Re: George Vithoulkas(Homeopath) - In his view allopathic medicine "destroying the American people"
- From: rpautrey2 <rpautrey2@xxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 27 Feb 2008 12:11:41 -0800 (PST)
CJ: I believe you and a few others in this group
"do understand" what fuels the attacks. I have
known about the allopathic hatred of homeopathy
for about 12 years. Why the hate? The following
excerpts are from the "Confusion Over Hahnemann's
Small Doses - Homeopathy" post in this group:
'When Hahnemann first announced cures of diseases by extremely small
doses of medicine, his statements were received with incredulity and
ridicule...Hahnemann's appeal to the medical profession to test the
new method and publish results to the world was met by active
opposition. He was forbidden to practice and was driven from his home
by relentless persecution....[even though] the use of the
infinitesimal dose in homeopathy was the outcome of
experience...' [1]
'[The] principle of the infinitesimal dose [is]...an outrage to human
reason.' [2]
"...the doctrines of potentiation and the infinitesimal dose has
always
been the central point of attack upon homeopathy by its enemies." [3]
'In the United States, regular physicians...found Hahnemann's
theories
absurd and incredible. Reasoning that no one in his right mind could
believe such arrant nonsense, they concluded that homeopaths must be
either knaves or fools.' [4]
"Hahnemann claimed that a dilution as minute as 1/500,000th of a
grain
or even 1/1,000,000th of a grain, could be effective...to orthodox
practitioners, who in many cases prescribed drugs by the spoonful,
Hahnemann's ideas were ridiculous." [5]
"Hahnemann pointed to...classical literature to demonstrate that his
discoverey was known to writers of antiquity and was essentially
rediscovered by him. He also recognised that his doses would be
considered ludicrous by physicians accustomed to heroic therapy." [6]
"Hahnemann argued that skeptical regular physicians should not
concern
themselves with the logic of homeopathy, but rather look at the
results." [7]
"Most regular physicians regarded their homeopathic colleagues first
with skepticism, then with incredulity, and finally with bitter
hostility." [8]
"Hahnemann's final views and practice in regard to the dose were
arrived at gradually, through long years of careful experiment and
observation." [9]
"Many before Hahnemann, from Hippocrates down, had glimpses of the
law
[of similars], and some had tried to make use of it therapeutically;
but all had failed because of their inability to properly graduate
and
adapt the dose." [10]
"Hahnemann's idea at first was simply to reduce the "strength" or
material mass of his drug, but his passion for accuracy led him to
adopt a scale, that he might always be sure of the degree of
reduction
and establish a standard for comparison." [11]
"He soon discovered that large doses were very undesirable in
ascertaining the effects of drugs [on the healthy person]." [12]
"The more he experimented with the proper homeopathic doses, the
smaller the dose he recommended." [13]
"Hahnemann...perplexed by the aggravations resulting from ordinary
doses, seeking to find a dose so small that it would not endanger
life
and desiring to accurately measure his degree of dilution so that he
might repeat or retrace his steps, invented or adopted the centesimal
scale..." [15]
'Under certain conditions he found, perhaps to his surprise, that
instead of weakening the drug he was actually increasing its curative
power. In reducing the density of the mass he perceived that he was
setting free powers previously latent, and that these powers were the
greatest and most efficient for their therapeutic purposes...' [16]
"This reduction [in dose] was apparently due to Hahnemann's
observation that medicines administered in substantial amounts
according to the law of similars caused severe aggravation of
symptoms." [17]
"His chief endeavour was obviously to establish a theory of
dosage." [18]
"From [1796] onwards he selected remedies from the standpoint of
similarity, still administering, however, fairly large doses." [19]
"...in 1798...he still prescribed 8 grains of Ignatia and China in
quantities of 1/2-1 grain..." [20]
"In his essay announcing the discovery of a new therapeutic
principle,
published in 1796, no allusion is made to any doses different from
those in ordinary use...and in his writings up to 1801 nothing is to
be found to lead us to suppose that there was anything exceptional in
his mode of employing drugs..." [21]
"In his early years of practice Hahnemann used doses comparable to
those of his colleagues...in 1799 he first announced the principle of
the infinitesimal dose, and after 1800 his dose sizes were gradually
reduced." [22]
'We cannot fail to be struck by the sudden transition from the
massive
doses he prescribed in 1798 to the unheard-of minuteness of his doses
only one year later, and we can but guess the causes for this abrupt
transition.' [23]
"In 1799 he suddenly announced without particular explanation very
small and so-called infinitesimal doses." [24]
"It is in his little work on Scarlet Fever, published in 1801, that
we
have the first forebodings of an unusual mode of preparing the
medicines...the dose of Opium there recommended...is very small
compared with the ordinary dose...the object of this dilution was to
diminish the power of the medicine chiefy...for patients of very
tranquil disposition..." [25]
"Hahnemann himself felt in 1829, the urgent necessity of a limit in
potentisation and declared the ultimate degree of dilution to be the
30th centesimal potency." [32]
"The materialistically minded [homeopaths] restricted themselves to
the crude tinctures and triturations, or the very low dilutions,
ranging from 1x to 6x...another small class of metaphysical tendency
used only the very highest potencies, ranging from the two hundredth
to the millionth..." [35]
"The efficiency of homeopathic potencies is not to be determined by
calculation, but by actual trial upon the living organism." [36]
'In the Organon, however, he stated that trituration and succussion
release the 'spirit-like power' of the medicine - which is compatible
with his assumption that medicines act through their spiritual
[geistlich] or dynamic impact upon the organism.' [37]
'By trituration and succussion, he says, the medicinal power of
medicines may be increased almost to an infinite degree. Hence we are
warned against succussing our succussive dilutions over-much.' [42]
'Homeopathy is opposed to the use...of drugs in physiological
doses...it depends for all its results upon the dynamical action of
single, pure, potentised medicines, prepared by a special
mathematico-
mechanical process and administered in minimum dose. [46]
"...he would then prescribe this drug in a small dose. In some
patients the symptoms at first increased before there was any
response. He then tried giving progressively smaller and smaller
doses. He always advocated giving the smallest dose necessary to help
the patient...he evolved a method of mixing, diluting and shaking
which he called succussion..." [47]
"He was well aware that some of the remedies in their most
concentrated form were highly poisonous and he had, therefore,
successively reduced the size of the dose. Experimenting in this way
he found that not only was the effectiveness maintained, but even
increased, when the dose was infinitesimally small." [48]
"...it was not long before Hahnemann's persistent experimentation
revealed that dilution and succussion of remedies somehow rendered
them more effective..." [49]
On Feb 27, 6:08 am, Citizen Jimserac <Jimse...@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On Feb 26, 4:20 pm, rpautrey2 <rpautr...@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
This is an interview of extraordinary
importance and its attacks
on conventional medicine and pharmaceutical
treatments and vaccinations
shakes conventional medicine to its
very foundations.
The idea that the very treatments of the
conventionals could be systematically undermining
the health of those that are treated
is stunning in its implications
and ghastly in the scope of its consequences.
I am BEGINNING TO UNDERSTAND,
finally, what exactly is fueling the
hysterical attacks on Homeopathy.
Citizen Jimserac
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