The fact of using heat to cure burns is common knowledge among chefs. In the college where I work in Toronto, there is Canada's largest culinary school; I've worked with a number of those students as a proctor, and I know they are actually taught this treatment as part of their first aid/hygiene studies.
Note also that the treatment for frostbite is not exposure to heat but exposure to cool temperatured things: eg. cool water or snow, rubbed on the frostbitten part. This is done to gradually raise the temperature of the body and to stimulate circulation back into the frostbitten part. Treatment with heat or with hot water instead will result in tissue death. This is widely acknowledged, even in conventional medicine.
The point is: homeostasis is put to work to restore tissue health. Like Cures Like--the Law of Similars everyone can see and test for themselves.
In folk medicines all over the world, for the entire duration of humanity's existence, people have employed medical substances using the same law as Hahnemann, the Law of Similars. Because Hahnemann was fluent in many different languages, and able to research the history of botany, biology, and medicine in a variety of languages most scholars believed to be esoteric, he was able to see this law employed over and over again. He did not make up the law of similars from thin air: it had historical precedence and empirical data about its effectiveness was abundant even in his time. Even Hippocrates, who lived 2000 years before Hahnemann, knew about this natural law and applied it in medicine.
In answer to your question, Cuty, about "proving" the law of similars, its already been proved thoroughly. You might want to tell your friend to read some of the books you did--or follow the same steps you took to learn about it. You don't have to feel like you have to do what's already been done over and over again, just to impress your colleagues.
[ 16. April 2003, 17:28: Message edited by: Divina ]
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