HOW THE HOMOEOPATHIC TREATMENT MAY AMELIORATE THE CHARACTER OF MAN AND DEVELOP HIS INTELLIGENCE
Anima enim possima, melior in optimo-corpore-Civit Dei. Lit-4, St. Augustin.
The facts those I am going to relate here would seem no doubt very and perhaps improbable to many of my readers. If it is so, I will not be surprised, because these facts are still surprising to me every time when I see them happening. However, I could have reproduced the same happenings, at will, so to say, in at least half of the persons put under my treatment without their knowledge. If 27 years ago when I began the practice of medicine, I would have read in medical journals, the report of similar cases, I would hot have denied them, but to be sure I would not have believed them. Not being satisfied to question from time to time the witnesses of these facts in order to be satisfied of their truth, I wanted myself to verify these facts and with this aim, I experimented the same medicines indicated in persons where modification of the character and intelligence was necessary.
What I had done, then was to advise colleague to experiment, either by prescribing in similar cases the remedies indicated further on, or applying in dissimilar cases, other remedies from Homoeopathic therapeutics.
All homoeopaths know that the medicines experimented on healthy body produce not only some somatic symptoms but also some psychic (moral or intellectual) symptoms.
In the pathogeneses which relate the symptoms and lesions produced on healthy man by two to three hundred medicines many psychic symptoms are to be found. The doctors are wrong to neglect these remedies in their daily practice, because although they cure the somatic symptoms using the remedies according to the law of similars, they may also cure the states of symptoms which are psychic, by using the medicines according to same therapeutic law.
These psychic conditions may be some symptoms of manifested or latent diseases, or they may be the cause of the stoppage of the development or some deviations of the moral and intellectual being.
One can, by the help of medicines, remedy the defective psychic development quantitatively or qualitatively as much as or rather more than the defects of different organs and the muscular system of the human body by the help of exercises or special gymnastics, by appropriate food and by required condition of light and air.
While reading the pathogeneses one see that each remedy checks or develops, in a different way, the development of moral dispositions or intellectual dispositions of man. Such a medicine, in fact modifies these dispositions in intensity or in quality, such an other modifies them in quality, in direction or in modality. Well! by using each medicine according to the law of similars you can modify the defective dispositions of character and intelligence according to the aim to arrive at. As proof, I am going to give some case reports from clinical observations collected and borrowed from different articles since a few years, with the intention to publish a special book on the treatment of abnormal psychic conditions. i.e., to say the defects of character and intelligence.
Case I
Cross-grained husband, not sociable and never obliging-Cured by Causticum 200
About 5 to 6 years ago one of my old clients entered my chamber with tears in her eyes, mad with suffering and seemed to me that she was going to lose her reason or to leave her husband. She told me that she became widow at the age of 50. She is remarried about three months ago with an office employee. She described her husband as of short stature, lean, great smoker, drinks, coffee and wines, cross-grained, never obliging, making her conjugal life unbearable. I tried to console the woman in her deplorable condition and requested her to tolerate her husband for a few months or for a few weeks during which I will try to ameliorate the character of her husband. In the meantime I advised her to dissolve 6 to 7 globules of Causticum 200 in one third of glass of water and to pour down this solution in the soup without the knowledge of her husband.
Three weeks later the woman returned and told me that 48 hours after taking your medicine my husband has become less and less cross-grained and he has become even obliging towards me which he never was, not even, when the made courtship me which he never was, not even, when he made courtship before our marriage. I am now very glad and I have to suppress smiling when he seems to be very obliging to me.
Later on his habit of drinking coffee and wine diminished and amelioration as regards his character continued. He became more and more amiable and sociable. But he never knew that he was treated to this end.
Case II
A libertine husband-Cured by Causticum 200
A young husband, unsteady, heedless, neglected his wife and his profession to frequent the cafes and specially the girls. He was given without his knowledge, by his wife 6 to 7 globules of Causticum 200, dissolved and administered like the first case.
Some weeks later, his wife told me, it seemed that her husband wad behaving well and as a proof she added “now my husband passes his Sundays with me which he did not before taking the medicine,”
Case III
A husband easily becomes angry and very jealous Cured by Nux vomica 200.
A woman was was very unfortunate since 15 years because her husband, although wicked, became easily angry, susceptible and so much jealous that he did not allow her to go out of the house even to meet her parents. Following my advice the woman gave him without his knowledge 6 to 7 globules of Nux vomica 200, dissolved and administered as in the preceding case in his soup.
From the following day, the husband seemed to be glad, more gay, he began hum, which he did the whole week. This change of character was exceptionally so prompt that his wife became afraid that her husband will become and but he was not. But since 6 weeks the husband has not become out of his self-control in anger, was more susceptible and above all he was not jealous at all. He even tell his wife to go and meet her parents which he did not like sometimes ago. She could now go to any family at her will and her husband did not complain. In similar cases he allowed her to return whenever she liked.
Case IV A husband, 60 years. Since 32 years he was insulting his wife became jealous-Cured by Lachesis 200.
During the 30 years of his marriage he had often fits of jealousy. During these fits he used to become angry and was out of himself but since last 5 years, these fits of jealousy became very frequent and very violent. He suddenly awoke from his sleep at night. He used to become exceedingly wicked and insulting by the least cause to the members of his family. He was grand- father.
The 26the July, 1881: I advised his wife to give him without his knowledge once 6 to 7 globules of Lachesis 200, in his soup in the same way as that of the preceding cases.
The 17th July: His wife told me that since 3 weeks her husband has become wicked, more insulating, and more jealous than he was before taking the medicine. Presuming than it was temporary medicinal aggravation I gave some globules of Sach-lac. to be used in the same way only once.
The 16th October: His wife told me that since two weeks from 17th July, her husband was neither more nor less jealous than he was before my treatment. But at the end of the second week, after the 17th July i.e. after 5 weeks after taking a single dose of Lachesis 200, he woke up at night drenched with sweat and had to change his dress. At the sametime he was shedding abundant tears and had a violent fit of contrition, asked pardon from his wife for grief caused by him to her since 32 years of their marriage.
Since then the husband, who has never wept during 32 years of marriage, is from time to time attacked with violent fits of contrition during which his weeping renewed and asked excuses of this wife. Besides, he has become very loving, very docile, very obliging and very much eager to become serviceable. His wife was very happy and was astonished of the this change of character.
Considering the so dramatic evolution of the character and the cure of the husband, I myself was very much doubtful about the reality of this fact, if I had heard the wife to tell me her conviction and her happiness. And as if to give me unconsciously a new proof of the sincerity of her story she asked and paid me immediately after a consultation for another person whose character was really disgusting to her.
The psychic cure of this husband was the only one that I have seen which produced some critical phenomena in an acute state.
Case V
A hot-headed husband, susceptible and above all a liar and sulky-Cured by Nux vomica 200.
A woman who was very much unfortunate since 24 years because her husband was irascible, became angry and used to beat his wife while she resisted, very often lied and was sulky and spoke nothing for 8 to 15 days.
Following my advise that woman gave him 6 to 7 globules of Nux vomica 200, prepared and administered in the soup of his evening meal like the preceding cases.
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.