Constitutional treatment/prophylaxix

[Soroush Ebrahimi]

Dear Andrew

So that there are no mistakes or errors of perception/judgement, I am for
prophylaxis.

I have not had time to search the Organon to find an exact reference -
perhaps other colleagues could assist.

However, what I understand by homeopathic prophylaxis is the prescription of
a remedy which would exhibit symptoms similar to the disease picture. Bell
in case of scarlet fever is a perfect example.

However, what I am saying is that if you take any population and any
epidemic disease - the case is that some of the population is naturally
resistant to the disease. Why? Simply because they are not susceptible and
particularly not susceptible to that disease.

How is this state to be achieved for the population as a whole - through
general constitutional treatment.

You see prophylaxis is a secondary measure. Let us take a case where a new
disease to a population suddenly arrives - like it was taken by the
Europeans to the Red Indians or to the Indians of Brazil. The ideal
situation would be such that the constitution of the population as a whole
is so good that it will react to the disease and it would not be life
threatening.
But some tribes were almost wiped off. Without it, only if the local
medicine man knows about homeopathy and has advance knowledge of the disease
symptoms can he work out what the remedy should be.

Where prophylaxis comes to the fore is to add to that inner resistance to
disease. It may achieve it in the short term in the people who have not had
a constitutional treatment but it may not be long lasting. I may be
theorising but that is how I understand this aspect of homeopathy.

You may notice that a lot of doctors are immune to a lot of acute diseases.
They constantly see patients that have acutes: coughs, colds, flus,
children's diseases etc etc. Why is that? Because they have developed high
immunity against these diseases and therefore they are not susceptible and
because of this constant training, their immune system is in a good state
(unless they start to abuse themselves with cigarettes and alcohol etc).

I believe Hn was one of these guys and not only enjoyed his own natural
immunity, but a very strong VF because of all the provings he had done. The
man had an incredible constitution!

I must tell you a story.
In 1983 my family and I decided that we wanted to visit Iran. We went to
our GP and they recommended a vaccination list as long as your arm! Somehow
we were directed towards homeopathy and we saw this man in London. In those
days I knew absolutely nothing about homeopathy (some would say that I still
don't!!).

The homeopath took brief cases from my wife, my two daughters and myself and
in the space of the time we were with him, he gave us a few remedies
each!!!! I don't know what they were!

We visited Iran - the only disease we encountered was when we went to the
home of one of my cousins and had a cold drink. My mum used to boil all the
water for my wife and children (although Tehran's water is excellent is
quality and safety through normal water treatment and dosage with chlorine).
However the source of water at my cousins was a well which was probably
contaminated. With in a few hours my wife and the children were suffering
from such vomiting and diarrhoeas that after 18 years they still remember
it. Nothing happened to me!!

It is my contention that if our homeopath had taken a proper case and had
given all of us our constitution remedies, we would have been better
protected.

Kind regards
Soroush