Generalized Pruritis Its relation
to disease of the central nervous system.
As a miasmatic homeopath one is compelled to accept the life force
as a practical system that can be diminished by such diverse agents as
stress , unbalanced diet , the inappropriate intake of chemicals such as
tranquilizers , azo dyes , antibiotics , vaccines. The life force can be
stimulated and increased by a relaxed life style , a balanced wholefood
and organic vegetable diet and the exclusion of many drugs and chemicals,
which are unfortunately, the lifeblood and profit of commercial pharmaceutical
companies. Interesting as the pro's and con's of the above may be it is
all based upon a grouping of hereditary genetic characteristics that largely
determine how a weakened constitution/ immunity will react in terms of
symptoms produced when under pressure or attack. I do not have an axe to
grind as I do not believe it to be important weather homeopathy, acupuncture,
naturopathy, reflexology etc. is used to treat the symptoms , so long as
that treatment is effective. I merely wish to point out that homeopathy
in its miasmatic grouping has had for some 200 years a theoretical structure
that accounts for facts as yet mysterious to orthodox medicine. In Harrison's
" Principles of Internal Medicine " 9th Edition, P. 247. under Generalized
Pruritis (itch) it states " There is not one single agent that is effective
for generalized pruritis." (itch). This is the statement of an internationally
recognized orthodox medical textbook. Since the late 1700/early 1800's
the progenitor of modern homeopathy, Samuel Hahnemann , put generalized
pruritis as the prime symptom and head of the homeopathic class or grouping
named PSORIC. I will not bore you with the details of this psoric grouping
but wish to draw your attention to an interesting recent development in
' mysterious phenomena ' . " Scrapie " is 80 called because for some 200
years or more it has affected sheep, who damage precious fleece by rubbing
against posts , rocks and anything handy to ease their itch , or "generalized
pruritis ". It has now been shown that Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy
(B.S.E) is related to Scrapie ( Veterinary Record vol. 123 p 407.) . BSE
was identified 3 years ago and now affects some 600 farms in England and
Wales. It is generally agreed that a sub molecular " PRION " agent is be
involved '. Scrapie and B.S.E are members of a cluster of slow viral agents
-affecting the central nervous system. In humans such agents appear in
the fatal "Creutzfeldt Jakob diseases (connected to AIDS ) and in KURU,
where it is apparently transmitted by the brains that cannibals eat. All
these diseases have the characteristic that they produce large numbers
of tiny protein fibres as they progressively destroy brain cells. These
are known as ' Scrapie associated fibrils ' that can only be seen by an
electron microscope. It is noteworthy that scientists investigating Alzheimer's
disease describe a protein problem in the cell processing within the brain
" This piece of protein known as A4 is commonly found in Alzheimer patients
tangled into fibres within nerve cells and in plaques outside them, interfering
with the nervous function. It may be the final cause of the disability."
In homeopathic theory Hering's Law was first postulated in the early 1800's
by Prof. Constantine Hering of the USA It states that " The direction of
disease is inwards and upwards and the direction of cure is downwards and
outwards." So that under homeopathic treatment any symptom that either
moves deeper into the body and off the surface , or towards the head may
be considered dangerous, whilst any eruption upon the skin , or discharge
from a lower orifice , or neurological symptom moving from the head towards
the feet would bee considered favorable. It will then be seen that any
medical treatment that drives skin conditions off the surface, or cures
' inflammation such as urethritis proctitis etc. with antibiotics , all
tend to drive disease symptoms inwards and upwards. The exact direction
of these inwardly driven forces will be determined by the hereditary genetic
" path of least resistance ".