarrhea after eating” and “Pain in Abdomen
before diarrhea”, that the patient had a
CHANGE of attitude after the beginning of the
complaint. We can take into account the
following symptoms: Irritability; Censorious;
Anxiety -- during night, anticipating events,
about health, fear of disease and despair about
recovery.
It is a very rich group of symptoms, especially
NEW mind symptoms, that make the
prescription very easy.
The prescription was Arsenicum Album 1
LM/Q, one dose daily in water for 9 days,
followed by the 2LM/Q 9 doses and 3LM/Q
again 9 doses in water and potentized each
time.
2nd visit May, 2017
The girl reports that after 2 days from the dose
of Alumina, she started evacuating daily as
never happened over the last 15 years. The
stools are soft and she can evacuate without
any effort. She says to be very happy for this.
Only says that the last week she couldn’t
evacuate one day and it was the first time in
two months. The menses is normal, the mood
good.
I prescribed Alumina 100M Korsakov, single
dose.
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The boyfriend, who comes again together with
her, reports that after the ascending doses of
Arsenicum he feels much better, the diarrhea
subsided soon after the beginning of the
therapy and now he evacuates once a day, the
stools are more solid, without any pain and
also the energy is better. He only has soft
stools if he goes with friends to eat in a
MacDonald’s or to drinks too much bier.
The anxiety is better, he only feels some
difficulties with his memory. Eats everything
without problems.
The girlfriend says that he looks very good,
only every now and then some anxiety starts.
The prescription was Arsenicum Album 6
LM/Q in water, 1 teaspoonful every week for 4
months.
3rd visit November 2017
The girl says that in the next 4 months there
was only one day she couldn’t evacuate,
otherwise regularly every morning, after
breakfast. She is really surprised of the result,
because she feels a natural stimulus to
evacuate.
She had menses regular, only once was very
painful, but she called me and with one dose of
Magnesia Phosphorica 30 C the pain subsided
in a few minutes.
Recently taking cold in a day of cold wind, she
felt burning throat and pain on swallowing,
with a feeling of coryza and stoppage of nose.
The mood is very good.
If we go the Hahnemann’s Chronic Diseases,
we find the following symptoms:
«367» “Throat – burning pain as of soreness in
the throat (during and) even when not
swallowing, in the evening, several days in
succession. «719» – the nose is stopped up.
«723» – Catarrh with sneezing and obstruction
of the nose, the whole day”.
Considering again the similitude, I prescribed
Alumina 6 LM/Q, to be taken every 10 or 15
days for the next 5-6 months.
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 The boyfriend, says that he is fine, no more
anxiety, no more diarrhea, he is also happy
because the old company of his former work as
a gardener, his passion, called him to ask if he
wants to start again working with them. Soon
he will decide.
The girlfriend describes him as a healthy
person now, maybe only a little accelerated
and that he started again to take care of the
garden of the house, with satisfaction.
I continued Arsenicum 6 LM/Q once a month
for the next 6 months

4th visit July 2018

They come later than the 6 months, they say

because they feel both perfectly well.
Their bowels now are working well, not too
scanty for her nor too much for him.
They are happy and well as it has to be,
considering their young age.

No prescription, only the request to inform

me by phone every 3-4 moths. They did so only
to say that they are in perfect health condition.

Conclusions: these are two simple cases, but

with annoying symptoms. We can say, without
too much speculation as regarding the nature
and origin of their complaints, or without a
deep analysis of their psychological condition,
but simply following Hahnemannian’s rules
and Materia Medica, they found fast and easily
the solution of their diseases.

Could any allopathic drug do a better service to

these two young people?

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RESEARCH
A MULTI-CENTRE PROVING OF A SINGLE
HOMEOPATHIC REMEDY USING AN LMHI-ECH
HOMEOPATIC PROVING GUIDELINES-COMPLIANT
METHODOLOGY: DESCRIPTION OF THE CONTEXT
AND PROVING METHODOLOGY
1. INTRODUCTION
In 2014, the harmonised LMHI-ECH
Homeopathic Proving Guidelines were
presented to the international homeopathic
community in a plenary session of the 69th
Congress of the LMHI in Paris. The
Homeopathic Proving Guidelines arose from a
deliberate and focused resolution by the two
international groupings to collaborate towards
the formulation of a single reference text that
would provide a summary of best-practice in
current proving methodology, and to serve as
both a reference to journal editors, regulators
and ethical review boards and to homeopathic
researchers wishing to explore proving
methodology within an increasingly regulated
clinical research environment (specifically in
terms of ICH-GCP Guidelines). The 21-page
document is focused upon various elements of
proving design, but by first-intention restricts
itself to exploring the various nuances of a
modern ‘Hahnemannian’ proving methodology1.
Through the application of a distinction
between ‘required’ components and
‘recommended’ components, the Guidelines
provide a broad flexibility, but nevertheless
imply a training of what at the time were
diverse global methodologies towards a more
focused mean. The implicit challenge of the
Guidelines formulation was to improve the
‘standardisation’ of the methodology
sufficiently to allow for more ease of
comparison and incorporation of different
proving experiments without compromising the
fundamentally ‘artistic’ character of the proving
experiment itself.
The immediate reception of the Homeopathic
Proving Guidelines was extremely positive, and
there was a general sense that the attempt to
‘regularise’ diverse proving methodologies
around a single set of guidelines was a timeous
and necessary development.
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Prof. Ashley Ross
2. A MULTI-CENTRE PROVING
The multi-centre proving sought to explore
the reliability of a proving methodology that
was aligned to the LMHI-ECH Harmonised
Proving Guidelines (2014). What made the
proving unique was that it would be
implemented simultaneously in five countries,
across both hemispheres and within
geographically and culturally diverse prover
populations. The proving methodological
investigation was framed by the following
research questions:
1. To what extent does the implementation of
a single defined proving methodology produce
an internally coherent data set?
2. To what extent is such a proving data set
bound by the temporal, cultural and linguistic
idiosyncrasies of the proving population?
3. What is the relationship of data derived
from a scientifically rigorous modern proving
to existing knowledge on the homeopathic
application of the proving substance?
4. What is the impact of homeopathic potency
on the quality and nature of proving data?
3. THE LOCATION OF THE STUDY
The study was conducted simultaneously in
South Africa, Italy, Mexico, Argentina and
India. The study had a Director in South
Africa, Co-director in Italy and three Proving
Co-ordinators in Mexico, Argentina and India.
The locations of each site and the respective
Co-ordinator were:
Prof. Ashley Ross [Durban, South Africa]
Dr Gustavo Dominici [Verona, Italy]
Dr Rosario Sánchez Caballero
[Mexico City, Mexico]
Dr Agustín Salinas[Buenos Aires, Argentina]
Dr Tarkeshwar Jain [Jaipur, India]
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 4.AN OVERVIEW OF THE PROVING DESIGN
The homeopathic drug proving of REMEDY X
took the form of a triple-blind, placebo-
controlled study. Sixty provers (12 provers at
each of five sites) were recruited by
advertisement and word of mouth, selected
against defined inclusion criteria, and 20
percent of the subjects received a blank
(placebo) in a random manner. The 60 provers
are divided into five equal groups of 12 provers,
with each group supervised by six experienced
proving supervisors (i.e. two provers per
supervisor).
The provers and the 30 Proving Supervisors
(including the Proving Co-ordinators) were not
aware of the name nor nature of the substance
being proved, the potency of the proving
substance, nor whether a prover was assigned
the proving substance (in either of two
potencies) or a blank/placebo. Randomisation
into five sets for each of the participating sites
was conducted by the manufacturer and the
allocation of proving sets to respective
participating co-ordinators was retained by the
manufacturer until unblinding.
As an additional ‘internal’ control, all provers
were required to record their state for one
week prior to commencing the verum/placebo
globules. All provers recorded their symptoms
in an assigned journal in a prescribed manner.
Such recording was completed at least once
daily. Data derived from journals and case
histories were edited and collated and, in some
cases, translated into English. Proving
symptomatology (derived from journals, case
histories and post-proving group discussion)
was reformatted and classified according to
standard materia medica and repertory
conventions.
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5.THE OUTLINE OF THE PROVING
METHODOLOGY
• The proving was conducted by 30 Proving
Supervisors (6 in each of the 5 participating
sites), co-ordinated by one of five respective
Proving Co-ordinators (who themselves
served as a Proving Supervisor);
• The proving substance (REMEDY X) was
prepared by Gudjons GmbH, Augsburg,
Germany according to Methods 6
(Triturations by hand) and a modification of
Method 8 (Liquid preparations made from
triturations), as specified in the German
Homeopathic Pharmacopoeia (GHP)2;
• Verum/blank globules were prepared
according to the method described below [see
section 4.2.1.2], and 45 globules of each of the
respective test substance [verum (in one of
two potencies) or blank/placebo] were
randomly assigned to 75 prover numbers (5
sets of 15, of which each included 9 x
C30/30c; 3 x C200/200c; and 3 x
blank/placebo);
• 60 prover volunteers were recruited by
word of mouth from homeopathic
practitioners, homeopathic students and other
prior proving participants;
• Each Proving Supervisor conducted
interviews in which prospective provers will
be screened for suitability, and checked
against the inclusion criteria;
• The provers attended a pre-proving training
course, conducted by the respective Proving
Co-ordinator, and in the presence of the
respective Proving Supervisors, during which
the procedure of homeopathic proving was
explained to them;
• The provers were guided through an
Instructions to Provers document and signed a
Consent form; • Each prover was
allocated a prover code (01-15), and was
provided with a personal copy of the
Instructions to Provers document, an
appropriately numbered journal and a list of
contact numbers for the Proving Supervisor
and Proving Co-ordinator;
• Each Proving Supervisor supervised a
maximum of two provers;
• At scheduled times, a thorough case history
and physical examination of each prover were
completed by the respective Proving
Supervisor;
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 • The provers commenced recording their
symptoms at least three times daily for one
week prior to taking the proving substance.;
• On completion of the pre-proving week, the
prover commenced taking the assigned globules
for a maximum of 5 globules, three times daily,
for three days (a maximum of 9 doses), or until
the first symptoms appeared, whereupon no
further doses of the proving substance were
taken. The prover continued to record their
symptoms throughout. The researcher was in
daily telephonic contact with each prover;
• Telephonic contact frequency was daily
initially, reducing to two to three times weekly,
then weekly after the second week (i.e. days 1,
2, 3, 5, 7, 10, 14, 21, 28);
• If no symptoms had been noted after the
fifteenth dose, the prover ceased to take any
further doses, but continued to record as
previously;
1 7 1 2 3 2
→ 8
Administration phase
PRE-PROVING
≤ 9 doses
30c/200c (5 globules)
Placebo
Telephonic 1 2 3 5 7 1
contact
Table 1: Tabular Representation of Proving Schema
• The proving was considered complete on the
28th day after commencement of the
Administration phase;
• Journaling will continued for a post-proving
observation period of one week, to ensure no
recurrence of proving symptoms;
• The respective journal was recalled, and a
post-proving case history and physical
examination were conducted on the prover;
• All journal data was electronically
transcribed verbatim using MS Word, and
English translation was effected and recorded
in parallel MS Word documents;
• Extraction and collation of journal data will
be effected manually;
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• Data was presented in traditional Materia
Medica and Repertory formats. At this point
the identity and potencies of the proving
substance was revealed to the Proving
Director.
5.1 The Proving Substance
The substance used for the preparation of
the homeopathic potency for use in the
triple-blind placebo-controlled
homeopathic proving (REMEDY X) was
selected, in consultation with the
manufacturer, by Dr Renzo Galassi
(President of Honour of the LMHI) who
was independent of the study. The
selection of the proving substance was
limited to homeopathic remedies that have
a tradition of use within homeopathic
practice, but that are previously
incompletely- or unproven.
1 2 2
0 4 1 8
5.1.1 Potency
The 30th and 200th Hahnemannian potency of
REMEDY X was utilised in this international
homeopathic proving.
5.1.2 Preparation and Dispensing of the
Proving Substance
• The proving substance (REMEDY X) was
prepared by Gudjons GmbH, Augsburg,
Germany according to Methods 6 (Trituration
of insoluble substances) and a modification of
Method 8 (Liquid potency from trituration), as
specified in the German Homeopathic
Pharmacopoeia (GHP), First Supplement
Edition²;
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 • The manufacturer prepared 75 vials of
verum/blank according to a secret
randomisation schema, identifying which set is
allocated to each of the five participating sites,
and stored such allocation until unblinding;
• The additional three vials in each set was held
in reserve, to be administered to provers who
may have be required to replace provers who
withdrew from the study prematurely or if
other local incidental circumstances necessitate
the replacement of an allocated vial.
5.1.3 Dose and Posology
• The provers took 5 verum/blank globules
sublingually for a maximum of three times daily
for three days, or until the first symptoms
appeared (whichever occurred sooner);
• The prover ceased to take the globules as soon
as they or the Proving Supervisor noted the
onset of proving symptoms;
• There was no repetition of the dose after the
onset of symptoms;
• The proving substance was taken on an empty
stomach and with a clear mouth. Neither food
nor drink was taken for a half-hour before or
after administration of the proving substance;
• The dosage and posology was clearly explained
to each prover in the pre-proving training
course, and was presented in writing in an
Instructions to Provers document], a copy of
which will be provided to each prover for
reference and safekeeping at home.
5.2 The Prover Group
5.2.1 Sample Size and Demographics
The proving was conducted on 60 healthy
subjects, as 12 healthy provers in each of five
international sites in Italy, Mexico, Argentina,
India and South Africa. In keeping with the
Guidelines, the prover sample consisted of a mix
of individuals thoroughly acquainted with
homeopathic principles, as well as those with no
formal homeopathic background but prior
experience in proving participation. Provers
were recruited by word of mouth from amongst
practising homeopaths, homeopathic students,
as well as other persons with prior proving
participation experience.
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Although recruitment of provers was
conducted on a purely voluntary basis,
cognisance was taken of the need for a
representative male to female ratio, and a
reasonable spread of provers across the age
range (18 – 65 years).
The verum/blank distribution ratio was 48/12
(80% verum/20% blank) according to an
independent random allocation. Provers were
aware of the presence and likelihood of
receiving blank/placebo, but details of the
specific allocation was known only to the
manufacturer until all data had been collected
and processed.
5.2.2 Criteria for the Inclusion or Exclusion
of a Subject
The prospective prover:
• was between 18 and 65 years of age;
• was in a general state of good health with no
major physical or mental pathology determined
on the case history and physical examination;
• had given written informed consent, willing
to comply with the requirments of the proving;
and
• was competent and had signed the Consent
Form. The prospective prover was not
considered if:
• he/she was/had been on any homeopathic
treatment within the preceding six weeks prior
to the run-in phase, e.g. single remedy,
combination products, internal use, external
use, any other proving drugs;
• there were other medical treatments
(conventional or herbal products) in use or
planned that are likely to interfere with the
proving drug;
• he/she had undergone surgery within the
preceding six weeks prior to the run-in phase;
• he/she had participated/had been
participating in a conventional clinical trial
within the preceding six weeks prior to the
run-in phase;
• she was pregnant or breast feeding, or
intending to conveive during the research
period;
• therapeutic interventions were in use, or
planned or anticipated for the period of the
proving, the influences of which might effect
the reliability of the proving data, e.g. surgery,
dental treatment, conventional medical
treatment, additional homeopathic products; or
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 • the lifestyle in use or planned for the period
of the proving,
the influences of which might effect the
reliability of the proving data, e.g. use of
recreational drugs; he/she consumed more than
two measures of alcohol per day, 10 cigarettes
per day or more than three cups of coffee per
day; or any major life changes planned or
change of his/her usual habits
5.2.3 Randomisation
Twenty percent of provers (12 provers) were
randomly assigned to the blank/placebo group.
The remaining eighty percent (48 provers)
constituted the verum group. Within the verum
group, 36 provers were assigned the C30/30c
potency, and 12 provers the C200/200c potency.
Five sets of 15 vials each (9 x C30/30c, 3 x
C200/200c and 3 x blank/placebo),
corresponding to prover numbers 1 – 15 were
numbered according to the randomisation
schema. Each of the five sets (independently
randomized) was allocated to a specific proving
site, and recorded in the randomization list. The
record of the schema, and allocation of sets to
respective site was stored by the manufacturer
until all data had been collected, and unblinding
was required for differentiation of respective
sets of data.
An additional three vials was provided in each
set as a reserve (i.e. 12 + 3 vials per set), to be
administered to provers who may be required to
replace provers who withdrew from the study
prematurely.
5.2.4 Lifestyle of Provers during the Proving
The provers were advised to:
• avoid antidoting factors such as camphor and
menthol, and to cease their use for two weeks
prior to administration of the proving powders;
• practice moderation with respect to work,
alcohol, smoking, exercise, diet and sexual
expression;
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• maintain their usual habits;
• store the proving powders in a cool, dark
place away from strong-smelling substances,
electrical equipment and cellular telephones;
• avoid any medication (including antibiotics),
vitamin and mineral supplements, herbal or
homeopathic remedies; and to
• consult their doctor, dentist or hospital in
the event of a medical emergency, and to
contact their supervisor as soon as possible
thereafter.
5.2.5 Monitoring of Provers
The prover and their respective Proving
Supervisor were in daily telephonic contact
for the beginning of the proving (days 1 to 3),
with contact frequency decreasing across the
first two weeks (days 5, 7, 10 and 14) to
become weekly contact (days 21 and 28) for
the duration of the proving.
The purpose of these contacts was to:
i) ascertain when the proving substance began
to act, so that the prover could be instructed
to cease taking any further doses;
ii) ensure that the prover recorded accurately,
and did not neglect to record a symptom; and
to
iii)ensure the safety of the prover by closely
monitoring for any reaction which may need
to be antidoted (by an existing homeopathic
remedy, or another necessary intervention).
5.3 The Case-history and Physical
Examination
5.3.1 Case-history
Each prover who complied with the Inclusion
criteria, had attended the pre-proving training
workshop, and had read, understood and
signed both the Consent form and the
Instructions to Provers documents, had a
scheduled appointment with the assigned
Proving Supervisor for completion of a
standard homeopathic case history and
general physical examination. The purpose of
the case-history was to ascertain and clarify
the baseline status of each prover prior to
administration of the proving substance.
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 5.3.2 Physical Examination
The general physical examination included
physical description, assessment of vital signs,
cursory overview and system specific
examination (as relevant to the case-history).
5.4 The Duration of the Proving
5.4.1 Pre-proving Training Workshop
Prior to commencement of the proving proper,
the Proving Co-ordinator at each site presented
a pre-proving workshop that was attended by
the 12 identified provers and the 6 Proving
Supervisors. This workshop was held in advance
of the start of pre-proving observation of the
provers.
At this workshop, the Proving Co-ordinator
elaborated the concept of homeopathic proving,
and explained the structure and objectives of
the research project, and the details of
journaling and supervisor contact. The Proving
Co-ordinator then took provers through the
Instructions to Provers document, and they
were afforded an opportunity to pose questions
and seek clarification on any aspect of the
process. At this time the Proving Co-ordinator
also provided provers with their respective
prover numbers and journals. 5.4.2 Pre-
proving Observation
Each prover commenced recording his/her
symptoms at least three times daily for one
week prior to taking the proving substance, as
an internal control.
5.4.3 Commencement of Proving
On completion of the week of pre-proving
observation and journaling, each prover
commenced taking 5 globules for a maximum of
three times daily for three days, or until the
first symptoms appeared, whereupon no further
doses of the proving substance were taken. If no
symptoms were noted after the ninth dose, the
prover ceased to take any further doses, but
continued to journal as previously.
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Individual provers were monitored
telephonically by their respective Proving
Supervisor to confirm the onset of proving
symptoms (where these occurred), that the
methodology was being implemented
correctly, and that the prover’s interests were
being protected. Provers journalled at least
once daily for the duration of the proving.
5.4.4 Chronology
The prover was requested to note the time
elapsed between the commencement of the
proving and the appearance of each symptom.
This was recorded in the DD:HH:MM format,
as proposed by Sherr3, where DD are the
number of days since commencement of the
proving (day one was designated 01), HH are
the number of hours, and MM the number of
minutes.
The top of each page of the prover’s journal
was marked with the appropriate day code.
After 24 hours, the minutes became
redundant, and were represented by XX. After
two days the hours became redundant and
were indicated similarly by XX. In instances in
which the time was insignificant or unclear
the symptom was marked XX:XX:XX. The
actual time of the day was included only if it
was definite, significant and causal to the
symptom. All irrelevant time data was erased
in the initial extraction.
5.4.5 Post-proving Observation
The proving was considered complete on the
28th day, or two weeks after the
disappearance of the last proving symptom,
where this preceded the 28th day. Journaling
was continued for a post-proving observation
period of one week, whereupon the respective
journal was recalled, and a post-proving case
history and physical examination was
conducted on the prover. The purpose of the
post-proving case-history and physical
examination was to confirm the return to the
pre-proving state, and to confirm the
disappearance of any ‘cured symptoms’.
Although the duration of the individual
prover’s reaction to the proving substance
was unable to be predicted, the broad
prediction of duration will be approximately
42 days, as set out below:
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 Pre-proving observation (1 week) 7 days The determination of whether an adverse
Proving period (approx. 4 weeks) event or its treatment/management might
[variable] 28 days affect the reliability of the proving data was
Post-proving observation (1 week) 7 days determined by the Proving Co-ordinator, who
was able to withdraw the prover, as described
above.
approx. 42 days
6. CONCLUSIONS
5.4.6 Withdrawal from the Study
The proving methodology described in detail
A prover was able to withdraw their consent to in this paper is wholly-compliant with the
participate in the study at any time and without harmonised LMHI-ECH Guidelines for
any prejudice. In addition, a Proving Supervisor, Homeopathic Provings (2014) and represents
in consultation with the respective Proving Co- the methodology adopted in the first rigorous
ordinator, was able to withdraw a prover, if, multi-centre proving of a single homeopathic
based on their clinical judgment, it was in the remedy in five countries spanning both global
best interest of the prover or the reliability of hemispheres, five nationalities, three
proving data. A prover who withdrew, or was languages and a range of social frameworks.
withdrawn from the proving at any stage, was In the next issue we will describe the
not able to be re-admitted into the proving, and processing of the proving data and the derived
all data related to the prover was excluded from materia medica.
subsequent analysis. The following criteria were
applied in consideration of withdrawal:
• Prover withdrew his/her consent (for any References:
reasons);
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medical treatment, additional homeopathic meopathic-proving-guidelines-pdf.pdf.
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of compliance of the prover;
• Strong disturbing external factors, which
affected the reliability of the proving data
e.g. major change of the lifestyle.

5.4.7 Management of Adverse Events

Were an adverse event to occur, the appropriate

treatment/management of the respective prover
by the Proving Supervisor, in consultation with
the Proving Co-ordinator, was to be determined
and implemented, according to the individual
clinical and other needs of the prover.

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QUIZ CORNER
Dr. Pietro Gulia
Medico-Chirurgo Omeopata
pietrogulia@alice.it
QUIZ CORNER … for our
younger colleagues.
1) Clinical case n.1 – A cold and humid May in
Rome. Man, 42-yrs old; in the past Thuja
and Sulphur cured many warts on his hands
and feet. He has got an hard cough since
few days. He prescribed himself Bryonia
and, later, Spongia tosta: no improvement
Dry cough, but in the morning he
expectorates yellow, sour catarrh. He now
and then feels sour taste in mouth. No
fever, but he feels very weak. He desires
warm drinks except coffee because,
according to him, coffee and its odor make
him coughing. Cold air aggravates his cough
and he dislikes cold air. The remedy is …
2) Quoted from Hahnemann’s Chronic
Diseases (second edition): “ 12 Hastiness;
everything she does she cannot accomplish
fast enough; but it fatigues her exceedingly
– 22 Too great an inclination to joke – 73
Sensation in the frontal region, as if the
brain were loose and falling to and fro – 113
Sensation as if the face was stretched and
as if the white of an egg was drying on the
skin; 169 Bread tastes bitter like bile, and
presses heavily in the stomach – 228
Coldness in the stomach (soon after a new
dose) – The remedy is …
3) Clinical case n.2 – A strong, 38-yrs old man; heavy
smoker. A Sunday afternoon: violent pain from the third
inferior left molar tooth. The pain began on day before,
worsened in the night (he could not sleep) and now is
very intense and shooting; the pain now and then is so
agonizing he knocks his head against the wall. He took
a few pills of Nimesulide without relief. His face is
grayish and anxious; he is going through hours of
anguish, despaired, beside himself with pain, walking
up and down, he groans and screams with pain; he
even fainted from pain. An ice cube on the molar eases
a bit. The remedy is …
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4) According to Hahnemann (who first
proved it) are Matricaria chamomilla and
Chamomilla romana officinalis the same plant
and the same remedy? (see Hahnemann’s
Materia Medica Pura)
5) According to A.Lippe ( Keynotes and Red
Line Symptoms of Materia Medica) a
symptom contra-indicates Chamomilla:
which one? a) Mental calmness; b) peevish
from contradiction; c) redness of left and
right cheek.
6) Clinical case n. 3. Twenty-five years ago
… A lanky, hypochondriac, 25-yrs old clerk.
He phoned and reported: “Sleeplessness since
ten days, I can’t sleep a wink; as soon as I put
myself to bed I feel restless, toss and turn,
compelled to get up. In the night my mind is
clear, many thoughts crowd into my mind and
I can’t get rid of them, they are not
disagreeable thoughts! “ Really, the tone of
his voice was not sad, nor anxious nor
worried, (as he often was), on the contrary it
seemed excited and cheerful. He was
prescribed Phosphorus, which helped him in
the past, but useless now. Few days after an
useless dose of Ignatia, I examined him. He
reported a new symptom: he could no more
tolerate noises or the odor of the coffee he
had the habit to drink in the morning: they
immediately gave him nausea and headache.
The question rang out: “What happened in
your life, what changed?” “Doc, I won a lot
of money in the state lottery … a month ago …
only you know it!”
What remedy restored his sleep and calmed
his excitement?
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7) Quoted from Leaders in Homoeopathic
Therapeutics by E. B. Nash: “All senses more
acute; reads fine print easier; smell, taste and
touch acute; unusual activity of mind and body;
full of ideas, quick to act, no sleep on this
account, etc - Headache, from over-mental
exertion, thinking, talking; one-sided, as from a
nail driven into the brain; as if the brain were
torn or dashed to pieces; < in open air”. If you
are not sure, please use the Repertory and you
will find the remedy.

8) Clinical cases n.1 and 2 remind us how

important are modalities in selecting the right
remedy. Could you remember in which aphorism
Hahnemann points out the modalities are
indispensable “to determine the exact character
of the symptom “ (a clue: read the proving
guidelines in Organon 6th ed. from aph. 105 to
aph.145: once you have found the aphorism,
read it carefully).

9)The problem of dose is important in our

clinical practice: “Here the question arises, what
is this most suitable degree of minuteness for
sure and gentle remedial effect; how small, in
other words, must be the dose of each individual
medicine, homoeopathically selected for a case of
disease, to effect the best cure?” In this way aph.
278 begins. How does Hahnemann state we
must to face and solve the problem of dose?

10)In Aph 110 and 278 Hahnemann warns us of

avoiding serious mistakes in making proving
and in determining “for every particular
medicine, what dose of it will suffice for
homoeopathic therapeutic purposes and yet be so
minute that the gentlest and most rapid cure may
be thereby obtained …”.. What mistakes?

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LIGA NEWSLETTER n. 25
QUIZ CORNER … for our younger colleagues.
Solutions
(to be published in The Homeopathic Physician n. 1)
1) Clinical case n. 1 = FACE – Cracked, Mouth,
corners of; Cracker, Lips; MOUTH, Itching -
scarlatina, during – Palate – Discoloration,
Tongue, red - Papillae of tongue, erect - Papillae
of tongue, erect, strawberry tongue – NOSE;
Itching – Chapped - Boring in nose with fingers –
Picking, Nose. The remedy is Arum triphyllum
30 CH, two granules on his tongue; five granules
in 250 ml of water; a teaspoon of the solution
every 3 hours, plus method. Terrific
improvement, completely cured in 24 hrs.
2) Clinical case n.2 – MIND – Rest, desire for;
Spoken to, being, aversion; Answering, aversion
to answer. GENERALS – Lie down, desire to;
Warm, desire for warmth – Warm, becoming,
amel; COUGH, Night, midnight, after; FACE –
Discoloration, pale; MIND – Ailments from,
mental exertion – from, disappointment The
remedy is Phosphoric acidum 200 K , plus
every 5 hrs: >>> in 36 hrs, cough calmed
quickly, physical and mental improvement.
3) Chronic Diseases (2nd edition) – Antipsoric
Medicines): SLEEP – Sleepiness, morning,
afternoon, evening; eyed closed; Yawning,
sleepiness during; frequent – Sleepiness, dinner
after – Falling asleep, talking - Falling asleep,
talking, dinner, after ; Falling asleep, writing -
Deep, writing - Sleepiness evening early;
morning - Waking difficult, morning –
Sleepiness, weariness, with. The remedy is
Phosphoric acidum.
4) From Lippe: MOUTH - Inflammation – Pain,
burning – Salivation, profuse – Mucous
membranes, excoriation – Discoloration,
Tongue, Red – Papillae of Tongue, erect – FACE
– Swelling, Submaxillary glands – Excoriation,
Mouth, corners of – THROAT – Pain, rawness;
sore. MOUTH, Pain, sore – Bleeding; Odor,
putrid = Arum triphyllum
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5) From Nash: GENERALS – Weakness,
tremulous – Trembling, internally –
Haemorrhage, orifice of the body, from - SKIN
– Ecchymoses – GENERALS - odor of the body,
sour – Sourness – MOUTH – Apfthae, Gums,
Palate – Bleeding, Gums, easily – Ulcers,
painful – Odor, offensive = Sulphuric acidum.
6) Aph 144: “From such a Materia Medica
everything that is conjectural, all that is mere
assertion or imaginary should be strictly
excluded (warning); everything should be the
pure language of nature carefully and honestly
interrogated (= recommendation)”.
This recommendation reminds me of a famous
Galileo’s sentence: “The experiment is to ask
Nature a question …”.
7) Aph. 6 – “The unprejudiced observer …
takes note of nothing in every individual
disease, except the changes in the health of the
body and of the mind (morbid phenomena,
accidents, symptoms) which can be perceived
externally by means of the senses; that is to say,
he notices only the deviations from the former
healthy state of the now diseased individual,
which are felt by the patient himself,
remarked by those around him and observed
by the physician.”
8) Aph 6, again: “The unprejudiced observer -
well aware of the futility of transcendental
speculations which can receive no confirmation
from experience …”.
9) China – Kali carbonicum
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 10)Aph 81 – note 2: “How many improper
ambiguous names do not these works contain,
under each of which are included excessively
different morbid conditions, which often resemble
each other in one single symptom only, as ague,
jaundice, dropsy, consumption ecc.. which are
represented as diseases of a fixed and unvarying
character, and are treated, on account of their
name, according to a determinate plan! How can
the bestowal of such a name justify an identical
medical treatment? And if the treatment is not
always to be the same, why make use of an
identical name which postulates an identity of
treatment? …
From all this it is clear that these useless and
misused names of diseases ought to have no
influence on the practice of the true physician,
who knows that he has to judge of and to cure
diseases, not according to the similarity of the
name of a single one of their symptoms, but
according to the totality of the signs of the
individual state of each particular patient,
whose affection it is his duty carefully to
investigate, but never to give a hypothetical
guess at it … “

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