ABSTRACT: Experimental Homoeopathy differs from the laboratory pharmacodynamics. The latter analyzes the primary action of drugs in physiological doses; Homoeopathy studies the specific secondary effect of a substance in infraphysiological doses in an organism sensitive to the minimum action.

(Papers of the Transnational Conference: "THE HOMOEOPATIC REMEDY-NON-MEDICINE. A PROPOSAL FOR RECOGNITION" - Rome 12th and 13th december 1988).

I consider the homoeopathic fact, not only with the awareness of the interest sprung from these years of work in a teaching more and more suited to this new generation of doctors, but I feel the need to underline the importance of the new phenomenon for the present and future outlook of Homoeopathic Medicine in the scientific field.

At present, most of the scientific world has completely relinquished the idea that "science is not boud to values", but only limited to a description of what actually exists without mentioning what should exist.

Scientific objectivity must most certainly not be abandoned, but it must be acknowledged that both the act of acquiring scientific knowledge and the very objects of this knowledge cannot be free of values and choices.

The methods for acquiring scientific knowledge consider the following:

1) Logic theories, consistent with the acquired knowledge as a

whole.

2) Precise experiments which may be repeated.

These requisites are what makes science different from sectors of knowledge such as metaphysics and theology; these SYSTEMS of thought claim to represent knowledge and are all meaningful for thought and behaviour, but scientific knowledge is the sole subject to experimental verification, expressed with the optimum of lucidity and elegance.

Science is thus built up through theories based on a few general postulates expressed by mathematical reports; from these postulates one may draw a great number of assumptions and, among these, the key elements may be experimentally tested and verified.

The entire structure is thought as the most exact possible, devoid of all unnecessary factors; therefore, in the main lines of scientific knowledge nothing is left to chance.

Two things, however, are obvious in these general lines:

1) The phenomena in which science is concerned must have

QUANTIFIABLE AND NON CONTRADICTORY characteristics, on the

basis of which they may be interpreted.

2) Scientists prefer to interpret them through THESE QUANTI-

FIABLE CHARACTERISTICS.

We know that all laws of nature are nothing but statistical truths. Moreover, we have not dwelled enough on the fact that, to prove the inviolable validity of the laws of nature, we implicitly need the laboratory with its incisive restrictions.

Leaving nature to take care of itself, we get a glimpse of something completely different; every process is subject to total and partial interference by chance and this inasmuch as a regular course of events, respectful of the law, enters into a much more complex system of interactions. But is not the aim of scientific knowledge that of understanding natural phenomena in an unitarian manner?

A unified theory of the physical world and of the living world, as in the social and phsychological world, sought since the middle of the century by the scientific community, underlines, according to me, the importance of our pure experimentation, of our clinical testing, which through an actual recovery identifies man in all his process of development, past and present, tightly connected to the social environment and that relating to phenomena.

Perhaps it is the path to an unitarian knowledge of vital and general phenomena in general.

I have been considering "the homoeopathic fact" for over thirty years and have lived it on my own preparation and my own scientific labels.

Homoeopathic Medicine is an experimental and clinical fact and it is for this reason that we feel bound to safeguard its epistemologic status (both experimental and clinic).

The message must be understood and carried into the future; it must not and cannot be reduced because at present our parametres forbid us to quantify it.

The non quantifiable may be identified only through the most correct procedure of Homoeopathic Medicine and the human being becomes the junction with nature while microcosm and macrocosm merge together to answer our queries.

Homoeopathy is a clinical-therapeutic method based on well defined laws and general principles.

It is not the sole therapeutic system.

Hippocrates, father of medicine, defined the laws of health and based them on hygiene, diet, climate and treatment in accordance with the law of contraries to suppress symptoms, or in accordance with the law of the same to enhance nature medicatrix.

Since then, the application of both laws has become traditional though always in the empiric form and a remarkable prevalence of the law of contraries.

In different ages, doctors such as Paracelsus, Van Helmont, Stahl and others tried to enhance the application of the law of same, though always starting from empiric observations as regards the choice of the medicine. It was Hahnemann who, though acknowledging the validity of the law of contraries in symptomatic therapy, transformed the principle of similitude into a universal therapeutic regulation, thanks to the direct experimentation of drugs on the human being.

In fact, any substance which in a physiological or imponderable toxic dose produces a certain syndrome in a healthy subject with a psycho-physical balance, can also in very many diseases, destroy symptoms such as those produced in the healthy subject, as long as it is taken in small doses. In Homoeopathy, this is the principle of similitude "Similia Similibus Curentur".

However, for a diseased person to react to the similar remedy, he must be in a state of susceptibility, and Martiny defines susceptibility as the power of the live matter to adapt the reaction to the nature of the stimulant.

The understanding of the patient's susceptibility and the necessity as a consequence, of using microdoses, has influenced the course of the therapeutic investigations of the Official Medicine since the beginning of this century, following a path parallel to that of Homoeopathy, without ever crossing it. Everyone acknowledges the action of microdoses in a susceptible organism when hormones, enzymes, vitamins, acids, colloidal metals, antigenes, vaccines, toxins, catalytic substances, etc., are used, but no one acknowledges that, as a logic result, the use of microdoses, according to the specific susceptibility, must arise from the principle of the same.

Biology has defined the problem of Homoeopathy.

The pharmacodynamic law of Arnold-Schultz states that small doses stimulate the vital activity; moderate doses excite it; strong doses depress it; very strong doses cancel or eliminate it.

The toxic dose, if very strong, kills the cell, the organism is struck by its destructive action, called primary, and in which the toxic agent does not allow the organism to react.

When the dose is less strong, the damaged cell modifies and gives rise to a physiological process which shows up with a determined symptomatology; in this case the primary action suppresses the natural disease and corrects the local organic disorder and this is why the weakened doses are called physiologic doses.

Further reduced doses have a very mild physiologic or primary action, which may be noticed only in sensitive subjects and are thus called hypophysiological or infinitesimal doses. These doses are the ones which give rise to a reaction of the organism or secondary action of drugs: it is an extremely variable reaction which depends on the reactive capacity of the subject, in experimentation, specifically conditioned by the particular biopsychic balance of its general functions.

It is for this very reason that experimental Homoeopathy is different from the pharmacodynamics of the laboratory. The latter analyzed the primary action of drugs in physiological doses; Homoeopathy studies the specific secondary effect of a substance in infraphysiological doses in an organism sensitive to the minimum action.

Experimentation in Homoeopathy totally depends on the study of the human being's reactions and all verifications arise from clinics.

Clinical medicine thus joins therapy from which it should never be separated.

The experimentation of a drug on the human being, in an infraphysiological dose, causes the explosion of a series of symptoms which reveals a dynamic alteration of the organism, a reaction of the neurovegetative and central nervous systems which shows the individual's global response to a stimulus produced by drug. This, called pathogeny of a treatment, is made up of sensations, qualitative variations of physiologic functions, alterations of the bearing, mood, character, behaviour, that is all those demonstrations that express a global change in the behaviour of the individual as a living unit.

The specific value of psychologic and neurovegetative symptoms forming the individual's personality, is not to be found in each separate symptom but in the particular and original manner in which all the symptoms merge and characterize a totality which, through a similitude, is also found in the natural setting of the disease.

SLIDE OF CALCAREA CARBONICA

This shows how Calcarea Carbonica can cause a very complex pathogeny by means of a small part of its pathogenesis. It is the result of Calcarea Carbonica experimentation.

Calcarea Carbonica is a complex calcium carbonate extracted from the oyster's intermediate layer.

Experimentation was carried out on different people and at the 30th centesimal and one can see (this is only an example) that this experimentation was made directly by Hahnemann who experimented 101 substances on himself and in this substance found 1.631 symptoms. After the experimentation, this substance became a Remedy.

This is only an example to show some of the symptoms arisen in the mental.

As regards psyche and affectivity we notice the following: a great anxiety and palpitations and a kind of sweating, anguish, nausea, fears of losing one's mind and so forth.

We notice, moreover, more specific and reactive symptoms which express a form of suffering of the entire person as well as the general symptoms: great sensitiveness to cold air, great fatigue during a physical effort, etc.

We also see the symptoms concerning each organ of the body and the accuracy with which Hahnemann identified the symptoms of the entire body by dividing it anatomically, symptoms which take on a strictly personal character and not general characteristics of organ and disease.

Calcarea Carbonica has cured many diseases. Always, however, identifying in the morbid and medicinal individuality a picture similar to that of the experimentation.

Bibliography leads us to many experimental and clinical proofs. Our Centres of Rome and Naples carry on this job with every medical record.

The discovery of the experimental set of symptoms, regarded as entity, the special value of which ensues from a special integration and not from the single symptoms, brought on a practical response to the problem of constitutions or morbid dispositions.

CALCAREA OSTEARUM - CALCAREA CARBONICA

NUMBER MENTAL SYMPTOMS EXPERIMENTAL SYMPTOMS (SUMMARY)

IN THE PURE MEDICAL

MATTER OF S. HAHNEMANN - GREAT ANXIETY AND PALPITATION

M - SWEATING, ANGUISH AND NAUSEA.

TOTAL 1.631 - WITH ANGUISH, JERKS IN PRECHOR-

E DIAL AREA.

MIND 70 - FEAR OF LOSING ONE'S MIND.

HEAD 165 N - FEAR THAT OTHER PEOPLE MAY

EYES 80 NOTICE ONE'S MENTAL CONFUSION.

EARS 45 T - IRRITATION AND ANXIETY IN

NOSE 21 FREQUENT PAROXYSMS.

FACE 64 A - DEPRESSION AND MELANCHOLY AT

TEETH 42 THE HIGHEST DEGREE WITH A SORT

MOUTH 73 L OF ANXIETY.

THROAT 73 - RESTLENESS IN CARRYING OUT ANY

STOMACH 110 KIND OF WORK.

ABDOMEN 112

RECTUM ANUS 77

URINARY ORGANS 35

MALE SEX 39 HEAD

FEMALE SEX 41

RESPIRATORY 96 - BLOOD COMING TO THE HEAD FROM

CHEST 43 G THE PRECHORDIAL AREA.

NECK AND BACK 55 E - BLOOD FLOWING TO THE HEAD AND

UPPER LIMBS 69 N HEAT DURING MENSTRUATION.

LOWER LIMBS 143 E - GREAT SENSITIVITY TO COLD AIR.

NERVOUS SYSTEM 52 R - FATIGUE FROM PHYSICAL EFFORT.

SKIN 20 A - FATIGUE AND SLEEPINESS IN THE

SLEEP 105 L DAYTIME.

TEMPERATURE 46 - DIFFICULTY IN GOING TO SLEEP

FOR AN EXCESS OF WORRIES.

GENITALS

- MILKY LEUCORRHOEA WITH BURNING

P ITCHINESS.

- ENHANCEMENT OF THE SEXUAL

H INSTINCT.

Y

S RECTUM AND ANUS

I - CONSTIPATION, HARD, SCARCE

STOOLS WITH NON DIGESTED

C SUBSTANCES, FEVERISH.

- FORMICATION IN THE RECTUM AS OF

A ASCARI.

- SEVERE ITCHINESS OF THE ANUS.

L - GREAT IRRITABILITY BEFORE

EVACUATION.

CALCAREA OSTEARUM - CALCAREA CARBONICA

EXPERIMENTAL SYMPTOMS EXAMPLES OF DISEASE TREATED

- GREAT ANGUISH AND PALPITATION. OSTEOMALACIA, RICKETS,

- A KIND OF SWEATING, ANGUISH DENTITION, LYMPHATISM,

AND NAUSEA. CHRONIC ADENITIS, ANAEMIA,

- WITH THE ANGUISH JERKS IN THE LEUCOCYTEMIA, HYPOPARATHY-

PRECHORDIAL AREA. ROIDISM, GOITRE, LIPOMA,

- FEAR OF LOSING ONE'S MIND. POLYPI, EPILEPSY, HEADACHE,

- FEAR THAT OTHER PEOPLE MAY CATARACT, SUBACUTE AND

NOTICE ONE'S MENTAL CONFUSION. CHRONIC OTITIS, CHRONIC

- IRRITATION AND ANXIETY IN TONSILLITIS, HYPERTROPHY OF

FREQUENT PAROXYSMS. THE TONSILS, BILIOUS

- DEPRESSION AND MELANCHOLY AT LITHIASIS, MESENTHERIC

THE HIGHEST DEGREE WITH A TUBERCULOSIS, CONSTIPATION,

SORT OF ANXIETY. HERNIA, HEMORRHOIDS, CORYZA

- RESTLENESS IN CARRYING OUT CHRONIC BRONCHITIS, ASTHMA,

ANY KIND OF WORK. EMPHYSEMA, T.B.C., VARICOSE

VEINS, GALLSTONES POLYPI OF

THE BLADDER, MENORRHAGIA

HEAD METRORRHAGIA, DISMENORRHEA,

FIBROMA OF THE UTERUS,

- BLOOD FLOWING TO THE HEAD LEUCORRHAEA, POLYPI OF THE

FROM PRECHORDIAL AREA. UTERUS, NIGHT POLLUTION,

- BLOOD FLOWING TO THE HEAD AND IMPOTENCY, HYDROCELE,

HEAT DURING MENSTRUATION. IMPETIGO, MILK CRUST,

- GREAT SENSITIVITY TO COLD AIR. CHILBLAIN, NETTLERASH,

- FATIGUE FROM PHYSICAL EFFORT. ACNE, PSORIASIS, FALLING

- FATIGUE AND SLEEPINESS IN THE HAIR.

DAYTIME.

- DIFFICULTY IN GOING TO SLEEP

DUE TO EXCESS WORRY.

GENITALS

- MILKY LEUCORRHAEA WITH

BURNING ITCHINESS.

- ENHANCEMENT OF SEXUAL

INSTINCT.

RECTUM AND ANUS

- CONSTIPATION, HARD SCARCE

STOOLS WITH NON DIGESTED

MATTER, WHITE STOOLS.

- FORMICATION IN THE RECTUM

AS OF ASCARIDES.

- SEVERE ITCHINESS OF THE

ANUS.

- GREAT IRRITABILITY BEFORE

EVACUATION.

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I believe that this is not the place to deepen the thematic of Pure Experimentation: I have just identified its general aspect as it is the nucleus of the L.U.I.M.O. teaching method.

The teaching method to reach the unitarian synthesis of the state of disease of the single human being has arisen. Its establishment has been very slow because it has had to be verified on experience and in a continuous development of research.

IT IS THE CREATURE OF L.U.I.M.O. - ASSOCIATION FOR THE FREE INTERNATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF HOMOEOPATHIC MEDICINE.

The basic objective for which L.U.I.M.O. was established has been achieved and has already given results.

Through the confrontation of the most significant clinical experiences and the absolute respect of Hahnemann's methodology a method of teaching has been structured which, once understood and taken up in its simplicity, even the neophyte can listen to any other clinical experience without fearing that the different approaches may deform the acquired basic principles or keep him away from the sole diagnosis which each follower of that same teaching will have to make.

The difficulty of learning this medicine which is concerned with life and which first considered the state of health and then acknowledges the state of disease, comes to a mind structured according to the parametres of our pharmacology as a paradox.

Pathology and pharmacology considered from a different viewpoint!

It has been difficult to understand. I have had to experiment over and over again to really start to understand. The human phenomenon, the person with his individual peculiarities, unrepeatable and his continuous psycho-physical changes, has certainly focused the real relation between man and nature.

The influence of nature on the state of health, the getting ill and the recovery, in many instances, of the state of health, have slowly made me understand why Hahnemann defined divine medicine Homoeopathic Medicine.

And here comes the problem of teaching.

The limited and diversified development of Homoeopathic Medicine lies in the way the programme of study of medicine has been structured since Hahnemann, even if, of course, there have been variations.

The teaching of medicine responded, as it does nowadays, to the law of the contrary, thus to a structure seeking and having to discover the disease on the one side and the treatment on the other. The study of medicine thus followed the path towards the perfectioning of the technique of an analytical research on the "causes of disease" and on the quantifiable and perfect pharmacological experimentation.

Scientific research dominates and has always dominated man with its continuous extraordinary discoveries, making man only the support of the entire mechanism.

The teaching of medicine makes one wish to assume wonderful notions and securities on behalf of an analytical science which actually proceeds and discovers, but which has forgotten that the support is man, unique and unrepeatable, both in health and in illness.

Homoeopathic Medicine with its experimentation on healthy men and clinical provings on the human beings, lies on a completely opposite basis though it does obviously not ignore the findings of science and medicine.

The observation of the human phenomenon within the tissue of life, starts from a synthesis and reaches a synthesis, it employs the tools, but never loses sight of its support, man, unique and unrepeatable.

On the basis of this difference we have established a teaching method which considers man in his psycho-physical totality.

The line of development of learning must move on the basis of Hahnemann's method itself.

Once Hahnemann discovered how to apply the similitude, that is, experimented drugs on the healthy man, he defined the characteristics of this method.

OBSERVATION ON ONESELF

SIMPLE (OR NATURAL) LANGUAGE

EXPERIMENTATION OF DRUGS ON HEALTHY PEOPLE

SIMPLE LANGUAGE IDENTIFYING CHANGES

In learning the method, the language is the reading key to the variations, firstly in the observation of oneself and then, through the result of experimentation. The simple or natural language is of the utmost importance because in Homoeopathy the symptoms are not only nosographic expressions. For Homoeopathy it is important to identify reactive and subjective symptoms.

In this sense words have a diagnostic value when one goes on to the observation and from the experimentation on oneself to that on the diseased.

It is therefore necessary for the doctor who wishes to become an authentic homoeopath to live the reality of understanding the language in the observation of himself (that is in the passage from the state of health to the state of artificial disease caused by the drug); he himself must be a point of evaluation of the symptoms of his future patient of which he becomes the parametre.

The dynamic elements intervening in daily behaviour are part of the finding that the doctor must make of himself (not for analysis), as elements of a reactive dynamism which stands out during the observation on himself and which shows in the simple language and not in affected forms of some kind of metalanguage or scientific language.

The psycho-phisical reaction of the observer, after the administration of the drug, identifies the series of symptoms caused by the drug. In the spontaneous language devoid of deductions, the doctor learns, through a continuous observation, to judge and correlate in a quick synthesis the series of symptoms which may be important for the prescription.

The centre of suffering, that which must be treated, in the dynamic unit of the human being, cannot be deduced; it must come only from observation and pass through the doctor's judgement.

It is an act concerning life and its modification from the state of health to the state of disease.

The doctor must learn and perceive the changes and correlate them synthetically in a spoken dynamism which shows in a series of symptoms, subjective, reactive and objective.

It is thus important to consider the relation between the doctor and the patient from an inter-subjectual point of view. When it is visualized on the subject-object level it deforms the reality which is vital, dynamic, between two individualities which aim at finding in an intimately ezyological key the roots of a pathologic behaviour. It is a question of expressing in dynamic fidelity the tridimensional anthropologic constituent of soma-psyche-spirit.

This is the only way a doctor can have the basis for the establishment of a dynamic biopathographic history, apply in a proper manner the principle of similitude and achieve: "Main and sole aim of the doctor is to make the diseased healthy, that is restore their health".

For the above and many other reasons, in sum, for the medicine of man, of life, of the human being, it is necessary to find a teaching fitted to man, a teaching which takes into consideration life with its continuous development, which teaches what the state of health is and then compare it with the state of disease. In all subject of study live men should be considered in their unitarian correlationism, while analyzing one must join together, nothing must be considered as a part, everything must continue to be correlated.

It is the observation of life and its phenomena that the doctor must achieve and where he himself becomes the bearing element.

Homoeopathic Medicine must necessarily establish a new way of teaching medicine if it wants to be really understood and take on its authentic identity in the scientific field and if it wants doctors to be trained and formed as well as informed.

The moving dynamic elements which the careful doctor experiences during observation on himself will make him understand all the developing relations of any process in the way these are told by means of words; a symptomatologic series which claims balance from the nucleus and brings it back to the nucleus through its own modalities which are already structured (miasma) and those induced by the outside.

To transmit Samuel Hahnemann's integral miasmatic clinical therapeutical method which corresponds to all the laws of nature at stake, one must proceed in the only logic way: reach the knowledge of the method by induction through the imitation of those principles which have allowed the curative therapeutic act as well as the drive for man towards "the superior aims of his existence".

Everything must be drawn from life and nothing devised.