tamarque@earthlink.net wrote:
That's not exactly true...the insects and spiders and some fish do not fair so well !
However for the remedies that did need to sacrifice an animal,
the use of one individual animal or insect as a homeopathic remedy
is enough to supply that remedy to millions of people.
Examples from Clarke:
Apis – Honey Bee venum
tincture of whole bee
Spiders
putting the spider, while alive, into strong alcohol to make tincture
Blatta Cockoaches (both)
Trituration of live insect
Cantharis – Spanish Fly
Tincture or trituration of live insect
Cimex - Bedbug
Culex - Mosquito
Hirudo medicinalis (Sanguisuga officinalis) – Leech
Tincture of living animal
Medusa – Jelly Fish
Tincture of living animal taken in summer
Asterias rub – Star fish
Scolopendra – Centipede
Tincture of living animals
Scorpian –
Tincture of living animals
Spongia tosta – Roasted sponge
not sure if live
(the dry sponge is cut into small pieces and roasted for medicinal use.)
Vespa – Hornet
Tincture of living insect
Doryphora decemlineata – Potato Bug
Tincture, by covering crushed live beetle with alcohol
Pulex irritans - Flea
Pediculus capitis – Head louse
Helix tosta - Toasted snail
trituration
Limulus cyclops was introduced by
C. Hering, and Lippe. Hering dissected the King-crab
Coccinelia – Lady Bug
Tincture of freshly crushed beetle
Trachinus (both) – Sting Fish
Trituration of the poisonous fin
Erythrinus – Red Mullet
Tincture of the fish
Gadus Morrhua –
Tincture is prepared from the trituration of first cervical vertebra of the fish.
Trombidium muscae domesticae - Parasite on Housefly
Red acarus of the fly
Formica rufa - Ant
Crushed Live Ants
Alsophila pometaria
Powdered cankerworm ashes
Hippocampus kuda – Sea Horse
One classified black, male, sea horse, from the Indian Ocean, was sent to Michael Quinn
Musca domestica – House Fly
Pupa
Lynn
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