The simile principle |
Poison as valuable medicine
Atropa (belladonna) contains atropine, a poison that produces - among other symptoms - very severe stomach cramps. It was therefore logical to use this poison for shortening the intestine of rats. But why use this poisonous Belladonna for treating cramps?
The simile principle in homeopathy
Samuel Hahnemann, the founder of homeopathy, discovered that any poison used in homeopathic potency can heal precisely those symptoms that it produces as a poison. If a patient has symptoms that are similar (Latin simile = similar) to those produced by a particular poison, this patient needs this poison in a homeopathic potency to regain health. Every substance contains a kind of footprint carrying information that is precisely the opposite of the substance's own characteristcs. And this material footprint is released by the homeopathic potency.
An example: A person with arsenic poisoning breaks out in a cold sweat, has cold hands and feet, stomach cramps, anxiety, and then pathological anxiety. If someone has such symptoms without being poisoned, the homeopath knows that the use of arsenic (arsenicum album) can cure these symptoms.
For the experiment therefore, first the poison of the belladonna (atropine) was used to set off the cramps, and then belladonna X90 to heal the cramps. The University of Leipzig has now proved that this is exactly how it functions, and that it cannot be explained by any placebo effect.
Atropa (belladonna) contains atropine, a poison that produces - among other symptoms - very severe stomach cramps. It was therefore logical to use this poison for shortening the intestine of rats. But why use this poisonous Belladonna for treating cramps?
The simile principle in homeopathy
Samuel Hahnemann, the founder of homeopathy, discovered that any poison used in homeopathic potency can heal precisely those symptoms that it produces as a poison. If a patient has symptoms that are similar (Latin simile = similar) to those produced by a particular poison, this patient needs this poison in a homeopathic potency to regain health. Every substance contains a kind of footprint carrying information that is precisely the opposite of the substance's own characteristcs. And this material footprint is released by the homeopathic potency.
An example: A person with arsenic poisoning breaks out in a cold sweat, has cold hands and feet, stomach cramps, anxiety, and then pathological anxiety. If someone has such symptoms without being poisoned, the homeopath knows that the use of arsenic (arsenicum album) can cure these symptoms.
For the experiment therefore, first the poison of the belladonna (atropine) was used to set off the cramps, and then belladonna X90 to heal the cramps. The University of Leipzig has now proved that this is exactly how it functions, and that it cannot be explained by any placebo effect.
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