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#2 (**permalink**) 25th November 2004, 10:55 PM

Hi David,

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Venereal wart disease (Hahnemann's fig-wart disease, sycosis) is *not* gonorrhea

I will have to disagree with Will on this one.

Let's modify the statement: it is *not* gonorrhea in the way we define the two diseases to-day. This seems to be a indisputable fact.

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Originally Posted by David

[From homeopathic clinical experience it also seems a fact that the two - at least in their chronic manifestations - are interrelated.

However - that may be jumping to conclusions:

Thuja et al cover the sx of both diseases - no saying whether that is because they are at root the same or whether they just happen to do so (as Sulphur and Hepar cover most of the manifestations of "psora").

So, if you give say Thuja for the fig-wart-disease - there is no tag on the rx telling it where to apply. If that person also had had gonorrhea (which is always very likely) Thuja would of course also address the latter.

And the observable and observed fact that the two diseases very often occur together can also be explained without pre-supposing an interrelationship: at sexual intercourse the conditions for simultaneous infection with both - if the partner carries both diseases - is very likely.

Let's face it: Hahnemann's miasm theory is weak to ludicrous. This does not detract from his genius: it is a lot better than any of the other disease theories of his time (and maybe as good as or better than those of to-day).

He just did not have the knowledge.

Look at what he writes about Syphilis:

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The disease is not cured except when through the effect of the internal remedy alone, the chancre is cured; but it is fully extinguished, as soon as through the action of the internally operating medicine alone (without the addition of any external remedy) the chancre is completely cured, without leaving any trace of its former presence.

I have never, in my practice of more than fifty years, seen any trace of the venereal disease break out, so long as the chancre remained untouched in its place, even if this were a space of several years *(for it never passes away of itself)*1, and even when it had largely increased in its place, as is natural in time with the internal augmentation of the venereal disorder, which increase takes place in time in every chronic miasma.

But whenever anyone is so imprudent, as to destroy this vicarious local symptom, the organism is ready to cause the internal syphilis *to break out into the venereal disease*2, since the general venereal disease dwells in the body from the first moment of infection.

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*1 This statement is quite a surprise to me. At naturopathic school we had to cram venereal diseases for the License Exam. I am sure I would remember if that had been part of the Syphilis picture. Does anyone know??

*2 what does he mean by that???

And as to contemporary miasm-theories - well: which one do you mean?

Regards

Luise