Homeopathy
Homeopathy is the set of procedures for applying the only known therapeutic law for healing patients: the law of similars.
Therapeutic results can only be achieved through strict adherence to the guidelines laid down by the discoverer of homeopathy, Dr. Samuel Hahnemann, over 55 years of clinical observation and experimentation. Horrified by the very approximate way in which Parisian doctors applied his discoveries while continuing to bleed, Hahnemann famously said: "Imitate me, but imitate me well! "Alas, for almost a century now, the homeopathic world seems to have forgotten even the existence of the Organon, the book in which Hahnemann recorded his discoveries. As a result, homeopathy has been taught according to arbitrary views conceived by people who have never fully mastered the art, or even read the Organon. With each generation, the level of competence has declined to the present misery where gurus impose ever more deviant views on a gullible and increasingly uneducated audience. What all these deviations have in common is the desire to establish as an absolute value something that will never be anything but relative: "vaccine dams", "sensation", "the periodic table", "souchism" and so on.
Gestalt
Throughout the 291 aphorisms of the Organon, Hahnemann proposes a logical development based on reasoning and clinical observation. Each of these 291 aphorisms is relatively independent of the others, demonstrating that there is no single proposition of absolute value, but only relative propositions that make sense when taken together. The Organon can only be used to become a homeopath when it is applied as a whole; it can be added to, but not subtracted from - what Hahnemann calls "Gestalt". What we say here about homeopathy applies, as we shall see below, to the patient himself, who cannot be reduced to a single symptom.
Non-reductionism
Gestalt is the conceptual tool for a non-reductionist vision. Reductionism has enabled sensational progress to be made in the sciences of the inanimate world, since it can be assumed that atoms have not changed since creation. This is not the case with biological entities, which have been evolving for billions of years. Reducing man to organs, then organs to cells, then cells to biological mechanisms is of absolutely no benefit to medicine.
All symptoms
It follows from this reality that every patient presents a totality of symptoms that conventional medicine claims to reduce to the only one it is interested in treating that day, which is an arbitrary approach that is totally unscientific. As the patient cannot be reduced to a diseased organ, the only way to approach the problem is through the totality of his symptoms, which indirectly characterizes the invisible interior of the organism. It is this totality that characterizes the case, the notion of signifying totality, a combination unique to each patient.
a) Principle of individualization
This leads to the Principle of individualization, essential to prescribing. It is by perfectly characterizing the case, particularly in its most unique aspects, that the homeopathic physician can identify the appropriate medicine.
b) Vital force
If such an ensemble is maintained in a patient, there must be a common cause upstream of these symptoms, so that the totality represents the manifestation of an internal disorder which remains directly invisible. Logic dictates that this disorder exists upstream of the organs themselves. This is why homeopaths are vitalist physicians: our thinking leads us to believe that "the manifestations we call diseases are based on the disharmony of vital energy", as Hahnemann puts it.
c) Eternal palliation
It follows from all this that everything we can observe with the naked eye or under the microscope is merely the result of an upstream dynamic disorder (apart, of course, from an external traumatic cause), and in no way the cause of the disease. Consequently, any treatment aimed at eliminating these manifestations can only be palliative and eternally doomed to failure. This has always been the case with allopathic prescriptions.
Drug properties
Experimentation and poisonings over the centuries prove that all active drugs have the potential to disrupt the body, causing a unique pathological picture.
a) Totality of action
It follows that all drugs, medicines and other active substances are also capable of causing totality, which demonstrates both their general action and the fact that the organism reacts as a whole. Just as every patient is a carrier of totality, so too is every drug, capable of imprinting its unique imprint on the living organism.
b) "Secondary" effects
Just as it is arbitrary to try to isolate one symptom from the patient, neglecting the rest of the symptoms or calling them "secondary", it is perfectly arbitrary to speak of the "secondary effects" of a drug: these are simply the rest of its total action in the body.
c) Sensitivity or susceptibility
To the question "Does alcohol make you drunk?", the answer varies according to the quantity and susceptibility of the subject to alcohol. It's exactly the same for drugs used in medicine. There is a continuum of individual susceptibilities, which can be predicted with homeopathic "tools". These phenomena are at the very heart of the healing process, thanks to the action of a substance which may or may not be perceived by the organism. Inversely, susceptibility is also a factor in falling ill: mere exposure to a triggering factor such as cold or a microbe is not enough; a susceptibility must exist beforehand, and this susceptibility is itself a direct function of the patient's state of health.
Why is it that a drug that may be clinically beneficial for one person turns out to be ineffective or even downright toxic for another? This is a central question in medicine, and one that nobody seems to ask. Only homeopathy provides answers, which we can only partially develop here. A patient's susceptibility is directly linked to a disturbance in his or her internal state, which is dynamic in nature, and to the fact that, since life is governed by chaotic mechanisms, even the slightest change can have enormous repercussions. Most people will be able to react to a substance in massive (toxic) doses, while only a few susceptible individuals will react to much smaller quantities, but sometimes in a serious or explosive manner.
Interaction of two totalities
Homeopathy shows us that the absorption of any active substance involves the interaction of two totalities, that of the patient and that of the drug. When the two interacting totalities have nothing to do with each other, i.e. when their respective pictures are dissimilar, there is no particular susceptibility. Nothing happens, unless we insist on administering continuous and increasing doses, at which point a toxic picture may develop and more or less supplant the initial pathological picture.
On the other hand, if the two totalities resemble each other, i.e. if the pathological picture of the drug administered resembles the totality manifested in the patient, then there is a major susceptibility, and in this case the interaction is extremely violent.
a) Dynamization
It is because of these phenomena of major aggravation that the Law of Similars has remained unexploited since the dawn of medicine. It was Hahnemann's own observation of these frightening manifestations that gave him the idea of drastically reducing doses to the point where he knew full well that there was no longer any chemical trace of the substance... which still didn't prevent the organism from reacting to the presence of the drug. This process of fractioning and shaking is called dynamization, and is not a simple dilution - anyone can experience pouring a drop of strychnine into the ocean.
b) Interaction of forces
Although modern discoveries speak of crystalline microstructures within water, no one can yet explain the nature of dynamization. What we can say is that only a dynamic agent can be perceived by the "unbalanced" vital force, and it is on this dynamic, non-material plane of action that healing takes place. Obviously, these notions were rejected by scientific materialism as early as Hahnemann's time, and today these ideas are fought with the same virulence. Yet they are based on simple observation and logical reasoning.
c) Homeopathy
Observation always shows that in the interaction of two similar totalities, the stronger will be able to destroy the weaker. This is what Hahnemann states (Organon §26):
In the living organism, a weaker dynamic affection is extinguished in a lasting way by a stronger one, if the latter (though different in species) nevertheless resembles it very much in its manifestation.
In 30 years of practice, I have found it impossible to refute Hahnemann's conclusions, which we have just briefly outlined here. The aim of the School is to bring to as many people as possible the knowledge of homeopathy that is so neglected today, to raise public awareness and to train the next generation of competent homeopaths.
