Originally Written by: Ramakrishnan, MMBS, MFHom, PhD.
Dr. Ramakrishnan is a medical doctor from Madras, India, who specializes in homeopathic medicine. He has offices in Madras, Hong Kong, Singapore, New York, Washington, San Francisco and Toronto. He is chairman of the Homeopathic Education and Research Foundation and joint chief executive of the International Homeopathic Medical Association. He has conducted many research projects and delivered papers at major international conferences for over twenty years.
SAMUEL HAHNEMANN
Homeopathy was discovered by Dr. Samuel Hahnemann about 200 years ago. He actually stumbled upon the discovery of homeopathy. He was reading about the properties of quinine in curing malaria, and he wondered what property in quinine was specific for malaria. Quinine is extracted from cinchona bark as you all know. Hahnemann’s enquiring mind wanted to know more about this stuff, so he powdered the cinchona bark, put it in a little alcohol and drank it himself. Lo and behold, he produced all the symptoms of malaria; he had 104 degree temperature, colic, vomiting, diarrhea, headache, shivering, just like malaria. So he began to realize that this substance which is specific for malaria produced all the malarial symptoms in him when he took it in a healthy state. Therefore he proposed the theory “that which it can cause in a healthy state, it can cure in a sick state”, and he began to prove one medicine after another. He took every medicine, drank it himself and produced the symptom, recorded the symptom and matched it to the symptoms for which it is known to be a remedy.
POTENTIZATION
I will give you a common example. You have all seen the effect of an onion. When you chop an onion, what happens? Your eyes water, your nose waters, you have the perfect picture of a cold. Now the same onion in a homeopathic potency is a wonderful cure for colds. When you walk through a jasmine garden, you have all the symptoms of hay fever, and that jasmine given in homeopathic potency is a wonderful cure for hay fever. It is a specific. But you ask, “If I take the crude substance, don’t I get worse?” Sure you will get worse if you already have a cold. It has to be given in a homeopathic dose, in a micro dose that is subjected to a process called potentization. It is refined, detoxified, and taken to a sub-molecular level. It is beyond 1012 dilution where there is no molecular substance left. We go much beyond that in a process that potentizes the properties of the physical substance and transfers them to the solvent at an energy level, at the subtlest level.
THE VITAL LIFE FORCE
Homeopathy has had a glorious history in curing mankind. It has enjoyed a lot of popularity in European countries, England, India and southeast Asia, and now there is a growing interest in the North American continent. Its fundamental strength is in its holistic approach. It recognizes our ability to cure ourselves because we each have a God given inborn endowed ability to defend ourselves, and maintain our health, but for which we would all be dead in two seconds. It maintains this equilibrium; it is the profound force within us, the self-defence mechanism, the immune system, or whatever name you may call it. It is that system, that vital force which we must recognize and help in its endeavour.
What is this energy, this life principle, which keeps you going? That energy which is the preservative energy of the body takes care of not millions or billions, but trillions and trillions of functions in the body. All we know about our body is that we can take a piece of bread and eat it. Once we swallow it, we don’t know thereafter what happens to it, but it gets broken down by starch, protein, fat and then is digested, sent to the intestine, is assimilated, and goes into the blood stream and becomes haemoglobin. We must address that vital force and that is what homeopathy addresses.
KARMA PHILOSOPHY How do we assist this natural mechanism? When a man dies does that profound vital force just stop? Is it something like an automobile engine or a light switch that you can turn on and off? In this universe, no energy can be destroyed. Something can never become nothing, and you cannot get something out of nothing. It is only a different manifestation at a different plane at a different wave length. So this vital energy is nothing but a continuum of forces. That is where karma philosophy comes in. A life force goes through the body from beginning to end and accumulates all the experiences of life, what we call in Sanskrit, sanskaras. So you may say, how can you influence the karma? How can you influence the life force with homeopathy? You don’t sit and helplessly watch whatever is happening in your life. It is subject to your governing it, disciplining it, channeling it, understanding it and handling it properly. It can be governed by your intelligence, your mind, your discipline, by good living, proper medications and proper understanding of medicine. If you injure yourself with all sorts of chemicals and toxic materials, you are going to be worse off. We are not dealing with chemicals. Homeopathy deals with a very subtle energy level, with the subtlest of subtle energy forces, so subtle that it matches the vibration of your vital force which is karma.
MODERN MEDICINE
Unfortunately, modern medicine today looks upon fever, headache, diarrhea, any symptom, pain or discomfort, as an enemy. But it is only a symptom put there by your body forces in the process of defending itself. Whether its a bacteria, a virus or an inflammation, your defence mechanism is trying to eliminate that bug or that irritant, and in that process is developing all the symptoms. It is a doctor’s duty to help that defense mechanism, that subtle energy that you have inside you, just to stimulate it to accomplish the job all by itself, to assist the body’s natural mechanism.
Today in this modern world, everybody is in a hurry. The patient is in a hurry – the doctor is in a hurry. The patient goes to the doctor and says, “I have this problem. Fix it in 24 hours. Tomorrow I have to be in New York.” And the doctor is also in a hurry because he has a long line of patients, and he wants to just get rid of the symptoms and go on to the next patient. So the patient is in a hurry, the doctor is in a hurry, and they are made for each other. It works beautifully. But it is only palliative, and later on, there comes a stage where there is a difficult problem which is sometimes irreparable. Man, in his pursuit of wealth and fame and popularity and all the material happiness, is spending his health in the first half of his life, and in the second half he has to spend all his wealth to get back his health, and he may not be able to get it back. That is the situation man is driving himself into.
STRESS
Stress occurs in every one of us because of our attitude towards life. Unless we develop a sense of detachment from this world, which is easier said than done, this stress eats us up. However careful we may be in avoiding all the other carcinogens, this stress factor that we subject ourselves to is going to cause trouble. With homeopathy, we are able to bring this stress factor down.
CANCER
As a preventive measure, at a premalignant stage for people who have family histories of cancer, we have done great work with prevention with homeopathy. I have used carcinosum for cancer. We give this when there is a family history of cancer in the patient’s evaluation, even if they have come for something else like a headache. I use it specifically in cases which are predisposed to cancer but no cancer is found. So I will use it at a non-diagnosable level of cancer. Post-operative management can be done with homeopathy which is far superior to chemotherapy or other orthodox managements. I have been practicing homeopathy for the last 25 years, and very few people have come to my clinic with stage one cancer, only as few as 240 cases. People seek alternative systems of medicine only after they have exhausted the regular orthodox system. In the later stages of cancer, homeopathy can only offer a better quality of life and give pain relief.
BREAST CANCER
I have analyzed as many as 300 cases of breast cancer, and I should say that in 90% or more of them, there has been a disharmony in the marital or domestic situation. Galan said as early as 200 AD that melancholia predisposes to cancer.
CARCINOGENS
In Sanskrit, a language which is 5,000 years old, we are told to watch what goes into us through the five senses: the eyes, ears, nose, mouth, and touch. Even seeing horrible things and listening to loud, bizarre, unhealthy sounds can be carcinogenic. It is not only the hydrocarbons, chemical fertilizers and insecticides that we are already aware of, but harmful sight, sounds and smells and anything that we ingest, because we are sensitive to all these things. There is also the sixth sense which is also important and which is also something which goes into you.
HOMEOPATHIC DEFINITION OF DISEASE:
People ask: if the solutions and preparations we are dealing with are so minute in matter, how could they possibly affect the system?
The first thing I want to say is that we must divorce ourselves from a preconceived notion of illness, and a preconceived notion of the action of drugs. We have previously been led to believe that medicines are chemically oriented preparations that affect the biological processes only on a material scale. This is not so. The reality is that to be curative a medicine must have energetic content. Since every human being has electrical current flowing through their system, which we can measure, (We also emit light, and electromagnetic fields, and frequencies) we therefore have an electromagnetic field. Conventional medicine has ignored and completely disregarded this principle, and so disease has been defined by them as the manifestation of certain symptoms.
However, the homeopathic definition of disease is that when something goes wrong at the electrical level, the electromagnetic field is altered. As a result of that imbalance, there is a manifestation of ulcers, migraines, cardiovascular disease, etc. So homeopathically, we correct the energetic imbalance. This used to be done qualitatively. Now it can be done very precisely and very quantitatively.
THE ACUPUNCTURE SYSTEM AND THE MANIFESTATION OF DISEASE:
In acupuncture, the Chinese stumbled across the fourth circulatory system of the body, which is the electrical system. And it is at the electrical level of the body that the disease is caused. They discovered that there were three basic circulatory systems, the blood, the lymph, and the nervous system. Each of them has a massive network. But the fourth system, which is the most crucial system of all, is the electrical system, otherwise known as the acupuncture system. Within this we have an electrical network connecting every part of our body, from the dermal areas of the skin to the deeper tissues, and we can actually plot where these different circuits go. Every one of us has them. And when they are cut or incised, problems will develop.
It used to be fashionable at one time for women, when they had operations, to be very careful and let the surgeon know that the cut should be a horizontal one lower down so that it wouldn’t be noticeable, rather than a longitudinal one. This caused more problems in the 50’s and 60’s that we didn’t even come across until the late 70’s. Because these meridians are going up and down the system (vertically), when they are cut horizontally, there is tremendous damage to the circuitry of the system. And we’ve had more women with severe allergies and severe endocrinological problems as a result of that. So just as a side note, remember if anyone ever has to go into surgery, please go in for the vertical cut, which will do minimum damage, rather than the horizontal.
So there are basically twelve main meridians or arteries of electromagnetic energy. In these twelve, you constantly have a free flow of energy. If an energy block develops in one of these meridians, you have a problem. And what causes that block? It is all the garbage we have in our air, in our water, and in the food we take, however careful we are, and especially it is a result of the drugs that we’ve been taking since we were children: from the vaccinations to the analgesics, anti-depressants and antibiotics. They have all managed to accumulate and cause a problem, which results in this block. The Chinese figured that these blocks affect the electromagnetic structure, and cause disease.
There is a level of toxicity and a physiological effect that each virus and bacteria can manifest. So long as you are kept ordered at the electrical level, none of this will invade you. Take for example an epidemic of influenza. All around you people are falling sick. They’ve got the bug, but you’ll always find one or two people who don’t get it. If the virus is in the air, and we’re all breathing it, and we all have it, why doesn’t everyone come down with it? Because there is a certain arrangement required for the activity of that virus. And some of these people are naturally healthy and they have natural resistance.
HOMEOPATHIC TREATMENTS:
Well, homeopathy does not treat with antibodies. Homeopathy deals with the same substance.
INSOMNIA: You know that coffee which has caffeine, keeps you awake at night when you drink too much of it. Well in homeopathy, the classic treatment for insomnia is crude coffee in potentized form. Very, very effective.
HEAVY METAL POISONING: Another very fascinating area, where homeopathy is effective, is in the treatment of heavy metal poisoning. Where there are dietary deficiencies, these can be made up by taking extra vitamins and minerals. But when you have heavy arsenic, heavy cadmium, or heavy mercury in the system, what can you do? There is no other medical system that can handle it, and people become severely ill, especially their central nervous system. Their coordination goes. If metals are in the blood, chelation can work but if it’s in the tissues, chelation will not work that well, and you will need homeopathy.
LEAD: For instance, lead in your system can be very effectively treated by Plumbum Metalicum, which is a homeopathic preparation made from lead. We have documented that a person who shows high levels of lead in their tests, after 120 to 160 days of taking the preparation of Plumbum Metalicum, has eliminated it from the tissues, from the liver, from the fat around it, and it’s out of the system.
PESTICIDES: The same is true for pesticides. And that is my main concern right now, because our air has become so full of at least 14 different kinds of pesticides that have been used, such as malathion, paraquat, and 245 tiesta, and every year it’s getting worse and worse, and people are coming down with multiple sclerosis and alateral sclerosis. These are symptoms related to pesticide poisoning. And we’re having excellent results using homeopathic forms of the same pesticide to treat them.
RADIATION SICKNESS: When a person accumulates radiation, essentially X-Rays or emanations from radioactive substances, there is obviously toxicology related to radioactivity. When you prepare the homeopathic form, you take a diluant, which is a water-alcohol system, and you bombard that with X-Ray radiation to the point where it becomes heavily saturated with it and you can measure it. Nobody touches it now – it’s a potent, lethal substance. Then this is diluted and potentized to a point just like with other homeopathic preparations, and we get potencies so dilute you cannot quantifiably measure them, and a tremendous amount of reverse energy is created in the vehicle. We can now give you back in precisely this negative form something that will balance out your radioactive levels. So in this way you can remove the effects of radiation.
We are finding that especially with our airline pilots and stewardesses. Most of them who are flying all the time eventually are exposed to enough milliCuries of radiation up in the atmosphere, and they all come up with the central nervous system phenomena which is related to radioactivity. And we have treated many pilots for this. A lot of pilots die around the age of 60 of cancer, and we have been able to document this study.
HOME REMEDY KIT: For you at home, we drew up some combinations which we have found in our experience to be very valuable. We have a service where the highest quality of homeopathic medicine is made, both in combination form as well as single remedies. For those of you who do not know of a place to get it, by all means write to our service. They can tell you where you can obtain homeopathic remedies, or they’ll be happy to send them directly to your home. Our idea, with these home combinations, is to stay on a preventive program. Ninety percent of problems can be taken care of right in your home, with the householder playing the doctor, as it should be, as it used to be a long time ago.
We have developed a homeopathic remedy for DIARRHEA, both for elderly people, as well as for children. COUGHS are another problem. Everybody comes down with coughs, and rather than take different depressants, which numb the nervous system, there’s a homeopathic remedy which can do it very nicely for you. HEMORRHOIDS and PILES: Every third person on the street is now suffering from one form or other of hemorrhoids. We have a preparation for that. NERVOUS TENSION, INSOMNIA, HEADACES, NEURALGIA, GLANDULAR DROPS, TEETHING FOR CHILDREN — preparations for all of these things were developed for your convenience. One last medicine is for the treatment of OBESITY. Appetite depressant drugs will not do it because a big person thinks differently from a thin person. We can convert this homeopathically to where this fat man now loves celery.
Homeopathic remedies are a beautifully gentle form of treatment. There are no side effects. For chronic conditions please go to a doctor.
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