A striated muscle preparation placed in a Ringer5 solution with an over-balance of Kalium will cause active contraction of the muscle, an effect similar to that of parasympathetic stimulation, and the addition of Calcium will abolish this overaction. This is seen clinically in tetany. In this disease there is a lack of Calcium in the blood, the muscles are irritable, easily brought into a state of spasm. Because of the lack of Calcium there is an over-balance is specific in tetany therapeutically, and truly homoeopathic in its principle. Disturbance in Calcium metabolism causes the diseased state and Calcium is the indicated remedy.
6 A heart of a cold-blooded animal whose cavities are filled with Ringer solution from sympathetic nervous system through a Faradic current, will produce a substance which goes into the Ringer solution. The fluid from this heart added to a solution in which a similar heart preparation is placed will cause an increased systolic contraction similar to that of the first heart when it was stimulated by its sympathetic nervous system through the Faradic current.
Similarly a heart whose cavities are filled with Ringer solution, when stimulated through the vagus or parasympathetic nervous system by a Faradic current produces a substance which has an effect on another heart similar to vagus stimulation or increased diastoly.
This proves that the cell has the power to form substances which automatically control its metabolism. From the homoeopathic point of view, the indicated remedy causes a redistribution of the proper ionic concentrations and then a cellular metabolism which tends to keep this ionic state in proper proportions. The one dose of the indicated remedy can be thus explained.
The allopathic school, by the discoveries in Biochemistry, the vegetative nervous system and by clinical observation is beginning to recognize some of the homoeopathic principles. The small dose is no longer ridiculed. The effect of small doses of Potassium or Sodium Iodide or Iodine in hyperthyroidism is to be found in our literature. In Austria where goitre is prevalent, bathing in Iodine-laden water is known to cause acute hyperthyroidism. The use of iodinized table salt is a recognized danger in that country.
The Reinz principle, as the non-specific protein therapy, the anti-typhoid vaccine in multiple sclerosis, infecting the general Paresis patient with Malaria, corresponds to the homoeopathic sulphur and the allied remedies.
Let it once be recognized by the allopathic school that symptoms can be made to appear in a well individual by high dilutions given orally, then the gap dividing the homoeopathic and allopathic schools will be bridged, and this, I believe, will be accomplished in the comparatively near future.
