Hahnemann on worms
Posted: Sun Nov 08, 2009 8:41 pm
From Chronic Diseases
"Symptoms of Latent Psora.
Mostly with children : frequent discharge of ascarides and other worms;
unsufferable itching caused by the latter in the
rectum.....................
Passage of round worms from the anus.
Discharge of pieces of tape-worm.
............................These are some of the leading symptoms
observed by me, which, if they are often repeated, or become constant,
show that the internal Psora is coming forth from its latent state"
From the introduction to the Organon
"There is a semblance of necessity in the expulsion by purgatives of
worms, in so-called vermicular diseases. But even this semblance is
false. A few lumbrici may be found in some children; in many there
exists ascarides. But the presence of these is always dependent on a
general taint of the constitution and the former cured homoeopathically,
which is most easily effected at this age, and none of the worms remain,
and children cured in this manner are never troubled with them more;
whereas after mere purgatives, even when combined With cina seeds, they
soon reappear in quantities. "But the tapeworm, " methinks I hear some
one exclaim, "every effort should be made to expel that monster, which
was created for the torment of mankind". Yes, sometimes it is expelled;
but at the cost of what after-sufferings, and with what danger to life!
I should not like to have on my conscience the deaths of so many
hundreds of human beings as have fallen sacrifices to the horribly
violent purgatives directed against the tapeworm, or the many years of
indisposition of those who have escaped being purged to death. And how
often does it happen that after all this health-and-life-destroying
purgative treatment, frequently continued for several years, the animal
is not expelled, or if so, that it is again produced! What if there is
not the slightest necessity for all these violent, cruel, and dangerous
efforts to expel and kill the worm?
The various species of tapeworm are only found along with the psoric
taint, and always disappear when that is cured. But even before the cure
is accomplished, they live_the patient enjoying tolerable health the
while_not exactly in the intestines, but in the residue of the food, the
excrement of the bowels, as in their proper element, quite quietly, and
without causing the least disturbance, and find in the excrement what
suffices for their nourishment; they then do not touch the walls of the
intestine, and are perfectly harmless. But if the patient happen to be
affected with an acute disease of any kind, then the contents of the
bowels become intolerable to the animal; it twists about, comes in
contact with, and irritates the sensitive walls of the intestines,
causing a peculiar kind of spasmodic colic, which increases materially
the sufferings of the patient. (So also the foetus in the womb becomes
restless, turns about and kicks, only when the mother is ill; but when
she is well, it swims quiet in its proper fluid without causing her any
suffering.) It is worthy of remark, that the morbid symptoms of patients
suffering from tapeworm are generally of such a kind, that they are
rapidly relieved (homoeopathically) by the smallest dose of tincture of
male-fern root; so that the ill-health of the patient, which causes this
parasitic animal to be restless is thereby for the time removed; the
tapeworm then feels at ease, and lives on quietly in the excrement of
the bowels, without particularly distressing the patient or his
intestines, until the antipsoric treatment is so far advanced that the
worm, after the eradication of the psora, finds the contents of the
bowels no longer suitable for its support, and therefore spontaneously
disappears, for ever from the now cured patient, without the least
purgative medicine. (a)"
Kerry
"Sometimes I wonder whether the world is being run by smart people who
are putting us on or by imbeciles who really mean it." - Mark Twain
"Symptoms of Latent Psora.
Mostly with children : frequent discharge of ascarides and other worms;
unsufferable itching caused by the latter in the
rectum.....................
Passage of round worms from the anus.
Discharge of pieces of tape-worm.
............................These are some of the leading symptoms
observed by me, which, if they are often repeated, or become constant,
show that the internal Psora is coming forth from its latent state"
From the introduction to the Organon
"There is a semblance of necessity in the expulsion by purgatives of
worms, in so-called vermicular diseases. But even this semblance is
false. A few lumbrici may be found in some children; in many there
exists ascarides. But the presence of these is always dependent on a
general taint of the constitution and the former cured homoeopathically,
which is most easily effected at this age, and none of the worms remain,
and children cured in this manner are never troubled with them more;
whereas after mere purgatives, even when combined With cina seeds, they
soon reappear in quantities. "But the tapeworm, " methinks I hear some
one exclaim, "every effort should be made to expel that monster, which
was created for the torment of mankind". Yes, sometimes it is expelled;
but at the cost of what after-sufferings, and with what danger to life!
I should not like to have on my conscience the deaths of so many
hundreds of human beings as have fallen sacrifices to the horribly
violent purgatives directed against the tapeworm, or the many years of
indisposition of those who have escaped being purged to death. And how
often does it happen that after all this health-and-life-destroying
purgative treatment, frequently continued for several years, the animal
is not expelled, or if so, that it is again produced! What if there is
not the slightest necessity for all these violent, cruel, and dangerous
efforts to expel and kill the worm?
The various species of tapeworm are only found along with the psoric
taint, and always disappear when that is cured. But even before the cure
is accomplished, they live_the patient enjoying tolerable health the
while_not exactly in the intestines, but in the residue of the food, the
excrement of the bowels, as in their proper element, quite quietly, and
without causing the least disturbance, and find in the excrement what
suffices for their nourishment; they then do not touch the walls of the
intestine, and are perfectly harmless. But if the patient happen to be
affected with an acute disease of any kind, then the contents of the
bowels become intolerable to the animal; it twists about, comes in
contact with, and irritates the sensitive walls of the intestines,
causing a peculiar kind of spasmodic colic, which increases materially
the sufferings of the patient. (So also the foetus in the womb becomes
restless, turns about and kicks, only when the mother is ill; but when
she is well, it swims quiet in its proper fluid without causing her any
suffering.) It is worthy of remark, that the morbid symptoms of patients
suffering from tapeworm are generally of such a kind, that they are
rapidly relieved (homoeopathically) by the smallest dose of tincture of
male-fern root; so that the ill-health of the patient, which causes this
parasitic animal to be restless is thereby for the time removed; the
tapeworm then feels at ease, and lives on quietly in the excrement of
the bowels, without particularly distressing the patient or his
intestines, until the antipsoric treatment is so far advanced that the
worm, after the eradication of the psora, finds the contents of the
bowels no longer suitable for its support, and therefore spontaneously
disappears, for ever from the now cured patient, without the least
purgative medicine. (a)"
Kerry
"Sometimes I wonder whether the world is being run by smart people who
are putting us on or by imbeciles who really mean it." - Mark Twain