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Do we need a similimum to cure?
Ishomeopathyahorriblething? byStefanKohlrausch,Germany
To get an idea of the number of different sources for homeopathic remedies – min- eral, plant or animal based, I used a Google research and others and this is what I found:
a 59 million different minerals/elements (40 million of artificial produced chemi- cals+19million of different organic substances containing 119 elements of which about 80 exist in our body)
b 1.75 million different species of animals (all having different parts like liver, heart, fethers, nails ... which makes a lot more)
c 500,000 different plants (all having roots, leaves, flowers, fruits ...)
What a huge amount in comparison to the num- ber of remedies, which exist in our pharmacies.
Approximately 12,000 remedies are avail- able in the world, some of them probably not used more than a couple of times. In my prac- tice these unknown remedies prove to be the most succesful ones, because they are the result of most intense study and analysis of the case, as I do not make decisions out of the blue. We tend to easily decide that this is a Pulsatilla or Lachesis case, because we have used it so many times and think we know them so well.
If we look at it from a logical point of view, there cannot be a difference between sub- stances, which don’t exist in nature, like Causticum or PolyVenylCloride. And if there was a difference, it would be in favour of PVC, because it is all over and around us and may influence us or at least have close connections to mankind in some way.
And why should Lachesis, a snake of the southern world, be more often helpful for islandic horses compared to the european snake, Natrix natrix? Why is Rhus toxicoden- dron indicated millions of times and Rhus glabra rarely?
My definition of polychrests might be a bit controversial:
“A polichrest is a remedy we prescribe much too often, because we do not know it well enough” How come? It has around 10,000 rubrics in the repertory. As long as we decide
Figure 1 Distribution of possible sources comparing kingdoms
Figure 2 Number of potential sources compared to number of homeopatic remedies
“A polichrest is a remedy we prescribe much too often, because we do not know it well enough”
the case by repertorisation, we will statistically find polychrests again and again in higher rank. If we would cut the number of maximum rubrics per remedy to 1000 really reliable one’s (sorry Frederic & Co), we would prescribe poly- chrests much more often as a simillimum and not only as a middle value simile (10 in the dart-graph) which has only minor success.
Explanation on the basis of 10,000 available remedies:
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