Homeopathy, the Royal Choice

In 1831 a terrible cholera epidemic swept through Europe. Thousands died as usual, but this year was unique because in some treatment centers thedeath rate was remarkably low. These centers were using a recently organized medical system known as homeopathy.

In the Raab center in Hungary, for example, only 6 out of 154 patients died. That's just under 4%. Treatment centers using orthodox methods averaged a 59% death rate. All over Europe the same pattern became clear. The death rate in homeopathic hospitals varied from between 2½ to 22 percent, compared with a minimum rate of 50% using the orthodox methods. This amazing success led to a swing away from orthodox medical practice.

From the beginning of the reign of Queen Victoria to the present day the Royal Family of Britain have always had homeopaths as their personal physicians. And they are well known for their long lives, health, and vitality.

So what is the basis of this medical system that was demonstrated under the most severe conditions to be superior to standard practice?

Samuel Hahnemann began it. He worked his way through the University of Leipzig as a student with unusual talents in languages, mathematics, and botany. Then he took up the study of medicine and chemistry and became a qualified physician in 1791.

He practiced medicine as a profession for nine years, and then gave it up because of his dislike of the cruel, and often useless treatments that included blood letting and the administration of very poisonous drugs with purging.

For years he lived in poverty, rather than have a high income doing more harm than good. He made a living as a translator of medical books. One of them was A Treatise on Materia Medica by Dr. Cullen of Edinburgh. In this book he read of the discovery that Cinchona bark could cure malaria, and its symptoms of sweating, fever, and chills. Cullen thought that the cure was something to do with the bitterness of the bark. Hahnemann doubted this and experimented with small doses on himself. He found to his surprise that he suffered the symptoms of a malaria attack as long as he took the bark. When he stopped taking it, the symptoms abated too.

He cognited a new principle of medications that might induce in a healthy person the symptoms they relieved in a sick person. It was Hippocrates, the great Greek physician, who said that diseases could be cured by similars, and Hahnemann set out to test this hypothesis, so startlingly illustrated with Cinchona and malaria.

He tested dozens of herbs and chemicals on himself. He found that when some of these substances were given in extremely dilute or attenuated form to patients with matching symptoms, that some amazing cures resulted. He called his new system homeopathy, from the Greek homois (similar) and pathos (pain or disease). To the other kind of medicine he gave the name allopathy, from the Greek meaning opposite.

He had an enormous success with typhus during the Napoleonic Wars, and this made his reputation secure. Many orthodox physicians changed from treating the symptoms to treating the cause, and became homeopaths.

The history of science (not part of the medical curriculum) is full of stories like that of the student Hering, whose medical professor asked him to write a paper refuting homeopathy. Hering read Hahnmann's books (his professor hadn't), and became convinced that homeopathy was a superior system.

He had to go to another college to finish his degree. He then traveled all over the world testing herbs and snake venoms, and anything else that might help the new system. He passed through America, and was persuaded to stay and found the Hahnemann Medical College, which grew mightily. It had 70 professors and 300 students at any time. It treated 50,000 patients, and more in a 200 bed facility. About 3500 homeopaths were trained in this College.

Another recruit was Dr. Kent, whose wife was cured by a homeopathic physician. He wrote a Materia Medica that is still used today because of the cleverness of his categories of types.

Homeopathy flourished in this country at that time because it obviously worked. The pioneer wives traveled across the continent with their black boxes or remedies, just as the Queen today takes her black box wherever she goes. We have at home a box of about 50 remedies, and there isn't much that can go wrong that can't be addressed with something from that box.

All the homeopathic remedies are FDA approved. There are no side effects from them. If you take the wrong one nothing happens. If you take the right one you get a result within the hour, sometimes almost instantly, because these remedies work on the energy bodies that control the physical body. Compare this with the 106,000 people who die in an average year from complications due to prescription drugs.

The cost is generally from $4.00 to $7.00 for a 100 tablets, and liquid drops and capsules are also available at the same kind of cost. Compare that with the patented prescription drugs that cost so much that people without insurance may have to go without them.

A homeopathic physician may talk to you for about an hour to find out about you as a person because he knows that different kinds of people need to be treated differently. Compare with the mass production approach of so many allopathic facilities.

The homeopaths criticized the allopaths for using strong and sometimes dangerous remedies at once, instead of as a last resort after gentler remedies had been tried. Then in 1846 the AMA was founded to get back the business the allopaths had been losing. The code of 'ethics' of the AMA forbade their members from even consulting homeopaths. In 1883 the entire New York Medical Society was expelled from the AMA because they chose to include in their membership all qualified physicians, including homeopaths.

The AMA used its political clout and their drug company contacts to hammer home their anti-homeopathic propaganda through every available medium. They mastered advertising before the homeopaths, so, as often still happens today, the voice of the other side isn't heard. They took clever advantage of the mental climate produced by the new assembly line methods to make the allopathic ideas of the body as a lot of unconnected pieces of machinery, seem reasonable and 'modern.'

Straightforward lying was not above the AMA and their counterparts in Europe. The British Board of Health in 1854, the year of the Crimean War, suppressed the fact that the death rate from cholera at the Homeopathic Hospital was 16.4% compared with 50% for other hospitals. When challenged about this they replied, and read this twice to get it.

"The figures would give sanction to a practice opposed to the maintenance of truth and the progress of science."

In other words, these figures prove homeopathy is a superior modality, so in the interest of truth we mustn't use them. Also, we don't understand how it works. Therefore it doesn't, and it isn't science.

The AMA has the same attitude now about modalities that work but aren't understood by the technicians; modalities like acupuncture, chiropractic, reflexology, Reiki, the list is very long. About such modalities only the negative is allowed. And this happened to homeopathy and later to midwifery. If there wasn't anything true and negative, they just made up something and they came out on top in the propaganda battle because they had the eyes and the ears of their market, and the homeopathic voice wasn't heard.

And now, as the new millenium gathers way, the magic bullets of antibiotics that generated the five-minute visits and the huge incomes, are not working any more.

It is becoming clear, even to the public, that chiropractic, acupuncture, reflexology, homeopathy, and dozens of other modalities have been systematically persecuted by the AMA for decades, because they took business away, not because they were ineffective.

But the bugs can't become resistant to the homeopathic remedies which still work as well as they did when they astonished 19th century Europe and America.

Any literate person can read a couple of books, or check out homeopathy on the Web and become their own wellness coach.

In Europe, homeopathy is part of the medical curricula and is part of medical insurance. Physicians there tend to prescribe from these and herbal remedies that are safer, (84% of prostate prescriptions in Germany are herbal), and much more cost effective, because their health systems are not dominated by their drug industries.

The Queen is 74 and her Mother is alive and well, and coming up to 100. Hahnemann died in those unsanitary times at age 88. According to Dr. Wallach, the average life span of allopathic physicians in this country is 58. Go figure!

If you need a health practitioner, see if you can find yourself an homeopathic physician MD if you can, and get possibly the best of all standard medical worlds. Get health care instead of disease care. Read some homeopathy.

If you are an energy worker trying to understand how your undoubted success is obtained when nothing perceptible to those who access only five senses is going on do the same. Read some homeopathy by a gifted healer like Dr. Mary Hardy, who knows exactly how homeopathy works, and can see the difference in the energy fields when allopathic drugs are used.

And long life to you and your clients.

Recommended reading:

The Consumer's Guide to Homeopathy by Dana Ullman
This is a magnificent introduction to the principles, the major standard remedies and self treatment. It contains an enormous bibliography and details about courses available and CD's and such. Anything written by this author on homeopathy is worth reading. She's like the Matthews duo in Celtic matters; always good.

Homeopathic Remedies for Health Professionals and Lay People by Dale Buegel, Blair Lewis, and Dennis Chernin.
This book is famous for its list of important questions that go with each ailment to help pinpoint the best remedy. It also contains over a dozen computer generated charts that cross-index common symptoms of each ailment with the remedy known to cure it. Homeopathy lends itself perfectly to computer assisted diagnosis.

What you should know about Homeopathic Remedies by Dr. Earl Mindell.
This is one of the books you are likely to see at a Health Food Store, and you may ignore it because it is small and inexpensive. Don't do that. It has 87 pages packed with well organized data, and a good index.

The Alchemist's Handbook to Homeopathy by Rev. Mary Hardy Ph.D.
For energy workers who are psychic or sensitive to energy fields, this book is a must. It explains clearly how what Hahnemann was doing was a form of alchemy, of transformation of the energy field, which is what alchemy is mainly about.

Reccommended Websites:

www.HomeopathyHome.com

www.homeopathic.org

Homeopathy Internet Resources