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Vol. 11 / Nr. 2– 06/2008
CONTENT<br />
Editorial . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2<br />
About the Revision of the Materia Medica<br />
Dr. Klaus-Henning Gypser . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 – 5<br />
The Significance of the History<br />
of the Materia Medica Homoeopathiae<br />
for the Contemporary Homeopathy<br />
André Röper . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6 – 9<br />
A Joint Venture of Homeopathy<br />
Dr. Robert Goldmann . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10 – 14<br />
Arzneimittelliste der <strong>Gudjons</strong>-<strong>Apotheke</strong> . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16 – 17<br />
The Procedures<br />
of the Materia Medica Revisa<br />
Homoeopathiae Project<br />
Doris Barzen . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18 – 19<br />
The “Materia Medica Revisa<br />
Homoeopathiae” - a Tool for<br />
“True Practitioners of the Healing Art”<br />
Dr. Dominik Müller . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20 – 22<br />
Cyclamen<br />
Ewa Kowzan . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23 – 26<br />
Clematis<br />
Dr. Robert Goldmann . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27 – 28<br />
Hahnemann’s Remedy Treasure for the Practice –<br />
The Complete Materia Medica<br />
Dr. Christian Lucae and<br />
Dr. Matthias Wischner . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29 – 33<br />
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EDITORIAL<br />
The cure will occur with “mathematical certainty” when the symptoms of the patient are<br />
treated with a remedy that produced similar symptoms in the remedy proving in healthy<br />
persons.<br />
As brazen and simple as this law is, yet as difficult it is to find the<br />
“right remedy” for the symptoms elicited in a patient. You all<br />
know how many conditions have to be met. To mention just a few:<br />
The symptoms should be complete; there should be symptoms<br />
from every level; from the symptoms elicited the “right ones” have<br />
to be weighted. And when finally you choose the remedy of the<br />
highest weight, it is easy to come up with the wrong one, if you<br />
don’t know the intrinsic character of the remedy, i.e. the “remedy<br />
picture” and if you misjudge the patient.<br />
But in any case you have to be able to rely upon the correctness of<br />
the symptoms in our repertories. Behind them stand the collected<br />
proving symptoms and all clinical symptoms from various sources.<br />
“What actually are our sources?” I asked myself. Can you rely upon their correctness? Who -<br />
beside Hahnemann and his pupils, Hering, Kent, ... - collected keenly observed symptoms in<br />
remedy provings? How many clinical and toxicological symptoms have been amassed and collated?<br />
Which observations from additionally occurring symptoms when taking a remedy - socalled<br />
intercurative concomitant symptoms - are there to confirm the correctness of existing<br />
collections of symptoms?<br />
In 2008, while homeopathy already exists for more than 200 years, there are still many questions<br />
regarding the most important tool of the homeopath.<br />
In this volume you find answers to some questions regarding the existence, reliability and rearrangement<br />
of our “basic tools”.
ABOUT THE REVISION OF THE MATERIA MEDICA<br />
When on the 10th of April 1844 under the<br />
auspices of Constantine Hering (1800-<br />
1880) the American Institute of Homoeopathy<br />
was constituted the central purpose of the society<br />
was expressed as follows in the first paragraph of<br />
the founding articles: “The revision and the augmentation<br />
of the materia medica.” Thus the pages<br />
13-253 of the first volume of the proceedings already<br />
included new provings,<br />
i.e. those of benzoicum<br />
acidum, fluoricum<br />
acidum, oxalicum acidum,<br />
elaterium, eupatorium perfoliatum,<br />
kalmia, lobelia inflata,<br />
lobelia carinata,<br />
podophyllum, sanguinaria,<br />
und triosetum perfoliatum,<br />
even with an repertorial<br />
analysis in the addendum.<br />
But what about the fate of<br />
the announced revision of<br />
the materia medica? In spite<br />
of various efforts up to<br />
the present day, it remained<br />
unexecuted. At a first glance<br />
it might surprise that Hering,<br />
who again and again made this project an issue,<br />
considered the execution of it necessary already<br />
in 1844. If you consider the status of the materia<br />
medica at that time it might not even appear<br />
so extensive. But still it had reached a scope that<br />
did not permit the individual practitioner to make<br />
use of it for his daily work to its full extent. Beside<br />
the numerous works published as books journals<br />
had also been added, that contained more remedy<br />
provings, but mainly case histories, i.e. clinical<br />
experiences. The latter are of considerable<br />
importance when you have to render fuzzy proving<br />
symptoms precise and to determine polari-<br />
DR. KLAUS-HENNING GYPSER<br />
Constantin Hering<br />
ties. But even a practitioner who possessed all publications<br />
couldn’t possibly study all scattered provings<br />
and case histories of the remedies that came<br />
into question for a given case to decide on a<br />
simillimum.<br />
Against this background it becomes understandable<br />
why Hering considered a collection of all reliable<br />
sources of the materia<br />
medica, sorted by remedies,<br />
distinguishing between<br />
pathogenetic and clinical<br />
symptoms, and arranged<br />
according to the<br />
traditional head-to-foot<br />
schema, an indispensable<br />
tool for any practitioner.<br />
What about the state of affairs<br />
today? In spite of the<br />
support from the area of<br />
electronic data processing<br />
it is not possible as a routine<br />
in a given case to gain<br />
access to the provings and<br />
especially to the clinical experiences,<br />
whose numbers<br />
increased significantly<br />
since Herings’s times and which are recorded<br />
in more than 700 journals. The goal set by the materia<br />
medica revision project is to remedy this deficiency.<br />
In 1982 the author , encouraged by the monographs<br />
of one of his teachers, Georg von Keller<br />
(1919-2003), and supported by colleagues, started<br />
to lay the first foundations for this revision: The<br />
worldwide published homeopathic journals were<br />
listed, provided with three-letter abbreviations and<br />
published as “Bibliotheca homoeopathica” by<br />
Baur, Gypser, Keller, Thomas (Gouda 1984). Thus<br />
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ABOUT THE REVISION OF THE MATERIA MEDICA<br />
it became possible to investigate which literature<br />
beside the one published in books, had to be mastered<br />
and how the corresponding sources had to<br />
be abbreviated in a consistent way.<br />
The next step was to collect the<br />
literature as originals, photocopies<br />
or on microfilm. This endeavor<br />
was often time consuming<br />
and not seldom dependent on<br />
fortunate coincidences, but meanwhile<br />
it was possible to learn<br />
from Keller - especially in the years<br />
1986-1990 - how he proceeded<br />
to compile his monographs.<br />
Simultaneously, we started with<br />
the sighting of the literature in<br />
journals was started with the intention<br />
to compile directories of<br />
published provings and case histories, sorted by<br />
remedy names, whereby from 2000 on first collaborators<br />
helped.<br />
Meanwhile an appropriate schema to arrange the<br />
symptoms was<br />
being worked<br />
out, including the<br />
bibliographic documentation<br />
and<br />
the first monograph<br />
- Dulcamara<br />
- compiled,<br />
which was essentially<br />
completed<br />
as early as 2000.<br />
But its publication<br />
could not be dared<br />
yet because<br />
the overall concept, which should not be something<br />
of a fleeting start, had first to stand a tho-<br />
Bibliotheca homoeopathica<br />
Georg von Keller<br />
rough examination by others. With Dr. med. Robert<br />
Goldmann and Dr. Peter Minder the author<br />
won engaged collaborators. After being properly<br />
introduced to the procedures they compiled monographs<br />
of rhododendron and capsicum respectively.<br />
In the course of the<br />
successful compilation of these<br />
monographs the overall concept<br />
proved to be sustainable and workable,<br />
so that special acquisition<br />
software could be commissioned<br />
and all could be established on a<br />
broader basis.<br />
By this time the number of diligent<br />
collaborators involved in the<br />
project, carried out at the “Gleeser<br />
Akademie homöopathischer<br />
Ärzte”, rose to more than 20 and<br />
in different fields: indexing, acquisition and administration<br />
of literature, allocation of sources, design<br />
and maintenance of software, data acquisition,<br />
proof reading, publication and organization.<br />
On this solid basis the preparations for further monographs<br />
could<br />
be undertaken.<br />
Just recently the<br />
time-consuming<br />
work r eceived<br />
generous financial<br />
support from<br />
homeopathic circles,<br />
for whose<br />
commitment we<br />
are very grateful.<br />
By the end of<br />
2007, 25 years<br />
after the beginning, the first volumes could be presented<br />
to the colleagues: “Einführung” [Intro-
ABOUT THE REVISION OF THE MATERIA MEDICA<br />
duction], “Dulcamara”, and “Rhododendron”,<br />
meanwhile followed by “Capsicum”, “Clematis”<br />
and “Cyclamen”. Numerous others are at the stage<br />
of being printed or of collating the symptoms.<br />
Information about the current state of publication<br />
is available under www.gypser-verlag.de.<br />
Dulcamara<br />
Contact:<br />
Gleeser Akademie homöopathischer Ärzte<br />
Dr. med. Klaus-Henning Gypser<br />
Wassenacher Str. 3<br />
D-56653 Glees<br />
Germany<br />
E-mail: info@gypser-verlag.de<br />
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THE SIGNIFICANCE OF THE HISTORY<br />
OF THE MATERIA MEDICA HOMOEOPATHIAE<br />
FOR THE CONTEMPORARY HOMEOPATHY<br />
Why could it be useful to reflect once again upon<br />
the history and the development of the<br />
homeopathic materia medica? Which insights and<br />
consequences for action could be gained for the<br />
contemporary homeopath? Does it make any sense<br />
to adhere to and to pursue the old methods, whereas<br />
the traditional medicine for example builds upon<br />
progress, that renders yesterday’ s knowledge<br />
rapidly obsolete, making it unusable and in which<br />
salvation of the sick is anticipated from a “maybe”<br />
lying in a possible future”? Should homeopathy also<br />
occupy an exceptional position in this respect<br />
and be satisfied with the care of knowledge from<br />
the past? Certainly!<br />
It is a real blessing that homeopathy does not succumb<br />
to the interplay of ever-changing doctrines<br />
and that the prescribing practitioner doesn’t have<br />
to have fear that the medicine given to a patient,<br />
which a short time ago was highly praised, is taken<br />
from the market for being too toxic, so that the<br />
patient now can only be consoled by the fact that<br />
one didn’t know any better at the time.<br />
In homeopathy the practitioner may have recourse<br />
to the 200 years old wealth of experience, that has<br />
been confirmed for generations by many practitioners<br />
with remarkable cures, sometimes bordering<br />
on wonders and that go on being confirmed<br />
again and again.<br />
This ensues from the fact that the knowledge about<br />
the curative possibilities of the remedies does not<br />
originate from experiments on animals or is based<br />
on mere assumptions, that are changing all the<br />
time, but was acquired by the proving on healthy<br />
persons. The powers of the remedies were “witnessed<br />
from nature” in an honest way so to speak.<br />
ANDRÉ RÖPER<br />
The fact that remedies in “low” doses - typical for<br />
remedy provings, produce disease symptoms - is<br />
often contested and not believed. But as far as this<br />
is concerned the question should not be a matter<br />
of belief, but as Hahnemann already recommended<br />
to his critics, one’s own experience should be decisive.<br />
Without exception all those who took Hahnemann<br />
at his word and followed his advice lost<br />
all their doubts and were fully convinced.<br />
To give just one example out of many , one might<br />
mention the “Verein homöopathischer Ärzte Österreichs<br />
für physiologische Arzneimittelprüfungen”<br />
[Association of homeopathic practitioners of Austria<br />
for physiological proving of remedies], whose<br />
members did not want simply to accept the quality<br />
of Hahnemann’s provings as true and therefore<br />
repeated provings. Freed from any doubts, they<br />
went on serving homeopathy and assisted in furthering<br />
the materia medica.<br />
After this attempt to show the constant character<br />
of the foundations of homeopathy which at the<br />
same time answers the question asked in the beginning,<br />
we will turn now to the history of the materia<br />
medica.<br />
It all started with Hahnemann’ s article “Versuch<br />
über ein neues Prinzip zur Auffindung der<br />
Heilkräfte der Arzneisubstanzen” [Essay on a new<br />
principle to detect the healing powers of the curative<br />
substances], published in 1796 in Hufelands<br />
Journal, the leading medical journal of the time.<br />
Herein the symptoms of poisonings, which Hahnemann<br />
excerpted from the available literature<br />
as well as ICCS 1 symptoms from his own practice,<br />
build the foundation stone of the new, reliable materia<br />
medica.
THE SIGNIFICANCE OF THE HISTORY<br />
OF THE MATERIA MEDICA HOMOEOPATHIAE<br />
FOR THE CONTEMPORARY HOMEOPATHY<br />
In 1805 provings on healthy persons were added,<br />
recorded in the “Fragmenta de viribus medicamentorum”<br />
and which later on were systematically<br />
continued in the “Pure Materia Medica” (1811-<br />
1821). MeanwhileHahnemann<br />
not only<br />
performed provings<br />
on himself<br />
and his family ,<br />
but during his<br />
time in Leipzig<br />
(1811-1821) also<br />
faithful disciples<br />
had converted<br />
to his new curative<br />
art, and<br />
took part in the<br />
detection of the<br />
powers of the<br />
remedies with<br />
great eagerness.<br />
In 1822 the<br />
“Archiv für die<br />
homöopathische<br />
Heilkunst”, a<br />
journal published<br />
three times a year,<br />
founded by E.<br />
Stapf and G. W .<br />
Groß, was established,<br />
among<br />
other things to<br />
make the remedy provings available to the medical<br />
profession faster and more directly.<br />
This prepared the ground for further journals and<br />
periodicals that promoted the enlargement and the<br />
Hahnemanns „Fragmenta“<br />
widening of the homeopathic materia medica. To<br />
mention just a few of the numerous periodicals:<br />
The “Praktischen Mittheilungen der correspondierenden<br />
Gesellschaft” were founded in<br />
1826. In 1832<br />
the “Annalen der<br />
homöopathischen<br />
K linik”<br />
which reported<br />
from Germany’ s<br />
first homeopathic<br />
hospital. In 1832<br />
the “Allgemeine<br />
homöopathische<br />
Zeitschrift” [General<br />
homeopathic<br />
journal] was<br />
added, which<br />
continues up to<br />
this day without<br />
interruption, thus<br />
being second regarding<br />
its duration<br />
of publication<br />
among medical<br />
journals<br />
worldwide; and<br />
in 1855 the “Correspondenzblatt<br />
der<br />
homöopathischen<br />
Ärzte”.<br />
It’s obvious that the homeopaths also published a<br />
vast number of their cured cases in these journals,<br />
which on one hand verified the proving symptoms<br />
and on the other hand, paraphrasing the words of<br />
Georg von Keller, provided the raw material ob-<br />
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OF THE MATERIA MEDICA HOMOEOPATHIAE<br />
FOR THE CONTEMPORARY HOMEOPATHY<br />
tained from the healthy in the provings with the<br />
necessary contours and the right finish 2 . Additionally<br />
toxicological reports from traditional medical<br />
journals were noted and incorporated, because<br />
one knew that their value equals the one<br />
from proving symptoms.<br />
In the meantime Hahnemann published his<br />
“Chronic Diseases” (1828-1830) which incorporated<br />
a part of the<br />
remedies from<br />
the “Pure Materia<br />
Medica” in extended<br />
form, as<br />
well as remedy<br />
provings p ublished<br />
in journals.<br />
At the same<br />
time C. G. C. Hartlaub<br />
and C. F .<br />
Trinks made their<br />
appearance with<br />
a “Pure Materia<br />
Medica” (1828-1830).<br />
Other r emedy p rovings p ublished a s b ooks f ollowed.<br />
Among others “Die Muskatnuß” [Nutmeg]<br />
(1833) by Helbig, the “Amerikanischen Arzneimittelprüfungen”<br />
[American Remedy Provings]<br />
(1857) by Hering, “Homöopathische Erfahrungen”<br />
[Homeopathic Experiences] (1862) by Wolf, “Der<br />
Phosphor” [ Phosphorus] ( 1862) b y S orge, t he<br />
“Materia Medica of American Provings” (1866)<br />
again by Hering, “Materia Medica - Physiological<br />
and Applied” (1884) by Drysdale et al., and “A Materia<br />
Medica of Nosodes” (1888) by Swan.<br />
It is obvious that soon the necessity of collections<br />
of the wealth of published material arose, in order<br />
to ensure an overview of what was available<br />
Allen´s „Encyclopedia“<br />
for practical use. Therefore works like the following<br />
were published: “Systematische Darstellung<br />
der reinen Arzneiwirkungen” [Systematic Account<br />
of the Pure Effects of Remedies] (1826) by C. G.<br />
H. Hartlaub; the “Materialien zu einer vergleichenden<br />
Arzneimittellehre” [Materials for a Comparative<br />
Materia Medica] (1826) by Schweikert,<br />
and “Ausführlicher Symptomen-Kodex der<br />
Homöopathischen Arzneimittellehre” [Extensive<br />
Symptom Codex<br />
of the Homeopathic<br />
Materia<br />
Medica] (1843)<br />
by G. H. G. Jahr .<br />
The latter was<br />
one of the first to<br />
see the necessity<br />
to differentiate<br />
purely pathogenetic<br />
from verified<br />
and purely<br />
clinical symptoms<br />
and to distinguish<br />
them visually.<br />
T. F. Allen succeeded in publishing the first “monumental<br />
work”, the “Encyclopedia of Pure Materia<br />
Medica” 1875-1879, which comprises ten volumes<br />
and contains most of the remedies that had<br />
been proved till then.<br />
Another homeopath, who saw the necessity to collate<br />
all material accrued and to arrange it systematically,<br />
“so that everybody is enabled to see<br />
more at a glance (of the capability of a remedy)”<br />
was nobody less than the great Hering. In order<br />
to accomplish his project he appealed to the colleagues<br />
to build an association already in 1832 in<br />
an article “Über eine gemeinsame Aufgabe einer<br />
Arzneimittel” [About the Common Task of a Ma-
THE SIGNIFICANCE OF THE HISTORY<br />
OF THE MATERIA MEDICA HOMOEOPATHIAE<br />
FOR THE CONTEMPORARY HOMEOPATHY<br />
teria Medica] because he was aware that the enormous<br />
amount of material would be difficult to master<br />
alone. In the end Hering’s meritorious activity<br />
resulted in the ten volumes of the “Guiding Symptoms<br />
of Our Materia Medica (1879-1891), which<br />
after his death in 1880 was finalized by his collaborators<br />
Raue, Mohr, and Knerr.<br />
Although the last mentioned standard works are<br />
of great significance and incalculable value, at the<br />
time of publication they were incomplete already<br />
and also contained not trifling deficiencies. 3<br />
More than 100 years passed since then. Many new<br />
contributions further enriched the literature. About<br />
the end of the golden age of American homeopathy,<br />
i.e. after 1910, the remedy provings decreased<br />
both in quantity and quality. A search for important<br />
works which pick up Hering’s initial idea and<br />
unite old and new sources as well as clinical symptoms<br />
and try to make them assessable, is to no<br />
avail. To some extent the only exception worth<br />
mentioning are the three volumes of “A Dictionary<br />
of Materia Medica” (1900) by J. H. Clarke, but this<br />
work is also not much more recent than the other<br />
two standard works.<br />
The homeopath Georg von Keller (1919-2003),<br />
who practiced in Tübingen, was the first to point<br />
out again the necessity to revise the materia medica.<br />
Therefore he made it his business to extend<br />
his private homeopathic collection of books by<br />
purchasing books from all over the world. Over<br />
the years his library attained a considerable size,<br />
which finally could be used to “scrutinize” the literature<br />
now accessible to him for remedy provings,<br />
case histories and toxicological reports of a<br />
remedy. The praiseworthy fruits of his work are<br />
14 symptom collections of homeopathic remedies<br />
(1973-1987), including remedies like conium,<br />
psorinum and ignatia.<br />
Unfortunately not everyone recognises the necessity<br />
of the materia-medica-revision-project fully .<br />
Nevertheless with the publication of the first volumes<br />
of the “Materia Medica Revisa Homoeopathiae”<br />
obviously the moment has come to<br />
write a further chapter of the history of materia<br />
medica.<br />
Cand. med. André Röper<br />
Rehfuesstraße 35<br />
D-53115 Bonn<br />
Germany<br />
1 ICCS: Intracurative concomitant symptoms, i.e. symptoms that appear in the sick during the administration of<br />
a remedy during treatment, but which are never attended by a great deal of suffering, soon disappear again<br />
and belong to the pathogenesis of this remedy. Cf. Org VI, § 156.<br />
2 A small example shall make this clearer: In the remedy proving Pulsatilla thirst and thirstlessness occurs the same<br />
number of times (cf. RA II). But clinical experience showed clearly that the sick who needs pulsatilla almost<br />
always is thirstless and that therefore this polarity is essential to establish the smiliarity relation.<br />
3 Gypser, K.-H. “Zustand der homöopathischen Materia Medica” ZKH 36 (1992) 5ff.<br />
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I. The Initial Situation<br />
It’s no secret that the present state of the homeopathic<br />
materia medica has long been unable to fulfill<br />
the needs of daily practice. For historical reasons<br />
the deficiencies arise in different areas, only<br />
some of which shall be mentioned:<br />
- Remedy provings, repeated provings and case<br />
histories are scattered over a period of 200 years<br />
in international journals and are unavailable to<br />
most homeopathic practitioners.<br />
- The materia medica is not structured in such a<br />
clear way that symptoms will readily be found<br />
were you would expect them.<br />
- The repertories give the desired references to<br />
the materia medica only in a fuzzy way or even<br />
incorrectly.<br />
- A separation of pathogenetic from clinical symptoms<br />
as originally required has been achieved<br />
inadequately by categorizing them in grades and<br />
thus making the symptom difficult to evaluate.<br />
To further explain the two latter points: In the early<br />
days of homeopathy a separation of the symptoms<br />
elucidated in remedy provings in healthy persons<br />
from the symptoms cured at the sickbed was<br />
a matter of course. G. H. G. Jahr differentiated in<br />
his “Symptomen-Kodex” the verified proving symptoms<br />
from those cured in sick people, but not the<br />
symptoms that appeared in the proving1 , a fact that<br />
C. Hering emphasized as a peculiarity of Jahr’ s<br />
work. 2 J. T. Kent, on the other hand, marked the<br />
symptoms of his cured patients carefully in Allen’ s<br />
Encyclopedia3 and planned to consider only these<br />
verifications in his repertory beside the proving<br />
symptoms, whereby he discarded clinical symptoms<br />
that contradicted his provings. 4 But such a<br />
distinction regarding the origin of symptoms has<br />
A JOINT VENTURE<br />
OF HOMEOPATHY<br />
DR. ROBERT GOLDMANN<br />
been neglected in the further development of<br />
homeopathy. Unfortunately the classification into<br />
degrees often fails us and the prescription of remedies<br />
too often are built on sandy ground if we rely<br />
only upon the repertories for the choice of the<br />
remedy.<br />
II. An Example<br />
A case from daily practice shall illustrate this problematic<br />
issue: A 12year old boy with migraine recurring<br />
for years at regular intervals comes to the<br />
first anamnesis accompanied by his mother . Already<br />
when making the appointment by phone the<br />
mother mentioned the inexplicable aversion to butter<br />
which her son had developed recently. The later<br />
repertorization of the symptom led to a differential<br />
diagnosis of magnesia carbonica and sanguinaria.<br />
Consulting the sources for mag-c. it’ s<br />
striking that obviously there occured a change in<br />
meaning regarding the affinity towards “butter”.<br />
Hahnemann slightly changed the symptom from<br />
Hartlaub and Trinks “she doesn’t like warm food,<br />
she has an inclination toward butter and bread” 5<br />
into “she doesn’t like warm food, she only wants<br />
butter and bread (Htb. u. T r.)” 6 . In Allen’s Encyclopedia<br />
you find: “She does not relish warm food,<br />
has no inclination for bread and butter” 7 , obviously<br />
resulting from an error of translation and which<br />
probably explains the erroneous entry in Kent’ s<br />
repertory (by the way: “butter” now stands at<br />
“aversion” and “desire”), which unfortunately persists<br />
in contemporary repertories like “Synthesis”<br />
or “Complete”. By the way , mag-c. has been entered<br />
correctly in the other lineage of repertories<br />
by Bönninghausen and Boger: “appetite, inclination<br />
for butter” 8 and “appetite, desire for butter” 9 .<br />
Since the symptom, as far as we know, did not appear<br />
in the proving of mag-c., the young patient
eceived Sang. 10 , which turned out to be a helpful<br />
remedy. This may mean that even after careful<br />
anamnesis and correct weighting of the symptoms,<br />
there is no therapeutic success only because of the<br />
poor quality of our tools. In spite of many publications<br />
and an inflationary amount of homeopathic<br />
secondary literature during the past two decades,<br />
the essential basis of the homeopathic praxis, i.e.<br />
the remedy proving, is not reflected adequately in<br />
the repertory.<br />
III. Getting acquainted with the literature<br />
Once the necessity of a revision of the materia medica<br />
is recognized, access to the primary literature<br />
is necessary as well as training how to analyze these<br />
sources. The “Gleeser Akademie homöopathischer<br />
Ärzte” [Gleesian Academy of Homeopathic<br />
Physicians], founded in 2004, which defines itself<br />
as a place for scientific study and training, has at<br />
its disposal the most comprehensive library of<br />
A JOINT VENTURE OF HOMEOPATHY<br />
homeopathic literature worldwide, especially after<br />
the incorporation of the collection of books and<br />
journals bequeathed by G. v. Keller (1919-2003).<br />
A staff of homeopathic colleagues has grouped itself<br />
around this extraordinary literary fund and set<br />
itself the goal of analyzing this collection and in<br />
due consequence started the task under the su-<br />
Zeitschrift des Berliner Vereins homöopathischer Ärzte<br />
pervision of the editor, Dr. med. K.-H. Gypser, who<br />
has been preparing the revision for many years.<br />
To get an idea of the task you may start by reading<br />
all volumes of a homeopathic journal, preferably<br />
from the German speaking or Anglo-Saxon area. 11<br />
During the process of reading al remedy provings<br />
mentioned should immediately be s orted alphabetically<br />
in a separate file. In a second file all case<br />
histories are to be recorded sorted by the name of<br />
the remedy.<br />
In order to get acquainted with the subject matter,<br />
years ago the author examined the 60 volumes<br />
11
12<br />
of the “Zeitschrift des Berliner V ereins homöopathischer<br />
Ärzte” 12 and in doing so created the two<br />
above-mentioned files for this journal. At the same<br />
time, other collaborators went through other journals<br />
along the same lines, so that now there is a<br />
solid collection available for remedy provings and<br />
case histories that haven’t been published as books;<br />
this collection goes on growing and serves as an<br />
index to the remedies in preparation. By way of illustration,<br />
here is the register of gelsemium for the<br />
journal mentioned:<br />
Remedy provings<br />
ZBV 18(1899)410<br />
ZBV 22(1903)336<br />
ZBV 25(1906)311<br />
ZBV 35(1916)265-266<br />
Case histories<br />
ZBV 4(1885)361<br />
ZBV 5(1886)258<br />
ZBV 8(1889)471-472<br />
ZBV 13(1894)256, 262-263, 344<br />
ZBV 18(1899)81, 227-228<br />
ZBV 19(1900)138-139<br />
ZBV 21(1902)2<br />
ZBV 25(1906)314<br />
ZBV 31(1912)447-449<br />
ZBV 32(1913)129<br />
ZBV 36(1917)52<br />
ZBV 40(1923)187<br />
ZBV 53(1937)76-80<br />
ZBV 54(1938)350-353.<br />
At first sight going through the literature might look<br />
like a tedious exploration of a remote terrain, hardly<br />
appropriate to our modern, fast moving age of<br />
electronic word processing and simultaneous<br />
processes. But the one who really becomes engrossed<br />
in it, in many respects soon will find himself<br />
awarded by further outlooks on his way: knowl-<br />
A JOINT VENTURE OF HOMEOPATHY<br />
edge of remedies will be consolidated, developments<br />
in the history of medicine and prevailing diseases<br />
become intelligible, working with international<br />
homeopathic literature from two centuries<br />
soon becomes an easy job, and quite obviously the<br />
quality of the elicitation of symptoms in your own<br />
practice is trained, which again benefits the patients.<br />
IV. Entering a remedy<br />
At this stage there is a supervised introduction into<br />
the actual materia medica project. There you<br />
learn how to handle the electronic acquisition software<br />
which is put at our disposal and was programmed<br />
especially for this revision. The first step<br />
consists of entering the chosen remedy proving into<br />
the modified head-to-food schema with the help<br />
of this computer program that is rather matured<br />
by now. When entering the case histories later on,<br />
one has to take care only to include case reports<br />
which are as reliable as possible. Treatments where<br />
several remedies had been administered in close<br />
proximity or where other non-homeopathic therapies<br />
had been applied (e.g. parallel administration<br />
of an antibiotic beside rhododendron in a case<br />
of orchitis) will not be recorded. Also such case<br />
histories where the change of symptoms has not<br />
been described exactly enough, so that it remains<br />
open which symptoms disappeared after the administration<br />
of the remedy continue to constitute<br />
a problem. 13 In case of doubt a manual with detailed<br />
information about the compilation of sources<br />
and symptoms helps the compiler along.<br />
In the beginning of the collaboration in this revision<br />
project it is advisable to choose a smaller remedy<br />
with a reasonable number of symptoms for<br />
processing, which at the same time has its place<br />
in clinical practice. Thus our understanding of materia<br />
medica is deepened and at the same time
widened, without unduly overstraining our capacities<br />
regarding time or loosing sight of the envisioned<br />
goal. Questions arising during the processing<br />
of remedies are discussed with experienced<br />
collaborators directly and then decided in<br />
the spirit of the<br />
project, so that<br />
everybody partakes<br />
in a continuous<br />
learning<br />
process together<br />
with the others,<br />
which again has<br />
a positive effect<br />
on one’ s own<br />
homeopathic<br />
work.<br />
A JOINT VENTURE OF HOMEOPATHY<br />
view: After all, homeopathy itself is at issue. For us<br />
medical doctors, who have recognized in the methods<br />
and the results of this kind of treatment more<br />
than a sophisticated system of therapeutic devotion<br />
in accordance to human needs, the task is set<br />
to review the scattered<br />
remedy<br />
provings and case<br />
histories and to<br />
arrange them in a<br />
clear manner.<br />
V. Outlook<br />
When in 1864 C.<br />
Hering, the<br />
nestor of American<br />
homeopathy,<br />
announced a big<br />
encyclopedic<br />
project both in<br />
the Old and in<br />
the New W orld,<br />
which should be<br />
“indispensable” for any “really artistic therapy” 14<br />
With good reason<br />
the training to become<br />
a homeopathic<br />
physician<br />
should be connected<br />
with a participation<br />
in a<br />
remedy proving,<br />
because one’s own<br />
experience gives<br />
security and develops<br />
c ritical<br />
skills which cannot<br />
be gained in<br />
seminars.<br />
he certainly had a smaller timeframe in mind than<br />
almost one and a half centuries until such a compilation<br />
would be available at least in outlines. But,<br />
on closer inspection, the timeframe seems rather<br />
of secondary importance from today’ s point of<br />
15 Then<br />
Rhododendron<br />
why not also work<br />
out a remedy from<br />
the proving at the healthy person up to the analysis<br />
of the reports of cures from the abundant literature?<br />
In this way, and independently from the<br />
different contemporary schools, the standard of<br />
homeopathy could be put on a safer , more reliable<br />
and modern basis.<br />
Dr. med. Robert Goldmann<br />
Täubchenstrasse 11<br />
D-14163 Berlin<br />
Germany<br />
13
14<br />
1 Jahr, G.H.G. Ausführlicher Symptomen-Kodex der<br />
Homöopathischen A rzneimittellehre. L eipzig 1 848.<br />
Reprint Hamburg 1997, p. XXXVII.<br />
2 Herings medizinische Schriften. K.-H. Gypser (ed.).<br />
Bd. III. Göttingen 1988, 1006. [MS]<br />
3 Kent’s M inor W ritings o n H omoeopathy. K .-H.<br />
Gypser (ed.). Heidelberg 1987, 95 [MW]<br />
4 MW, S. 727<br />
5 Hartlaub, C. G. C. und C. . FTrinks.<br />
Reine Arzneimittellehre.<br />
Bd. II. Leipzig 1829. Reprint Hamburg (without<br />
year), p. 274, symptom no 258 [HT].<br />
6 Hahnemann, S. Die chronischen Krankheiten. Bd.<br />
IV. Dresden und Leipzig. 1838 (11830). 4th reprint<br />
Heidelberg 1988, p. 150, symptom no 295. [CK]<br />
7 Allen, T. F. The Encyclopedia of Pure Materia Medica.<br />
Vo. VI., reprint New Delhi 1985 (11877), p. 94,<br />
symptom no 349. [EN]<br />
8 Bönninghausen, C. v. Systematisch-Alphabetisches<br />
Repertorium der Homöopathischen Arzneien. Münster<br />
1833/35, repint München without year, p. 77.<br />
9 Boger, C. M. Boenninghausn’s Characteristics and<br />
Repertory, Reprint Edition. New Delhi 1999, p. 475.<br />
10 Gypser, K.-H. u. A. W aldecker. Gesammelte<br />
Arzneimittelprüfungen a us S tapfs „ Archiv f ür d ie<br />
homöopathische Heilkunst“ (1822-1848), Bd. III. Heidelberg<br />
1991, p. 998, symptom 118: „Abneigung<br />
gegen Butter“ [aversion to butter].<br />
A JOINT VENTURE OF HOMEOPATHY<br />
11 From the 682 journals listed in the „Biblotheca Homoeopathica“<br />
240 came from the USA, 45 from England.<br />
Baur, J., K.-H. Gypser , G. v . Keller u. P . W.<br />
Thomas. Biblotheca Homoeopathica. Vol. I:<br />
Zeitschriften. Gouda 1984.<br />
12 ZBV 1882-1909, continued as „Berliner<br />
homöopathische Zeitschrift“ (1910-1921), further continued<br />
as „Deutsche Zeitschrift für Homöopathie und<br />
deren Grenzgebiete“ (1922-1944).<br />
13 The potencies used in the remedy provings and<br />
case histories are omitted. How wide the possible spectrum<br />
of applied potencies is has been demonstrated<br />
by Pichiah Sankaran, who collected the statements<br />
about the question regarding potencies from various<br />
authors of most different oppionions and he lets them<br />
speak for themselves. Sankaran, P. Das Potenzproblem.<br />
ZKH 11(1967)256-268.<br />
14 AHR 4(1864)88 and AHZ 69(1864)88-92.<br />
15 “To play into the hands of such selfish persons,<br />
which do not contribute to the complete and indispensable<br />
construction of the indispensable building,<br />
which only want to take advantage from what others<br />
found and studied under effort, to hand over to them<br />
the profits of the scientific capital for consumation, for<br />
the acquisition of which they didn’<br />
t contribute the slightest<br />
thing, well, this is asking too much.” Hahnemann,<br />
S. Vorerinnerung. In: Reine Arzneimittellehre. Zweiter<br />
Theil. 3. Auf.. Dresden und Leipzig 1833, 3. Reprint<br />
Heidelberg 1983, p. 29. [RA]
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Abies nigra<br />
Abrotanum<br />
Absinthium<br />
Acalypha indica<br />
Aceticum acidum<br />
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Acidum salicylicum<br />
Aconitum *<br />
Adonis vernalis<br />
Aesculus hippoc.<br />
Aethiops antimon.<br />
Aethusa cynapium<br />
Agaricus *<br />
Agnus castus *<br />
● Agraphis nutans<br />
Ailanthus gland.<br />
Alchemilla vulg.<br />
Alcoholus<br />
Aletris farinosa<br />
Alfalfa<br />
Allium cepa *<br />
Allium sativum<br />
Aloe soc. *<br />
Aloe vera *<br />
Alumen<br />
Alumina *<br />
● Alumina silicata<br />
Aluminium<br />
● Aluminium phos.<br />
● Amalgam<br />
Ambra *<br />
● Amethyst<br />
Ammonium carb.<br />
Ammonium mur.<br />
Anacardium orient. *<br />
Anagallis arv.<br />
Anantherum<br />
● Androctonus<br />
Angustura vera<br />
Anhalonium<br />
Anthemis nobilis<br />
Antimonium crud. *<br />
Antimonium tart. *<br />
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Apis mellifica *<br />
Apisinum *<br />
Apocynum cannab.<br />
Apomorphinum<br />
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Aqua marina<br />
Aralia racemosa<br />
Aranea diad.<br />
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Argentum met. *<br />
Argentum muriaticum<br />
Argentum nitricum *<br />
● Argentum phos.<br />
Aristolochia clem. *<br />
Arnica *<br />
Arsenicum album *<br />
Arsenicum hydrogen.<br />
Arsenicum jodatum *<br />
Arsenicum met.<br />
Arsenicum sulf. flav.<br />
Artemisia vulg.<br />
Arum maculatum<br />
Arum triphyllum<br />
Arundo mauritanica<br />
Asa foetida<br />
Asarum europaeum<br />
Asparagus off.<br />
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Asterias rub.<br />
Atropinum sulfuricum<br />
Aurum ars.<br />
● Aurum bromatum<br />
Aurum colloidale<br />
Aurum jodatum<br />
Aurum met. *<br />
Aurum mur. nat. *<br />
Aurum muriaticum *<br />
Aurum sulfuratum<br />
Avena sativa<br />
● Ayahuasca<br />
● Bacillinum<br />
● Badiaga<br />
Bambus<br />
Baptisia<br />
Barium aceticum<br />
Barium carb. *<br />
Barium jodatum<br />
Barium muriaticum<br />
● Barium phos.<br />
Barium sulf.<br />
Basalt<br />
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Bellis perennis *<br />
Benzoicum acid.<br />
Berberis *<br />
Berberis aquifolium<br />
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Bismutum metallicum<br />
Bismutum subnitricum<br />
● Blatta americana<br />
● Blatta orientalis<br />
Borax *<br />
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Bovista<br />
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Bromum *<br />
Bryonia *<br />
Bufo rana *<br />
Butyricum acidum<br />
Cactus *<br />
Cadmium sulph.<br />
Caladium seguinum<br />
Calcium ars.<br />
Calcium bromatum<br />
Calcium carb. *<br />
Calcium fluoratum *<br />
Calcium jod. *<br />
Calcium mur.<br />
Calcium phos. *<br />
● Calcium silicatum<br />
Calcium sulf. *<br />
● Calculus renalis<br />
Calendula *<br />
Camphora *<br />
Cantharis *<br />
Capsicum *<br />
Carbo animalis *<br />
Carbo veg. *<br />
Carbolicum acidum<br />
Carboneum sulf.<br />
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Cardiospermum<br />
Carduus marianus<br />
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Caulophyllum *<br />
Causticum *<br />
Ceanothus amer.<br />
● Cenchris<br />
Chamomilla *<br />
Chelidonium *<br />
Chelone glabra<br />
China *<br />
Chininum<br />
Chininum ars. *<br />
Chininum hydr.<br />
Chininum sulf.<br />
Chlorum<br />
Chocolate<br />
● Cholesterolum<br />
Chromium oxidatum<br />
Cicuta virosa<br />
Cimicifuga *<br />
Cina *<br />
Cinnabaris<br />
Cinnamomum<br />
● Citrullus lanatus<br />
● Citrus limonum<br />
Citrus vulg.<br />
● Cladonia rangiferina<br />
Clematis recta *<br />
Cobaltum nitricum<br />
● Coca Cola ®<br />
● Coccinella sept.<br />
Cocculus *<br />
● Coccus cacti<br />
Cochlearia arm.<br />
● Codeinum phos.<br />
Coffea cruda *<br />
● Coffea tosta<br />
Colchicum *<br />
Collinsonia canad.<br />
Colocynthis *<br />
● Comocladia<br />
Condurango<br />
Conium *<br />
Convallaria<br />
Copaiva<br />
Corallium rubrum *<br />
● Cortisonum<br />
Crataegus oxyacantha<br />
Crocus sativus *<br />
● Crotalus horridus<br />
Croton tiglium *<br />
● Culex musca<br />
Cuprum arsenic.<br />
Cuprum metallicum *<br />
● Cuprum phos.<br />
Cuprum sulfuricum<br />
Curare<br />
Cyclamen *<br />
● Cymbopogon citr.<br />
Cypripedium pub.<br />
Cytisus laburnum<br />
Diamant<br />
● Diazepam<br />
Digitalis *<br />
Dioscorea vill.<br />
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● Dolichos pruriens<br />
● Dopamin<br />
● Doryphora<br />
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Drosera *<br />
● DT Vaccine<br />
Dulcamara *<br />
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Echinacea angustif.<br />
Eichhornia crassipes<br />
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Elaterium off.<br />
● Encepur<br />
Ephedra vulgaris<br />
Equisetum hyemale<br />
Erigeron canad.<br />
Eucalyptus globulus<br />
Eupatorium perf. *<br />
Euphorbium<br />
Euphrasia *<br />
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Fagopyrum esculentum<br />
Ferrum ars.<br />
Ferrum jodatum<br />
Ferrum metallicum *<br />
Ferrum muriaticum<br />
Ferrum phosphor. *<br />
Ficus religiosa<br />
Filipendula ulmaria<br />
Fluoricum acidum *<br />
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Formicicum acidum<br />
Fragaria vesca<br />
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Fucus vesiculosus<br />
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Gallicum acidum<br />
Galphimia glauca<br />
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● Gelee royale<br />
Gelsemium *<br />
● Gentiana acaulis<br />
Geranium robertianum<br />
● Germanium<br />
Ginkgo biloba<br />
Ginseng<br />
● Gletscherwasser<br />
Glonoinum *<br />
Gnaphalium polyceph.<br />
Gossypium herbaceum<br />
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Granit<br />
Graphites *<br />
Gratiola off.<br />
Grindelia robusta<br />
Guajacum<br />
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Gummi arabicum<br />
● Gunpowder<br />
Hamamelis *<br />
Harpagophytum proc.<br />
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Hekla lava *<br />
Helleborus *<br />
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Hepar sulfuris *<br />
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● Hepatitis B Vaccine<br />
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Hippomane man.<br />
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Hippuricum acidum<br />
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Hydrastis *<br />
Hydrocotyle asiatica<br />
Hydrogenium<br />
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Hyoscyamus *<br />
Hypericum *<br />
Ignatia *<br />
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Indium metallicum<br />
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Ipecacuanha *<br />
Iridium metallicum<br />
Iris *<br />
Jaborandi<br />
Jodum *<br />
Juglans regia<br />
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Juniperus communis<br />
Kalium ars. *<br />
Kalium bichromicum *<br />
Kalium bromatum<br />
Kalium carbonicum *<br />
Kalium chloricum<br />
Kalium cyan.<br />
● Kalium ferrocyanatum<br />
Kalium jodatum *<br />
Kalium mur.<br />
Kalium nitricum<br />
Kalium phos. *<br />
● Kalium silicatum<br />
Kalium sulf. *<br />
Kalmia<br />
Karlsbad Mühlenbr.<br />
Karlsbad Sprudel<br />
● Katha edolis<br />
Kreosotum *<br />
● Lac asinum<br />
● Lac cameli<br />
● Lac caninum
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● Lac caprinum<br />
● Lac defloratum<br />
● Lac delphinum<br />
● Lac equinum<br />
● Lac felinum<br />
● Lac humanum<br />
● Lac ovinum<br />
● Lachesis *<br />
● Lachnanthes tinct.<br />
Lacticum acidum<br />
Lactuca virosa<br />
Lamium album<br />
Lapis albus<br />
● Lapis lazuli<br />
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Lathyrus sativus<br />
Latrodectus mac. *<br />
Laurocerasus off. *<br />
Ledum *<br />
Lemna minor<br />
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● Leopardschnurrbart<br />
● Leukeran ®<br />
Lilium tigrinum *<br />
Limestone<br />
● Limulus cyclops<br />
● Linognathus<br />
Lithium carb.<br />
Lobelia inflata<br />
● Luesinum<br />
Luffa operculata<br />
Luna<br />
Lycopodium *<br />
Lycopus virginicus<br />
● Lyssinum<br />
Magnesium carb. *<br />
● Magnesium fluoratum<br />
● Magnesium hydroxyd<br />
Magnesium mur. *<br />
Magnesium phos. *<br />
Magnesium sulf.<br />
Magnetis pol. arct.<br />
Magnetis pol. austr.<br />
Magnetis poli ambo<br />
● Manasarova<br />
Mandragora off.<br />
Manganum acet.<br />
Manganum carb. *<br />
Marble<br />
● Masern Vaccine<br />
● Mater perlarum<br />
● Medorrhinum *<br />
● Medusa<br />
● Melatonin<br />
Melilotus alba<br />
Melilotus officinalis<br />
Mentha piperita<br />
Menyanthes trifoliata<br />
● Mephites putorius<br />
Merc. jod. rub.<br />
● Merc. praec. albus<br />
● Merc. praec. flav.<br />
Mercurialis perennis<br />
Mercurius corr.<br />
Mercurius cyan.<br />
● Mercurius oxid. rub.<br />
Mercurius sol. *<br />
Mercurius vivus H. *<br />
● Methotrexat<br />
Mezereum *<br />
Millefolium<br />
● MMR Vaccine<br />
● Mondstein<br />
● Moschus<br />
● Mumio = Asphalt<br />
● Murex<br />
Muriaticum acid. *<br />
● Musa paradisiaca<br />
Myristica seb.<br />
Myrrha<br />
Naja trip. *<br />
Natrium ars.<br />
Natrium brom.<br />
Natrium carb. *<br />
Natrium fluor.<br />
● Natrium hydroxyd<br />
Natrium jod.<br />
Natrium mur. *<br />
● Natrium mur. Tibet<br />
● Natrium nitricum<br />
Natrium phos.<br />
Natrium sal.<br />
Natrium sil.<br />
Natrium sulf. *<br />
Neon<br />
Niccolum<br />
Nicotinum<br />
● Niobium sulfuricum<br />
Nitricum acidum *<br />
Nuphar luteum<br />
Nux mosch. *<br />
● Nux mosch. e rad.<br />
Nux vomica *<br />
Ocimum basilicum<br />
Ocimum sanctum<br />
Oenanthe aquatica<br />
Okoubaka aubrevillei *<br />
Oleander<br />
● Oleum animale<br />
● Oleum jecoris aselli<br />
Olibanum sacrum *<br />
● Olivin<br />
● Oniscus asellus<br />
Opium *<br />
● Opuntia vulgaris<br />
Origanum majorana<br />
Origanum vulgare<br />
● Ornithogalum umb.<br />
● Oryza s. flores<br />
● Ossa sepiae<br />
● Ovi gallinae pellicula<br />
● Oxalat - Nierenstein<br />
Oxalicum acidum<br />
Oxygenium<br />
● Ozon<br />
Paeonia officinalis<br />
Palladium met.<br />
Paris quadrifolia<br />
Passiflora incarnata<br />
● Pecten jacobaeus<br />
● Pentavac ®<br />
● Pertussis Vacc.<br />
Petasites<br />
Petiveria tetrandra<br />
Petroleum *<br />
● Petroleum (Rohöl)<br />
Petroselinum sativum<br />
Phosphoricum acid. *<br />
Phosphorus *<br />
Physostigma ven.<br />
Physostigminum<br />
Phytolacca *<br />
Picrinicum acid. *<br />
Pilocarpinum<br />
Piper methysticum<br />
● Placenta<br />
Plantago major<br />
Platinum met. *<br />
Platinum muriaticum<br />
Plumbum aceticum<br />
Plumbum met. *<br />
Podophyllum *<br />
● Polio-oral virelon ® vacc.<br />
● Pollen-Mix<br />
● Polyaethylen-Plastik<br />
Populus tremuloides<br />
● Prednisolonum<br />
● Prionurus australis<br />
● Propolis<br />
Prunus spinosa<br />
● Psorinum<br />
● Psylocybe cub.<br />
● Psylocybe cyan.<br />
● Psylocybe mex.<br />
● Ptelea trifoliata<br />
Pulsatilla prat. *<br />
● Pyrogenium *<br />
Quassia amara<br />
● Quercus<br />
● Rabivac ®<br />
Ranunculus bulb.<br />
Ranunculus sceleratus<br />
Raphanus sativus<br />
Ratanhia peruviana<br />
Rauwolfia serpentina<br />
Rheum *<br />
Rhododendron chry.<br />
Rhus tox. *<br />
● Rhus venenata<br />
● Ribes rubrum<br />
Ricinus communis<br />
Robinia pseudacacia<br />
● Rosa damascena<br />
Rosmarin off.<br />
● Röteln Vacc.<br />
● Rubin<br />
Rubus fruct.<br />
Rubus idaeus<br />
Rumex *<br />
Ruta *<br />
Sabadilla<br />
Sabal serrulata<br />
Sabina<br />
Saccharum album<br />
● Salix alba<br />
● Salvia divinorum<br />
Salvia officinalis<br />
Sambucus nigra *<br />
Sanguinaria *<br />
● Sanguis draconi<br />
Sanicula aqua *<br />
Sarothamnus scoparius<br />
Sarsaparilla off.<br />
● Scarlatinum<br />
Scrophularia nodosa<br />
● Secale cereale<br />
Secale cornutum *<br />
Selenium<br />
Senega off.<br />
Sepia *<br />
● Serotoninum<br />
● Serum anguillae<br />
Silicea *<br />
Sinapis nigra<br />
● Sodalith<br />
Sol<br />
Solanum lycopersicum<br />
Solanum nigrum<br />
Solanum tub.<br />
Solidago virg. *<br />
● Sphingurus<br />
Spigelia *<br />
Spongia *<br />
Squilla maritima<br />
Stannum met. *<br />
Staphisagria *<br />
Sticta *<br />
Stramonium *<br />
Strontium carbonicum<br />
● Strontium metallicum<br />
Strophantus hisp.<br />
Strychninum nitr.<br />
Strychninum purum<br />
Succinum purum<br />
Sulfur *<br />
Sulfur jodatum<br />
Sulfuricum acid. *<br />
Symphoricarpus<br />
Symphytum off. *<br />
Syzygium jambol.<br />
Tabacum *<br />
Tarantula hisp. *<br />
Taraxacum officinale<br />
Taxus baccata<br />
Tellurium met.<br />
Terebinthina<br />
● Terminalia arjuna<br />
● Tetanol ® Vacc.<br />
● Tetraclinis articulata<br />
Teucrium marum verum<br />
Thallium aceticum<br />
Thallium metallicum<br />
● Thallium sulfuricum<br />
Thea sinensis<br />
Thlaspi bur. past.<br />
Thuja *<br />
● Thymolum<br />
Thymus vulgaris<br />
● Thyreoidinum<br />
● Tigerschnurrbart<br />
Tilia europaea<br />
● Triticum e seminibus<br />
● Tuberculinum bov.<br />
● Tuberculinum Koch *<br />
● Twinrix ® Vacc.<br />
● Uricum acidum<br />
Urtica dioica<br />
Urtica urens *<br />
Ustilago maydis<br />
Uva ursi<br />
Valeriana off.<br />
● Venus mercenaria<br />
Veratrum album *<br />
Veratrum viride<br />
Verbascum *<br />
● Vermiculite<br />
● Vespa crabro<br />
● Viagra ®<br />
● Vibhuti<br />
Viburnum opulus<br />
Vinca minor<br />
Viola odorata<br />
Viola tricolor *<br />
● Vipera aspis<br />
Vipera berus<br />
● Virus reg. ap.<br />
Viscum alb.<br />
● Weiße Lilie<br />
Wiesb. Kochbr.<br />
Wolfram<br />
X-Ray<br />
Xanthoxylum am.<br />
● Yohimbinum<br />
● Yttrium sulfuricum<br />
Zincum aceticum<br />
Zincum metall. *<br />
Zincum phos.<br />
Zincum val.<br />
Zingiber officinale<br />
● Zirconium phos.<br />
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THE PROCEDURES OF THE MATERIA MEDICA REVISA<br />
HOMOEOPATHIAE PROJECT<br />
In order to set about a project of this scope first<br />
you need an elaborate concept. The goal consists<br />
in listing as completely as possible all proving<br />
and cured symptoms published up to now for<br />
a given remedy. A considerable difficulty in doing<br />
so lies in the old journals and books that hardly<br />
ever include an adequate<br />
index, so that normally a<br />
lot of preparatory work is<br />
necessary to find provings<br />
and case histories.<br />
In order to be able to find<br />
the articles which contain<br />
appropriate symptoms in<br />
the variety of accumulated<br />
literature, it became necessary<br />
to scan through<br />
journals and books for<br />
possible provings, case<br />
histories or toxicological<br />
symptoms to compile indexes<br />
for the respective<br />
works. Therefore in the<br />
beginning separate indexes<br />
were compiled for the<br />
most important journals and books, in which the<br />
sources of the proving symptoms and the utilizable<br />
case histories (where it must be clear that the<br />
symptoms described were cured by the remedy in<br />
question) are listed separately - sorted alphabetically<br />
according to the remedies. Even if a lot has<br />
been achieved by many collaborators, this work<br />
cannot yet be considered finished. The amount of<br />
sources to be analyzed is enormous indeed. For<br />
example the ZBV (Zeitschrift des Berliner Vereins<br />
homöopathischer Ärzte) was published in more<br />
than 60 volumes and the AHZ (Allgemeine<br />
homöopathische Zeitung) up to now in more than<br />
DORIS BARZEN<br />
Partial view of Dr. Gypsers’s library<br />
250 volumes. Therefore the compilation in preparation<br />
of the project took several thousand hours.<br />
Additionally existing indexes are used, e.g. the “Index<br />
to Homoeopathic Provings” by T. I. Bradford,<br />
published in 1901 in Philadelphia, or the prefix<br />
to the remedies in C. Hering’s “Guiding Symptoms<br />
to Our Materia Medica”.<br />
Locating the sources mentioned<br />
also often poses<br />
difficulties, because journals<br />
occasionally changed<br />
their names several times<br />
and the numbering of the<br />
volumes sometimes was<br />
continued and started<br />
anew at the same time.<br />
For example the “Zeitschrift<br />
für homöopathische<br />
Klinik” was renamed<br />
after four years of publication<br />
(1852-1856) into<br />
“Neue Zeitschrift für<br />
homöopathische Klinik”.<br />
Often this journal is also<br />
quoted as “Hirschels<br />
Zeitung”, i.e. using the name of the editor . This example<br />
shows that in former times abbreviations for<br />
the journals were used, but not in a uniform way<br />
and therefore frequently it is difficult to trace the<br />
real name of the journal quoted.<br />
Based on all indexes, a list concerning the procedure<br />
of the sighting of literature was compiled<br />
which is continuously enlarged by further indexes.<br />
At the moment this list contains about 120 items,<br />
comprising a variety of provings, but much more<br />
often case histories, which on inspection often<br />
show that they again refer to other sources. On the
THE PROCEDURES OF THE MATERIA MEDICA REVISA<br />
basis of this list every remedy is processed, i.e. the<br />
sources listed are consulted in the library , after<br />
checking their suitability copied, a reference of the<br />
source added, noted down as copied in a file and<br />
then filed in folders. Care is taken that exclusively<br />
original sources are used, unless they are not<br />
available. This folder assembled for each remedy<br />
is handed over to the compiler of the remedy until<br />
the respective monograph is printed. Then it gets<br />
back to its place in the library of the “Gleeser<br />
Akademie” to serve as reference and to take in additions<br />
for the next edition. The work of copying<br />
a smaller remedy takes several weeks and results<br />
in one or two folders.<br />
The symptoms are entered on the computer into<br />
an acquisition program developed especially for<br />
this purpose. The order of the symptoms is the familiar<br />
head-to-foot schema. Clinical symptoms are<br />
differentiated from proving symptoms by placing<br />
them in square brackets. The bibliography is<br />
arranged into references for remedy provings, case<br />
histories and omitted case histories. Furthermore<br />
it is necessary to enter the names of the provers<br />
and their abbreviations. At the end the compiler<br />
has the possibility to write an epilogue. This allows<br />
HOMOEOPATHIAE PROJECT<br />
him to present personal impressions, experiences<br />
or striking facts which arose during the work on<br />
the remedy. The acquisition program is designed<br />
in a way that the input is done in print format so<br />
that no further editing by the printing company is<br />
necessary.<br />
After the symptoms are entered, the compiler corrects<br />
his work according to a “systematic of correction”.<br />
Then a co-corrector receives a printout<br />
in order to do his corrections. After eradication<br />
of errors to be corrected by the author the editor<br />
receives the work for another examination. After<br />
these errors are rectified again by the compiler ,<br />
the PDF-files are sent to the printing company by<br />
the publisher.<br />
The mentioned procedures on one side are bound<br />
to the “Gleeser Akademie homöopathischer Ärzte”<br />
and on the other side to the colleagues all over the<br />
country who work on a remedy. Only recently the<br />
attached library has been enriched by an extensive<br />
homeopathic legacy from the USA. T ogether<br />
with the library which Dr. Gypser has been collecting<br />
himself for more than 30 years, the MMRHproject<br />
is able to draw upon an extensive homeopathic<br />
collection of literature.<br />
Doris Barzen, Ärztin<br />
Kirchstr. 6<br />
D-54516 Flußbach<br />
Germany<br />
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THE “MATERIA MEDICA REVISA HOMOEOPATHIAE”<br />
A TOOL FOR “TRUE PRACTITIONERS OF THE HEALING ART”<br />
Lac caninum is a remedy which in daily practice<br />
often has quite a narrow “field of application”.<br />
Typical is the proverbial change of sides<br />
of lac caninum and a frequent indication is sore<br />
throat. In other sources you find numerous case<br />
histories about rheumatic complaints. Finally lac<br />
caninum is a remedy often applied successfully in<br />
cases of premenstrual mastodynia. In the course<br />
of the revision of lac caninum, I came across a really<br />
remarkable<br />
case history from<br />
Frederick<br />
William Payne<br />
(1845-1903)<br />
from Boston 1 .<br />
Payne shows in<br />
an brilliant exemplary<br />
m anner<br />
how even in a difficult<br />
c hronic<br />
case, s eemingly<br />
poor in symptoms,<br />
the similli-<br />
mum can be chosen<br />
with certainty.<br />
The [associated<br />
proving symptoms] from the “Materia Medica Revisa<br />
Homoeopathiae” are quoted in square brackets:<br />
“This is the case of a lady , 66 years of age. Six<br />
months before her visit to me she wakened, after<br />
a good night's rest, with a noticeable blur before<br />
the left eye, accompanied by a dull pain with sense<br />
of fullness and pressure and luminous flickerings<br />
in the whole visual field. She was subject to Hay<br />
fever, and at the time of the occurrence of the visual<br />
blindness, had had an attack of hard coughing,<br />
followed by the condition of blur , flickering<br />
DR. DOMINIK MÜLLER<br />
Ophthalmoscope, constructed about 1915<br />
Photo: Studio Hetzer, Obereichstätt<br />
and pressure, which rapidly increased until vision<br />
was almost entirely obliterated; though peripherally,<br />
in all parts, she was conscious of light and of<br />
moving objects, centrally no perception of vision<br />
remained. Accompanying the eye symptoms was<br />
much feeling of weight in the vertex extending to<br />
the forehead, with sense of tightness around the<br />
head, as of a band tightly drawn; in the blind retinal<br />
area she had occasional flickerings, as of the<br />
extinguishing of<br />
the flame of a<br />
lamp at intervals,<br />
while, always present,<br />
and occupying<br />
the same<br />
blind area, was a<br />
rolling motion, as<br />
of dark and light<br />
colored smoke,<br />
constantly curling<br />
before her . On<br />
ophthalmoscopic<br />
inspection, striae<br />
of opacity in both<br />
lenses were noticeable,<br />
while the<br />
left eye gave every<br />
evidence of having been subjected to a haemorrhage<br />
within the sheath of the left optic nerve,<br />
though no haemorrhagic spots were visible occupying<br />
any part of the retinal area. The symptoms<br />
of the case seemed difficult to cover, and owing to<br />
their profundity, gave much apprehension of a possible<br />
cerebral apoplexy supervening. On account<br />
of the central amblyopia, and the condition of vertigo<br />
with confusion, Crocus 200 was given, and the<br />
patient kept under its influence, with occasional<br />
repetition of the dose, for the four following<br />
months; during which evident gain in the pressed
THE “MATERIA MEDICA REVISA HOMOEOPATHIAE”<br />
A TOOL FOR “TRUE PRACTITIONERS OF THE HEALING ART”<br />
feeling of head and eyes, and relief to the vertigo<br />
were markedly noticeable, though the eye gave no<br />
signs of clearing, and the objective manifestations<br />
in the visual field continued. Causticum, Conium<br />
and Crotalus horridus were prescribed at intervals,<br />
one at a time, of course, in succession, during the<br />
following seven months, and still the eye symptoms<br />
persisted. On carefully reviewing the symptoms I<br />
found the mind considerably confused, rather slow<br />
in collecting her thoughts [cannot collect here<br />
thoughts; confused feeling,<br />
so that she neither can note<br />
down symptoms nor write<br />
a letter]; she had a constant<br />
dread, as if she would become<br />
unconscious [very<br />
excitable, constant anxiety;<br />
sensation she would become<br />
unconscious]; had<br />
severe pressure in the vertex,<br />
as if pressing downward<br />
u pon t he b rain<br />
[marked sensation of heaviness<br />
in the region of the<br />
vertex; pressure at the ver-<br />
tex from 18.15 till 19.15;<br />
slight pressure at the vertex;<br />
slight pressure at the<br />
vertex and above the eyes];<br />
[...] Round, bright lights, red and green ones before<br />
left eye, especially in when looking into the<br />
light. Left eye was sensitive to light, especially to<br />
sunlight. Cataract. [Occasionally small, floating<br />
disks appear in front of the eyes, that show primary<br />
colors at the margins; square or round green<br />
or brown spots in front of the left eye when the<br />
sun is shining bright; sometimes luminous spots<br />
in front of the left eye. Cataract.]<br />
Although these symptoms are rather indefinite, and<br />
more or less present under other remedies, I chose<br />
Samuel Swan (published the first<br />
proving of Lac can. in 1880) 2<br />
Lac caninum as the Similimum, for all the above<br />
symptoms appeared under its proving, and the<br />
choice proved the solution of the problem. In an<br />
extract from a letter received from the lady, in three<br />
weeks after Lac caninum was prescribed, she said:<br />
“My eyes have been quite comfortable for the last<br />
two weeks; I have suffered less from all the disagreeable<br />
symptoms, like weight in top of the head,<br />
dryness of the eyes in the morning, and sensitiveness<br />
to light. They are surely no worse and I think<br />
vision is a little clearer in<br />
the left eye.” Three weeks<br />
after this report the gain<br />
had continued, the visual<br />
area having become still<br />
brighter, and the discomfitures<br />
largely abated. V ision<br />
thereafter gradually<br />
improved, the cataractous<br />
lenses growing steadily<br />
clearer, until with the aid of<br />
compound myopic cylinders<br />
to correct the refractive<br />
error, vision has become<br />
useful, and the crys-<br />
talline lenses, when last inspected,<br />
practically, were<br />
perfect in translucency .<br />
The cure of such a case of<br />
extreme profundity, after having been subjected to<br />
an apparent haemorrhagic pressure for over a year,<br />
is in itself a subject for much wonderment and<br />
amazement, so that one can truly feel that nothing<br />
is impossible under the astonishing influence of<br />
our law of similars.”<br />
Various aspects become clear after studying this<br />
case:<br />
A mere repertorial analysis of the case especially<br />
with current means would not lead to the simillimum.<br />
As Payne correctly states, the symptoms<br />
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THE “MATERIA MEDICA REVISA HOMOEOPATHIAE”<br />
A TOOL FOR “TRUE PRACTITIONERS OF THE HEALING ART”<br />
available for the choice of the remedy are not very<br />
characteristic and rather vague.<br />
Payne does not speculate, he analyses the case exactly.<br />
He sticks to the symptoms - especially in this<br />
deep pathology - as the patient describes them. In<br />
a masterly manner he follows the guidelines for<br />
taking a case as specified by Hahnemann in the<br />
Organon.<br />
The case history clearly shows that for a certain<br />
choice of the remedy recourse to the original proving<br />
symptoms is not only desirable but absolutely<br />
necessary. Only this way an a priori certainty of cure<br />
can be achieved. This exact procedure can be<br />
found in countless case histories which I analyzed<br />
in the course of the revision of lac caninum. Contemporary<br />
currents and schools of thought in<br />
homeopathy have left this comprehensible path,<br />
which is easy to learn and to teach, in favor of ideas<br />
which in part are highly speculative. Normally<br />
nowadays the study of primary materia medica after<br />
analyzing the case is neither taught nor applied<br />
in practice. This inevitably has to lead to unsatisfactory<br />
results.<br />
Payne proceeds very deliberately. He doesn’t fritter<br />
away neither by fast nor by ill-considered<br />
changes of remedies.<br />
Last not least this case history shows how immense<br />
the importance of the revision of the materia medica<br />
is for daily practice. An enormous quantity of<br />
remedy provings, case histories and toxicological<br />
reports which up to now are difficult to trace or<br />
not accessible or unsorted, now is made available<br />
to the colleagues in a clear and structured edited<br />
version. Lac caninum has not been published in<br />
Allen’s Encyclopedia. In Hering’s “Guiding Symptoms<br />
of Our Materia Medica” under lac caninum<br />
mainly cured symptoms are described, proving<br />
symptoms are largely missing. This and other deficiencies<br />
are eliminated in the course of the revision.<br />
Proving symptoms and experiences from<br />
case histories (clinical symptoms) are displayed<br />
so that they are clearly distinguished and recognizable<br />
at a glance. Therefore the “Materia Medica<br />
Revisa Homoeopathiae” is an indispensable<br />
tool for “true practitioner of the healing art”<br />
(Organon § 3)<br />
Dr. med. Dominik Müller<br />
Kardinal-Preysing-Platz 14<br />
D - 85072 Eichstätt<br />
Germany<br />
1 Payne, F.W. Cases of Cataract Cured Homoeopathically. PIH 18(1897)102-104.<br />
2 Photo from Winston, J. The Faces of Homoeopathy. Tawa 1999, p. 98. (reprinted with kind permission by<br />
Gwyneth Evans).
Cyclamen europaeum, the sowbread, a protected<br />
plant from the family primulaceae, is found<br />
in Europe in the Alps and the Carpathian Mountains,<br />
in sparsely vegetated woodland and in shrubbery. It<br />
owes names like sowbread to the fact that the tubers<br />
are often eaten by wild boars and in former times<br />
the tubers where<br />
used to fatten pigs,<br />
in spite of being<br />
toxic. 1 In ancient<br />
times it was used<br />
as purgative and<br />
as abortive as well<br />
as purificans and<br />
solvens.<br />
Cyclamen was introduced<br />
to the<br />
materia medica<br />
by Hahnemann.<br />
His proving in<br />
volume V of the<br />
“Reine Arzneimittellehre”[Materia<br />
Medica Pura]<br />
comprises 202<br />
symptoms, out of<br />
which only five<br />
are his own observations.<br />
Since then it is considered a small remedy<br />
that is not applied often or sometimes is simply<br />
overlooked. Present-day experience teaches us<br />
to consider a remedy with a small number of symptoms<br />
as not fully proved. This also proved true in<br />
the case of cyclamen.<br />
The search for further remedy provings and suitable,<br />
that is trustworthy and well documented case<br />
histories in preparation of the materia medica re-<br />
CYCLAMEN<br />
EWA KOWZAN<br />
Alpenveilchen<br />
vision project yields surprisingly many other<br />
sources with proving and cured symptoms which<br />
where partly almost unknown and hidden in inaccessible<br />
old literature, waiting to be discovered.<br />
In the course of the collation the number of symptom<br />
rose to considerable 946. 785 of these are<br />
proving symptoms<br />
(i.e. 583<br />
symptoms were<br />
“added”) and<br />
161 are clinical<br />
applications or<br />
cured symptoms.<br />
The so-called Vienna<br />
proving<br />
turned out to be a<br />
real treasure<br />
chest. In 1842 C.<br />
Hampe (1803-<br />
1884) together<br />
with W. F. K. Fleischmann<br />
(1799-<br />
1868), P . A.<br />
Watzke (1803-<br />
1867) and F .<br />
Wurmb (1785-<br />
1864) founded<br />
the “V erein<br />
homöopathischer Ärzte Österreichs für physiologische<br />
Arzneiprüfungen” [Society of Austrian<br />
Homeopathic Physicians for Physiological Remedy<br />
Provings] (1842-1848). About two or three<br />
remedies were proved each year and the reports<br />
of the provings were published in the “Österreichische<br />
Zeitschrift für Homöopathie” [Austrian<br />
Journal for Homeopathy] (1844-1849), which was<br />
published by the founders of the society for provings.<br />
This way the journal became one of the most<br />
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important sources of the materia medica. The activities<br />
of the society , which were interrupted in<br />
1848 by political turmoil where resumed in 1850<br />
and the publication organ then appeared under<br />
the name “Zeitschrift des Vereins der homöopathischen<br />
Ärzte Österreichs” [Journal of the Society of<br />
the Austrian Homeopathic Physicians] (1857 u.<br />
1862-63) 2 .<br />
In this journal, in 1857, Hampe published the results<br />
of the cyclamen proving done under his supervision.<br />
We owe the Vienna group of provers a<br />
really substantial proving of cyclamen, which had<br />
been conducted all in all by 27 provers. Even more<br />
important seems to me the fact that 18 provers<br />
were women, which lead to the observation of numerous<br />
symptoms of the female genitalia. The previous<br />
results of the provings (both by Hahnemann<br />
and his collaborators as well as by Hencke and<br />
Lembke) had only been observed on men.<br />
Many symptoms from Hahnemann’s proving of cyclamen<br />
were to be found also in the Vienna proving<br />
and were confirmed in later case histories. Also<br />
other “new” symptoms showed up, which appeared<br />
in several provers and also later could be<br />
verified in the clinical application. Within this small<br />
article attention shall be called upon some of these<br />
symptoms, without claiming completeness. The<br />
symptom numbers mentioned in the following examples<br />
refer to the volume “Cyclamen” from the<br />
series of monographs of the “Materia Medica Revisa<br />
Homoeopathiae”.<br />
Remarkable in the realm of the mind and the sensory<br />
system are: weakness of memory, numbness<br />
and stupefaction of the head, changing mood, anxiety<br />
of conscience and disinclination to work. Vertigo<br />
appears consistently (objects are moving in a<br />
circle or in wavering motion), often accompanied<br />
by headache or disturbed vision. Migraine and ver-<br />
CYCLAMEN<br />
tigo together with various visual disturbances you<br />
will find also in connection with menstrual disturbances,<br />
especially when scanty menstruation<br />
was present. Remarkable was also a great affinity<br />
of cyclamen to the female genitalia and the eye.<br />
Various menstrual disturbances like menorrhagia,<br />
dysmenorrhea, amenorrhea, irregular and scanty<br />
menses, or dark and lumpy, as well as the already<br />
mentioned migraine and vertigo in connection with<br />
menstrual disturbances are notable. Later clinical<br />
observations confirmed the great efficacy of the<br />
remedy in menstrual disturbances and complaints<br />
both as main and as concomitant symptom.<br />
The phenomena observed at the eyes include various<br />
forms of weakness of vision like day or night<br />
blindness, dimness of vision, double vision, flickering<br />
or spots in front of the eyes, color vision and<br />
strabismus. These symptoms appear both during<br />
the proving and as intercurative concomitant symptoms<br />
(ICCS) in the case histories. Several cured<br />
cases confirm the efficacy of cyclamen in this symptomatology.<br />
Further symptoms to be found both in Hahnemann<br />
and in the V ienna proving and in the case histories<br />
alike are: violent fluent coryza with or without<br />
sneezing, loss of appetite especially during<br />
breakfast, eructation and hiccough as well as various<br />
kinds of indigestion (e.g. violent nausea and<br />
vomiting, which appeared in several provers immediately<br />
after taking the remedy).<br />
Many of the symptoms from different areas of the<br />
body are better during motion, but headache and<br />
vertigo often are worse by motion.<br />
Finally I want to present two smaller cases from<br />
the region of the extremities whose symptoms in<br />
my eyes constitute a beautiful counterpart to the<br />
proving symptoms.
The first case (Sy 697) 3 is a 29year old man, who<br />
suffered from a sudden attack of vertigo with transient<br />
weakness and numbness of the right arm. After<br />
eight days of rest, the sick man again went to<br />
his office. At every attempt to write he was seized<br />
by a pain that started from the cervical region, ran<br />
through arm and forearm and ended in a few con-<br />
CYCLAMEN<br />
Cyclamen<br />
vulsive movements of the thumb and the index finger.<br />
Several homeopathic remedies were tried as<br />
well as other methods, but without result. Till the<br />
author took notice of the following symptom from<br />
cyclamen from Hahnemann (Sy 696): “Cramp like<br />
slow flexion of the right thumb and index finger ,<br />
the tips of which gradually approach each other ,<br />
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and have to be forcibly extended.” The cure was<br />
complete and permanent. In this connection the<br />
symptoms 676, 680, and 689, which all come from<br />
Hahnemann, are interesting. Here a hard pressing<br />
pain or drawing pain at the arm, that extends<br />
into the fingers and prevents the prover from writing.<br />
Beside the pain as if dislocated that appeared in<br />
three different provers five times in total (Sy 724,<br />
725, 726, 727, 729) - which by the way also was<br />
observed in the joint of the upper arm and in the<br />
hip joint - in cyclamen we find sore pain in the<br />
heels. In one prover (Sy 731, Vienna proving) the<br />
pain interfered with walking and in another (Sy<br />
733, Hahnemann’ s proving) it appeared while<br />
walking, but was also to be felt while standing and<br />
sitting. The sore pain you also find in the regions<br />
CYCLAMEN<br />
nape of the neck, shoulders and toes. Royal 4 describes<br />
two cured cases of sore pain of the heels.<br />
In the first case, the pain that persisted for three<br />
months seemed to be in the bones, it increased<br />
while sitting and standing and was hardly to be felt<br />
while walking. Rhus-t., kali-bi. and ph-ac. did not<br />
effect any change of the condition. Cyclamen C 30<br />
cured within a week. In the second case with the<br />
same symptomatology, the pains were worse while<br />
standing. Cyclamen cured within three days. The<br />
author admits that these were the only cases where<br />
he used the remedy at all.<br />
In order that this will not happen to us, this monograph<br />
with its multifaceted picture of cyclamen<br />
shall contribute to re-discover this remedy for the<br />
purpose of therapy, a remedy which is small only<br />
prima facie.<br />
Ewa Kowzan, medical doctor<br />
Busekiststr. 20<br />
D-23562 Lübeck, Germany<br />
1Leeser, O. Cyclamen. in: Lehrbuch der Homöopathie. Bd. IV, T. 2, Heidelberg 1971, p. 428.<br />
2Dinges, M. Weltgeschichte der Homöopathie. München 1996, p. 82-86.<br />
3De Weé, J. Cyclamen europaeum. Journal Belge d’Homoéopathie 2(1895)196.<br />
4Royal, G. Therapeutic Notes. North American Homoeopathic Journal 6(1891)764.
With the help of the revised materia medica<br />
remedies can be studied in a more reliable<br />
way than is possible in secondary materia medicae.<br />
This applies both for the characteristics and<br />
the elements of the complete symptom, which may<br />
express themselves<br />
in a remedy<br />
in the sense of<br />
the genius.<br />
Regions especially<br />
affected by<br />
clematis are eyes,<br />
teeth, groins, urethra<br />
and testes.<br />
Sensations of tension<br />
run through<br />
several regions of<br />
the body in both<br />
essential remedy<br />
provings 1 (head,<br />
stomach, upper ,<br />
lower as well as<br />
internal and external<br />
abdomen,<br />
spermatic cord,<br />
chest, external<br />
throat and scapula).<br />
But these<br />
symptoms did not<br />
find clinical confirmation<br />
yet. In<br />
general the overall<br />
small number of clinical symptoms is striking,<br />
and to a major part they are from the urinary organs,<br />
the male genitalia and the skin.<br />
The following modality runs through several regions<br />
of the body and were mentioned by several<br />
provers: aggravation in the morning* 2 (1015 3 ,<br />
1096 4 , 1128), worse from touch* (344, 402, 526,<br />
CLEMATIS<br />
DR. ROBERT GOLDMANN<br />
Clematis erecta<br />
551, 858, 941), worse from motion* (238, 350,<br />
399, 513, 743, 757, 819, 845, 858, 891-892, 900,<br />
911, 972) and - as sub-modality the of the aggravation<br />
by motion - worse by walking (569, 577-<br />
578, 819, 937), as well as on the other hand the<br />
amelioration in<br />
the open air*<br />
(136, 149, 157,<br />
178, 203, 209,<br />
272, 384, 1096,<br />
1128). A consistent<br />
feature is also<br />
the aggravation<br />
on waking<br />
up (52, 139, 166,<br />
173, 200, 405,<br />
406, 413, 423,<br />
435, 474, 476,<br />
588, 802, 827,<br />
872, 903, 917,<br />
935, 942, 947,<br />
963, 1043, 1067,<br />
1069, 1071,<br />
1096, 1128,<br />
1136, 1150-<br />
1151, 1188-<br />
1190, 1193,<br />
1198, 1201-<br />
1202, 1233) .<br />
When smoking*:<br />
in t he p roving<br />
you find aggravation,<br />
but clinically also improvement of the complaints<br />
(129, 343-344, 785).<br />
As characteristics 5 we encounter the contradictory<br />
symptoms “fear of death and still yearning for<br />
it” (25), “fleeing society but at the same time fear<br />
of being alone” (33) and “disgust for coition with<br />
erection” (767). The “disinclination to talk” was<br />
mentioned by two provers of the first proving and<br />
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by three provers of the Austrian proving (90-91,<br />
100). Regarding the symptoms of the head, the sensation<br />
of a hoop (168) and the headache ending<br />
in perspiration of the head (161) are standing out.<br />
The toothaches at night that are ameliorated by<br />
cold water were verified several times. Painful<br />
swellings of lymph nodes which are sensitive to<br />
touch in the region of the lower jaw and especially<br />
in the inguinal region were reported repeatedly and<br />
distinctively. The<br />
two earlier provings<br />
of clematis<br />
showed relatively<br />
many verified<br />
symptoms of the<br />
inguinal region<br />
and the testes,<br />
which did not appear<br />
in the newer<br />
American proving.<br />
The Vienna proving<br />
was able to confirm the “giving way of the<br />
knees” from the first proving (868, 933) . Six<br />
provers reported “turning around and tossing<br />
about in bed” (1159-1163, 1181). Furthermore<br />
CLEMATIS<br />
“Vienna Provers”<br />
“faintness after stool” (1059) and the pronounced<br />
“sleepiness after sneezing” (1139) are remarkable.<br />
In the course of the materia medica revision,<br />
clematis unfolded a more differentiated row of<br />
symptoms than can be achieved by secondary materia<br />
medicae, which all to often fall back into the<br />
clinical diagnoses of the “old school”. Thus clematis<br />
advanced from a small remedy into a big remedy,<br />
even if not<br />
into a polychrest,<br />
then for this the<br />
relations are too<br />
narrowly directed<br />
toward regions<br />
like groins,<br />
urethra, testes,<br />
or skin. We can<br />
only hope that<br />
with the help of<br />
the available material<br />
in future<br />
clematis will be used more often, so that further<br />
areas of the rich symptomatology of the proving,<br />
like for example the disturbances of the sleep could<br />
be confirmed.<br />
Dr. med. Robert Goldmann<br />
Täubchenstraße 11<br />
D-14163 Berlin, Germany<br />
1 First proving (Stapf and Hahnemann 1827-1837); Austrian proving (Weinke 1857).<br />
2 * = verification.<br />
3 roman typeface = clinical symptom.<br />
4 italics = symptom from a remedy proving.<br />
5 Gypser, K.-H. Materia Medica Revisa Homoeopathiae. Einführung. Glees 2007, p. 70-71.
HAHNEMANN’S REMEDY TREASURE FOR THE PRACTICE –<br />
THE COMPLETE MATERIA MEDICA<br />
DR. CHRISTIAN LUCAE UND DR. MATTHIAS WISCHNER<br />
History<br />
The idea to collect all remedy provings performed<br />
and published by Samuel Hahn emann (1755-<br />
1843) wasn’t really something new: In 2003 “Hahnemann’s<br />
Materia Medica” was published in India<br />
in English, edited by P. Sivaraman, and brought together<br />
the “Materia<br />
Medica Pura” and<br />
“The Chronic Diseases”<br />
(Sivaraman<br />
2003). I n 2 005 f irst<br />
discussions w ith K arl<br />
F. Haug publishers<br />
took place about a<br />
possible reissue of<br />
Hahnemann’s materia<br />
medicae, which up to<br />
then had been reprinted<br />
again and again in<br />
more or less unchanged<br />
editions. Soon afterwards<br />
the idea was<br />
born not just to join<br />
the two main works<br />
“Reine Arzneimittel-<br />
lehre” and “Die Chronischen<br />
Krankheiten”,<br />
but also to take into<br />
account other sources like t he “Fragmenta de viribus<br />
medicamentorum” - Hahnemann’s first materia<br />
medica - as well as the remedy provings from<br />
“Stapfs Archiv”.<br />
Procedure<br />
First the reports on the remedies from the “Reine<br />
Arzneimittellehre” (6 volumes, published between<br />
1811 and 1833) and the “Chronische Krankheiten”<br />
(4 volumes, published between 1828 and<br />
Abb. 1: Die Gesamte Arzneimittellehre<br />
in 3 Bänden<br />
1839) were sorted according to common modern<br />
nomenclature and arranged in a standardized way.<br />
Then all remedy provings from “Stapfs Archiv” (see<br />
Fig. 2) in which Hahnemann participated were added.<br />
From the “Fragmenta de viribus medicamentorum”(published<br />
in 1805) the remedies<br />
“copaiva” and<br />
“valeriana” were incorporated,<br />
because<br />
they do not appear any<br />
more in Hahnemann’s<br />
later works. Finally<br />
during extensive research<br />
in the archives<br />
of the “Institut für Geschichte<br />
der Medizin”<br />
in Stuttgart, unpublished<br />
notes from Hahnemann<br />
regarding remedy<br />
provings were<br />
discovered. These<br />
showed Hahnemann<br />
in his role as supervi-<br />
sor of this co-provers<br />
(Stapf, Groß, Franz,<br />
and others), but due<br />
to the incompleteness of these notes they turned<br />
out to be unsuitable for a publication within the<br />
planned scope of the work.<br />
The „Gesamte Arzneimittellehre“ (GAL) 1<br />
The “Gesamte Arzneimittellehre” (Hahnemann<br />
2007; fig. 1) thus for the first time unites in one<br />
edition all remedy provings performed by Hahnemann.<br />
To make the work more practical a clear<br />
layout was introduced, every remedy picture was<br />
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HAHNEMANN’S REMEDY TREASURE FOR THE PRACTICE –<br />
structured by rubric headings according to the<br />
head-to-foot schema and many cross-references<br />
were added. Furthermore all 17 remedies which<br />
appeared twice, i.e. that were described both in<br />
“Reine Arzneimittellehre” and in “Chronische<br />
Krankheiten” were put together. For this purpose<br />
they were compared symptom by symptom and<br />
identical or similar<br />
symptoms were placed<br />
one behind the other,<br />
but without<br />
changing the phrasing<br />
of the symptoms.<br />
Especially this timeconsuming<br />
work resulted<br />
in very interesting<br />
insights into Hahnemann’s<br />
phrasing of<br />
symptoms, which are<br />
discussed in detail in<br />
the editorial guidelines<br />
of the “Gesamten<br />
Arzneimittellehre”<br />
(Vol. 1, Hahnemann<br />
2007) and in an article<br />
in the “Zeitschrift<br />
für Klassische Ho-<br />
möopathie” (Lucae,<br />
Wischner 2007).<br />
Sources of the Materia Medica<br />
Hahnemann obtained the symptoms of his materia<br />
medica from four major sources:<br />
1. The largest part comes from the remedy proving<br />
from his time in Leipzig (1811-1821) in which<br />
the legendary “Prüferverein” [society of provers]<br />
served as the decisive supplier of symptoms. Hahnemann<br />
published the collected symptoms mainly<br />
in the “Reine Arzneimittellehre”. These symptoms<br />
still are considered the most reliable symp-<br />
THE COMPLETE MATERIA MEDICA<br />
toms of the materia medica homoeopathica altogether.<br />
2. A further source constituted the contemporary<br />
and older medical literature which Hahnemann<br />
knew exceedingly well and which he also quoted<br />
extensively.<br />
3. Clinical observations<br />
entered into the<br />
two big materia medicae<br />
- and this to a<br />
much higher degree<br />
than had been assumed<br />
previously . Numerous<br />
observations<br />
Hahnemann made during<br />
the treatment of<br />
his patients were tacitly<br />
incorporated in the<br />
materia medicae. Only<br />
the transcriptions of<br />
Hahnemann’s patient<br />
journals, which have<br />
been pressed ahead<br />
recently, bring light into<br />
the darkness. By<br />
systematic analysis already<br />
many symptoms<br />
Abb. 2: Titelseite von „Stapfs Archiv“<br />
could be identified<br />
that have the abbreviation “NB” attached to them<br />
and which Hahnemann considered as being caused<br />
by the remedy administered to the patient. (NB<br />
either stands for “nota bene”, Latin for “mind you”<br />
or more probably for “Nebenbeschwerde” [concomitant<br />
complaint]; cf. Wettemann 2000, Papsch<br />
2007). By crossing out this abbreviation in his patient<br />
journal Hahnemann indicated that this symptom<br />
had been incorporated in the materia medicae.<br />
A beautiful example may be found in the patient<br />
journal D16 (see box):
HAHNEMANN’S REMEDY TREASURE FOR THE PRACTICE –<br />
Thuja symptoms in the patient journal D16<br />
(1817)<br />
“[...] in the [left] side of the abdomen above the pubic<br />
region a lively motion like the small arm of a<br />
child - without pain - comes on often, doesn’t persist<br />
for long [...] then often also the anxiousness in<br />
scrobiculus cordis rose up to the head and back<br />
again, at the same time somewhat squeamish<br />
[...] today in the legs it rose from there into<br />
both thighs and through the body up into the<br />
head and from there again into the scrobiuculus<br />
cordis, like mercury rising and falling in a weather<br />
glass. She felt squeamish and it was black in<br />
front of her eyes [...]”<br />
(quoted from Schuricht 2002, emphasis in bold by<br />
C.L./M.W.)<br />
4. Beside these three sources, there is yet a fourth,<br />
from which Hahnemann obtained his knowledge<br />
about remedies: The remedy proving on patients.<br />
There are clear hints that Hahnemann at least temporarily<br />
proved remedies on patients in a systematic<br />
way. Markus Mortsch proved this for example<br />
for stannum (Mortsch 2005). How often Hahnemann<br />
proved remedies on his patients and how<br />
many symptoms he obtained this way is still an<br />
open question.<br />
The Ideal and the Back Door<br />
In § 144 of the “Organon der Heilkunst” Hahnemann<br />
pursues the ideal of a “pure” materia medica:<br />
“From such a materia medica everything that<br />
is conjectural, all that is mere assertion or imaginary<br />
should be strictly excluded; everything should<br />
be the pure language of nature carefully and honestly<br />
interrogated.” Nevertheless he also kept a<br />
back door open, because in § 142 he says: “But<br />
how some symptoms of the simple medicine employed<br />
for a curative purpose can be distinguished<br />
amongst the symptoms of the original malady,<br />
even in diseases, especially in those of a chronic<br />
character that usually remain unaltered, is a<br />
THE COMPLETE MATERIA MEDICA<br />
Thuja symptoms from the “Materia Medica<br />
Pura”<br />
Movement in the hypogastrium as from something alive,<br />
like a forcing out of the abdominal muscles as from<br />
the arm of a child, but painless. [RAL 113]<br />
Anxiety in the scrobiculus cordis which mounted<br />
to the head and went back again; at the same time<br />
qualmishness. [RAL 100]<br />
An upward drawing pain from the legs through<br />
the thighs to the head and thence back into the<br />
scrobiculus cordis, during which there was blackness<br />
before the eyes and qualmishness.[RAL 284]<br />
(Emphasis in bold by C.L./M.W.)<br />
subject appertaining to the higher art of judgment,<br />
and must be left exclusively to masters in observation.”<br />
With this stratagem Hahnemann - a master in observation<br />
himself - justifies the inclusion of the “NBsymptoms”<br />
in the materia medica. Whether those<br />
are really and always symptoms “belonging to the<br />
remedy” or appearing anew in clinical symptoms<br />
can’t be found out any more.<br />
The Reliability of the Materia Medica<br />
In how far Hahnemann’s symptoms really are reliable<br />
can only approximately be conjectured. With<br />
the transcription of the patient journals it could<br />
be shown that even in the “Fragmenta de viribus<br />
medicamentorum” “NB-symptoms” appear and<br />
not just in the later volumes of the “Chronic Diseases”.<br />
Furthermore Hahnemann himself was critical<br />
in respect of some of the sources of these materia<br />
medicae, for example regarding the proving<br />
symptoms from Christian Friedrich Langhammer<br />
und Cajetan Nenning (cf. Wegener 1989). Nenning’s<br />
symptoms - abbreviated “Ng.” by Hahnemann<br />
- came from the “Reine Arzneimittellehre”<br />
by Hartlaub und Trinks.<br />
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THE COMPLETE MATERIA MEDICA<br />
The following statistic is based upon the known<br />
sources. The figures for the “NB-symptoms” are<br />
extrapolated (see box):<br />
Conclusion GAL symptoms for totalthe 68.120<br />
Contemporary Hahnemann’s symptoms Practice 34.306 50.4 % of all GAL symptoms<br />
Observations by others 33.814 49.6 % of all GAL symptoms<br />
“Ng.” symptoms in GAL 5.188 7.6 % of all GAL symptoms<br />
deleted NB symptoms approx. 5.500 approx. (50)-100 per patient journal<br />
NB-symptoms in GAL approx. 8 % of all<br />
symptoms<br />
With the “Gesamte Arzneimittellehre” now a clear<br />
reference work in three volumes is available<br />
which integrates all of Hahnemann’s accounts of<br />
symptoms. The remedies described therein - some<br />
120 - correspond to those which even today<br />
are the ones most often used in daily practice. Only<br />
a few polychrests like e.g. lachesis or the nosodes<br />
are not listed.<br />
In spite of possible restrictions as mentioned above,<br />
the “Gesamte Arzneimittellehre” remains per<br />
se THE basic materia medica of homeopathy, because<br />
all later materia medicae build upon Hahnemann’s<br />
original symptoms. Therefore, without<br />
this work, a thorough study of the homeopathic<br />
materia medica is absolutely inconceivable.<br />
A final evaluation of the situation of the sources -<br />
especially regarding the meaning of the “NB-symp-<br />
Dr. Christian Lucae<br />
Heinrich-Marschner-Str. 70<br />
D-85598 Baldham<br />
Germany<br />
approx. 16 % of Hahnemann’s own symptoms<br />
toms” - is not yet possible, since only about one<br />
quarter of Hahnemann’s patient journals have been<br />
transcribed and analyzed. However, this question<br />
probably will never find a final and satisfactory answer.<br />
But the assumption that all symptoms in Hahnemann’s<br />
materia medica are “pure” and may not<br />
be called into question is certainly wrong.<br />
Therefore the task of homeopathy in the 21st century<br />
can only consist in creating reliable instruments<br />
to confirm (and to falsify!) the materia medica<br />
as it is. The various current attempts to create<br />
a revised materia medica purged from all<br />
“wrong” symptoms with the help of an even better<br />
study of the sources appear very desirable, unfortunately,<br />
in view of the background presented<br />
here, a rather illusory goal.<br />
Dr. Matthias Wischner<br />
Am Mühlenteich 35a<br />
D-21680 Stade<br />
Germany
HAHNEMANN’S REMEDY TREASURE FOR THE PRACTICE –<br />
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