Alcoholism and Criminality



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VIII. The radiant state of matters that the preceding facts prove to be produced by the nature, may also be produced by art. First this is enough to conform to the advices of the English physicists Faraday and Crookes, who, to this end, recommended to separate the molecules consisting in the matter so that they become separated from one another which they are not in the solid state, in liquid and even in gaseous states.

In this way, said Crookes, one arrives,?I repeat it again at the limit where the matter and the force seem to be mixed up, i.e. to say in each matter is developed a latent force which was dormant under a heap of matter. And this is what the Homoeopathic pharmacists do while preparing infinitesimal doses of each remedy i., e. by successive dilutions in a vehicle Distilled water or alcohol). or if the medicine is not soluble, by some successive trituration with some sugar of milk.

The process of dilution, the most frequently adopted is the following recommended by Hahnemann:

In order to prepare, for example, the first 30 dilutions of Nux vomica in alcohol, which the Homoeopaths call the mother tincture you take 30 phials numbered 1 to 30, each containing 99 drops of distilled water or alcohol. To prepare the first dilution you pour one drop of the mother tincture in the first phial to which you then give several strong succussions, as for example 30 succussions.

To prepare the 2nd dilution, you pour 1 drop of the 1st dilution in the 2nd phial to which you give the same number of succussions. Thus you continue to prepare up to the 30th, each dilution by pouring in each phial 1 drop of the dilution previously done. Hence for preparing the first 30 dilutions you require 30 times 100 drops or 30 times 5 grams of distilled water or alcohol i.e. 150 grams of liquid.

For preparing the first 30 dilutions of non-soluble substances one take 5 cgs. of matter which is triturated with with 5 cgs of sugar of milk. Thus one obtains the 1st centesimal dilution. For preparing the 2nd, 5 cgs of the 1st triturations is taken and is triturated with 5 grams of sugar of milk. Thus one proceeds up to the 3rd and the 4th dilutions. The medicine which has now become soluble, may then be prepared by successive dilutions up to the 30th.

The 30th successive dilutions constitute 30 degrees of radiant states, separating more and more the molecules constituting the matter. For doing this, the dilution and succussions are used which are the two factors of al the dilutions.

These two factors have the same value, because concurring equally to the same end: The constituting molecules become more and more distantly separated from each other.

The 30th dilutions are prepared by using two factors:

On the one hand 30 x 100 drops of liquid, on the other hand 30 succussions give to each of the 30 phials, 30 equal quantities of liquid multiplied by 30 succussions give 900 for the product.

One can, to a certain extent, replace on of the factors by the other so as to obtain the same result 900 for preparing the 30th dilution. When the latter is thus prepared it has the same power when it is prepared by 30 succussive dilutions in 30 different phials. This fact was admitted and this method of preparation was indicated by Hahnemann, rom which, by the intuition of a genius, he had foreseen the condition necessary to bring the matter in a radiant state. After having described the 1st process of dynamisation with 30 phials in para 270 of the Organon, he explains in a note under this para, the second process in following way: “I have dissolved a grain (0.54 gram) of Natrum carb. in 1/2 oz (15 gr. 60) of water mixed with a bit of alcohol, and, for half an hour, I have jerked,. without interruption, the phial filled 2/3, which contained the liquid, I have then found that this one is equal in energy to the 30th dilution.”

While doing that operation Hahnemann could have given to the phial a succussions every 10 seconds for 30 minutes, i.e. a total of 900 succussions. 900 multiplied by a first quantity of the solution, give 900 as result, i.e. to say exactly the same products which gave in the first process of Hahnemann, the 30 quantities of liquids containing in the 30 phials and multiplied by the 30 succussions given to each of these phials. In fact 30 x 30 = 900. And Hahnemann has accepted experimentally that the 30th dilution, prepared according to the one or the other method has the same power.

Conforming to the experimental method of Hahnemann to break up more and more radiant state, Jenichen has replaced such a number of succussive dilutions by such a number of succussions. As for example, to bring the 800th up to the 2,600, he began to give to the same phial 51,000 jerking i.e. about 28 succussions for each of the intermediate dilutions (Bibliotheque Hom., 1887. v. XVIII, p.54).

It is said without any proof, that Jenichen, taking a phial of the 4th dilution gave to it, 1000, 6000 or 16,000 succussions for preparing his 1000, 6000 or 16,000 dilutions. This matters little, provided that, by the help of thousands of succussions, he had broken up the molecules constituting each of the medicine in order to bring it to a more radiant state and develop its curative power. Also the same power is justly given to very high dilutions from 100 to 40,000 and given not less justly to all the infinitesimal doses the Greek denomination dynamisation, a term more expressive than that of dilution or attenuation, “The homoeopathic medicine, at each division or dilution acquires a new degree of power by the jerking that is given to it, a means which was unknown before me, to develop is so much powerful that towards the last days, the experience has forced me to reduce to two the number of jerking, which formerly I used to give 10 to each dilution. (ORganon, para 280).

“As much as the dilution is increased having care to give to it each time two jerking, the medicinal action that the preparations exercise on the vital force in the condition of the patient seems to acquire some rapidity and become penetrating. Its force diminishes very little, even when the dilution is pushed very far and that instead of stopping at the 30th which is almost sufficient, one goes up to 60, 150 or 300 and beyond. The duration of action only diminish more and more. (Organon, para 87).

In the last paragraph of Organon, ed. of 1883, Hahnemann gives two contradictory opinions while affirming that the more one does further the dilution of a medicine: 1. Its power increase. 2. Its force diminishes a little. Later on, the conformed his practice to the first opinion, the experience having made him renounce the habitual use of dilutions going beyond the 30th and going from 60 to the 300th and beyond because he had found these high dilutions very strong. This is what his disciple Gross informs us. (The very high dilutions by Dr. Leon Simon father, Bibliotheque Homoeopathique, 1855, v. XVI, p. 168). Hahnemann having not often used these high dilutions, had hardly the occasion to verify that, contrary to his last assertion, the action of these high dilutions was much more durable than that of the lower dilutions. This is what is proved by comparative studies.

But as it would take much longer time and more expense to prepare, these thousands of dilutions by the first process of Hahnemann, the second process of Hahnemann was used, that of succussion. But his process, used with an exceptional vigour, as is told to us by Dr. Parru in the journal mentioned below, Jenichen Prepared the high dilutions of 156 medicines of which the list is to be found in the Journal de la societe Gallicane de medecine homoeopathique, 1851, v. 2, p. 778).

By a third process, utilising simultaneously the dilutions and the succussions a homoeopathic pharmacist of Lyon, Dr.L. Lambert has prepared the high dilutions of 181 medicines of which 41 were not done by Jenichen. These 41 medicines were prepared up to 10,000 dilution. The high dilutions of Lambert are not as effective as those of Jenichen. If I am well informed, the pharmacy Catellan of Paris, would have prepared 200 and 600 dilutions of classic remedies using the first process of Hahnemann.

IX. The use of these thousands of succussion to change the molecular state of medicines and to bring them thus to a radiant sate, seem at first something quite new, so excentric and so ridiculous, began to be utilised by the chemists themselves to the end of reducing the matters to a sort of radiant state in order to develop some reactions amongst them. This is what says in his opening lesson in 1876, of the Faculty of Medicine of Montpellier, the well-known chemist M.Bechamp, the then head of this faculty, to-day the dean of the Faculte libre de Lille.

To prepare alcohol, M. Berthelot has taken carbonised hydrogen resulting out of the reduction of Carbonic acid by some instructive researches. He has made this gas to be absorbed, by the help of an ingenious process which consists in the shaking by a great number of jerking, the Acid Sulphuric in the presence of Mercury. Absorption done some water is added and distilled. The distilled product contains alcohol.

Jean Pierre Gallavardin
Jean Pierre Gallavardin (1825 – 1898) was a French orthodox physician who converted to homeopathy to gain international renown. Gallavardin was a Physician at the Homeopathic Hospital in Lyons.
Gallavardin set up a homeopathic Dispensary for the cure of alcoholics, often working in conjunction with priests, and he wrote several books on this subject.
Jean Pierre Gallavardin wrote Psychism and Homeopathy, The Homoeopathic Treatment of Alcoholism, How to Cure Alcoholism the Non-toxic Homoeopathic Way, Repertory of Psychic Medicines with Materia Medica, Plastic Medicine, and articles for The British Journal of Homeopathy, On Phosphoric Paralysis, and he collated the statistics on pneumonia and other cases for the United States Journal of Homeopathy, and he contributed widely to homeopathic publications.