G. Madaus Every fisherman knows that if the seeds of cocculus indicus are thrown into the water and are eaten by fishes, the fishes lose their sense of balance and swim on their backs, and they die if they have eaten too much. The season of gathering medicinal plants is very important.
In spite of long cultivation now already a few decades, hardly any symptoms of soil exhaustion are observed, and that, since during the rotation of crops a very strong bitter plant has been planted: namely, chicory. The roasted root in infusion results as is known in a very healthy bitter drink, which unfortunately has been almost completely superseded by coffee.
At the great conference of physicians for physical-dietetic medicine at the Rudolf Hess Hospital in Dresden, Thienes of Worishofen, as the debater, quoted the following sentence: “If one looks into a microscope, the greater the magnification, the smaller is the visual filed”.
The teaching of Hippocrates is based on experience and the observation of the sick at the bedside. He demanded from the doctor the highest gifts. The fact that natural products are preferable to so called puree chemicals may be illustrated by a further example.
Every fisherman knows that if the seeds of cocculus indicus are thrown into the water and are eaten by fishes, the fishes lose their sense of balance and swim on their backs, and they die if they have eaten too much. In other words Nature produces in Spring sleep-destroying and in Autumn sleep- inducing substances.
Plant hormones seem to act on animals and human beings very much in the same way in which animal hormones and human beings. The healing virtue of many herbs in apparently due to the hormones contained in them which occur only in infinitely small quantity. Isolation will probably never be possible.
There are healing plants which flee from man, such as Digitalis, Arnica, Primula, Mezereum. The modern method of wasting human excreta by burning or emptying town d rains into rivers does untold injury.
The value of human excrements does not consist in their nitrogen contents, as was formerly believed, but in their sex hormones and other invaluable and irreplaceable components.
THE VITAL PRINCIPLE IN PLANTS AND ANIMALS. [I have much pleasure in publishing this important paper by Dr. G. Madaus who who is both a physician and a researcher of great originality….
What signification has the physiological connection between animal and plant for the healing and plant for he healing value for each other, and for the healing power for human being? This question is especially interesting for us. It signifies, according to Fuhrmann, removal of constitutional anomalies in the instances of supplying of the lacking, or the diminishing of the surplus.
PHYTO-ANALYSIS AND HOMOEOPATHY. The phyto-analysis, i.e. the study of the building up, the growth, the mode of the plant, the test of the animal excrements condensed in the plants, the test of the hormones of the plants, gives the scientific base of the pathogenesis, i.e. the symptom- theory of homoeopathy.