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| Hpathy Ezine - June, 2007 | |||||
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Homeoprophylaxis: In Support of Isaac Golden-- Mati Fuller, DIHom (UK) |
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Regarding homeoprophylaxis, I agree with Isaac Golden (http://www.hpathy.com/interviews/isaacgolden.asp). The idea of homeoprophylaxis is built upon a really simple principle - that you can't have two similar diseases in the body at the same time. The strongest one will knock out the weaker one (The Organon #26). This is a natural law, based on Hahnemann's observations. The idea of homeoprophylaxis is this: if you take a remedy while you are still healthy, the remedy may not create physical symptoms, but it will still affect your body energetically. In other words, the effect of the remedy will be in your energy field, and it will also stimulate an immune response from the system. So, what happens when you encounter a disease with similar symptoms? Since you already have a similar energy pattern in your system created by the homeopathic remedy, this energy is most likely stronger than the energy of the disease itself; therefore, the stronger (homeopathic) "disease" knocks out the weaker (the true disease), and you don't get sick because it never reaches the physical (in other words, you are no longer susceptible). It doesn't matter which of the two reaches your body first, whether you are sick and take a homeopathic remedy, or whether you take a homeopathic remedy and then encounter the disease. It works either way, because it is based on the same homeopathic principle, that you can't have two similar "diseases" in the body at the same time, and, as I said, this observation is based on natural law--the way things always happen in nature. (Another natural law is Hering's Law of the Direction of Cure: from the top down, from the inside out, from the most vital organs to the least vital organs and in reverse order of occurrence). This principle also explains why, in some cases, people still get sick, even though they may have taken a remedy as a prophylaxis. If the remedy they took was weaker than the disease they encountered, the disease will make them sick and knock out the effect of the remedy instead. Therefore, it is important, when taking a remedy prophylactically, to make sure to try to match the potency to the intensity of the disease. I also find it interesting that George Vithoulkas is criticizing Isaac Golden's point of view, while he himself also states things that are not quite accurate. He says that, "As we all know, the remedy can act ONLY when symptoms are present. The remedy acts only once the defense mechanism has been mobilized, not before this..." (my emphasis). Do we all know this, or do we assume this? What he is talking about here is what happens when we cure a sickness with a homeopathic remedy. Obviously, we can only base our remedy choice on the symptoms that have appeared, and the symptoms are also an indication that the immune system is responding. So far, I agree. But, the body's immune response doesn't start when visible symptoms appear. It starts as soon as the sickness enters the system, possibly days before there are any visible signs of sickness. So, if you knew, ahead of time, what remedy to give (nosode or genus epidemicus), there is no logical reason why it wouldn't work. We just won't be able to see, from the outside, what is happening energetically, but that doesn't mean we can assume that the remedy isn't working. Again, we have to base our understanding of how homeopathy works on the natural laws Hahnemann taught us because we still don't have instruments accurate enough to measure the true effect of homeopathic remedies on an energetic level. Therefore, Isaac Golden's findings are valid simply because his view is in harmony with natural law. Whenever your understanding about something is based in natural law, it isn't difficult to come up with scientific proof if anyone should need it. But, since we already know that anything based on natural law works, providing scientific proof is of very little importance in my opinion because if something works, it will work regardless of how many scientists you are able to convince of it intellectually. Unfortunately, "science" speaks a different language than homeopathy because it is not based on natural law, it is based on theories and conclusions, and the conclusions, then, become "the accepted truth" only until someone else comes up with a better "truth." This is why science keeps changing concepts over time. If science were based on the understanding of natural laws, a lot of wasted effort and money could be completely eliminated. Knowing this, I find it strange that a science, which is actually based on natural law, like homeopathy, should have to prove its findings to a science that has no understanding of how these laws work. This simply doesn't make a whole lot of sense to me. Galileo told the courts that he was willing to withdraw his statement that the earth was round, but he warned that withdrawing his statement wasn't going to change anything. It is time for things to change... ************************************************ Mati
H Fuller, DI Hom (pract) http://www.homeopathyonline.biz
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