[H] Galactase deficiency/Galactasemia

[Dr. Joe Rozencwajg, NMD]

Galactosemia is a very specific disease, and not a condition.
In a nutshell it is the inability to process the simple sugar galactose
because of the lack of one of three enzymes, due to a chromosomic
aberration.

So we are faced with the peculiar situation where we know the intimate
mechanism of a disease; its expression through symptoms might be
different from patient to patient, but the differences are very minimal.
One of the major symptoms is a cataract in newborns.

The interest in finding out if by using a homeopathic remedy, or a
certain number of remedies, a change or a cure in this situation has
been achieved is fantastic!
First there is a very easily objectivable sign that would disappear, the
cataract; then the ability to use galactose, and to be on a normal diet
would reappear; but essentially it could be proved, as the final
diagnosis is made through cells cultured in presence of galactose and
seeing how they react. The abnormal cellular metabolism would be
changed!
Now we could try to understand how this happens and in doing so increase
our understanding of the mechanisms of action of homeopathic remedies.

Many homeopaths claim that this is not necessary, all we have to do is
to apply the law of similars to the symptoms and voila...............

I do not have to understand how my computer works, because if I am in
trouble, I bring it to a professional.
I do not understand how my car works, and if need be I have a
professional mechanic who does.
The homeopath is the health professional using homeopathy as a tool; not
to understand his/her tool, or refusing to try to increase the
understanding of the mode of action of this tool points towards a lack
of professionalism and a lack of intellectual curiosity that I find
quite amazing.

But then, who am I to have an opinion...........

Dr. J. Rozencwajg, MD, PhD.
"The greatest enemy of any science is a closed mind".

[Dave Hartley]

I wonder if people believe that naming a condition 'xyz disease' and
finding modern technological ways of diagnosing it somehow means that such
condition never existed to be cured before ? (?!)

Obviously, there's no way of complete certainty, but it seems surpassingly
unlikely that such condition should've sprung up only just now, concurrent
with the technology to detect it.

It therefore follows, that previously, homeopaths have ignorantly treated
and probably cured such condition...

"Modern medicine" is a model, not God's truth. It has much to offer, if
only it were willing to do so, instead of being wielded as a club (golf
club? good 'ole boys club? sapper's cudgel?) to generally disempower
persons in the realms of real health (vs. pharmaceutical "drug of the
month" -club) and to disenfranchise other systems of healing, while
extracting maximum economic capital and concentrating that into the hands of
the rarefied ownership of the pharmaceutical giants, with juicy morsels
given out to M.D.'s, medical colleges, hospitals, medical journals, and
others who make the whole financial pyramid scheme function.

The homeopathic model can take some valuable information from the allopathic
model, but only when it is kept in context -else we have a situation
Hahnemann deplored as "half homeopaths."

In the context of homeopathy, we have Hahnemann's theory of Miasms and
Chronic Disease.
if we may, the 'etiological constellation' which gives rise to this set of
symptoms (which I cannot agree to consider "a specific disease")
I believe we have been informed that there was some hereditary basis; the
allopathic agreement (and the allopathic belief that they have found "the
cause") is an interesting side note.

Following general procedure for a classical homeopathic diagnosis, we look
as carefully as may be at the 'family tree' and take the case as chronic
disease, in which we (prior to or after the invention of modern allopathic
diagnosis) consider inherited miasm. We might expect to find Tubercular
&/or Psoric miasm involved.

If one wished to document successful treatment with allopathic testing, why
not.. but there seems to be a danger when getting involved with allopathy,
of losing track of which way is up (so to speak.)

regards,
Dave Hartley
www.Mr-Notebook.com
www.localcomputermart.com/dave
Seattle, WA 425.820.7443

[Dr. Joe Rozencwajg, NMD]

"It therefore follows, that previously, homeopaths have ignorantly
treated
and probably cured such condition..."

And WHY remain ignorant of that fact?
What is wrong with demonstration of action?
What is wrong with knowledge?
What is wrong with understanding?

You keep mixing a social and political fight with science, from the word
sapere, to know...........
Dr. J. Rozencwajg, MD, PhD.
"The greatest enemy of any science is a closed mind".

[Chris]

Very well said, Dave.
Christine Wyndham-Thomas
www.dogsonholiday-uk.com
Editor on Homeopathy for Suite101.com

[Dr. Joe Rozencwajg, NMD]

Just for the safe of bickering, I checked in an old pediatric book.

The condition/disease known as Galactosemia was already described in the
books in the 1930's.
The technology allowing to understand the mechanism by which this
disease appears came later.
Did homeopaths treat and cure this disease? Maybe. That was the
question.........

So again; what is wrong with knowing that fact and trying to understand
how they made it??????

Dr. J. Rozencwajg, MD, PhD.
"The greatest enemy of any science is a closed mind".

[Chris]

Dr. J. Rozencwajg, MD, PhD.wrote
So again; what is wrong with knowing that fact and trying to understand
how they made it??????
Absolutely nothing wrong at all, Dr Rozencwajg. The greatest enemy of any
science is a closed mind,
and I couldn't agree more.

My main praise to Dave was in connection with his email condemning the abuse
of the pharmaceutical industry,
which holds and controls the financial monopoly of the drug industry. It
doesn't want competition. It never did in
Hahnemann's times and it certainly doesn't want it now.

As regards Homeopaths vs Allopaths. Homeopaths have cured by symptoms alone
Allopaths need to name and
understand the disease - there is absolutely nothing wrong with that - but
they then produce their own medicine. Why don't they just use the
homeopathic medicine, especially if it's been shown to effect a cure?

What Dave has said in his email regarding the pharmaceutical industry is
absolutely right. I don't see his email as being aganst science or
allopaths in general - only the abuse of it!
Christine Wyndham-Thomas
www.dogsonholiday-uk.com
Editor on Homeopathy for Suite101.com

[Dave Hartley]

"The greatest enemy of any science is a closed mind"

I am sure that you are an exception to the rule, but as a rule, the minds of
"modern scientists" are exceptionally tightly bound up into a no longer
so-modern Cartesian reductionist mindset which into which they have been
institutionally conditioned. That which does not fit neatly into the
pre-defined limits is reflexively cast away, automatically excluded from any
further regard.

One important thing in my worldview, which may differ from yours, is that I
*DO NOT* see "modern scientific" .... "evidence" as definitive. I
consider it potentially interesting speculation; factual ONLY within it's
narrow confines! It is only a model. It fails utterly in many areas.
It is not "Reality" (with a capital R)
Do Not Mistake the Map for the Territory.

Again, if you wish to use the tools of "modern medicine" to document
homeopathic cure- why not.

Just don't be too surprised when your data of successful cure of "incurable
disease" is either ignored, ridiculed, or worse- taken as a basis for
experimentation by the political forces which you might like to pretend do
not own practically every iota of "modern research" ... do you cherish some
naive thought that one day some stellar proof of homeopathic miracle cure,
reproducible under "scientific conditions" ..would be somehow divorced from
the power-mad political forces who control the allopathic medical
establishment?

Here is what would happen, should you incontrovertibly prove a homeopathic
miracle cure.

If you had little publicity, and no influential persons concerned, you might
be harassed & hounded into oblivion, threatened, imprisoned, impoverished,
and have your reputation assiduously destroyed by false criminal charges.
This has been routinely done to QUITE A FEW who have cured too well or too
high-profile outside of the politically correct halls of allopathy.

If you had great publicity, and a friendly Senator on your board of
directors, your research would possibly be taken, and if it couldn't be
dis-proven or side-tracked or ignored, we might then see the end of
homeopathy as lay practice & OTC remedies, for only the annointed may be
allowed to scientifically cure... for only they.. will be able to assure
that properly staggering amounts of funds are extracted from the sheeple and
funnelled into that Mammonly maw agape atop of the political control
mechanism which you would perhaps like to pretend has nothing to do with
"modern science" (would that it were so)

Alack, alas, etc.

regards,

Dave Hartley
www.Mr-Notebook.com
www.localcomputermart.com/dave
Seattle, WA 425.820.7443

[Dr. Joe Rozencwajg, NMD]

Yes Dave, you are absolutely right in what you say, but is besides the
point.

To come back to the origin of this exchange, somebody in our world of
homeopathy asked the question about a homeopathic treatment of
Galactosemia.
Nobody answered to the point.
Nobody yet knows about this, which is of interest to many of us.

All the rest that has been written is a political issue, that can and
should be discussed but with another heading and without putting down
the person who asked in the first place.

OK?????

Dr. J. Rozencwajg, MD, PhD.
"The greatest enemy of any science is a closed mind".

[Dale Moss]

I recall Paul Herscu saying that diseases of metabolic deficiency, which
would include galactosemia, are treatable but not curable. Even homeopathy
can't undo a missing chromosome, but it can palliate.

Peace,
Cinnabar

[vtyekkirala]

Hi,
I have no experience in this. I dug the following from EH.
with best wishes,
V.T.Yekkirala
a1 - Kalium iodatum - Eye] - Peculiar state of the eyes;pupils dilated, and
both eyes were in a state of incessant motion;these motions strongly
resembled those of a child who had congenital cataract, that is, constant
oscillation;he found himself quite unable to fix them on any object, [a5].
bn3] A little girl, 5½ years of age, was placed under my professional care
on December 11, 1884, for defective development of eyes and brain,
apparently from constitutional delicacy, and then originating from the
effects of a fall. It is not easy to gauge the effects of a fall; usually
the point is really this: What is the quality of the person who falls ? In
this case the patient is the coal-black variety of the strumous; her
forehead was low and projecting; she was blind from double cataract, due
probably to shock in the first instance, and then the lenses gradually
silted up. The child was dull, nervous, readily frightened by the least
noise, and she had been vaccinated in the usual way successfully. I
proceeded first against the vaccinosis with Thuja 30, and this seemingly
caused a bout of vomiting, whereupon improvement in the vision set in.
[bn3] January 5, 1885. -Grinds her teeth at night.
[bn3] Rx Luet. CC.
[bn3] February 1. -Pupils less dilated; decided general amelioration, and
notably in the state of her nerves; she is less irritable, and much more
amenable to reason. Thuja C. then followed, but apparently did no good,
when Luet. CC. was repeated.
[bn3] March 24. -Sight and temper better; sleeps well; she has, and has had
for long, ill-smelling foot-sweats; she can now see large capital letters,
as well as at a greater distance; and, for the first time in her life, her
bowels act well of themselves.
[bn3] The treatment was continued very irregularly till June 1888, since
when I have no further information, and the condition then reported to me (I
did not see her) was thus described by her father,--" She sees better, and
walks about with increased confidence."
[bn3] The principal point of interest to me in this case was the very
decided good effects of Platanus occidentalis ø, which was given for a
number of months with very evident benefit to the nutrition of the child's
lenses, and consequent improvement in her vision. The dose was five drops
night and morning.

bn5 - Eruption on scalp - cataract] Towards the end of the year 1880, a boy
of four was brought to me from the South of England. His sight was good
until he was about two years old, when he had incipient cataract in the
right eye, then in the left one, and at the age of three he was blind.
[bn5 - Eruption on scalp - cataract] I elicited the following note-worthy
anamnestic point : He used to have great irritation of the skin ever since
he was a few months old; when between eight and nine months old he was
treated for it with "sulphur ointment, a lotion, and medicines."
[bn5] PAGE 29
[bn5 - Eruption on scalp - cataract] After the first medicine which I
ordered him an eruption came on his skin, and more particularly on the
scalp, and he began to see ! His mother reported that he altered in his
gait, for whereas he formerly looked straight out before him fixedly at the
light, now he bends forward. He further astonished his parents by remarking
that there was a certain colour in the painted ceiling, pale green. There
was also slight but evident change in the opaque lenses themselves.
[bn5 - Eruption on scalp - cataract] Now, although I had given to the
parents, as my opinion, that the cataract was a direct consequence of the
cured (suppressed) skin affection from which the child had suffered, still,
no sooner did my medicine begin to bring back the eruption to the scalp than
the mother forthwith applied some zinc ointment she had in the house ! The
zinc ointment did its work very promptly and effectually; the eruption
disappeared, and so did the returning vision, - i.e. , the boy went quite
blind again, and remained so. He also began to talk, laugh, and cry in his
sleep again as he had previously done.
[bn5] PAGE 30
[bn5 - Eruption on scalp - cataract] The further course of this case showed
most conclusively that the opacity of the lenses, and the scalp eruption,
stood in causal nexus, - that is to say, they had a common cause. Orthodox
medicine cured the eruption with ointment, then came the cataract, which is
again cured by operation. Truly, we live in an age of wisdom and
enlightenment.

"A girl, aged 12, had been affected since her earliest recollection with
flocculent cataract (probably congenital) of both eyes. She had had an
operation performed about four months ago, without the least benefit; four
doses of Magnes. Carb. 200 were also give, without any benefit. Five months
later she received Euphras. 200, in water; a tablespoonful once a day was
followed by some improvement of the left eye. The Euphrasia was continue for
four months with steady improvement; as soon as the patient ceased to
improve Sulph. 200 was given followed by Magnes. Carb. 200, one dose every
week for five months, at the end of which time the circumferences of the
cataracts in both eyes were only just observable. Euphras. 200, Silic. 200,
and Acid. Nitr. perfected the cure. The use of spectacles for cataract
assisted, however, very much to increase the sight of the child."

c1 - Platanus orientalis] - In this case Platanus í was given (five drops
night and morning) for a number of months, "with very evident improvement in
the nutrition of the child's lenses."
[c1 - Platanus orientalis] - [Burnett names the remedy Plat occ.; but his
tincture was made from the London tree, which is Plat. acer.