prophylaxis

[tracy poizner]

There is a chapter called "Prophylactics and Genus
Epidemicus" in Principles of Prescribing by K.N.
Mathur.It includes the transcript of a lecture by
Pierre Schmidt on this topic, with an extensive list
of prophylactic nosodes and other remedies. Dorothy
Sheppard wrote an excellent book on treating epidemic
disease.
Regards,
Tracy Poizner, Kitchener, Canada

[gunterma_bar]

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Prophylaxis in Homoeopathy
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http://www.simillimum.com/Thelittlelibr ... laxis.html
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[tracy poizner]

Hello all,
Andrew posted an interesting question as to whether
there is any potential downside to taking Variolinum
as a protective measure.
My opinion is this - I would certainly take it myself,
and I would give it to my child. The question is - in
what sort of dose? How often? How long should I feel I
am protected? We still don't know which is the best
protocol for preventing any given type of disease or
even whether the nosode is actually more beneficial in
any particular situation than the epidemic remedy.
This may be an excellent opportunity for us to collate
our experiences.
On a large scale, I worry about handing out
Anthracinum or any prophyactic, really, because there
is still a risk of failure (antidoting,
non-compliance, overdosing, etc.). I am amazed at the
endless creativity of my clients in misinterpreting my
careful instructions, printed or otherwise. The
largest prophylactic experience we have up to now is
probably Influenzinum, which boasts an 85% success
rate - certainly better than nothing, but I don't want
to end up on the front page of the newspaper if one of
my clients ends up with a "mild" case of anthrax....or
smallpox, or botulism. These are frightening times,
and people don't understand what we do, so if we are
going to pass out remedies made of these disease
poisons, we have to have clear heads.
Let's not forget to compare notes on all this.
Warm regards,
Tracy Poizner, Kitchener, Canada

[gunterma_bar]

Hello Tracy.
You wrote....
"The question is - in what sort of dose? How often? How long should I
feel I am protected?"
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SMALLPOX
VARIOLINUM
It is an excellent remedy as curative as well as preventive. A dose of
this should be given at the commencement of treatment. The normal
treatment with other remedies of the disease the medicine should be
given once a weak in 200 dilution. It is never to be below 200. It cures
disfigurement of the face left by small pox. Give one does of 200 every
weak, three of four doses along with other indicated remedies no other
medicine to be given on the day variolinumm is administered.

Ref: .......
http://www.indiangyan.com/homeopathy/5.shtml
Best wishes to all, Anthony_G
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[Soroush Ebrahimi]

Shannon

Here is the quote:
FN Aph 33
"A striking fact in corroboration of this is, that whilst previously to the
year 1801, when the smooth scarlatina of Sydenham still occasionally
prevailed epidemically among children, it attacked without exception all
children who had escaped it in a former epidemic; in a similar epidemic
which I witnessed in Konigslutter, on the contrary, all the children who
took in time a very small dose of belladonna remained unaffected by this
highly infectious infantile disease. If medicines can protect from a disease
that is raging around, they must possess a vastly superior power of
affecting our vital force."

Soroush

[Shannon Nelson]

Thanks Soroush,
This actually isn't the one I was thinking of--and I'm happy to have
the additional example! There's somewhere that he talks about the
issue of "specifics", says that there are a few, and mentions Bell.
again in this connection... But maybe it's rather beside the point,
because all I really meant to bring up, is that homeoprophylaxis seems
to have received "the nod" from Hahnemann, and to have an approved
place in our homeopathic toolchest.

Now just *what* that place is, could be argued! Some prescribers use
prophylactic prescribing quite freely, and on what seems like a
"whattheheck,maybeit'llhelp" sort of not-very-homeopathic theory, while
others hew more closely to what I *think* was closer to Hahnemann's
intention--to use it when "the wolf is at the door", during clear and
present threat, whether from current epidemic in the area, or from
infected family member or etc.; not just as e.g. a substitute for
vaccination for a disease nobody's gotten in decades. (I've read good
defenses of that practice too, but that seems to me to stray farther
from actual principles of homeopathy.)

Giving a remedy in anticipation of an event for which it would likely
be indicated (e.g. arnica before surgery) seems (thinking...) to make
sense in that way, except that evidently there are other factors to
consider too... Such as clinical evidence (reports of situations and
instances where it has been detrimental; and also complicating factors
such as interactions with drugs, e.g. the recently mentioned
arnica-plus-aspirin, and hypericum-plus-anaesthetic)... (No conclusion
here, just thoughts!)
Shannon

[Soroush Ebrahimi]

OK - What about this qt then - Aph 73 second FN

"Subsequently to the year 1801 a kind of pupura miliaris (roodvonk), which
came from the West, was by physicians confounded with the scarlet fever,
notwithstanding that they exhibited totally different symptoms, that the
latter found its prophylatic and curative remedy in belladonna, the former
in aconite, and that the former was generally merely sporadic, while the
latter was invariable epidemic. Of late years it seems as if the two
occasionally joined to form an eruptive fever of a peculiar kind, for which
neither the one nor the other remedy, alone, will be found to be exactly
homoopathic."

I think the treatment of epidemic disease has been cleared through long
experience.

However, it is the issue of what to do before operations and tooth jobs etc
that still confuses people.

Rgds
Soroush

[Shannon Nelson]

LOL, no, that's another! But I think it's even more to-the-point than
the one I was dimly remembering--thanks!

My thinking (and I think one of Hahnemannian's points) was that there's
a lot of similarity between the situation of a known and consistently
occurring infectious disease (epidemic or not), and a known,
predictable trauma such as surgery. As I've said, I am *not* (at least
thus far) a fan of giving arnica prior to surgery, because it seems
that there are various other issues involved;

[Shannon Nelson]

Oops sorry, that got sent by accident, when I was looking over
unfinished stuff...