Opinion
Time for homeopaths to join fight against corona Virus to show that Nosodes
works
Dr K
K Aggarwal
President
Heart Care Foundation of India
It’s
the time for the homeopaths all over the world to join fight against corona
virus and show that the concept of nosode works.
Modern
Medicine use vaccines for prevention and they have none for the current corona
virus. A “Vaccine” is any substance used in active immunization. “Active
immunization” is the inoculation, usually by injection of a special antigen to
promote antibody production. These may be dead bacteria (e.g. Typhoid), dead
viruses (e.g. Salk polio), live viruses (e.g. Sabin’s polio), or toxoids (e.g.
Tetanus or Diphtheria).
Homoeopathy
had its own theory regarding vaccination. It never introduces pathogenic
microorganisms into the body, so its medicine cannot strictly be called
vaccines. The equivalent are Nosodes, which have a prophylactic or
preventative effect. They are always taken orally. These Nosodes are prepared
by a process of diluting and succession, called potentization, so that there is
no trace of the original pathogen remaining.
A nosode (from nosos, the Greek word
meaning disease) is a homeopathic preparation made from matter from a sick
animal or person. Substances such as respiratory discharges or diseased tissues
are used. The preparation, using alcohol, as well as the repeated dilution and
succession, essentially renders the substances harmless, while producing a
powerful remedy.
Homeopathy is a science where the matter
is converted into nonmatter before it is used in the clinical practice.
During
the 200-year history of Homoeopathy, this form of medicine has proved to be
extraordinarily effective in preventing and curing epidemic disease. Dr Samuel Hahnemann had great
success in treating epidemics of scarlet fever. Villages treated with his
prophylactics entirely escaped dreaded epidemics, including the Plague.
"The Journal of the
American Institute for Homeopathy, May 1921, had a long article about the use
of homeopathy in the flu epidemic. Dr. T A McCann, from Dayton, Ohio
reported that 24,000 cases of flu treated allopathically had a mortality rate
of 28.2% while 26,000 cases of flu treated homeopathically had a mortality rate
of 1.05%.
This last figure was supported by Dean W.A.
Pearson of Philadelphia (Hahnemann College) who collected 26,795 cases of flu
treated with homeopathy with the above result. Dr. Herbert A.
Roberts from Derby, CT, said that 30 physicians in Connecticut responded to his
request for data. They reported 6,602 cases with 55 deaths, which is less
than 1%. Dr. Roberts was working as a physician on a troop ship
during WWI. He had 81 cases of flu on the way over to Europe. He
reported, "All recovered and were landed. Every man received homeopathic
treatment. One ship lost 31 on the way."---Julian Winston
Nosodes have
been used in prophylaxis. Examples would be the use
of Influenzinum in flu prophylaxis or Morbillinum in a measles
epidemic. Closely related to this would be the use of the sarcode Anas
barbare hepatis et cardus extractum (liver and heart of the Barbary duck)
for 'flu. Derived from tissues of the native host of influenza, this
remedy is prepared from tissue containing and reacting to the influenza virus.
For
preparing Nosodes specific perpetrations are used in the prevention of
corresponding diseases. e.g. - Morbillinum - Measles, Variolinum - Smallpox,
Influenzinum - Influenza, Diphtherinum - Diphtheria
Dr. H.C. Allen notes about the
use of Diphtherinum, "The author has used it for twenty-five years as a
prophylactic and has never known a second case of diphtheria to occur in a
family after it had been administered".
Homeopathic
preparations have not been shown to raise antibody levels. Smits tested the
titer of antibodies to diphtheria, polio and tetanus in ten children before and
one month after giving homeopathic preparations of these three vaccines (DTPol
30K and 200K). He found no rise in antibody levels (Smits, 1995). He speculates
that protection afforded by a homeopathic remedy acts on a "deeper"
level than that of antibodies.
Homoeopathic
remedies reduce the patient's sensitivity to the dynamic stimulus of the virus
or bacteria, thus lessening the patient's predisposition to being overcome by
this stimulus" (Golden, 1994).
If
homeopathic remedies do not produce an increase in antibody levels, then the
only way to measure the effectiveness of homeopathic prophylaxis is through
clinical results.
In modern medicine a similar concept has been
used in making a lung cancer nosode equivalent by repeatedly radiating the lung
cancer tissue. I personally has seen many anecdote cases that nosode works.
