With our differentiation of particular and “most peculiar” symptoms, homoeopaths have cured dysenteric cases all over the world with our simple and minute remedies, and it has not been noticed that complications are frequent under our treatment. Homoeopaths do not set up any undue “drug aggravations”. We employ small to infinitesimal doses, aiming to create a “nerve stimulation” towards repair.
On the contrary, orthodoxy tries to kill the germs in the body, estimating their dosage and procedure as learned by them in their laboratory test tubes, forgetting or ignoring that the body is but a collection of the most delicate nerves, cells and tissues, which can never be regulated by a “test tube reaction”, nor even by an animal experiment. These orthodox gropings would be laughable if they were not so disastrous to the patients, sooner or later. Remember that two- thirds of homoeopathic practice of medicine consists in curing “drug diseases” implanted by orthodox over-dosing, which are wrongly called “chronic diseases”.
Whilst orthodoxy vaunts the germ-killing power (?) of “Emetine”, their standard works WARN that, “If given too long” (and who can say beforehand what any patient”s “too long” may be ?), or if given to “sensitive patients” (the proof of this is always too late for their safety), “Emetine” may cause peripheral neuritis, and even wrist drop, loss of appetite and flesh, besides nausea, vomiting, and obstinate diarrhoea (that is the dysentery becomes a chronic diarrhoea), and one can expect EVEN CARDIAC (heart) FAILURE.
This is not a pretty nor safe picture for the laity to dwell upon; one would think that this is not what they demand when ill, or actually pay for, to mention such a vulgar point.
Orthodoxy should be ashamed of its therapeutics. If your plumbar or your carpenter made such blunders you would know just what to say to them. As orthodoxy recognizes that “Emetine” causes vomiting, they advocate giving at the same time, “twenty minims of tincture of opium” a short time before the doses of “Emetine”.
They further advise that it “Emetine” is not available their rank and file “may try” twenty (20) to thirty (30) grains of ipecacuanha (I would not give that amount to a horse or cow), but in order to counteract the disastrous effects of such an orthodox dosage they calmly suggest that that opium must be given at the same time as a “gastric sedative” (all of which is funnier than punch). I pity the patients of the orthodox from the bottom of my heart.
When homoeopaths give Ipecacuanha we give the 3x, representing one part drug in 1,000 of sugar of milk, and when we prescribe the 6x strength we find but one part drug in 1,000,000 parts. So you may give our drugs in the strengths named to the weakest infant, without any “kick-back”. If the drug has been wisely and correctly chosen you will obtain the relief you ask of it, and you wont chase the amoebae from the gut into the liver.
Practically every orthodox standard work alludes to “Emetine” as the one and only “specific” for amoebic dysentery; and, they go on to say, if the diagnosis of amoebic origin and cause is uncertain it still “MAY BE TRIED”, which is the weakest of weak and befogged medical advice, and a disgrace to the profession. Poor patients ! “May be tried” is neither more nor less than an experiment on the patient, and remembering the sequellae “heart failures, abscessed livers wrist drop, and anchovy sauce”, who can vote for orthodoxy?.
Here are a few added dangers of “Emetine” culled from orthodoxy as its secondary effects: hepatization of the lungs, rapid heart action, tendency for the head to fall forward, and even lobar pneumonia; hence a new “diagnosis” is forthcoming to the family, because no orthodox man, be he ever so brave or rash, can be expected to own that this or that disease is caused by an overdose of his dangerous drug ! Remember that the ultra- scientific orthodox medical man refuses to study Homoeopathy. I put the blame for all this on the shoulders of the leaders of that profession, as I feel sure that the rank and file of the orthodox men would gladly try Homoeopathy, if they did not fear the wrath of G.M.C.
The following homoeopathic treatment is not my “personal opinion”. Homoeopathy, as a Science, was put on a workable basis by Dr. Samuel Hahnemann in 1796, after many years of close personal trials by himself and collaborators on themselves. Nothing which Hahnemann stated as “fact” in 1797 has ever been disproved or altered. The “Law of Similars” (Homoeopathy) has existed from all time. It is practised successfully to-day in every corner of the world, and as there are not enough homoeopathic doctors to meet the demand, there are millions of the laity doctoring their families, very successfully. One would think that this fact alone would induce many orthodox doctors to embrace Homoeopathy.
To such of the laity who may wonder how the homoeopaths arrived at their exact knowledge of drugs I will briefly explain, and it wont do any professional orthodox man harm to study these words seriously.
All homoeopathic remedies have been “proved” (tested) on healthy human volunteers, not once but scores of times, in various parts of the world. The results were and are uniform. The persons (men and women) testing such drugs are not told the name of the drug under test, by the person in charge, but they are told that a certain percentage of the powders or pills, depending which variety is being tested, are simply “blanks”.
If powders are used, then so many are simply sugar of milk, and if pills are used, they are simply wet with alcohol, which fact of “blanks” at once rules out all “imagination of symptoms”, because no “prover” wishes to draw down the laughter of his collaborators by recording “drug symptoms” from a blank. This was another very wise precaution of our founder, Hahnemann, who left nothing to chance. All departures from the normal health of the provers immediately following the taking of the drug are collected and minutely recorded by the the person in charge, and they ultimately find their way into print in our Materia Medicas, which anyone may buy.
In successive generations in various parts of the world these “provings” demonstrated that certain symptoms always presented themselves as drug actions, and these have become to be regarded as “classical drug pictures” of this or that drug, and therefore of exact knowledge of what a certain drug can create in a healthy human being. In cases of disease it is but necessary to match the patients personal symptoms with what is known about some drug.
Then the most-like acting drug is given to the patient, but the amount of the drug must be so small that there is no possibility of adding to the disease symptoms. Experience has driven us to smaller and smaller amounts of any drug to bring about the most rapid cures. The Law of Homoeopathy is the guiding rule of “choice” (similia) of drug. The size of the dose is not “Homoeopathy” but plain common sense.
Lest any doubter says, ” I note in your Materia Medicas very grave lesions listed. I cannot believe any prover ever poisoned himself or herself to the extent mentioned as the drug effects, even if a noble volunteer”. The answer to this doubt is another instance of the very great wisdom of Hahnemann.
He foresaw the impossibility of obtaining the ultimate and dangerous drug effects from any volunteer prover, so he set to work collecting and classifying all symptoms experienced by, or seen in, cases of serious or fatal poisonings, whether accidental or intentional. This gave us the full drug picture to enable us to prescribe for the most serious phases of disease. By this means we have never had to go to monkeys, dogs or guinea-pigs for any of our drug knowledge.
