Re: beyondhom Like cures like

Thank you for sharing Dhiru! Much appreciated.

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On Feb 23, 2013, at 12:04 PM, "NATHWANI" <[email protected]> wrote:

> These are my notes on the subject. Feel free to send your comments.
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> Principle #1: Like cures like. A substance that produces symptoms in a      healthy person cures those symptoms in a sick person.
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> We do not know who discovered this principle or when it was discovered. But throughout recorded history, this principle of like curing like arose and disappeared from time to time. References to this principle are to be found in  ancient writings (Bhagavat: Canto 1, Chapter 5, Verse 33); (Jewish Bible: Mekilta); and include the following:
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> (1) Hippocrates (460-350 B.C.) - called the Father of Medicine in the West "By similar things a disease is produced and through the application of the like it is cured."
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> (2) Aristotle (384-322 B.C.) - Greek philosopher "Often the simile acts upon the simile."
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> (3) Galen (130-200 A.D.) - Greek physician, second only to Hippocrates among the founders of medicine in the West "Natural cure by the likes."
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> (4) Paracelsus (1493-1541 A.D.) - Swiss physician "Sames must be cured by sames"
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> (5) Dr. George Stahl (early 17th century) - Danish physician "Disease will yield to, and be cured by, remedies that produce similar affections."
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> Hahnemann was well aware of this principle. His contribution was to create a complete branch of medicine based on the main "like cures like" principle. He (i) found further principles flowing from this main principle and which are stated in his book [***below]; (ii) started developing the homeopathic materia medica by proving some medicines; (iii) developed the pharmacy of making homeopathic medicines; and (iv) discovered the potentization process. In other words, the whole medical science of homeopathy based on the main "like cures like" principle. Hahnemann's contribution to medicine remains  unrivalled.
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> Dr. Samuel Hahnemann (1755-1843 A.D.), a German physician, chemist and linguist. Gives up practice of medicine being disgusted with medical treatments of his day. Earns living translating medical textbooks. While translating a textbook written by William Cullen (a Scottish physician of great repute in his time), Hahnemann comes across a statement that the bitterness of quinine was the reason why it was effective in malaria. He disagrees with that statement because he knew other substances that were bitter but not effective in malaria. He takes a few doses of quinine - in those days quinine was used in the form of powder made from the bark of quinine tree - and develops the symptoms of malaria (1790) even though he was healthy and did not have
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> malaria. He tests various medicines on himself, his family members, medical friends and students, and announces to the world (1796) about this branch of medicine, which he calls HOMOEOPATHY, from Greek words "homois" and "pathos" meaning similar suffering - a substance that produces symptoms in a healthy person cures those symptoms in a sick person (also spelt HOMEOPATHY, and also known as HOMEOTHERAPEUTICS, and also slowly becoming known as ULTRA-MOLECULAR MEDICINE). There is much more to homeopathy than this condensed definition, suitable for insertion in a dictionary, would suggest. You should also bear in mind that the diagnostic tools that we know today did not exist in Hahnemann's time. A homeopathic doctor of today uses all the diagnostic tools to find out the cause of the medical problem.
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> How does the “like cures like” principle work?
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> Two similar diseases - one weaker and the other stronger - cannot exist in a living body. The stronger disease which is the artificial disease created by taking medicine destroys the weaker disease which is the natural disease in a patient. Firstly, the artificial disease created by medicine is always stronger than the natural disease. Secondly, as we control the administration of medicine (using medicine in different potencies, how frequently we give the medicine, and knowing when to discontinue giving it), we also control the duration of the artificial stronger disease. [Read Aphor. 17 to 45 inclusive, from [see*** above] Hahnemann's ORGANON OF THE MEDICAL ART, translated into modern English by Wenda Brewster O’Reilley, PhD]. There are also other English translations under the title “ORGANON OF MEDICINE” by different  translators. 
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> But why? There are many, many phenomena for which we have no explanation. If you keep asking "why" you will come to a point where there is no explanation i.e. you will come to a dead-end. "Science" then codifies such phenomena into "laws" (i.e. principles) if such phenomena meet the following three criteria:
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> ·   universal i.e. occurs all over the world
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>         Let me give you some examples of such phenomena. Physics: (1) Action and reaction are equal and opposite, Newton's Third Law of Motion. (2) Magnets have two poles, magnetism. (3) Apples always fall to the ground, gravity. Biology: (1) A sperm from a male must fertilize an egg from a female for babies to be conceived. (2) Antibodies are produced in a person after exposure to an infection or after receiving a vaccine. (3) All living things ultimately die. Chemistry: (1) Snow flakes have different shapes/designs even though made of water. (2) Steam, snow, or ice is water which is H2+O1
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> The "like cures like" principle is not a man-made law (like some law passed by our
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> Parliament, which can be changed so easily by passing another law) but a “scientific" one because it meets the three criteria mentioned above. Thus we have laws (i.e. principles) of homeopathy, physics, biology, chemistry etc. [Note: Most of the scientists who criticize homeopathy are completely unaware about these three criteria which their own fraternity have used to create (codify) laws of physics, biology, and chemistry!]
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> A medicine (whether chemical, synthetic, herbal etc.) is said to be "homeopathic" when symptoms in a patient match the symptoms produced by that medicine in its “proving”. [Proving means giving a medicine to healthy persons to find out what symptoms are produced in them by that medicine.] Before we match the symptoms in a patient with the symptoms produced by a medicine in its proving, we arrange the symptoms in a patient in a certain order of hierarchy/importance (mental symptoms first; general symptoms second; and particular (local) symptoms last]. We then match the uniqueness of each symptom whenever such uniqueness is shown in a symptom. There are seven factors of uniqueness, which we will look at in subsequent lessons along with the hierarchy/importance of symptoms. To summarize, what we are doing is to give to a patient a medicine which creates in him the duplicate of, or mimics, his illness reflecting the totality of symptoms in him. 
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> We will also study in subsequent lessons why we potentize medicines and also the effects of potentizing. Potentization is a two-step process of serial dilution and applying vigorous agitation (called succussion) for each new dilution. [This process reduces/removes (i) aggravation of symptoms in patients and (ii) toxicity of toxic substances. You MUST read Chapter III of “Homeopathy, Medicine of the New Man” and Chapter 7 of “The Science of Homeopathy”, both by George Vithoulkas, who received the 1996 “Alternative Nobel Prize”]  
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> What distinguishes homeopathy from other therapies is NOT the dilutio