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Precursor to the Organon:
Hahnemann’s Occasional Writings
Part II - Essay on a New Principle (1796)
- Rudi Verspoor FHCH, HD(RHom.),
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The first published result
of Hahnemann’s new observations on medicine was a lengthy and
important work entitled, Essay on a New Principle for Ascertaining the Curative Powers of
Drugs, published in 1796.
Here we find the initial insights that emerged from all
the hard labors of the previous eight years, in particular the
early discoveries of the dual nature of disease and medicinal
action. [1]
Hahnemann begins, as we have in
the previous chapter, by discussing the contributions of chemistry
to medicine. He stresses that chemistry may help find
the medicinal powers of substances, but it cannot tell anything
about its functions in the human body, which is of a living
nature. For example, he stresses that the mixing of a drug with
drawn blood in a test tube cannot tell us what will happen with
that drug in the body itself, for
...the drug must... first
undergo an infinity of changes in the digestive canal, before it can
get (and that only by a most circuitous method) into the blood.
(Lesser Writings, p.253)
He also points out the difficulty
of ascertaining the value of drugs for people in terms of their
action on animals, as what can kill a person (such as a large
dose of Nux vomica) will not harm a pig, for example.
Hahnemann cautions against trying
to find the medicinal value of drugs in their external
appearance, this approach being, “as deceptive as the physiognomy
is in indicating the thoughts of the heart."
Two Kinds of Sources for
Materia Medica - Clinical and Provings
Here we see a clear recognition
of the “high value” of clinical discoveries, but also a recommendation
for the testing of substances on healthy human beings as being
the only methodical way of more certainly discovering the therapeutic
value of substances yet untested or unknown.
Nothing remains for us but
experiment on the human body. But what kind
of experiment? Accidental or methodical?
The humiliating confession
must be made, that most of the virtues of medicinal bodies
were discovered by accidental, empirical experience, by chance;
often first observed by non-medical persons. Bold, often over-bold,
physicians, then gradually made trial of them.
I have no intention of denying
the high value of this mode of discovering medicinal powers
— it speaks for itself....
[However] Such a precarious
construction of the most important science... could never
be the will of the wise and most bountiful Preserver of mankind.
How humiliating for proud humanity, did his very preservation
depend on chance alone. No! it is
exhilarating to believe that for each particular disease,
for each morbid variety, there are peculiar directly-acting
remedies, and that there is also a way in which these may
be methodically discovered.
When I talk of the methodical
discovery of the medicinal powers still required by us, I
do not refer to those empirical trials usually made in hospitals,
where in a difficult, often not accurately noted case, in
which those already known do no good, recourse is had to some
drug, hitherto either untried altogether, or untried in this
particular affection, which drug is fixed upon either from
caprice or blind fancy, or from some obscure notion, for which
the experimenter can give no plausible reason, either to himself
or others. Such empirical chance trials are, to call them
by their mildest appellation, but foolish risks, if not something
worse. (Lesser Writings, p. 258-259)
Hahnemann then summarizes the two
sources of drug information in terms of their curative powers
— provings and clinical trials.
The true physician, whose
sole aim is to perfect his art, can avail himself of no other
information respecting medicines, than
First — What
is the pure action of each by itself on the human body?
Second — What
do observations of its action in this or that simple or complex
disease teach us? (Lesser Writings, p.264)
As for the second, Hahnemann states:
Would to God such relations
[between a specific drug and a specific disease] were more
numerous! (Lesser Writings, p. 264)
There is also a problem of having
a standard
...whereby
we may be enabled to judge of the value and degree of truth
of their observations.
[And this standard] can only
be derived from the effects that a given medicinal substance
has, by itself in this and that dose developed in the healthy
human body. (Lesser Writings, p. 264)
He refers to accidental poisonings
or even deliberate trials that have
been undertaken, often on criminals, which reports would form
the foundation stone of a new materia medica.
Hahnemann realizes that the problem
he faces is one of a qualitative nature (to discover the value
of the medicinal substances already in use), rather than simply
one of finding more medicinal agents.
It was the nature of his genius that he was able to look beyond
the more superficial to the deeper issues.
As we already possess a large
number of medicines... but concerning which we do not rightly
know what diseases they are capable of curing... it may not
at first sight appear very necessary to increase the number
of our medicinal agents. Very probably all (or nearly all)
the aid we seek lies in those we already possess (Lesser Writings,
p. 259)
This issue of quantity (number
of medicines) versus quality (theory and principle) will arise
each time a significant problem emerges in terms of cure
for his system, both in the context of his discovery of the
chronic miasms and his use of dual remedies.
Two Types of Disease
Hahnemann goes on to explain two
types of disease, a concept that he will continue to develop
throughout his lifetime.
It is only the very great
simplicity and constancy of [constant nature diseases
such as] ague and syphilis that permitted remedies to be
found for them, [that] are, however, probably specific
in both diseases... Our great and intelligent observers of
disease have seen the truth of this too well, to require
that I should dwell longer on this subject.
Now, when I entirely deny
that there are any absolute specifics for individual diseases,
in their full extent, as they are described in ordinary works
on pathology, I am, on the other hand, convinced that there
are as many specifics as there are different states of individual
diseases, i.e., that there are peculiar specifics for
the pure disease [tonic], and others for its varieties
[pathic], and for other abnormal states of the system."
(Lesser Writings,
p. 260-261, bold and parentheses added).
We observe a few diseases
that always arise from one and the same cause, e.g., the
miasmatic maladies; hydrophobia, the venereal disease, the
plague of the Levant, yellow fever, smallpox, cow-pox, the
measles and some others, which bear upon them the distinctive
mark of always remaining diseases of a peculiar character;
and, because they arise from a contagious principle that
always remains the same, they also always retain the same
character and pursue the same course, excepting as regards
some accidental circumstances, which however do not alter
their essential character.
These few diseases,
at all events those first mentioned (the miasmatic), we
may therefore term specific, and when necessary bestow
upon them distinctive appellations.
If a
remedy has been discovered for one of these, it will always
be able to cure it,
for such a disease always remains essentially identical in
its manifestations (the representatives of its internal nature)
and in its cause.
All the other innumerable
diseases exhibit such a difference in their phenomena that
we may safely assert that they arise from a combination of
several dissimilar causes (varying in number and differing
in history and intensity).
Hence it happens that with
the exception of those few diseases that are always the same
[tonic], all others are dissimilar [pathic], and innumerable,
and so different that each of them occurs scarcely more than
once in the world, and each case of disease that presents
itself must be regarded (and treated) as an individual malady
that never before occurred in the same manner, and under the
same circumstances as in the case before us, and will never
again happen precisely in the same way! (Medicine of Experience, Lesser Writings,
p. 440-442)
I. Most medicines have more
than one action; the first a direct action, which gradually
changes into the second (which I
call the indirect secondary action). The latter Is
generally a state exactly opposite of the former. [these
refer to the “Erstwirkung” (initial action) and “Gegenwirkung”
(counter-action) to be found later in the aphoristic Organon,
viz. §64.] (Lesser Writings, p. 266)
Two Principles of Treatment
Hahnemann now introduces the three
ways of restoring health, which is really a two-fold division:
mechanical (removal of external cause) and internal medicine
(based on two principles):
1. Removal of the cause,
to the extent it is apparent: e.g., the convulsions produced
by tapeworm are removed by killing the animal.
This object is above all
criticism [Hahnemann calls it the royal road], though the
means employed were not always the fittest for attaining
it. (Lesser Writings, p. 261)
2. By the use of the principle
of opposites:
By the second way, the symptoms
present were sought to be removed by medicines which produced
an opposite condition; for example, constipation by purgatives;
inflamed blood by venesection, cold and nitre; acidity
in the stomach by alkalis; pains by opium.
Hahnemann states that this approach
can give temporary relief in acute, self-limiting diseases and
is only justified where no other way is possible. But
it is not to be tried in chronic disease as stronger and stronger
doses are necessary to provide relief and it should be abandoned.
I beseech my colleagues to
abandon this method (contraria contrariis) in chronic diseases,
and in such acute diseases as take on a chronic character;
it is the deceitful by-path in the dark forest that leads
to the fatal swamp. (Lesser Writings, p. 262)
3. Treatment by the principle
of similars
The better, more discerning,
and conscientious physicians, have from time to time sought
for remedies...which should not cloak the symptoms, but which
should remove the disease radically, in a word for specific
remedies; the most desirable, most praiseworthy undertaking
that can be imagined...
But what guided them, what
principle induced them to try such remedies? Alas! only
a precedent from the empirical game of hazard from domestic
practice, chance cases...
Nothing then remains but to
test the medicines we wish to investigate on the human body
itself. (Lesser Writings, p.263)
Hahnemann goes on to venture the
principle behind the value of provings, in order to provide
a rational basis for medicine.
First he advances the axiom regarding
the action of medicinal substances on healthy persons:
Every powerful medicinal substance
produces in the human body a kind of peculiar disease; the
more powerful the medicine, the more peculiar, marked and
violent the disease.(Lesser Writings, p. 265)
Next he states the axiom that disease
is cured in nature on the basis of the law of similars:
We should imitate nature,
which sometimes cures a chronic disease by superadding another,
and employ in the (especially chronic) disease we wish to
cure, that medicine which is able to produce another very
similar artificial disease, and the former will be cured;
similia similibus. (Lesser Writings, p. 265)
Thus, one needs to know only three
things, which is later reprised in Aphorism 3 of the Organon:
...the diseases of the human
frame accurately in their essential characteristics... the
pure effects of drugs, that is, the essential characteristics
of the specific artificial disease they usually excite...[then
finally matching the two by] choosing a remedy for a given
natural disease that is capable of producing a very similar
artificial disease.(Lesser Writings, p. 265)
This is summarized by Hahnemann
into a further maxim:
...that in order to discover
the true remedial powers of a medicine for chronic diseases,
we must look to the specific artificial disease it can develop
in the human body, and employ it in a very similar morbid
condition of the organism which it is wished to remove.
This then leads Hahnemann to the
analogous maxim:
...that in order to cure radically
certain chronic diseases, we must search for medicines that
can excite a similar disease (the more similar the better)
in the human body.(Lesser Writings,
p. 267)
It is interesting to note that here
Hahnemann is concerned essentially with natural diseases, and
also with what he calls chronic natural diseases (this category
includes all those endless varieties of diseases that don’t
seem to resolve themselves). Elsewhere he clarifies this
in a footnote (no. 1 on p. 265 of Lesser Writings) as he considers
that self-limiting natural diseases at this point can be handled
easily enough by removing the original cause (if possible) or
by removing any obstacles to cure (see p. 261-262). His concern
was for those diseases that are not self-limiting and for which
no “rapidly-acting specific” exists (this would seem to
mean in the context, a constant remedy determined from the constant
nature of the self-limiting natural disease). Where the cause
is unknown and there is no known specific based on the
law of similars, Hahnemann here allows that a remedy based
on opposites can be used. He admits, however, that it is purely
palliative.
At this point we can see the early
and important distinction Hahnemann makes between the constant
specific remedies (mainly homogenic at this point in his
discoveries), which are derived clinically, and those to be
determined by the process of provings and then matching the
proving (artificial disease) symptoms and the symptoms
of the natural disease. This is an early form of the duality
of disease that we witness coming to fullness in the dual remedy
discoveries of Aegidi and Boenninghausen (followed by Hahnemann
and later, Lutze). [1]
[2]
Hahnemann also gives us in this
seminal work a firm foundation to the famous experiment
with China (quinine) in crude dose that he undertook and commented
on in his 1790 translation of the well-known English physician,
William Cullen’s Materia
Medica.
In my additions to Cullen’s
Materia Medica, I have already observed that bark, given in
large doses to sensitive, yet healthy individuals, produces
a true attack of fever, very similar to the intermittent fever,
and for this reason, probably, it overpowers and thus cures
the latter. Now after mature experience, I add, not only probably,
but quite certainly. (Lesser Writings, p. 267)
Two Actions of a Medicine:
Initial Action and Counter-action
Hahnemann now comes to a lengthy
and crucial explanation of the difference between the two actions
of a medicine (which, we must remember is an artificial
disease, such that the dual action of the medicine is mirrored
in the dual action of disease, or vice versa). It is this difference,
based on his close observations, that provides the solid and
rational basis for his determination that the principle of similars
cures and the principle of opposites only palliates or suppresses.
This axiom [similia similibus]
has, I confess, so much the appearance of a barren, analytical,
general formula [which it had been until Hahnemann!], that
I must hasten to illustrate it synthetically. But first let
me call to mind a few points.
Most medicines have more than
one action; the first a direct action, which gradually changes
in the second (which I call the indirect secondary action).
The latter is generally a state exactly the opposite of the
former.
Opium may serve as an example.
A fearless elevation of spirit, a sensation of strength and
high courage, an imaginative gaiety, are part of the direct
primary action of a moderate dose on the system: but after
the lapse of eight or twelve hours an opposite state sets
in, the indirect secondary action; there ensue relaxation,
dejection, diffidence, peevishness, loss of memory, discomfort,
fear. (Lesser Writings, p. 266)
Thus, if one gives a substance
that has a direct action opposite to the natural disease, this
is followed by the indirect action, which is similar to the
disease.
Palliative remedies do so
much harm in chronic diseases, and render them more obstinate,
probably because after their first antagonistic action they
are followed by a secondary action, which is similar to the
disease itself.(Lesser Writings, p. 267)
However, if one gives a substance
...whose direct primary action
corresponds to the disease, the indirect secondary action
is sometimes exactly the state of body sought to be brought
about... (Lesser Writings, p.266)
Length of Initial and Counter-Actions
of a Drug
Since we have now uncovered the
secret of the dual action of a medicine and the need to match
the initial action of both the medicine and the disease on
the basis of principle (similars), it becomes important to know
when the one action ends and the other begins. Hahnemann gives
us various indications of the length of time of each action.
We must remember here that he is using relatively large doses
by today's standards, but moderate by the standards of his day.
[Coffee’s] direct action,
however, in such large doses, lasts for two days. (Lesser
Writings, p. 272)
[Belladonna’s] direct action
lasts twelve, twenty-four, and forty-eight hours. (Lesser
Writings, p.275)
[Hyocyamus’s] direct action
lasts scarcely twelve hours. (Lesser Writings, p. 276)
The direct action of large
doses [of Stramonium] lasts about twenty-four hours; of small
doses, only three hours.(Lesser Writings, p. 277)
[Tabacum's] direct action
is limited to a few hours, except in the case of very large
doses, which extend to twenty-four hours (at the farthest).
(Lesser Writings, p. 278)
In cases where only the direct
action as a cordial is necessary, it will be requisite to repeat
the administration of it every three or four hours, that is,
each time before the relaxing secondary action, which so much
increases the irritability, ensues.
But if it is wished to depress
permanently the tone of the fibre...we may employ opium with
success...making use of its indirect secondary action...In
such cases, a dose is necessary every twelve or twenty-four
hours [because presumably, the counter-action ends around
this time].(Lesser Writings, p. 284)
The mania it causes is a gay
humour alternating with despair. As a similarly-acting remedy,
it will subdue manias of that sort. The usual action of its
efficacy [this seems to refer to the total action - both direct
and secondary] is from seven to eight hours, excepting in
cases of serious effects from very large doses. (Lesser Writings,
p.292)
Camphor in large doses diminishes
the sensibility of the whole nervous system...During the transition
to the secondary action, there occur convulsions, madness,
vomiting, trembling. In the indirect secondary action itself,
the awakening of the sensibility; and the almost extinguished
mobility of the extremities of the arteries is restored...The
whole process is ended in six, eight, ten, twelve, or at most
twenty-four hours. (Lesser Writings, p. 295-296)
The duration of [veratrum
album’s] action is short; limited to about five, at most eight
or ten hours, inclusive of the secondary action; except in
the case of serious effects from large doses. (Lesser Writings,
p. 302)
..but sometimes, (especially
when a wrong dose has been given) there occurs in the secondary
action a derangement for some hours, seldom days. A somewhat
too large dose of henbane is apt to cause, in its secondary
action, great fearfulness; a derangement that sometimes lasts
several hours.(Lesser Writings, p. 266)
Here we see the emergence of a
concept of the initial (direct) action as being the most important
from the point of view of the medicinal effect, since it is
the symptoms of the direct action of the artificial disease
(medicine) that must be matched to the symptoms of the disease.
This action is generally a matter of hours, although possibly
days in some cases, especially where there are large crude doses.
The duration depends to some extent on the substance, but also
on the dose, the larger dose, in terms of quantity of medicine,
lasting longer.
The direct action of large
doses lasts about twenty-four hours; of small doses, only
three hours. (Lesser Writings, p. 277)
It must be remembered here that
Hahnemann is still using crude doses in the form of grains (20
grains = 1 gram).
This linkage of dose and duration
of initial action is interesting. In the Organon,
the initial action of a medicine is generally a matter of minutes
or hours, being visible in the homeopathic (medicinal) aggravation.
In the use of dual remedies in mixtures later on (1833 and beyond),
emphasis is placed on the use of mixtures only in very high
potencies (dynamized doses). This raises an important question.
Could it be that the higher the dilution the shorter the initial
(direct) action, such that in the case of high potencies with
substances that act symbiotically (mutually beneficial),
the problem of giving one remedy at the same time as another
is removed? [2]
[3]
The counter-action is seen as less
important than the initial action (at least at this stage),
and generally of little importance in the total action of the
remedy, so long as the dose is not too large, when it may cause
a derangement.
If, in the case of chronic
disease, a medicine be given, whose direct primary action
corresponds to the disease, the indirect secondary action
is sometimes exactly the state of body sought to be brought
about; but sometimes, (especially when a wrong dose has been
given) there occurs in the secondary action a derangement
for some hours, seldom days. A somewhat too large dose of
henbane is apt to cause, in its secondary action, great fearfulness;
a derangement that sometimes lasts several hours. (Lesser
Writings, p.266))
The complete time of the counter-action
is seen as relatively short, possibly shorter than the initial
action and certainly not longer. Later, Hahnemann will develop
a very different view of the importance and timing of the counter-action
in his discovery of the chronic diseases and miasms.
The length of time of the total
action of the remedy is also relatively short, being a matter
of hours or days, as can be seen from the above quotes.
Link Between Action of the
Drug and Repetition of Dose/Second Remedy
We are informed of the length of
time of the “direct action” of Belladonna (“twelve, twenty-four,
and forty-eight hours” - p. 275) and given the caution that
a dose should not be repeated sooner than after two days, that
is, it would seem, after at least the direct action has ceased.
The reason for this is that
...a more rapid repetition
of ever so small a dose must resemble in its (dangerous) effects
the administration of a large dose. Experience teaches this.
(Lesser Writings, p.275).
It is not clear what action Hahnemann
is talking about when he speaks of waiting to give a subsequent
dose until the action of the medicine has ended. At times it
appears as if he is speaking of the direct (initial) action
of the remedy only, not the full action (which includes the
secondary or counter-action of the sustentive aspect of the
Living Power). Thus, he warns against prescribing China during
the direct action of Aconite. Presumably then, it is acceptable
to give it after the direct action has ceased as he later went
on to demonstrate in his final years, in Paris.
A dose [of purple foxglove]
is necessary only every three, or at most every two days,
but the more rarely the longer it has been used. (During the
continuance of its direct action, cinchona bark must not be
prescribed; it increases the anxiety caused by foxglove, as
I have found, to an almost mortal agony.) (Lesser Writings,
p. 281)
However, this concern relates to
the cumulative power of the dose if given within the initial
action. On other occasions, he simply refers to the action of
the medicine, without specifying which action. Given his sensitivity
to the dual action, as indicated by the directions for the giving
of Opium, either for its direct or secondary action, he must
have had some concern generally to wait for the full action.
In a case using Veratrum album, which he had stated had a full
action of 5-10 hours, he gave the patient a dose every day.
The patient disobeyed and took two doses each day and had a
strong aggravation, leading almost to death (Lesser Writings,
p. 307). Later (1821), in reporting on treatment for the new
disease of purpura miliaris, Hahnemann states:
Almost all of those, without
exception, who are affected...[will be] cured in a few days
by aconite given alternatively with tincture of raw coffee...
The one will usually be necessary
when the other has acted for from sixteen to twenty-four hours.
Not oftener. (Lesser Writings, p. 695-696)
Another interesting observation arises
in the discussion of Opium. Here Hahnemann states that to use
its counter-action, “a dose is necessary every twelve or twenty-four
hours.” This reference to twelve hours or multiples thereof
is often found in his occasional writings. In the one case
we noted from this period, Hahnemann gave the patient a dose
of Veratrum album every day (Lesser Writings, p. 300-302)
Is this the basis for the frequent
taking of the liquid dose in the 5th edition of the aphoristic
Organon,
and the later LM or Q dosing? Is this also the basis for giving
a second remedy only 12 hours or a day after the first
that we find in the Paris case-books?
Hahnemann’s earlier observation,
that the repeated doses of a remedy in too close an order amounts
to giving a large dose, is emphasized again in the Opium section
where he states that one can use Opium palliatively if one continues
the dose every three or four hours “each time before the relaxing
secondary [counter] action.” (p. 284) Thus, the antipathic use
of a drug is maintained where the direct action is maintained.
This concern not to give a second
dose or remedy before the full action of the first dose
has completed itself is reiterated in the first to fourth
editions of the Organon
(1810-1829). [3]
[4]
In the context of his comments
on Opium, Hahnemann provides us with an interesting insight
into the effect of a remedy on the Living Power, what Hahnemann
here called the tone of the fiber of the patient (that
is, “the power of the fibre to contract and relax completely”).
The primary action of opium
(papaver somniferum) consists in transitory elevation of
the vital powers, and strengthening of the tone of the blood-vessels
and muscles, especially of those belonging to the animal and
vital functions, as also in excitation of the mental organs
— the memory, the imagination, and the organ of the passions...(Lesser
Writings, p. 283)
Thus, Opium has the direct effect
(initial action) of exciting the fiber and raising the
tone (“disposition to work, sprightliness in conversation, wit,
remembrance of former times, amorousness, etc.”), but reducing
the irritability, while the secondary effect (counter-action)
is the opposite: “weakness, sleepiness, listlessness, grumbling,
discomfort, sadness, loss of memory (insensibility, imbecility”).
This continues until another dose is given to excite the fiber.
In the direct action, the
irritability of the fibre seems to be diminished in the same
proportion as its tone is increased; in the secondary action,
the latter is diminished, the former increased. (Lesser Writings,
p. 283)
Mercury is identified as
a specific for syphilis. (p. 285) -“Experience has confirmed
it as a specific.” This is an example of a specific
remedy for a constant Wesen disease (syphilis) that is based
on clinical evidence.
Until Hahnemann’s time, medicines
generally had been given for their opposing effects, because
of the instant palliative effect, but little had been done to
determine the actual properties of substances. What doctors
and herbalists were interested in, and still are to this day,
is whether a medicine can remove one or more symptoms, not
whether the principle of removal is palliative, suppressive
or curative. This blind empiricism, or what Hahnemann termed
“parempiricism,” reflected the dominance of the Asklepiadean
school, and the methodology of Galenic medicine.
The clarion call from Hahnemann
for a rational system of medicine based on principle, namely
the curative law of similars, and grounded in the knowledge
of the dual action of medicines, was a signal departure from
accepted procedures. As Hahnemann himself commented:
>Before my time –>
and as long as there existed a medical science –
all systems, all therapies, all directions for healing diseases,
were included in the phrase, ‘Contraria
contrariis curentur.’>
And whenever a wise man did occasionally venture to argue,
in gentle language and propose a‘Similia
similibus,’
this suggestion was never heeded. The basic dogma of all medical
schools: ‘To
treat disease merely by opposing media (by palliatives)’
remained quietly prevalent. (Haehl, Vol. I, p. 77)
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[1] See also An Affair to Remember: The Curious History of
the Misunderstanding, Suppression and Signifcance of the Use of
Dual Remedies in Homeopathy, part of the Heilkunst Series.
deceptive as the physiognomy is in indicating the thoughts of
the heart.” (Lesser Writings, p. 254) Botanical
affnity is similarly to be used carefully as, “there are
many examples of opposite, or at least very different powers,
in one and the same family of plants, and that in most of them.”
(Lesser Writings, p. 255) He summarizes the value of
the botanical approach of natural science as being hints that
can only, “help to confirm and serve as a commentary to
facts already known.” (Lesser Writings, p. 257)
[2] See An Affair to Remember in this series as well as The
Dynamic Legacy: from Homeopathy to Heilkunst by the authors.
[3] See An Affair to Remember in this series as well as The
Dynamic Legacy by the authors.
[4] For a complete history and explanation of dose and potency
in Hahnemann’s writings and practice, see the relevant article
at www.heilkunst.com.
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# # #
Rudi Verspoor is Dean and Chair Department
of Philosophy, Hahnemann College for Heilkunst, Ottawa. He
has written extensively on homeopathy and created the only
college in the world offering a full program of study in Hahnemann's
complete medical system, Heilkunst. More details on studying
Heilkunst can be obtained from www.homeopathy.com.
Rudi founded the National Association of Trained Homeopaths
(NUPATH) in Canada, as well as the Canadian/International
Heilkunst Association (C/IHA). He has advised the Canadian
government on healthcare issues, made presentations to various
federal and provincial governments on homeopathy, and has
written for various journals as well as lectured around the
world.
His publications include: Homeopathy Renewed, A Sequential
Approach to the Treatment of Chronic Illness (with Patty Smith);
A Time for Healing; Homeopathy Re-examined: Beyond the Classical
Paradigm (with Steven Decker); The Dynamic Legacy: Hahnemann
from Homeopathy to Heilkunst (with Steven Decker)
The website at www.heilkunst.com
has more articles and resources about Heilkunst.
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