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PLEASE NOTE THAT THIS IS A THEORY:

Regarding the Homeostatic Control System (HC) activities, how does the HC make its decisions? It must be made aware of, and be able to deal with, all abnormal (disease) conditions around the body. The immune system, for instance, has many feedback loops to guide its many actions, but it cannot cope with all situations which it must leave to HC. How could HC know what to do when the immune system is overwhelmed?

It is getting these P,N,I & E inputs from around the body, but the decision-making processes of HC are difficult to imagine.

In the brain, HC has its own "image" of the body, and its Homeostatic status. After HC receives its PNIE input, and after recognition of any deviation indicating disease, HC may for example use a cross-reference table which translates that "disease" into symptom patterns. Call this the DSP-TAB (disease-symptom pattern table - instinctual memory). The "disease", instead of being an entity, may actually be a particular "set of PNIE input parameters" which are passed to the symptom table for translation.

In Health, of course, the DSP-TAB would not be referenced nor activated. Even after some serious infection, HC would not immediately invoke the symptom table, but wait until immune system activities indicate its failure to overcome the disease agent.

In this situation, HC (by some means) would identify the kind of disease, and send its identifying signal to the symptom table, which then initiates the wide range of symptoms for this particular disease.

How does DSP-TAB communicate or initiate such wide-ranging symptoms? The mechanism of Homeopathic medicines, whose signal is probably carried in magnetic or electromagnetic form, may suggest an answer. These medicines appear to be mimmicking the signal from HC to the DSP-TAB, actually false signals of disease which generate symptom patterns.

Perhaps, DSP-TAB's subsequent activity of initiating symptoms also operates through an electromagnetic signal which passes into the Cerebral Cortex, affecting areas corresponding to specific parts of the body.

Note that, although Homeopathic medicines may trigger DSP-TAB activity like HC does, there are still some differences in the symptom patterns generated by the two. For instance, only in real illnesses would HC initiate an elevation in body temperature. This would be called a REAL symptom, and the others, activated by DSP-TAB across the Cerebral Cortex, as PERCEIVED (at this stage) because they only exist inside the brain (e.g. may cause toxic reflexes in the tissues, but the toxicity may not actually exist).

Since Homeopathic medicines do not produce the "REAL symptoms", I suggest that they do not act directly on HC but bypasses its activities to trigger DSP-TAB itself.

The Homeopathic signal can never produce just one or two symptoms - an array of symptoms is always generated, supporting the idea of a symptom table.
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Why should closely matching a patient's symptoms, and then exceeding those symptoms, be effective at extinguishing all the symptoms (and therefore resolving the illness)?
The appearance of sensory symptoms in specific organs and tissues which we see in illness (or mimmicked by Homeopathic medicines) must be an indication that HC is asking them to address some Homeostasis issue. We see only the sensory activity of the symptoms, but much more is probably going on.

These organs and tissue, in turn, report their status back to HC via PNIE. On receipt of this input, HC may decide that no homeostasis issue remains in these organs and tissues, so no further signals are sent to DSP-TAB to sustain symptoms, and all symptoms resolve. Homeopathic medicines appear to be fooling the HC into believing the symptoms they are inducing via DSP-TAB belong to the patient's disease in process. The resulting reinforced message to the organs and tissues results in a re-affirmation of their status to HC.

The chronic disease the patient is suffering may actually just be a "hanging" disease. HC cannot shut off the symptoms because the Organs/Tissues affected have not confirmed their Homeostatic status. Or the fault is in HC itself in failing to identify disease and trigger the symptom table to the required degree.
Wherever the failure of communication in the cyclical process is occurring, a re-activation of the symptom table by the Homeopathic medicine is enough to complete the cycle of communication, and the disease resolves.
Perhaps the illness in the body has long resolved, leaving HC sustaining symptoms unnecessarily.

Above, I mentioned Hom medicines "fooling" HC into believing the signals coming thru are from the disease in process. It is only by closely matching symptoms that this can be achieved.
If the symptom pattern of the Hom medicine is not a close match, HC somehow interprets and processes this e/m signal as nonsense, causing unusual symptoms not related to any diseases management.

Summary so far:

1. There is a centre in the brain, HC, which is an image, or construct, of the Homeostatic status of the whole body.

2. HC uses an instinctual memory centre to trigger symptom patterns for diseases.

3. The comunication signals between HC and
DSP-TAB, and onwards to centres in the Cerebral Cortex may be electromagnetic in nature, the suspected nature of Homeopathic medicines.

Next, let us consider all the information Hahnemann provides about the nature of HC. .

For a start: Giving exactly the same dose of the same medicine twice in succession is forbidden. The next dose(s) must always be more potent than the one before. Higher potencies act "deeper and longer".

[ 14. June 2003, 16:05: Message edited by: Timokay ]