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Hans Weitbrecht · #10 (**permalink**) 8th May 2002, 10:04 AM

Dear members of this discussion

It has to be noted, that Hahnemann advices here strongly against the use of nosodes and isopathy for various reasons, yet, if we take a look into his casebooks of the last years, even after these paragaraphs were written, he does exactly the opposite.

In the case of: Borrough on the visit of the 21.07. 1841 he gives: ANTIEPILEPT. c 30, on the visit of the 07.08.1841: Antiepilept. C24, on the 08.08 1841 he gives Antiepilept. C18.

This is not a single case, and a single application of a nosode---this is a repeated application of a auto-nosode, which was unproven previous. This was treating according isopathic rules and not homeopathy.

Now this leaves us with a big???????????????????????????????????????????????

My own view on the subject of nosodes is, that they have to fulfil the same requirements like all the other substances used for homeopathic treatment.

First: the substance has to be defined. This also includes the exact source, date preparation. It has to be reproducable in case the substance gets lost or destroyed.

Second: the substance has to have undergone sufficient testing in healthy humans in order to find out its true virtues. This testing is called proving.

Third: it has to be available in homeopathic preparations when needed.

In the case of nosodes I see gray areas in all points. Sofar no-one was able to specify the person being the donator of the different preparations of Carcinosum, nor of Psorinum, medorinum, syphilinum.
The pharmacies could not even tell me that their products sold under the same name were identical to the original substance.
The second point does not look much better either---the provings,--- if there are any, they are very incomplete. There is no proving known to me of carcinosum at all. Whenever I ask around the homeopaths for volunteers, they all have disappeared if it comes to the idea of proving carcinosum.
Would’t these homeopaths who use carcinosum on their patients come forward for a bit of proving---or are they too scared??

I personally don’t like to mix remedies with a predictable outcomes with the application of remedies of which the outcome is unknown and unpredictable to me.