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What is a nosode?
HAHNEMANN didn t know anything about the principle of the effect of the nosodes we nowadays understand and use. He only medicated with miasmatic nosodes. In “Chronic Diseases” he wrote that other nosodes were like isopathic products and had nothing to do with a simillimun.
Later, in 1830, CONSTANTIN HERING created the new term ‘nosodes’. This concept means that potentised, pathological and endogenous substances (pus, blood, pathogenic agents, hormones, organ cells, and even vaccines) stimulate the immune system
which has weaken the immune system
(overcrowding, humid air ...)
• Less virulent pathogenic agents (facultative
pathogen)
• Mistakes in healthy lifestyle (e.g. bladder-
stone in cats from dry food)
• Psychosomatic complaints (e.g. eczema
from homesickness)
Blood in everyday language
“Blood is a special fluid!” These were Mephisto s words in GOETHE s Faust – and although Goethe was treated by Hahnemann, Goethe didn t think of blood as a healing
who almost bled to death in childbed by blood transfusion.
The treatment with auto-blood
Parenteral :
• In the Neiking-Book of the Taoist monks
(200 a.D.) the patients was cured by pinch massage or by stitches with needles to get subcutaneous haematoma against infection
• In1667,thefirsttherapeuticblood transfusion was made by Jean-Baptiste Denis. He transfused 270 ml carotid blood of a lamb into the arm vein of a 15-year- old boy, who had been weakened from many bloodlettings. He survived. But later 2 of 3 patients died and this method was abandoned.
• In1819JamesBlundellrescued3women,
Blood and urine nosodes – an easy way to normalise the immune system
Dr. Bernhard Hornig, Germany
and eliminate toxins. Very often this concept works well.
nosode but more of a pact to get Faust’s soul. . “Blood is a special fluid“. Whether in a fight or as a ritual, blood sacrifice blood is a sign of life. Therefore we often use this word in our everyday language: noble or royal blood, blood is thicker than water, blood horse, blood brother, my blood runs cold etc.
Also in medical history, blood has a special significance: “four liquid doctrine“, “ the sanguine type”, empiric trials with blood in different diseases.
The use of blood in medical history
Treatment with blood other than one’s own
External :
• In Papyrus Ebers (1500 AD) it is described
how the pharaohs used human blood
against leprosy
• In the Middle Ages, a bath in human blood
was advised in case of skin eruptions,
especially in leprosy Peroral :
• In the Middle Ages, other blood was used in chronic diseases
• Doctors made “Spiritus Antiepilepticus“ from the bloodletting of a healthy young man
Parenteral :
• In 1681, the therapy of choice in stitch was
an application of a goat s blood; in cases of erysipelas it was blood from the heart of a pig.
diseases, pneumonias or chronic
inflammations
• In 1876 Schede, later August Bier, left blood
in the surgical wound to get a better healing
process
• In 1891 Debauve and Remont punctured a
small quantity of ascites liquid in a case of tubercular peritonitis and re-injected the punctate subcutaneously. This was the first application of an auto-nosode.
• First time in 1898 Elfstrom and Grafstrom produced an auto-blood nosode diluting venous blood with physiological saline solution and re-injecting it after lightly warming it up. This method was successful in pneumonia and tuberculosis.
• Until the first half of the last century doctors experimented a lot with auto-blood by chemical or physical alterations. These methods have been successful in dermatitis, acute infections, furunculosis, rheumatic and chronic diseases and especially as a stimulation therapy.
• Nowadays the therapy with auto-blood is an established component in natural medicine.
The difference between classic auto- blood treatment and homeopathic auto- blood nosode treatment
First we have to remember the Arndt-Schulz rule. It says that in a vivid steady state the stimulus quality is not important but that the
Which kind of nosodes has an effect, which ones have fewer or no effects? The well-stimulating nosodes are:
• Miasmatic nosodes (psor, tub, carc, psor, med)
• Nosodes from highly virulent agent
(scarlatina, influenza ...)
• Nosodes of surpluses (high blood
cholesterol, high blood minerals ...)
• Isopathic remedies in deficit blood
situations (some have a limited effect), and
• Auto-blood-urine-nosode (especially in allergies, autoimmune diseases and in
individuals with increased susceptibility to infections)
The less-stimulating (or non-stimulating) nosodes are:
• Diseasesresultingfrombadenvironment,
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STÖTELER writes about nosodes: “We notice in everyday use, how essential it is for patients to get through an illness, they have been confronted with. Diseases that aren’t well mastered sometimes leave tracks far into the future. Often these tracks are an obstacle on the road to healing. The well- chosen remedy doesn t seem to cure. In homeopathy we talk of a blockage.”