The Law of Similars and Dissimilars and its Consequences

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MISC: The Law of Similars and Dissimilars and its Consequences

by Dr. Luc de Schepper, , MD, PhD, DI Hom., CHom., Lic.Ac.

It is important for the reader and homeopath alike to understand these two basic

laws of homeopathy in order to judge the choice of the chosen remedy but also in

the case of needing to change the chosen remedy (simillimum). The simillimum or

the rightfully chosen remedy for the patient is the right remedy, the right

potency (strength) and the right dose (amount). All three of these parameters

must be fulfilled. More about dose and potency will be addressed in the next

lectures. This lecture focuses primarily on some of the laws that the homeopath

must apply to find the simillimum. Other lectures in the future will add

pertinent information regarding Laws and Principles of Homeopathy. Sometimes I

quote an Aphorism from the Organon, the master work of Hahnemann. For the

public, the best Organon (and cheapest) can be obtained at www.mimimum.com

(Organon of Medicine, Jost Kunzli Edition).

The Law of Similars or " Like cures Like "

What does this mean? How does the homeopathic remedy cure? This is answered in

A12-27 of the Organon and I have expressed it here in common terms:

" The curative power of our homeopathic remedy is based on symptom similarity,

not the same symptoms, of the chosen remedy and the presenting picture of the

patient. The chosen remedy creates a similar " disease " state stronger than the

presenting patient's natural disease. "

In other words we create a similar and stronger disease than what the patient

present. Does this mean we must make the patient sicker before he gets better?

This is an unfortunate thinking of many patients and present homeopaths. As you

will learn further, this aggravation of your existing symptoms (called similar

aggravation) can be totally avoided by selecting the right potency, frequency of

repetition and dose (see further lectures). Your homeopath must be familiar with

the 5th and 6th edition of the Organon and at this point at least 90% of

homeopaths in the world are not!

This Law of Similars reminds the reader of the basis of vaccinations and

allergy shots that allopathic Western medicine uses in the practice. Alas,

although allopathy practices " unconscious " homeopathy in this instance, by

mixing many vaccinations, giving too much of a dose and repeating them too

often, allopathy sins against the rest of the homeopathic principles. In other

words, vaccinations would be much safer and provide real prevention if they

would be administered on the right time (who needs on the first day of his life

Hepatitis vaccinations; through breast feeding infants have a natural immunity

for first seven months), only one at the time and in homeopathic (non material)

doses. There are of course many vaccinations that are not necessary: the child

is much better off to go through childhood diseases as this is an exercise for

the child's immune system. Adults who never had childhood diseases (or on the

contrary had one of them in excessive form) fit the homeopathic profile of more

severe diseases later, even cancer. For more info regarding vaccinations consult

Sheri Nakken's excellent web site: Vaccination Information & Choice Network :

http://www.nccn.net/~wwithin/vaccine.htm

http://www.nccn.net/~wwithin/homeo.htm

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Let's give a simple acute example of this first Law of Similars. Assume you get

travelers' diarrhea touring beautiful Mexico (usually this is not advertised in

the brochures). I actually had it in India: I had greenish diarrhea, every 5

minutes, with bloating of the whole abdomen, after eating contaminated food,

plus nausea. Worst time was between midnight and 2 am. As you can see I want to

know a little more than the complaint, " I have diarrhea " and no I am not anally

fixated. This diarrhea is a natural reaction of your immune system to expel the

toxins of the bad food so it is incomprehensible that regular medicine

(allopathy) will advise you to take something that stops this natural process of

evacuation, in other words, go against Nature's defense mechanism. By giving

homeopathic China in this case, chosen on the similar symptoms to be found in

this remedy, I created a stronger similar medicinal (caused by the remedy)

disease and Nature's Law always says that " the weaker natural (patient's)

disease will disappear through the creation of a stronger medicinal disease (my

China disease). We will learn further how we know when to discontinue this acute

remedy because we are cured! The same principle is in force for chronic

diseases. This homeopathic principle was discovered by Hahnemann in 1793 when he

was experimenting on himself with exactly this remedy (China: bark of the tree

contains Quinine) to provoke symptoms of malaria in himself. However when he

stopped the doses, his normal health returned and he had no bad consequences

from the proving of this remedy. This became the beginning of all his

experiments. Allopathy stumbled on the same principle when Jenner, an

English country doctor, who discovered by coincidence that a farmer's woman

infected by cow pox was immune to the small pox epidemic that was raging. Cowpox

inoculation has been shown to prevent or greatly diminish small pox and is till

used now! This finding was the basis for the first vaccination and later was

found that the cow pox virus and the small pox were very similar, not the same,

in nature. It reflects again the first homeopathic law as I stated before. Alas,

allopathy has not learned anything from the further findings of Homeopathy.

Now regarding a chronic disease. Let's take the example of an autistic child.

The patient's symptoms (and this means a lot more than expressed symptoms) are

as much as possible matched to the proving symptoms of one of the 3,000 and more

remedies we have. A lecture in the future will exactly state how you can assist

your homeopath in providing the symptoms that will lead to a cure of your case.

To further understand the action of the homeopathic remedy, one has to analyze

the laws of dissimilar diseases.

The Law of Dissimilar Diseases

The creation of a dissimilar disease (not a similar one like Homeopathy) is the

goal of allopathy. Not often is the word " cure " used anymore but rather,

allopathy tries to " control " the natural chronic disease. Remark that I speak

here of chronic diseases, not acute. Chronic diseases are those that are at

least 6 months and more old. Regarding acute disease, Voltaire said rightfully,

" Nature cures while the physician amuses the patient. " While this is correct for

many acute illnesses, I will in a future lecture show what kind of acute

diseases do need an intervention.

But let's see what happens if we create a dissimilar disease, the goal of

allopathic intervention? What happens to the patient's presenting natural

disease? There are three possibilities!

1. The old stronger chronic disease repels the new weaker one (A36)

What does this mean? Any physician in his office and often the patient himself

has seen this. For example, patients with CFIDS (Chronic Fatigue) would say: " I

never get a cold. " This is a form of negative immunization due to the fact that

the patient's constitution is already suffering from a severe disease. The

immune system is already fighting a mighty enemy and in this state of high

alert, a small enemy patrol (a cold) has no chance to penetrate the defensive

perimeter. So if such patient all of a sudden gets a cold, it is actually often

a sign of recovery.

When the homeopathic remedy has not been chosen in the right potency and dose

(too small), the medicinal similar disease we try to create, will not be

stronger as we wish to do and the remedy, although perfectly selected

homeopathically, will have no result. Homeopaths who claim, that the dose and

potency is not as important as the rightly selected remedy should rethink what

they are doing as it will lead to wrong decisions such as changing remedies

where this should not have happened. All that was needed was a change in potency

and/or dose and frequency of dosing (more about this in later lectures).

This same principle also explains the allopathic drug resistance one might

encounter: if the natural disease remains stronger than the drug-induced

illness, the medication will not have any immediate suppressive (not curing!)

action. As a result higher amounts are given with even more side effects.

2. The new disease suspends the old one, but does not CURE them! (A38)

This is exactly what allopathy with its drugs tries to achieve. The stronger

action of the dissimilar drug creates a dissimilar disease that suppresses the

existing patient's presenting natural disease (let's assume chronic migraines)

until the action of this medication runs out (half-life time of medications).

Then of course repetition of the drug or as time goes on, larger amount of

stronger suppression are necessary to obtain the same results, however with more

side effects, but no cure of the migraine is achieved. Often the " cure " (read

suppression) is worse than the original disease as an array of drug side effects

takes place. That in allopathy we create a dissimilar disease is easily shown

when in allopathy we always speak of anti-this or that; for diarrhea we give an

anti diarrhea drug, anti-fever drugs, anti-arthritic drugs, etc, always the

perfect dissimilar drug for the disease as it is a 100% the opposite; this is

not the same as hormonal replacements like estrogen, insulin for diabetes,

etc.). So the only thing we achieve with allopathic drugs is suspending, the

chronic disease, not curing it. That's why your doctor always answers on the

question, " How long do I need to take this drug, " " For the rest of your life. "

This tells you right away that allopathy does not have a cure for your disease.

When we talk about a new disease suspending the old presenting one, this is also

important for the homeopath. Assume you are in treatment for a chronic condition

(arthritis for instance) and now you have a very severe cold or a severe

emotional trauma. This is a NEW acute disease and needs an acute intercurrent

remedy for that cold or emotional trauma, while suspending the chronic remedy

you took (for arthritis) before this acute event happened!! What does the

patient see? That most of the arthritis symptoms as by miracle disappeared or

alleviated greatly while they have this flu. They might say: " My chronic

arthritis was much better while I had this flu. But once the flu was cured, the

arthritis came back just as much as before. " So be aware of those homeopaths who

say that they never need an acute or chronic intercurrent! They don't know the

first principle of homeopathy and will ruin your case for the future. In a

further lecture I will expand exactly for what acute diseases we need an acute

intercurrent.

3. A complex disease forms

Two dissimilar diseases of the same strength can be active at the same time and

will settle down in the area of the patient for which it has the most attraction

or affinity. Therefore complex diseases exist to which the immune system needs

to fight two or more diseases simultaneously, a mighty battle. Such complex

disease creates of course different sets of symptoms making our selection of the

homeopathic remedy more difficult. The most common cause of these complex

diseases is the suppressive acts of allopathic medications. Some diseases become

incurable by such measures. How many patients do we know that take 5 different

medications for their ailments and five additional ones to suppress further the

side effects of the first five? Everyone sees this in practice. It is a hard

task for the homeopath to rectify such illness, but not impossible!

This is the end of lecture One. To answer an additional question from the

public. Someone after listening to a lecture about finding THE remedy of the

year for flu (called genus epidemicus) was all excited and thought, " maybe there

is a genus epidemicus " , in other words ONE remedy for all autistic children.

Sounds logical yet it is totally wrong. When we talk about genus epidemicus we

are talking about acute diseases that come up sporadically among the population

like the yearly flu. In other words every year we have a different flu virus

(that's why the old previous flu vaccinations are worthless and dangerous) but

the homeopath after examining about ten flu victims can determine THE remedy for

that year's flu. When we speak of ASD we speak of a chronic condition that is

determined by many more individual factors: constitution, hereditary factors,

causality, etc. We never treat a name of a disease, but a patient with a

disease. It is the gravest mistake of allopathy to try to put diseases names on

people. The goal of course is to apply a treatment protocol. However any person

knows that he is a unique individual, with unique features, background,

hereditary factors and as Carl Jung concluded, therefore will react on any

situation in his own individual way. The law of individuality is just as much a

sacred principle as the previous Laws. We might have ten ASD patients and need

ten different remedies. I wish it was different as practicing homeopathy would

be easier! Let's face it: when you go to the tailor, does he have one dress or

suit for everyone? One size fits all?

Dr. Luc de Schepper, , MD, PhD, DI Hom., CHom., Lic.Ac.

www.drluc.com