Homeopathy & Therapeutics

and why I'm not a fan

Therapeutics is the study of x remedy for x condition.

‘‘Theoretically any drug may be indicated (in homeopathy). But the fact remains that our choice is confined to a minimum, which experience has shown to be suitable to the symptom group under consideration.’’¹

There has always been, and always will be, a problem with prescribing x remedy for x condition.

Why?

Dr. Tyler said it best;

‘‘There is law behind cure; and if we desire to evoke power, we must conform to its conditions. The only known law of healing is Hahnemann’s similia similibus curentur…’’²

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A personal anecdote for you here (which I typically do not publish)

Recently, during my first ever bout of tendonitis which was worse at night, and at rest, and coupled with greatly reduced strength, craving for milk, and a fair bit of anxiety - I found myself on the cusp of taking a dose of RHUS TOX (even though I have been prescribing for individuals for over thirteen years!,) because implanted (still) in my mind was the idea that it is ‘the therapeutic remedy’ for overstrain, over use, and because all of the modalities matched.

However, thankfully, I actually practice what I preach, and after an appointment with my homeopath this tendonitis was much improved (like 85%) after a dose of SILICA even though I continue on with the maintaining cause responsible for the development of this tendonitis.

Why?

‘‘In acute work if you can get exact correspondence between the symptoms of the person and the symptoms evoked in the healthy by the same drug it is a mathematical certainty that you will cure

- because of the law of similars -

without correspondence it is equally certain you will not cure

- because of the law of similars.’’³

Angel Oak, Charleston, South Carolina, USA.

And, just one example here from thousands upon thousands upon thousands throughout homeopathic literature.,

"Jn. Frank reports (Path. Med. Trans., Paris, 1835) that he cured, without a failure, the intermittent fevers which prevailed during the spring and summer of 1801 with Phellandrium. But, he adds, immediately after that, in the following years, the same means employed in the same disease failed.

What more evident proof of the necessity of absolutely and always individualizing in pathology and therapeutics?

The law of cure is immutable; there is no caprice about it; caprice is the appanage of physicians!’’⁴

Individualized homeopathy demonstrates effects at all quality levels according to Cochrane criteria, even in the methodologically high-quality studies,⁵ and has the potential for positive therapeutic effect.⁶⁷

‘‘Law does not fail.

It is we who fail in our attempts to put it in action.

We may do bad work and call it homeopathy, discrediting it in the person’s eyes and in our own: only it did not happen to be homeopathy!’’⁸

This is what we must absolutely practice and live by at all times if we wish to be successful prescribers improving the lives of people, and in turn, our world.

The poet Horace (60BC-8BC) while trying to convince his fellow citizens to conquer idleness and strive instead to acquire worldly wisdom wrote ‘‘Dimidium facti, qui coepit, habet; sapere aude, incipe.’’ (The one who has begun is half done. Dare to be wise: begin!)⁹

1. Boericke Compendium of Materia Medica / Application of homeopathy. Miccant, 2015. Isis Vision [computer program]. Nottingham.

2. Tyler, M.L. 1998. Pointers to the Common Remedies. B.Jain Publishers Ltd. New Delhi. (Originally published 1934)

3. Tyler, M.L. 1998. Pointers to the Common Remedies. B.Jain Publishers Ltd. New Delhi. (Originally published 1934)

4. Allen HC Therapeutics Int fever. Phellandrium. Miccant, 2015. Isis Vision [computer program]. Nottingham.

5. Weiermayer P, Frass M, Peinbauer T, Ellinger L. 2020. Evidenzbasierte Veterinär-/Homöopathie und ihre mögliche Bedeutung für die ­Bekämpfung der Antibiotikaresistenzproblematik – ein Überblick [Evidence-based homeopathy and veterinary homeopathy, and its potential to help overcome the anti-microbial resistance problem - an overview]. Schweiz Arch Tierheilkd. Oct;162(10):597-615. German, French. Available from: https://sat.gstsvs.ch/de/sat/sat-artikel/archiv/2020/102020/evidence-based-homeopathy-and-veterinary-homeopathy-and-its-potential-to-help-overcome-the-antimic.html

6. Hamre et al., 2023. Efficacy of homoeopathic treatment: Systematic review of meta-analyses of randomised placebo-controlled homoeopathy trials for any indication. Syst Rev. Oct 7;12(1):191. Available from: https://systematicreviewsjournal.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s13643-023-02313-2#Abs1

7. Mathie et al., 2014. Randomised placebo-controlled trials of individualised homeopathic treatment: systematic review and meta-analysis. Syst Rev. 2014 Dec 6;3:142. Available from: https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4326322/

8. Tyler, M.L. 1998. Pointers to the Common Remedies. B.Jain Publishers Ltd. New Delhi. (Originally published 1934)

9. Horace, Epistles 1.2.40-41