HOW TO CURE THE SICK – SOME GENERAL CONSIDERATIONS

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Those who wish to cure the sick should first study Homoeopathic literature, particularly the books mentioned, and they should accumulate a good selection of remedies in relatively low potencies such as the 3x and 6x potencies. If the prescriber has discovered that a patient does well with some remedy in a low potency, let us say Arsenicum 3x, he should tentatively give a few doses of Arsenicum 30 and then go up to Arsenicum 100, Arsenicum 1,000, Arsenicum 10,000, etc.

If, on the other hands, he begins with a higher potency to which the patient may not respond, he may wait for days, or weeks for the action of the drug, and be greatly disappointed at the end by complete failure in treatment.

Those who wish to use the disease products need not fear that an injudicious dose of Bacillinum will produce tuberculosis, or that Carcinosinum 200 given to a man with a harmless tumour will produce cancer. In a very long experience I have never found bad results follow the giving of nosodes in a high potency. On the contrary they have produced beneficial results in innumerable cases.

In certain homoeopathic books we can read solemn warnings that high potencies should not be repeated too often/, that a repetition of the dose might seriously interfere with the process of recovery and might do immeasurable harm to the patient. These solemn warnings terrified me in the beginning, but growing experience showed me that in many cases one can repeat high potencies without risk. Of course, if a high or low potency upsets, then one must antidote the medicine.

One must give the medicine in a much higher potency or one must give a direct antidote. Some of the most efficient antidotes of homoeopathic medicines are camphor, coffee and Nux vomica. If the beginner is not quite sure which of the three should be given, he can give all three simultaneously, and can disregard the protests of those homoeopaths who consider it the greatest crime to use more than one remedy at a time.

Those who wish to act more scientifically can turn to the fourth volume of Dr. John H. Clarkes Dictionary of Materia Media which contains a valuable repertory and a long list of antidotes to the various drugs. While the Dictionary itself is out of print, I believe copies of the repertory may still be obtained from the Homoeopathic Publishing Company, and I recommend to every earnest student the study of the chapter on drug relations, which gives all the antidotes.

Of course it is a mistake to rely for the cure of the sick on drugs alone. One must not merely try to select the homoeopathic drug best fitted to the case in hand, but one must, before all, find the cause of the disease. If a nervous girl seeks advice, the careful prescriber may come to the conclusion that she needs Ignatia or Gelsemium or Scutellaria, and may hesitate which of the three to select, and he may make a very wise or an unfortunate selection, but if the young lady suffers with her nerves because she is badly constipated, or eats devitaminized and demineralized food, or because she dances half the night and keeps herself awake with cocktails and numerous cigarettes, then the prescriber must not be surprised if the most carefully selected remedy will fail to cure.

Again, the prescriber may select with great acumen a remedy for a case of indigestion. If indigestion is due to the fact that the individual bolts his food, or has no teeth or has septic teeth, is badly constipated or suffers from sagging down of the abdominal organs through loss of internal fat, or is terribly worried through loss of money or fear of disgrace, then the most carefully selected homoeopathic remedy may fail completely.

A gynaecological disorder may be due to unsatisfactory sex relations or to lack of harmony between husband and wife, or to the fact that the woman has a bad foot, throws her weight upon the other foot causing the spine to be dragged out of position, with resulting pressure on nerves which control the function of the sex organs. Then we must attend to the foot and the spine rather than give homoeopathic remedies.

In other words, the homoeopathic prescriber cannot hope to achieve the fullest success if he relies on homoeopathic drugs alone, and forgets the importance of right food, exercise, fresh air, sun, right relations and all the other factors which affect human health and happiness.

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J. Ellis Barker
James Ellis Barker 1870 – 1948 was a Jewish German lay homeopath, born in Cologne in Germany. He settled in Britain to become the editor of The Homeopathic World in 1931 (which he later renamed as Heal Thyself) for sixteen years, and he wrote a great deal about homeopathy during this time.

James Ellis Barker wrote a very large number of books, both under the name James Ellis Barker and under his real German name Otto Julius Eltzbacher, The Truth about Homœopathy; Rough Notes on Remedies with William Murray; Chronic Constipation; The Story of My Eyes; Miracles Of Healing and How They are Done; Good Health and Happiness; New Lives for Old: How to Cure the Incurable; My Testament of Healing; Cancer, the Surgeon and the Researcher; Cancer, how it is Caused, how it Can be Prevented with a foreward by William Arbuthnot Lane; Cancer and the Black Man etc.
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