Homeopathy. 2006 Jul;95(3):171-81.
Hahnemann's experiments with 50 millesimal potencies: a further review
of his casebooks. Adler UC, Adler MS.
Homeopathy Postgraduation Program, Jundiai School of Medicine, Av.
Moema, 170. Cj 52., 04077-020 Sao Paulo, SP, Brazil.
ubiadler@uol.com.br
BACKGROUND:
A review of Hahnemann's clinical records at the Institute for History of
Medicine of the Robert Bosch Foundation in Stuttgart shows that until
the end of his life, Hahnemann continued to refine his clinical method,
based on clinical cases. His "most perfected method" motivated him to
write the sixth edition of the The Organon of the Healing Art, proposing
solutions controlling the side effects he observed with repeated doses
of homeopathic medicines. Unfortunately, this was published many years
posthumously. The sixth edition of The Organon introduced the
fifty-millesimal scale.
OBJECTIVES:
To identify the clinical cases treated with fifty-millesimal potencies
and analyze Hahnemann's use of them.
RESULTS:
1836 prescriptions of fifty-millesimal potencies were found, between
1837 and 1843 in three phases: initially sporadic; later compared
regularly to centesimal dynamizations; and finally systematically.
Thirty five medicines were identified in fifty-millesimal prescriptions,
seven in potencies higher than 10 and only 3 (Sulphur, Mercurius
solubilis and Rhus toxicodendron) used in the 30th degree. This accords
with Haehl's information about the remedies in Hahnemann's case of
fifty-millesimal potencies.
CONCLUSIONS:
Hahnemann probably decided to write the sixth edition, in 1840, to
incorporate his latest experience with the repetition of potentized
doses and periodically modified potencies. He must have revised it after
February 1842 to include his latest findings with fifty-millesimal
potencies in ascending degrees. Hahnemann's conception about the
superiority of the fifty-millesimal in comparison with the centesimal
dynamization was based on a significant number of experiments with the
two scales.
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Homeopathy. 2006 Jul;95(3):144-7.
Amelioration of root-knot disease of lady's finger plants by potentized
Cina and Santonin.
Sukul NC, Ghosh S, Sukul A, Sinhababu SP.
Department of Zoology, Visva-Bharati University, Santiniketan 731235,
West Bengal, India.
ncsukul@rediffmail.com
Lady's finger plants (Hibiscus esculentus), grown in pots, were
inoculated with the second-stage larvae (76+/-6) of root-knot nematodes
Meloidogyne incognita, starting 7 days later they were treated with Cina
30c, Santonin 30c or Ethanol 30c by foliar spray for 10 consecutive
days. The drugs in 90% ethanol were diluted with distilled water 1:1000
before application on plants. Thirty days after the last treatment the
plants were uprooted. Cina 30c and Santonin 30c reduced nematode
infestation of plants significantly in terms of root-gall number,
root-protein content and nematode population in roots. Santonin 30c
reduced root water content. Santonin 30c may have influenced the water
channel proteins of root tissues thereby altering the water contents of
roots. The reduced water content in roots might have adversely affected
the root-knot nematodes and thus reduced nematode infestation. Ethanol
30c also has some effect on treated plants.
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Best,
Gaby
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Gaby Rottler,
Germany
rottler@curantur.de
http://www.curantur.de
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