Nosodes & Isopathy



These remedies are used not only before and during Influenza; but also after influenza, specially when the disease seems to be torpid, with very little temperature, and is followed in cases of the menace of sclerosis or specially for the post-influenza Parkinson’s syndrome.

D. Isopathy Properly Called.

I often use isopathy of urines, blood, pus and of the phlyctenular liquid.

Urine. Isopathy of urines gives excellent results specially in renal calculus and in pyelonephritis. It is also interesting to use in diabetes. In the latter case, one may not only prescribe some dilutions of the total urine but also the dilutions of glucose extracted out of his urine as recommended by Dr. Barishac.

In colibacillosis with entero-renal syndrome, isopathy gives remarkable results as recommended by Dr. P. Kollitsch.

Blood. After having treated some cancer and precancer subjects by blood isopathy, Dr. J. Roy abandoned this practice. Afterwards he has tried to give to the patient not the dilutions of glucose extracted out of his urine as recommended by Dr. Barishac.

In colibacillosis with entero-renal syndrome, isopathy gives remarkable results as recommended by Dr. P. Kollitsch.

Blood. After having treated some cancer and precancer subjects by blood isopathy, Dr. J. Roy abandoned this practice. Afterwards he has tried to give to the patient not the dilutions of his own blood, but the dilution of the blood of a young subject having ideal health.

However, one obtained in some cases of cancer, and specially in the arterio-sclerous and persons suffering from migraines, some incontestable success by giving to the patient the dilutions of his own blood. As for me I still continue this isopathic method, specially in cases of in of inveterate migraines.

Let us recall that Roger in Chicago, Licinio Cardoso at Rio de Janeiro, use blood isopathy specially in chronic cutaneous affections, specially in eczema. The Brazilian school still continue this practice.

BUT FOR BLOOD ISOPATHY STILL MORE FOR ALL OTHER METHODS OF ISOPATHY A GOOD DRAINAGE IS NECESSARY IN ORDER TO AVOID ANY AGGRAVATION.

Habitually the dilutions 30, 200, 1000 and 10,000 Korsakoff are used. The lower dilutions aggravate.

Blood isopathy would give some good results in cases of some fevers and in epidemic fevers, specially in measles and in acute articular rheumatism according to Dr. Collet.

Menstrual blood: Following Dr. Dano I have begun to use the isopathy of menstrual blood (dilutions done with the blood collected on a compress, preferably of the first or of the second day).

Saliva: The homoeopaths of modern times should not neglect to use isopathy of saliva, so easy to prepare. Dr. Collet used it frequently in gastric embarrassment, the pituites, in dyspepsia, and in constipation, metritis, rheumatic pains, lumbago, paralysis of the 3rd and the 7th pairs and even in oxyurias etc. Personally I have no experience in this method.

Cephalo-rachidian liquid: This may be used in meningitis (chronic, syphilitic) and in the organic cerebro-medullar lesions. In multiple sclerosis, some good remissions are sometimes obtained following this method of therapeutics. It completely fails in the Parkinson’s disease.

Stools: The isopathy from stools may be tried in parasitosis, colibacillosis, and in different intestinal affections.

Bronchial secretions: This isopathy is useful in Asthma and specially in bronchorrhoea, chronic bronchitis, chronic gangrene, bronchial dilatation. Finally it is useful in some cases of gave forms of bronchial tuberculosis. The results are often unexpected on condition alone if the dilutions used are medium or higher. The lower dilutions seem to be inactive and cause aggravation. Sweets and products of cutaneous excretions: Very good results are obtained in cases of chronic cutaneous affections.

Tears and nasal discharges: Dr. Collet used frequently the isopathy prepared from tears of the patients suffering from grave conjunctivitis, ulcerous keratitis and other ocular affections.

Diluted nasal discharges give good results in nasal asthma, in spasmodic coryza called arthritic, and in hay fever.

The rhino-pharyngeal mucus, the mucus of the throat are useful for the cure of chronic rhino-pharyngitis and cryptic tonsillitis. Dr. Collet has even cured some cases of deafness using rhinopharyngeal isopathy.

Pus. One of the best process of isopathy is the dilution of pus or muco-purulent discharges. In this method one can cure some cases of chronic suppurations which are tenacious, of fistulas etc.

SOME NEW AND LESS KNOWN METHODS.

A new process of isopathy is from the liquid collected in a phlyctenule (blister) which was used by Dr. Collet. A short description will be given later on.

DOSES

The Hahnemannian or Korsakovian process may be followed, knowing well the relation between the two established by Dr. Berne (see my translation: What is a homoeopathic dilution and how homoeopathic dilutions acts-HAPCO, Calcutta).

REPETITION OF DOSES

The Isopathic remedies SHOULD BE REPEATED RARELY.

—6TH. on principle once a day.

—30th. every third day.

—200th. at an interval of 10 to 15 days.

—1000th. at an interval of 15 to 30 days (Korsakoff).

Dr. Cahis’s procedure is very interesting. We may call it the “fall of the potential”. It consists in a mixture of different high dilutions with a lower or medium dilution, as for example one day Graphites 12 or 18, another day Graphites mixed 300 dilutions from 4.701 to 5,000. This system gave Dr. Cahis rapid action and at the same time without aggravation.

Dr. Barishac and myself we have tried since some years some mixture of dilutions of the same remedy as for example Silicea 1000/6 i.e. 1000 and 6 mixed. In this method a very intense action is obtained which is at the same time deep, but the effects are of very short duration.

In conclusion let us insist still on the necessity of drainage which is a link between classical homoeopathy and isopathy, and above all which makes the nosodes and the isopathics not only useful but also without danger.

Mauritius Fortier-Bernoville
Mauritius (Maurice) Fortier Bernoville 1896 – 1939 MD was a French orthodox physician who converted to homeopathy to become the Chief editor of L’Homeopathie Moderne (founded in 1932; ceased publication in 1940), one of the founders of the Laboratoire Homeopathiques Modernes, and the founder of the Institut National Homeopathique Francais.

Bernoville was a major lecturer in homeopathy, and he was active in Liga Medicorum Homeopathica Internationalis, and a founder of the le Syndicat national des médecins homœopathes français in 1932, and a member of the French Society of Homeopathy, and the Society of Homeopathy in the Rhone.

Fortier-Bernoville wrote several books, including Une etude sur Phosphorus (1930), L'Homoeopathie en Medecine Infantile (1931), his best known Comment guerir par l'Homoeopathie (1929, 1937), and an interesting work on iridology, Introduction a l'etude de l'Iridologie (1932).

With Louis-Alcime Rousseau, he wrote several booklets, including Diseases of Respiratory and Digestive Systems of Children, Diabetes Mellitus, Chronic Rheumatism, treatment of hay fever (1929), The importance of chemistry and toxicology in the indications of Phosphorus (1931), and Homeopathic Medicine for Children (1931). He also wrote several short pamphlets, including What We Must Not Do in Homoeopathy, which discusses the logistics of drainage and how to avoid aggravations.

He was an opponent of Kentian homeopathy and a proponent of drainage and artificial phylectenular autotherapy as well.