The Faculty has taught me, and continues to teach me, to «silence» the symptoms in students who are, for the most part, selected for their compliance. But symptoms are the language of life. They are the living being’s call to be understood and heard. Obviously, I am not saying that it is wonderful to be ill and to exhibit symptoms. I am simply trying to open your eyes to a clinical reality. We listen to symptoms because they point the way to the cure; they are, quite literally, the language of nature that the Master of the Art of Healing must learn to observe.
Homeopathy reveals just how dangerous the illusion of treating symptoms really is. The whole of modern industrial medicine is based on an approach that could be described as paranoid, following in Pasteur’s footsteps with a senseless view of biology, besieged by evil microbes. The current medical ideal consists of deploying, like so many divisions on a battlefield, as many drugs as are needed to silence the expression of symptoms, to the detriment of the most basic logic, whilst taking no account of either the patient’s individuality or drug interactions.
It is worth noting that totalitarianism stems from paranoid thinking[1]. It follows logically that a system based on totalitarian thinking is itself a form of totalitarianism. And the Covid tsunami has amply demonstrated this to us: the systematic suppression of any dissenting thought, the elimination of opposition, the narrative underpinning the system, the need for intimate control over people’s thoughts, and the promotion of mediocre collaborators who simply parrot the prevailing orthodoxy. All the ingredients are present in this industrial «medicine», which has now revealed its true face.
Let us note here all the war-like terms commonly used, such as «defeat», «overcome», «destroy» and «eliminate», all of which reflect the same misguided notion that the body is under siege, that disease is an external threat and must be subdued.
The second idea in this narrative is to present and treat the diseased part as if it were localised and independent, which amounts to making the same error in reasoning as when one imagines the Earth to be flat and stationary. In medicine, too, reality is the polar opposite of common sense.
But this abstraction makes it possible to develop chemicals capable of interfering with the onset of the symptom. That is all that matters to the industry, which stands to make a profit, and no one amongst the medical students realises the deception any more.
However, observation shows that every patient presents a whole range of symptoms, each affecting various parts of the body and manifesting in an almost infinite variety of forms and sensations. It is fair to say that there have never been two identical illnesses in the history of humankind, with each patient presenting their own unique set of symptoms. This particular way of manifesting itself irrefutably demonstrates that each organism has its own distinct pathological physiology.
It is not scientifically possible to answer the question of why a symptom arises, as the field of metaphysics lies beyond our remit. However, it follows from all the above that the symptom produced by the diseased organism represents the best compromise for it, given its heredity and the various factors acting upon it (this is the well-known concept of the Hippocratic constellation, a far cry from the simple allopathic bijection[2]).
The absurdity of «localised» treatment in an organism that is generally out of balance becomes apparent if one pauses for a moment to think about it, but the inescapable logic is that «tinkering» with the symptom leads to a general imbalance, the consequences of which are unpredictable.
Yet this is exactly what is happening: as allopathic palliative treatments are administered, new conditions invariably emerge at ever-deeper physical levels. This concept of ‘levels of health’[3] is unique to homeopathy and has not yet crossed the mind of any allopathic practitioner (if I may be permitted this oxymoron).
When, as a result of constant repression, the body is no longer able to «store» the general disruption on a physical level, the emotional level begins to break down, leading to depression, anxiety, phobias and suicidal tendencies. Finally, when this level begins to become overwhelmed, the mental level in turn becomes deranged, giving rise to madness and other delusions.
All you need to do now is look at the society around you to find confirmation of what I am saying and to recognise the prominent role played by medicine in this widespread destruction.
Aphorism of the month : «Illness is nothing more than a disturbance of the life 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 who had been treated for 15 years for chronic eczema. All dermatological treatments had failed. A few well-targeted doses of Sulphur , at the correct dosage, and a year later, she was symptom-free. But above all: her life had changed.
[1] See Ariane Bilheran’s seminal work on the subject of the psychopathology of totalitarianism.
[2] A bijection is a mathematical relation between two sets (such as two groups of objects) in which 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 from the school shop.
