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AIDS - A brief history of the disease
In 1981 a few unexplained cases of Pneumicystis carinii pneumonia appeared in apparently healthy young men in metropolitan areas of the U.S.. P.C.P. is a rare form of parasitic pneumonia, that previously had only been seen in the very old and very young or in those with compromised immune systems (usually through malnutrition or through the use of immuno-suppressant drugs.)
Doctors were also reporting an increase in the number of cases of Kaposi's sarcoma, a rare form of skin cancer, that had also only been known in people with weakened immune systems. Again this condition was appearing in fit, young men. The only connecting factor between these patients was that they were almost exclusively gay and predominantly promiscuously gay.
The appearance of opportunistic infections in apparently healthy young men was called Gay Related Immune Deficiency, GRID. By the end of 1983, when Pluto had entered Scorpio, an event associated with plagues by some astrologers, there had been more than 2,500 cases in the United States and cases were appearing all over the developed world.
By this time it was clear that the disease was not restricted to gay men. It was also appearing in haemophiliacs, intravenous drug users and the female partners of bisexual men. The disease was renamed Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome, AIDS.
The first men with the disease had tended to have a large number of sexual partners, a history of many episodes of venereal disease treated with antibiotics, and a substantial use of recreational drugs, especially amyl nitrate (a heart drug often used by gay men to heighten and prolong sexual arousal).
The appearance of AIDS in haemophiliacs and intravenous drug users indicated that it was an infectious disease and that the infectious agent was carried in the blood. The appearance of AIDS in female partners of high risk men, indicated that the infectious agent was probably present also in semen. The cases of babies suggested that breast milk might also be a carrier. The obvious conclusion was that all bodily fluids, including saliva, were possible carriers of the infectious agent. What had at first seemed to be restricted to a particular, and somewhat isolated, community;
now came to be seen as a plague that would affect everyone. A simple kiss could be a death sentence.
This view was confirmed by the African experience. At around the same time that AIDS was appearing in the U.S. and the developed world, a strange new disease was appearing in parts of Africa. This disease caused wasting, hence it came to be called 'Slim', and it opened the unaffected person up to opportunistic infections from which he or she usually died. In Africa 'Slim' was, and still is, killing an enormous number of men and women who should be in the prime of their lives. In Africa AIDS is clearly a heterosexual disease. AIDS and drug abuse have been closely linked since
the first appearance of the disease. However, it is in intravenous heroin users that it has taken hold most strongly. In a number of cities in both the developed and developing worlds the problems of heroin addiction and HIV have almost merged into one.
The isolation, the secrecy and the numbness of the heroin state, the only way out of unbearable pain, have a resonance with issues important in the AIDS state.
In the late Eighties and early Nineties a number of famous people died of AIDS. These included Freddie Mercury and Liberace, but the death that the caused the most attention was that of Rock Hudson. Many of his Hollywood friends took up AIDS as a cause and it became a very public issue.
In an effort to reduce infections, and control what was threatening to become a devastating plague, many governments launched massive advertising campaigns to encourage 'safe sex'. For a while it seemed that humanity was in imminent danger of being wiped out by the disease. By the late 1990s much of the terror and hype about AIDS has died away. In the developed world at least, the disease is common only in certain quite restricted, fairly small and well-defined groups.
The plague has not come to suburbia as many had feared it would. Even for those with the disease a cocktail of very powerful drugs is significantly extending life expectancy.
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The mechanism of the Human Immuno-deficiency Virus
In the early Eighties research on retro-viruses in France and America found a retro-virus that was later called HIV, which was associated with AIDS.
The Human Immuno-deficiency Virus is a retro-viruses, one of a small group of viruses that infiltrate a cell and subvert its genetic mechanism to procreate themselves.
RNA is usually a messenger molecule that transfers the genetic code from the DNA in the cell nucleus to the ribosomes where proteins are built up according to the DNA blueprint. HIV contains small pieces of RNA, which work in reverse: they alter the DNA.
In HIV infection the virus enters T4 cells in the blood. Once inside the cell the virus releases an enzyme, reverse transcriptase, which causes small pieces of RNA in the virus to produce a relatively short length of DNA. This piece of DNA becomes part of the infected cell's genome and starts producing RNA which will in turn become part of a new virus. In this process the host T4 cell, a leukocyte which has an important role in the working of the immune system, is destroyed and the whole system is severely compromised.
Not everyone has been entirely convinced that HIV is the real cause of AIDS. Those most likely to get disease are also those who have compromised immune systems, either through conditions such as haemophilia, or through the abuse of drugs and a history of venereal disease with the resulting antibiotic treatment. Harris Coulter is one of many who have questioned the link. This issue has become impossible to analyse as the presence of antibodies to HIV has now become the definition of AIDS. Thus patients with HIV antibodies dying of pneumonia are classified as a dying of AIDS,
while those without the antibodies are classified as a dying of pneumonia. By the definition of the disease all people dying of AIDS have HIV antibodies.
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'AIDS - A Brief History of the disease section' contributed by Peter Fraser
Observations about AIDS patients
- Patients often surrender to standard medical interventions or develop monomaniacal approaches to learning all about the disease (and then refuse treatment).
- Patients may feel that the health care giver is a partner - they must explain every move to the satisfaction of the patient or they will be dismissed.
- Fear of exposure and feeling unacceptable.
- A feeling of peace and calm, surrender to a higher power. (This is in contrast to the state of mind present when contracting the illness)
- Because the illness is almost always kept secret until some great force precipitates its revelation, the patient seemingly has within himself a very low self-esteem, oftentimes masked with a sometimes thick veneer of bravado and self-importance. Once 'out', a great relief is felt and another stage is set. This stage can then be a breakthrough into acceptance and forgiveness - also by loved ones and family.
- The worst aspect is that what they do touches on three fundamental taboos: sex, shit and homosexuality.
- Self destructive state, exemplified by numerous sexual partners, sexually transmitted diseases, recreational drugs and prescribed drugs for venereal and linked diseases. i.e. antibiotics, sulphanilamides, steroids and antifungals.
Even if this is only partly true, these are some of the constituents of the myth.
Miasms and the doctrine of signatures in three nosodes of mixed miasmatic character
Tuberculinum is associated in a homoeopath's mind with restless discontent. It is derived from a disease which arises in populations and amongst societies who have been dispossessed. Their fixed posture, their stuck place, (or central delusion) is that their home, land and culture is lost. Therefore,
they are restlessly searching for (and cannot find) a new home. Since the disease is associated with violent upheavals such as war, famine and subsequent conditions of deprivation its miasmatic key signature is primarily syphilitic, although Psora (characterized by forsaken feeling, poverty and introspection)
is a modulation.
Carcinosin is associated in a homoeopath's mind with suppression of ego drives and striving for conformity (in this respect demonstrating its relationship with Lac Humanum). In children an uncompensated state often prevails, typified by difficult, contrary and defiant behaviour, while in adults a suppressed state typified by fastidiousness and niceness is usually seen. It is usual for patients requiring Carcinosin, should they be fastidious, to express it as a drive for matching things. It is derived from diseased tissue which is characterized by overabundant proliferation
of cells of one type. The cells represent a monomania of conformity. In a healthy organism, groups of differing cells cooperate together, while in cancerous tissue, the conformity of structure allows for no functional interfacing. It is a monoculture and as such cannot sustain its growth for any length of time. Any system which is composed of sub-units all of a kind is only capable of one set of responses; once internal or external situations change, such a system cannot adopt other modes of reaction. This inflexibility is its undoing. Sycosis (the desire for more and more - in
the case of the tumour - of cells) is the leading miasm with strong Syphilitic (destructive) tendencies. From a psychological stand point the Sycotic theme translates into striving coupled with excessiveness (from which guilt is the natural inheritance), while the Syphiltic miasm leads to destructive expressions (so often exhibited by Carcinosin children),
self-destructive impulses such as picking at self, both physically and mentally, for instance, endlessly revisiting injustices, wrongs and slights; over fastidiousness; sleeplessness and fear of cancer itself. These worries and concerns tend to be kept under wraps, hidden from the eyes of the world. This latter aspect is mostly of Psoric origin. As Elizabeth Wright-Hubbard suggested: cancer is the marriage of the three miasms (with Aluminium as 'best man').
The AIDS nosode is associated in a homoeopath's mind with boundary issues. Keeping what is in, in; what is out, out. In health the vital force through the medium of the defence system reacts homoeostatically to morbific influences, throwing them off. Keeping what is out, out. Acute manifestation are of this kind, such as fevers, discharges, diarrhoea, pus, and on an emotional level, such as shouting, hitting, moaning, tears. However, should the being become encumbered by disease through a deficiency of acute responses, due to miasmic predisposition or social suppression or
drug use, then chronic disease may begin to settle in. In this aspect we note complimentary aspects to Carcinosin and a strongly Psoric colouration. The relationship with Lac Humanum is also noteworthy - here the central issues revolve around individuality versus group conformity, helping others versus thinking about self first, family obligations versus pleasing oneself with inevitable feelings of isolation and accusations of being uncaring. In Rajan Sankaran's provings of Lac Humanum themes of houses, self loathing and rejection feelings also came prominently into the
foreground. These features are echoed in the AIDS proving. Not unsurprisingly, human blood and milk have features in common. For in Lac Humanum the theme is about what C.G. Jung termed individuation whereby the individual becomes known to Self and therefore is able to integrate egoic drives with social expectations, while in AIDS the boundary between me and you and the outside world is the central issue. As Carcinosin is primarily about the cost of conformity, and Lac Humanum is about the price of individuality, so AIDS is about the complete breakdown of the defence mechanism. As
stated, the key concept is chronic weakness at the boundary.
Sex is about as close as our physical and emotional experience can get to dissolving the boundary. Since the myth of AIDS as well as its 'discovery' is bound up with the gay community in San Francisco we will home into this: casual sex with multiple partners is attempting an impossible union, too much thinning of the boundary, and certainly has resulted in frequent venereal infections and associated allopathic treatments as well as providing the pathway of infection. This hunger for intimacy expressing as its perversion in superficial unions may be associated with a low self
opinion (and its compensations in arrogance) and isolation feelings. Witness the gay community and its exclusion and suppression by heterosexual folk. Gay also stands for, 'Good As You'! With the arrival of AIDS related symptoms, a sense of desperation, breakdown and decay enters the picture. The Syphilitic note. The breakdown of the immune defence system is mirrored in ecology by such phenomena as the ozone hole, monoculture diseases, (combated by agrochemicals in a manner analogous to the multiple drug therapies employed in the conventional treatment of AIDS) and in
sociological terms, by abuse. Here the boundary of the self is violated. It is also worthy of note that Chiron, the asteroid associated by astrologers with wounding and healing was discovered at around the time that AIDS became known.
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