The realism is that some homeopathic remedies can suppress certain symptoms -personally made mistake about 32 yrs.ago, during the infancy of development of my homeopathic thinking by taking 3 doses of silicea,6x, for 2 days for suppression of an embarrasing problem with excess foot odor and persp. It worked amzingly well for this SINGLE symptom {never prescribe ever on a single symptom only-1st mistake} but over 30 yrs. later it's still suppressing. {I digress} With "usual" food poisoning {not botulism} the vital force reacts with excess vomiting and diarrhea to rid the body of bacilli, toxins from spoiled food. My question is if Ars. Alb. is administered at very 1st signs and stops the symptoms, primarily of the ones heretofore mentioned, what happens to the toxins that body was trying to expel? I've had one success with this treatment, but only about 2 and 1/2 days after symptoms were still manifesting in subject.Does vital force have a more complex, but curative method of ridding body of these toxins after Ars. Alb. or could there be possible suppression of toxins? Help, Fredric.