The Faculty taught me, and continues to teach me, to "silence" symptoms in students selected for the most part for their compliance. But symptoms are the language of life. It is the call of the living to be understood, to be heard. Obviously, I'm not saying that it's wonderful to be ill and to have symptoms. I'm simply trying to open your eyes to a clinical reality. We listen to symptoms because they point the way to the curative remedy. It's literally the language of nature that the Master of the Art of Healing must learn to observe.
Homeopathy shows us just how dangerous the illusion of fighting symptoms can be. The whole of modern industrial medicine is based on an approach that can best be described as paranoid, following in Pasteur's footsteps in an insane vision of biology under siege from evil microbes. Today's medical ideal consists in lining up as many drugs as necessary to silence symptomatic expression, like so many divisions on a battlefield, to the detriment of the most elementary logic, taking no account of the uniqueness of the patient or of drug interactions.
It's worth noting that totalitarianism stems from paranoid thinking[1]. It is logical to infer that a system based on totalitarian thinking is itself a form of totalitarianism. This has been amply demonstrated by the Covid tsunami: systematic repression of all discordant thought, elimination of opposition, a system-based narrative, the need for intimate control of thought, promotion of mediocre collaborators who repeat the doxa well. All the ingredients are present in this industrial "medicine", which has now revealed its true face.
Let's take a look at some of the warlike vocabulary commonly used here, such as "to conquer", "to strike down", "to destroy", "to eliminate", all in line with the same insane thinking that implies that the organism is under siege, that the disease is exogenous and must be subdued.
The second idea in this narrative is to present and treat the diseased part as if it were local and independent, which is to commit the same error of thought as when we represent the earth as flat and immobile. In medicine, too, reality is the antithesis of common sense.
But this abstraction makes it possible to develop chemicals capable of interfering with symptom production. That's all that matters to the profit-making industry, and no one in the ranks of medical students realizes the deception any more.
Observation shows that every patient presents a totality of symptoms, each affecting different parts of the body, expressing themselves in an almost infinite range of modalities and diverse sensations. It is safe to say that no two illnesses in human history have ever been identical, with each patient producing his or her own particular set of symptoms. This particular way of expressing oneself irrefutably shows that every organism has its own disturbed physiology.
It's not scientifically possible to answer the question of why a symptom is produced, as the realm of metaphysics doesn't belong to us. But we can deduce from the foregoing that the symptom produced by the sick organism represents the best compromise for it, depending on its heredity and the various factors acting on it (this is the famous Hippocratic notion of constellation, far removed from simple allopathic bijection[2]).
The absurdity of a "localized" treatment in a generally disturbed organism becomes apparent if you take a second to think about it, but the implacable reasoning consists in thinking that by "fiddling" with the symptom we bring about a general imbalance whose repercussions are unforeseeable.
Yet this is exactly what happens: as allopathic palliative treatments progress, new pathologies invariably appear on ever deeper physical levels. This notion of health levels[3] is unique to homeopathy, and has not yet occurred to the allopathic mind (if I may use the oxymoron).
When the body is no longer able to "store" the general disturbance on the physical level, the emotional level begins to break down, with depression, anxiety, phobias and suicidal tendencies. Finally, when the emotional plane begins to saturate, the mental plane in turn becomes disrupted, producing madness and other illusions.
All you have to do now is look at the society around you to confirm what I'm saying, and identify the eminent role of medicine in this widespread destruction.
Aphorism of the month: "Illness is nothing but a disturbance of the vital force."
My analysis: Symptoms are the outward signs of an invisible imbalance. They are the key to treatment, not the obstacle.
Clinical case: In Switzerland, a patient had been treated for 15 years for chronic eczema. All dermatological treatments had failed. A few well-targeted doses of Sulphur , at the right dosage, and a year later she was free. But above all: her life has changed.
[1] See Ariane Bilheran's seminal work on the subject of the Psychopathology of Totalitarianism.
[2] A bijection is a mathematical relationship between two sets (such as two groups of objects) where each element of the first set is associated with exactly one unique element of the second, and vice versa.
[3] See Les Niveaux de Santé, by Georges Vithoulkas, translated by E Broussalian and J.-C Ravalard. Available in the school shop.
