Category: Biotherapeutic Index

Introduction and remarks on theoretic aspects

Medical history indicates autohemotherapy’s effects to have first been recognized as a result of the following observation: in persons having sustained blunt traumata with haematoma formation, other affections were also discovered to vanish during the course of haematoma absorbtion. Consequently, therapy with the patient‘s own blood (autohaemotherapy) initially consisted of withdrawing a small quantity of blood from the patient and immediately re-introducing it through intramuscular, hypodermic injection. In this manner, an artificial hematoma was created. The conjecture then was that the injection of one’s own blood would activate defensive powers which, in turn, would combat the ”forces of illness within the blood.” Since then, autohemotherapy has been modified and perfected in multifarious ways, yet in actual practice, the original form of autohaemotherapeutic treatment – as irritation therapy, reversal therapy, non-specific excitation, or stimulation therapy – still finds application in numerous individual cases (e.g., in treatment of acne) with highly successful results.

Progressive auto-sanguis therapy according to Reckeweg is autohaemotherapy in a specialized form. Developed from the fundamentals of homoeopathy in conjunction with Reckeweg’s homotoxicological principles, this technique has proven in practical experience to be reliable and exceptionally effective in treating an extremely wide variety of chronic and degenerative diseases including bronchial asthma, eczema, hepatic damage and numerous other disorders (see also ”Empirically-Proven Indications”).

According to the teachings of Reckeweg’s Homotoxicology, virtually every illness may be defined as either a defensive reaction by the organism against toxins or as the expression of toxic damage. It follows, therefore, that the blood of each patient  contains those pathogenic poisons (homotoxins) typical for the disease from which that patient suffers. Through withdrawing a patient’s blood, homoeopathically potentizing it over several levels and subsequently re-introducing it by means of hypodermic injection, Reckeweg holds that precisely these pathogenic poisons undergo modification to yield a homoeopathically active therapeutic agent ideal for application in stimulation therapy. In keeping with the Arndt-Schulz Law in the sense of the inverse effect, this agent stimulates the bodily defense systems, thus increasing detoxification and promoting the healing process.

In accordance with Bürgi’s Principle, the addition of appropriate homoeopathic injection preparations intensifies efficacy of the potentized auto-sanguis blood to an even higher degree. When potentizing the patient’s blood during administration of progressive auto-sanguis therapy, therefore, it has proven expedient to employ the homoeopathic preparation which is therapeutically indicated in each individual patient’s case. In summary, progressive auto-sanguis therapy is treatment designed to exert a counteractive effect against exogenic and endogenic homotoxins (including toxic deterioration products from the body’s own cells), thus promoting the healing of  chronic disease in a manner harmonious with the laws of nature.

Also discussed in Homotoxicology are further mechanisms of action which play a role in auto-sanguis therapy, the homoeopathic inverse-effect exerted against both auto- antibodies and antigen-antibody reactions in particular. This effect is due to a complement factor which, as a component of the patient’s own blood, is automatically injected in increasing degrees of attenuation during the course of treatment (the so- called complement-inverse-effect; at the 4th level, potentizing of the blood reaches a degree which approximately corresponds to that of C4!).

This would also explain the positive effects in the area of desensitization/hyposensitization which progressive auto-sanguis therapy is frequently observed to achieve in cases of auto-aggressive disease. One must add, however,  that no major scientific studies exist on the subject at this time. Presented here, rather, are the results of hypothetical deliberation based on the positive observations made during the course of daily medical practice.

What are suis-organ preparations?

An important component of anti-homotoxic therapy is the suis-organ preparation. These are preferably employed for chronic courses of diseases in the cellular phases. Subsequently, they offer an excellent possibility for the reactivation of organ functions, particularly of elderly patients. The preparations are employed according to the simile principle, that is, the respective preparation of the organ to be treated is applied. Suis- organ preparations contain organic tissues which have been homoeopathically processed, i.e., attenuated and potentized in accordance with Specification 42 of the official German Homoeopathic Pharmacopoeia 1978 (HAB 1) whose primary materials originate from healthy swine. In accordance with their action, the suis-organ preparations can be characterized as organ-specific medications with stimulative properties. The mechanism through which the suis-organ preparations function is based on the organotropic effects of the substances and/or stimulants contained therein.

Keeping of the donor animals and organ acquisition

The following provides detailed information on the rearing and keeping of swine for the purpose of gaining suis-organ preparations: All swine designated for utilization in gaining organ extracts are descendants from the same breeding line, bred in an operation certified for keeping SPF (”specifically pathogen free”) livestock. This operation is monitored at six- week intervals by the governmental veterinary health service having jurisdiction. At a suitable age, the piglets are transferred and raised in a different agricultural facility. On delivery to this rearing operation, an initial examination is performed by the livestock veterinarian, ensuing passage of which the animals are kept separate from other animals, under veterinary surveillance. Animals requiring medicinal treatment due to any affection are excluded from organ extraction. The animals are given vegetable feed produced on  the operation’s own premises. Both operational proprietors have agreed by contract to utilize neither animal meals from mammals, nor waste materials as feed. Upon attaining slaughtering weight and passing release-control by the jurisdictional public veterinarian, the swine are transported to the nearest abattoir, which must possess E.E.C. status. In accordance with regulations for meat hygiene, a live examination of the donor animals is then carried out, as well as meat inspection ensuing slaughter. In all meats attaining the rating ”suitable for human consumption,” samples are drawn for the following additional tests: bacteriological inspection, a test for inhibitory substances, as well as serological analysis for brucellosis, leptospirosis, and yersiniosis in accordance with the Zoonosis Recommendations (July 8, 1991) of the German Federal Ministry of Health.

Removal of the required organs is subsequently performed in an area entirely separate from the remainder of the abattoir, which is utilized exclusively for this purpose. The organs obtained in this manner remain under quarantine until all examination findings  have been determined. Only then are the extracted organs released for further processing by the quality control department of the Heel company. The organ preparations are first processed by means of potentization, after which sterilization is then carried out. In this manner, the material preserves the character of the living tissue during potentization; also the preparations thus maintain a direct protein correlation with the affected organ. The measures presented here, all of which are additionally documented by means of official veterinary reports, serve to fulfill one objective: to ensure the highest feasible standard of medicinal safety (zoonosis) for the suis-organ preparations.

The swine as a donor animal

The human organism and that of swine demonstrate numerous similarities in the aspects of chemical and biological constitution, thus a situation of homoeopathic similitude exists. The morphological and other biological similarities between the organisms of man and pig have been the topic of repeated reports during the past several decades. An overview of the factors which man and pig have in common as compiled by Kirkman is provided below (Kirkman, R. L. (1989): ”Of Swine and Man: Organ Physiology in Different Species” In: Hardy, M.A. (ed.): Xenograft 25. Elsevier, Amsterdam and others).

Similar characteristics of man and swine (according to Kirkman, 1989):

1. Size
2. Dietary habits: omnivorous
3. Digestive physiology
4. Nephritic structure and function
5. Rate and volume of respiration
6. Location of the coronary arteries
7. Hemodynamics
8. Tendency to create fat deposits
9. Highly susceptible to disease
10. Social behaviour

From the homoeopathic point of view, therefore, despite the difference in species, an organ preparation acquired from swine and subsequently processed in accordance with homoeopathic techniques may be deemed a simile to the homologous human organs due to the numerous existing functional and structural similarities. As Reckeweg observed, it is on the grounds of these similarities that organ remedies obtained from swine possess greater efficacy than such derived from cattle or sheep.

Suis-organ preparations: fields of application

The suis-organ preparations are employed in treatment of the homologous human organs. The Commission D, the committee in the German Federal Ministry of Health concerned with medicinal processing with jurisdiction over homoeopathy, included the following excerpt in their definition of characteristics for organ preparations manufactured in accordance with the German Homoeopathic Pharmacopoeia, HAB 1: ”Homoeopathically- processed organ preparations are applied on the concept that insufficiency or disturbance of the homologous target-organ in humans shall receive succor through the corresponding organ-medication.” Further, the applicational fields are designated by this commission as ”supportive therapy in cases of insufficiency or disturbance of the homologous human organ.”

The suis-organ preparations are indicated particularly, and primarily, in treatment of cellular phases, especially for chronic affections (i.e., the phases of impregnation, degeneration, and dedifferentiation). Yet these remedies may certainly also  find application in phases located to the left of the biological division, e.g., in therapy of pathologically disturbed excretion phases (hyperhidrosis, dysmenorrhea, constipation, eliminatory weakness of the kidneys, etc.) One should also bear in mind that therapy with suis-organ preparations is indicated in treatment of numerous deposition phases as well, such as rheumatic diseases, myomas, adiposis, calculi, and the like.

Dosage and modes of administration

The following table presents a general therapeutic plan for the application of suis-organ preparations in treatment of chronic and/or degenerative organic damage.

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Approximate Periods	Approx. Periodes
3-4 weeks	Preliminary treatment with detoxification agents, i.e. Hepeel, Lymphomyosot, Galium-Heel, Engystol N, Psorinoheel, Ubichinon compositum, Coenzyme compositum etc.
4-5 weeks	Suis-organ preparations administered 1-2 x weekly 8i.m.; s.c., i.d., at acupuncture points, orally or as progressive auto-sanguis therapy; initially in injeel form, after 6-8 injections in injeel-forte form) conjointly with the individually appropriate antihomotoxic remedies.
3-4 weeks	Suis-organ preparations discontinued. adjuvant anti- homotoxic medication continued alone. Second injection-series with suis-organ preparations as required. Upon achieving clinical cure, possible reapplication of organ preparations every 2-3 weeks.

As indicated in the above table, after four to five weeks’ administration of the suis organ preparations in Injeel form, the Injeel forte form is applied i.m. or s.c. on a trial basis, as a type of test ampoule in order to determine the degree in which the affected organ’s functional regeneration has progressed; i.e., whether the healing process has become largely established at that point in therapy or not. In treating severe degenerative phases as well as in therapeutic attempts for dedifferentiation phases more frequent injections may be required (every 2 – 3 days) in addition to the support of agents which foster and promote regressive vicariation (Galium-Heel, Engystol N, Traumeel S). This is performed most conveniently by means of combination injections. Also frequently expedient are such combination injections utilizing the organotherapeutically-indicated biotherapeutic remedy appropriate in each case (e.g., in conjunction with Hepeel). It often occurs that several suis-organ preparations are indicated in a single patient. This is best performed by  syringe, either simultaneously by means of a combination injection, or injected periodically in alternation.

Application of suis-organ preparations through i.v. injection should be initially exercised with restraint. This mode of administration is to be employed only ensuing comparatively lengthy i.m., s.c. or i.d. injection (see above!).

Prior to using the organotherapeutically indicated suis-organ preparation, it is advisable in many cases to apply the corresponding, functionally underlying suis-organ preparation  with toxic cleansing (=channeling) action for a period of 2 to 3 weeks, i.e., for the  treatment of hepatic disorders, Vesica fellea suis prior to Hepar suis, of the renal disorders Vesica urinaria suis and Ureter suis, as well as Pyelon suis prior to Ren suis etc. In case  of severe toxic affliction, the most expedient procedure is to precede usage of the  specially indicated suis-organ preparation with application of the organ preparation Colon suis D10, D30, D200 (1-2x weekly i.m. or s.c. for 2 to 3 weeks). Colon suis is beneficial here as it supports and normalizes the eliminatory function of the intestine.

Employment of suis-organ preparations in progressive auto-sanguis therapy

This is appropriate, for example, in treating iatrogenic damage, toxic hepatic damage, migraine, chronic eczema, bronchial asthma, duodenal and ventricular ulcers, arthrosis, as well as lymphatism. See also the related data on hyperimmunization-therapy employing suis-organ preparations (page 44).

Applicational restrictions

Since immunological mechanisms are stimulated through the suis-organ preparations, a stimulative action of the suis-organ preparations is frequently no longer expected in cases of pronounced cachexia and/or marasmus. On the other hand, a possibly occurring focal reaction during the degradation of damaged cells can endanger cachectic and marantic patients in certain circumstances.

Forms in which suis-organ preparations are supplied

For parenteral (and possibly oral; see point 4!) organotherapy, the suis-organ preparations are available in ampoules of 1.1 ml as potency chords in two degrees of strength: as the potency chord D10, D30, and D200, and as the forte form with potency chords D8, D12, D30, and D200.  A number of suis-organ preparations are available as single potencies  D6 and D200; these are also supplied in ampoules of 1,1 ml. each.

Constituents

In order to conserve space, the entries below have been presented in condensed form. Both degrees of strength – identified in each case through the corresponding addendum ”Injeel” or ”Injeel forte” – contain potency chords and volumes as indicated above.

Example:

Aorta suis-Injeel	1,1 ml injection solution cont.: 0,367 ml each of Aorta suis D10, Aorta suis D30, Aorta suis D200
Aorta suis-Injeel forte	1,1 ml. injection solution cont.: 0,275 ml each of Aorta suis D8, Aorta suis D12, Aorta suis D30, Aorta suis D200. 1,1 ml. injection solution cont.: 0,275 ml each of Aorta suis D8, Aorta suis D12, Aorta suis D30, Aorta suis D200.
Arteria suis-Injeel	1,1 ml injection solution cont.: 0,367 ml each of Arteria suis D10, Arteria suis D30, Arteria suis D200
Arteria suis-Injeel forte	1,1 ml injection solution cont.: 0,275 ml each of Arteria suis D8, Arteria suis D10, Arteria suis D30, Arteris suis D200.

All the suis-organ preparations are formulated in the same general pattern as illustrated here. Prescriptions should always bear the precise designation ”Injeel” or ”Injeel forte” in order to facilitate acquisition of the proper medication through the chemist and wholesaler.

The use of catalysts of the intermediary metabolism is a specialty of the anti-homotoxic therapy. The substances designated as intermediary catalysts are physiological constituents of cellular respiration and energy production (citric acid cycle, redox systems). In part these are also substances which are formed during other enzymatic conver-sions and/or are catalytically effective in these processes. Damage to enzyme systems is frequently of iatrogenic nature because many conventional pharmaceutical medications are based on the inhibition of enzymes as the active principle. Enzymes especially are impeded in their activity by increasing environmental stress (e.g., by heavy metals or pesticides). Due to the deficiency of enzyme function a backup of metabolites present before the respective enzymatic reaction occurs as well as a lack of substrates to be metabolized after this reaction.

The administration of the corresponding catalysts in homoeopathic preparations is based upon the concept that the metabolic process is activated and that blocked cell or enzyme functions are reactivated. Since enzyme damage expresses itself as chronic and/or degenerative diseases, the application of catalysts is therefore primarily indicated for such diseases.

Catalysts are substances which accelerate the equilibration of chemical reactions without disturbing the balance of the process themselves. The extent to which a catalyst is able to accelerate a reaction is impressive. An increase of the reaction speed by six decimal powers is not uncommon, since one single enzyme molecule is often capable  of converting more than 10,000 substrate molecules per second. At the end of a reaction the catalyst remains unchanged and is again available to immediately catalyse the same reaction on the next molecule. The described process is designated as catalysis. When  the reactions occur in bio-systems, they are referred to as ”bio-catalysts.“

The catalysis may be additionally increased by activators, but it also may be reduced or blocked by ”poisons“ (homotoxins). The citric acid cycle is the ”turntable of metabolism,“ which represents the principal path of the catabolic metabolism of the pyruvate and/or the acetyl co-enzyme A. It is a basic, closed, reaction path present in humans, animals, and plants; the cleavage products of the carbohydrate metabolism, the oxidative carbohydrate metabolism, the oxidative decomposition of fatty acids and – after transamination – the cleavage products from the protein metabolism as well all end in it. Furthermore, it supplies important elements for synthesis of the organism. In conjunction with the respiratory chain the citric acid cycle is simultaneously the most significant source of energy for the metabolic process. It supplies the hydrogen for the biological oxidation and is thus closely linked to the energy metabolism of the cells.

The elements of the citric acid cycle are Acidum citricum (citric acid), Acidum cis- aconiticum (cis-aconitic acid), Axidum oxalsuccinicum (oxalosuccinic acid), Acidum a- ketoglutaricum (a-ketoglutaric acid), Acidum succinicum (succinic acid), Acidum  fumaricum (fumaric acid), Acidum DL-malicum (malic acid) and the salt Natrium oxalaceticum (oxalo-acetic sodium).

The transformation of one carboxylic acid into the next within the citric acid cycle is mediated by enzymes. The involved enzymes may be inhibited conditionally by noxae (e. g., competitive inhibition, final product inhibition, substrate inhibition), which can lead to concentration variations of single acids of the citric acid cycle. This can in turn trigger reactions or blockades with consecutive symptoms or disease manifestations in various tissues.

It must be taken into consideration that catalysts can only act when the milieu is correct. In control systems and metabolic chains not only the hydrogen ion concentration (pH-value) is involved, but the corresponding substrates and ”co-factors“ must also be available. The co-factors include vitamins and trace elements, including certain metal ions. Some catalysts have to be activated first by these co-factors to render them functionable. Metal enzyme complexes are frequently referred to as metallo-enzymes. Some of these metal ions are ”two-faced“ and while enabling the catalysis in small doses, in larger doses they may inhibit or block functions.

For therapeutic application, the term ”catalyst“ is more broadly defined than in physiological contexts; it includes catalysts in a strict sense (enzymes) as well as the respective substrates, intermediary products, and co-factors.

The available preparations may be classified into three groups:

Group A:                     Acids of the citric-acid cycle and their salts.

Group B:                     Quinones and their derivatives as well as other intermediary respiratory catalysts.

Group C:                     Compounds which effect stimulation: biogenic amines, hormones, elements (cerium), botanical extracts (anthocyanins).

General Recommendations

The implementation of bio-catalysts has a strong stimulative effect on patients (e. g., severe tiredness after administration of the remedy). It is recommended to drink at least 2 to 3 liters during the first three days of treatment and to extense refrain from physical activities as well. In addition a low toxin diet is desirable. Signs of a regressive vicariation should not be suppressed but rather excreted through the assistance of biological therapeutic remedies.

Exact timing is of the greatest importance for the implementation of catalysts. False timing may trigger progressive vicariations in some cases. This phenomenon occurs when the body is in an extremely unstable condition or is too weak to be subjected to a stimulation therapy. It must be particularly ensured with patients in a weakened condition that the treatment is very slowly commenced and is not applied with massive doses of remedies.

Example: Begin with 1/2 ampoule orally 2x weekly or 2x weekly dissolve 1 ampoule in 1 1/2 liters of water and drink this solution in small sips throughout the day. The bio- catalysts frequently achieve the desired effect without the occurrence of severe healing crises.

For all catalyst preparations of Group B, a repetition of injections should only  be conducted after subsidence of the possible occurrence of initial aggravation and always when complaints recur. Furthermore, a proper drainage is important, that is, for patients with severe toxic affliction, the endogenic defence system should be mobilized before the therapy with catalysts.

Three phases of the bio-regulation therapy can generally be distinguished:

1. Stabilization of the disease process, that is, treatment of possible inflammatory processes, whereby, in certain cases, the conventional therapy may not be dis- continued immediately. A stabilization can be achieved through a diet, sensible life style, sufficient exercise, support of the endogenic defence system, etc.

• Supplementation of deficient substances, including vitamins and trace elements, as well as the treatment of present dysbiosis. A weakened organism with severe deficiencies and dysbiosis must be treated first with parenteral vitamin pre- parations. With regard to mineral and trace elements, particularly zinc, calcium, potassium, and magnesium are important.

• Surgical treatment; removal of inflammation centres: e.g., tooth extraction, sanitation of the paranal sinus, removal of amalgam, etc.

Group A catalysts

Acids of the citric acid cycle and/or their salts

General Information

Control systems and metabolic chains can only fulfil their function when all links of the chain are intact; this means for physiological processes that the initial substrate, enzymes, and intermediary products must be adjusted to each other for the individual metabolic process steps (e.g., citric acid cycle). Functional disorders can be generated in the material or dynamic area; the consequences are always reciprocal. The following constellations result there from:

• The initial substrate is quantitatively insufficient or qualitatively altered. Based on the Michaelis Menten relation of the dependency of the catalytic reaction on the available substrate, a dysregulation is given at the initial step.

• An insufficient quantity of the enzyme is available or it is completely lacking. The metabolic process is impeded or obstructed at this point. The product to be catalysed is either insufficiently or not formed at all – the metabolic process chain is weakened or interrupted.

These basic processes occur at many points in metabolic process chains. The cited performance of the chain is always determined by the weakest link – substrate, enzyme, or intermediary product. Due to the situation that, after every enzymatic dysfunction, the subsequent product to be catalysed is no longer sufficiently formed, the intermediary products play an essential role in the further course of the chain reaction. Therefore,  during therapy, enzymatic defects should not only be affected with the lacking or deficient enzyme – when at all possible – but should also be specifically treated with the intermediary products behind the enzyme obstruction.

Several enzyme reactions require magnesium or manganese ions as additional activators. Thus, all kinase reactions require magnesium ions for the phosphate transfer, whereas alkaline phosphatases are activated by magnesium and manganese ions and peptidases by manganese. In many cases the magnesium ions can be replaced by manganese ions when necessary. Thus, it makes sense and is understandable that specific therapy with the intermediary catalysts of the citric acid cycle is initiated or combined with an injection  of magnesium and manganese ions as phosphate compounds due to the significance of the anorganic phosphate.

Fields of application

All diseases classified as cellular phases (degeneration phases, dedifferentiation phases) and which are consequently characterized by defective enzymatic control, blockages and/or defective cellular oxidation, e.g.:

• Paresis, neuralgia, toxic neuritis, vegetative dystonia, migraine
• Dermatosis, neurodermitis, pruritus (including pruritus vulvae), psoriasis, vitiligo, pemphigus, sclerodermia
• Bronchial asthma
• Gastric and duodenal ulcer, hepatosis, cirrhosis of the liver and injurious hepatic disorders, pancreopathy
• Nephropathy, e.g., nephrosis and chronic nephritis
• Myocardial    impairment, angina pectoris, treatment subsequent to myocardial infarction, arteriosclerosis, cerebral sclerosis
• Dysfunction and dysregulation of endocrine glands, e.g., diabetes mellitus, dysthyroidism
• Precancerous and dedifferentiation phases (previously: neoplasm phases) within any tissue whatsoever
• During and ensuing X-ray and radioactive exposure (several enzymes, e.g. the maleate dehydrogenase, are sensitive to radiation)
• Thrombocytopenia, leucopenia

Dosage

Most expedient is the injection of the individual acids of the citric acid cycle and/or their salts in the sequence in which they are generated within the cell during the course of metabolism to reach all possibly existing defects, obstructions, and instances of faulty regulation. It is advisable in such therapy to inject two to three acids (and/or their salts) simultaneously in the form of a combination injection. For reasons of practicality, these injections are best applied either s.c. or i.m.

As magnesium and manganese ions activate a number of enzymatic processes – the kinase reactions in particular, during which phosphate transfer occurs (see subsection

General Information) – the Magnesium-Manganum-phosphoricum-Injeel included in the combination pack is to be administered with the initial (combined) injection.

The injections are generally applied 1-2x weekly. Upon completion of a series – i.e., after 4 combination injections (see below) – catalyst therapy may possibly require interpolation by a treatment-free interval of 2 to 4 weeks until the injections’ effects have subsided. During this period, however, the indicated anti-homotoxic preparations (Injeels, Homaccords, and other Heel combination preparations, as well as suis-organ preparations and nosodes) are to be applied. Indeed these may also be employed in conjunction with the acids/salts of  the citric acid cycle even during the injection period.

During the intake of a homoeopathic remedy present symptoms may be temporarily aggravated (initial aggravation). The patient is advised to consult his/her therapist.

Plan of subcutaneous injections

Injection 1:	Magnesium-Manganum-phosphoricum-Injeel Natrium pyruvicum-Injeel Natrium oxalaceticum-Injeel
Injection 2:	Acidum citricum-Injeel Natrium oxalaceticum-Injeel
Injection 3:	Baryum oxalsuccinicum-Injeel Acidum a-ketoglutaricum-Injeel
Injection 4:	Acidum succinicum-Injeel Acidum fumaricum-Injeel Acidum DL-malicum-Injeel

After an application-free interval of 2 to 4 weeks, repetition of this series of injections.  Each acid and/or its salt may be injected separately and repetitively in the Injeel-forte form as well. This is indicated primarily when a particularly effective action during one of the combined injections listed above (1 to 4) was achieved. The ampoules contained in this combination should subsequently be applied individually.

The diet should include ample fresh fruit, grape juice, bilberries, and beet root. The latter are rich in anthocyanins (activators of cellular respiration, hydrogen acceptors); also refer to intermediary catalysts, Group C: Myrtillus, Beta vulgaris rubra!

Package sizes

Packages containing 5, 10, 50 and 100 ampoules of 1,1 ml each.

Citric-Acid-Cycle combination pack (contains 9 ampoules of single constituent Injeels + 1 ampoule Magnesium Manganum-phosphoricum-Injeel).

List of group A catalysts

The Injeel preparations contain the following potency chord in all preparations: D10, D30, D200 0,367 ml each. Exception: Magnesium-Manganum-phosphoricum-Injeel D12, D30, D200.

The Injeel forte preparations contain the following potency chord in all preparations D6, D12, D30, D200 0,275 ml each.

Acidum cis-aconiticum-Injeel

Acidum succinicum-Injeel

Acidum cis-aconiticum-Injeel forte

Acidum succinicum-Injeel forte

Acidum citricum-Injeel  

Acidum succinicum D4

Acidum citricum-Injeel

Baryum oxalsuccinicum-Injeel

Acidum fumaricum-Injeel

Baryum oxalsuccinicum-Injeel forte

Acidum fumaricum-Injeel forte

Magnesium-Manganum-phosphoricum-Injeel

Acidum fumaricum D6

Magnesium-Manganum-phosphoricum-Injeel forte

Acidum a-ketoglutaricum-Injeel

Natrium oxalaceticum-Injeel

Acidum a-ketoglutaricum-Injeel forte     

Natrium oxalaceticum-Injeel forte

Acidum DL-malicum-Injeel

Natrium pyruvicum-Injeel

Acidum DL-malicum-Injeel forte

Natrium pyruvicum-Injeel forte

Group B catalysts

Quinones as well as other intermediary respiratory catalysts

General information

Organic compounds which contain one or several carbonyl groups (> C=O) play an important role in electron transfer processes such as cellular respiration and redox reactions without direct O2-involvement. These compounds include quinones, hydroquinones, aldehydes, ketones, and carboxylic acids.

Electron transfers which involve oxygen contain radical intermediates. Radicals can counteract condensation processes as they occur in the impregnation, degeneration, and dedifferentiation (neoplasm) phases in particular. Free radicals are short-lived, highly reactive products of metabolism which contain one or more unpaired electrons (molecules, atoms, and ions). In the 1930s William Koch introduced free radicals and the catalytic effects into medicinal research and employed them successfully for the healing of diverse diseases. At that time, the knowledge of the existence of free radicals was developed based on his research.

The quinones possess the special ability to neutralize oxygen radicals. A quinone therapy improves the cellular respiration (biological oxidation).

Toxins which must be removed during the course of a lifetime can be decomposed by oxidation as well. Oxidation signifies the consumption of oxygen and subsequently, the existence of risk of an inefficient metabolism. It is possible to treat the consequences of a faulty regulation with quinones. Quinone therapy sets high standards on the toxic defence system of the organism. The support of the toxin defence system and a deliberate excretion therapy are important. Bonded amino groups can be transferred to carbonyl groups by transamination and are thus mobilized.

The quinones and methylene blue have certain characteristics in common. For example, both possess the capability of representing the enzyme succino-dehydrogenase (dehydrogenation of succinic acid into fumaric acid) under anaerobic conditions. Without oxygen, methylene blue can serve in place of this enzyme as an electron acceptor.

Fields of application

The preparations within Group B are to be applied preferably for clinical syndromes and/or cellular phases to the right of the Biological Division, i.e., for impregnation, degeneration, and dedifferentiation phases (previously: neoplasm phases).

Dosage

Dosage must always be determined on an individual basis, depending on each patient’s findings, state of health, and individual response to these preparations, which can vary considerably from case to case – even in instances of identical diagnosis! It is generally advisable to apply the catalyst preparations of Group B once, perhaps twice, weekly (i.m., s.c., i.c.; when required also in the corresponding acupuncture points and possibly i.v.).

We wish to point out that, as with the nosodes, catalyst preparations from Group B may also be advantageously employed in the therapy of cellular phases by administering them in conjunction with those preparations required otherwise.

Special therapeutic stipulations

1. As a rule, Glyoxal and Methylglyoxal should be applied relatively seldom. For this reason, these two preparations should always be allotted an extensive period of time in which to expend their after-effects.

• In cases requiring the use of para-benzoquinone, it is advisable to precede such treatment with approximately 3 applications of hydroquinone

• Quinhydrone should be coupled with a homoeopathic metal preparation, e.g., with Aurum-Injeel, Argentum-Injeel, or Ferrum metallicum-Injeel.

Package sizes

Packages containing 5, 10, 50 and 100 ampoules 1.1 ml each.

List of group B catalysts

The Injeel preparations contain the following potency chord in all preparations: D12, D30, D200 0.367 ml each.

The Injeel-forte preparations contain the following potency chord in all preparations D8, D12, D30, D200 0,275 ml each.

Anthrachinon-Injeel       

Naphthochinon-Injeel

Anthrachinon-Injeel forte            

Naphthochinon-Injeel forte

Chinhydron-Injeel

Para-Benzochinon-Injeel

Chinhydron-Injeel forte

Para-Benzochinon-Injeel forte

Glyoxal-Injeel

Trichinoyl-Injeel

Hydrochinon-Injeel

Trichinoyl-Injeel forte

Hydrochinon-Injeel forte

Ubichinon-Injeel

Methylenblau-Injeel

Ubichinon-Injeel forte

Methylenblau-Injeel forte

Ubichinon D6; D30

Methylglyoxal-Injeel

Group C catalysts

Other compounds with stimulative action

General Information

Other compounds with stimulative action and catalytic effects on metabolic and respiratory functions include:

Homoeopathically prepared vitamins of the vitamin B-group as well as of vitamin A and vitamin C (in lowest potency D6, respectively) – as co-factors and/or co-enzymes; compounds with other stimulative and catalytic effects, e.g., biogenic amines such as adrenaline, serotonine (5-hydroxi-tryptamine) and histamine (4-(2’-aminoethyl)-imidazol) and/or their precursors such as the amino acids tryptophane (b-indolalanine = precursor of serotonine) and histidine (b-imidazolalanine and/or b-imidazolylalanine = precursor of histamine) as well as the amino acids cysteine (contains sulphur), Acidum L(+) asparagicum and Acidum glutaminicum, further the degradation products of tryptophane indole and scatole (b-methylindole) and the amino acid derivatives guanidine (Imino-urea) and methylguanidine as well as anthozyanins (activators of cell respiration; hydrogen acceptors) and elements (trace element factors), e.g., cesium and cerium (redox catalytic action).

Dosage

Generally, injections are administered 1-2x weekly. The injection of one or several catalysts is only repeated after the effect of the previous injection has subsided. As the healing consolidates injections are generally more seldom required.

Package sizes

Packages containing 5, 10, 50 and 100 ampoules 1,1 ml each. List of group C catalysts

Nosode preparations

Definition of nosode preparations

Nosodes are disease triggering agents whose virulence or toxicity was eliminated through homoeopathic processing, but whose information fully attains the recognition mechanisms and enables corresponding stimulation which promotes healing. We differentiate between auto-nosode preparations and hetero-nosode preparations.

Auto-nosode preparations

These are substances gained from the patient’s own organism such as blood, urine, lachrymal fluid, sputum, pus, stools, or diseased tissue. The initial substances are homoeopathically adjusted and applied to the same patient.

Hetero-nosode preparations

These are substances which do not originate from the own organism. There are:

Viral nosode preparations e.g.	e.g. Herpes zoster-Nosode Coxsackie A9 and/or Coxsackie B4
Bacterial nosode preparations	e.g. Tuberculinum Staphylococcinum Streptococcinum
Vaccine-nosode preparations (from microorganisms or vaccines)	e.g. Influenza nosode Rabies vaccine Rubeola vaccine
Tissue nosodes (from pathologically altered organs and/or tissues and products of metabolism including body secretions)	e.g. Gastritis-Nosode Tonsillitis-Nosode Sinusitis-Nosode Mastopathia cystica-Nosode

Source material

Nosodes are preparations produced according to a homoeopathic processing technique from pathologically altered organs or organic constituents of human or animal origin, further, from non-living cultures of micro-organisms, decomposition products of animal origin, or from bodily fluids containing pathogens or pathological products, e.g., liquor, or puncture liquid. The identity of the source material is verified by a protocol of the specialist’s findings of the operation material or laboratory results and, when required, by certificates of the suppliers of the bacteria and viruses. The HAB (German Homoeopathic Pharmacopoeia) stipulates that the base material for nosode preparations is first sterilized and that it afterwards complies with the sterility control pursuant to the German Pharmacopoeia (DAB 10). The homoeopathic processing is only conducted upon completion of these prerequisites. Nosode preparations are, therefore, neither vaccines, nor sera, nor other such agents; they are remedies exclusively and purely of a homoeopathic nature. Mother tinctures are manufactured from this source material according to regulations 43 or 44.

The definition of the nosode preparations conforms to the definition of material stipulated in § 3 of the German Drug Law, particularly in items 3 and 4. Thus substances within the meaning of the law are:

1. Chemical elements
2. Plants and botanical components
3. Bodies of animals, including those of living animals as well as body parts, com- ponents thereof and metabolic products of human or animal origin in a proces- sed state
4. Microorganisms including viruses as well as their components or metabolic products

There are two different directives for the production of nosode preparations, namely the HAB 1 (German Homoeopathic Pharmacopoeia) specification 43 for mother tinctures from pathologically altered organs or organic components of human or animal origin and specification 44 for mother tinctures from non-living cultures of microorganisms or from decomposition products of animal organs or from bodily fluids containing pathogens or pathological products.

The following examples illustrate the production of nosode preparations:

Viral nosode preparations

Coxsackie-Virus-B4-Nosode	This is produced from dead Coxsackie-B4 viruses adjusted to 109 plaque-forming units per milliliter.
Herpes Zoster-Nosode	This is produced from dead Herpes-Zoster viruses adjusted to 106 plaque-forming units per milliliter

Bacterial nosode preparations

Bacterium coli-Nosode	This is a preparation produced from Escherichia-coli bacteria cultures adjusted to a specific titer (107 KBE/g).
Bacterium lactis aerogenes-Nosode	This is a nosode preparation produced from an Enterobacter-aerogenes bacteria culture (107 KBE/g).

Tissue nosodes

Tonsillitis-Nosode	This is produced from surgically removed inflamed tonsils (Tonsilla palatina).
Gastritis-Nosode	This is produced from gastric mucous removed surgically from a gastritis patient
Sinusitis-Nosode	This is a mucous mass gained from inflamed sinuses.
Otitis media-Nosode	The source material is pus from patients suffering from a middle ear infection

General application information

Nosode preparations are applied according to the

1. symptomatic/anamnestic similarity (simile principle) and
2. applied at the end and/or after a previously overcome acute illness.

The following remarks refer to the above items:

To a.

The application of the nosode preparations should be administered according to the symptomatic similarity, that on the basis of the fundamental homoeopathic rules of similitude and/or according to the anamnestic etiological similarity to a past illness which has apparently since been cured. The preparation Diphtheria-Nosode (Diphtherinum-Injeel and forte), for example, is not employed primo loco in treatment of acute diphtheria –  which would correspond to a similarity to a developing acute infection – but rather for the treatment of cardiac diseases displaying similar symptoms as are present in a heart damaged by diphtheria (= symptomatic similarity) and/or for the treatment of heart-disease patients whose case history includes diphtheria (= anamnestic etiological similarity).

The following is important when employing nosode preparations under the aspect of current etiological similarities:

All nosodes may be used specifically, i.e., as isotherapeutic agents of the corresponding affections from which they were developed. Generally, they are administered in this case as an intermediary remedy in addition to the indicated homoeopathic remedies, whereby particularly excretive, matrix-channeling anti-homotoxic remedies, (e.g. Lymphomyosot, Galium-Heel), play an important role.

To b.

After the disease has been overcome, nosodes are excellent to induce the toxins deposited in the matrix to be excreted more rapidly. Quite frequently, the toxins removed through this technique are not the sole causative agents but also remnant deposits of contagion with latent pathogenic foci as well as colonies of agents which are no longer pathogenic (sources of continuous exudation). This applies particularly with regards to the infectious diseases such as measles, rubella, varicella, influenza, erysipelas, scarlet fever, typhoid fever, diphtheria etc. It can also be assumed that the specific defence processes against the pathogens are reinduced by the nosode preparations. The clinical confirmation of this immuno-modulative effect is found in the regression of currently forced antibody formations as the expression of the incomplete toxin release of the pathogens. Thus the normalization of a pathologically increased antistreptolysin titer is frequently observed  after the application of the streptococcus nosode.

Indications for a nosode therapy

1. Chronically exudative diseases
2. Chronically proliferative diseases
3. Degenerative diseases
4. Auto-aggression diseases (Caution!)
5. Iatrogenic damages

Nosodes may be designated as terrain remedies. Therefore, they are particularly indicated for the treatment of dyscrasia, i.e., constitutional diseases and/or summation states of integrating and/or integrated dispositions. In terms of Homotoxicology, they are useful for cellular phases, especially for re-toxically inhibited phases, for the treatment of auto- aggression diseases (Caution!), of psoric diseases according to Hahnemann, as well as allergies. Auto-aggression diseases should only be treated after corresponding pre- treatment, such as excretion therapies with matrix-channeling anti-homotoxic remedies. Nosodes are not only indicated however for cellular phases but also frequently for humoral phases, particularly when a dyscrasic component is involved or complications threaten to arise or in case of reduced immunopotency.

The effect of nosodes results in terms of a positive vicariation in detoxification and excretion of homotoxins. This signifies simultaneously an increase of the self-healing processes controlled by the defence system. In most cases a summation of known and possibly unknown poisonous substances (homotoxins) is to be assumed, and based on this knowledge is also the necessity and justification of a simultaneous application of a series of nosodes (e.g., Diphtherinum + Psorinum + Medorrhinum), which are to  be applied possibly in conjunction with other single-constituent Injeels, combination preparations etc. as a broad spectrum anti-homotoxic remedy in order to cleanse the cited terrain.

Psorinoheel N (drops, ampoules) is, for example, such a broad spectrum nosode preparation which also contains, aside from the two Psora-nosode preparations (Psorinum and Medorrhinum), vaccininum and bacillinum, furthermore two constitution remedies (sulphur and thuja) and a series of additional homoeopathic remedies. This combination preparation is primarily indicated for the phases of the constitution, i.e., for the cellular phases, as well as for the disposition phases or humoral phases. In case of unclear  clinical syndromes and/or clinical syndromes which cannot be immediately clarified, with regard to the anamnestic etiological similarity as well as with regard to the symptomatic similarity, it is frequently advisable to include such a combination preparation based on nosodes in the therapy plan particularly for the cellular phases.

Nosodes exercise a profound constitutional effect. Virtually every type of therapy can be effectively reinforced with nosode preparations. They frequently fulfil the role of a missing link in a chain of therapeutic reactions, whereby cure without nosodes is inconclusive or can only be achieved with extreme difficulty. The effect occurs thereby via subliminal antigen-antibody-reactions as well as via the homoeopathic counteracting mechanism of co-repressors.

Dosage

As a matter of principle, dosage is always to be determined strictly on an individual basis, depending upon each patient’s findings, state of health and particular response to each of the nosode preparations, all of which can vary considerably from case to case. In general, dosage consists of 1 ampoule, administered 1 to a maximum of 3x weekly. The duration of therapy with nosode preparations is also to be determined individually, and is to be adjusted in keeping with each given case. A brief interval of treatment (approximately 2 –  4 weeks) is recommended when applied in the aftermath of an acute affection, whereas chronic disorders should receive therapy over a relatively extensive period (approximately 6 months) depending upon the individual reactive condition of each patient.

It is recommended to begin nosode therapy with the normal Injeel form, later adopting application of the forte form, particularly when the corresponding reactions or improvements should fail to materialize as anticipated. In the event the Injeel-forte form should also fall short of achieving the desired therapeutic success, low single potencies are then to be applied.

For example, Anthracinum-Injeel in single potency D10 is several potencies lower than Anthracinum-Injeel forte, which contains the potency chord D15, D20, D30, D200. Bacterium coli in single potency D5 is one potency lower than Bacterium coli-Injeel forte, which applies for several other ”bacterial“ nosode preparations, e.g., also for Bacterium lactis aerogenes, Bacterium proteus, Bacterium pyocyaneus, and Brucella abortus Bang.

Higher potencies (single higher potencies) should only be employed when excessive reactions occur to the normal Injeel form of the corresponding nosode preparations. Thus, Variolinum in single potency D200 and/or D1000 and/or Vaccininum in single potency

D200 will be employed when excessive reactions to Variolinum-Injeel (D20, D30, D200) and/or to Vaccininum-Injeel (D20, D30, D200) occur once.

The following rule for treatment in general is particularly true in regard to nosode therapy: The higher potencies (D12, D30, etc.) are indicated for treating:

• increased irritability (Arsenic, Phosphate, Iodine or Chamomile Type)
• diathesis
• allergy and
• chronic disorders

The lower potencies (approximately D6/D8 and lower) are indicated in treatment of affections which are more or less acute:

• slow-reacting types of individuals (Sepia, Nux-vomica, Graphites, Silicea types)

• when organotropic action on a specific organ is desired (e.g., the tonsils: Tonsillarpfröpfe-Injeel forte and/or Tonsillitis Nosode-Injeel forte, each in potency chords D6, D10, D30 and D200).

Indications for higher potencies generally require relatively lengthy intervals of up to several weeks’ duration between applications.

Conversely, indications for lower potencies usually require only brief periods between applications, approximately 3 doses per week.

The recommended procedure is to commence administration by means of i.m., s.c. or i.d. injection (neural and/or acupuncture points); only in the event that this mode of application fails to evoke response may the corresponding nosode be administered i.v. in appropriate cases.

The application of the nosode Injeels during a progressive auto-sanguis therapy is advantageous. The nosodes should however always be applied during the last stage.

Note on dosage and potentization of nosodes in therapy of children

No essential difference exists between the dosage of nosode preparations and that of other homoeopathic agents in treating young patients, i.e., children receive a (somewhat) smaller dose than the adult patients.

Dosage (per application) for children:

0– 1 years of age	approximately 0,3 ml
1– 6 years of age	approximately 0,5 ml
6–12 years of age	approximately 0,6 ml
> 12	adult dosage

For children, the lower potencies of D4 – D8 are administered at the beginning of therapy as well as in treatment of affections which are more or less acute; thus the same procedures are followed as for adults. Likewise, the higher potencies (approximately D12– D30) are used in both child and adult patients ensuing initial treatment with lower potencies (D4 – D8) and/or for therapy of chronic affections. Thus the same particulars apply for children in regard to potentization as they do in treatment of adults.

General

In their capacity as ”terrain remedies,” nosodes provide effective reinforcement for virtually every type of therapy. Nosodes frequently fulfil the role of a missing link in a series or chain of therapeutic reactions, whereby cure without the nosode is inconclusive or can be attained only under extreme difficulty. From a homotoxicological aspect, nosodes are chiefly applied in order to transform cellular phases into humoral phases, i.e., in order to achieve regressive vicariation. Nosodes are indicated in treatment of humoral phases as well, especially in cases which are in jeopardy of lapsing into a chronic condition such as  in which there is impending danger of progressive vicariation.

Therapists working in the field of electro-acupuncture find the use of nosodes especially interesting due to the capabilities of such specialists to precisely determine the corresponding nosodes through the technique of medicinal testing. Thus therapy with nosodes is exceptionally effective in combining ”apparatus medicine” by means of the above-mentioned medicinal testing (bioelectric technique of drug determination), where appropriate, with the therapist’s ”eye for clinical diagnosis” or ”visual diagnosis.” Here, as always, the nosodes are to be administered according to symptomatic similarity, i.e., on the basis of the fundamental homoeopathic rules of similitude and employing the ”diagnostic aid” provided by the anamnesis, whereby any anamnestic, etiological similarity to a past, apparently cured illness is also taken into consideration. One should bear in mind in this respect that the extraordinarily good diagnostician and the excellent therapist is often recognizable by his or her ability to compile a skilful and accurate anamnesis.

Single-constituent homoeopathic preparations

Available both in Injeel (Injection-remedy Heel) and in single-potency form, these homoeopathic single-remedy agents may be subcutaneously injected, i.m., s.c., i.d. (segment therapy) or i.v. All single-constituent preparations and Injeels may also be administered orally in water or tea (see chapter C, section 2, page 439), an attribute particularly suitable for treatment of infants and small children. Each ampoule of an Injeel comprises several potencies of the same basic remedy in parallel existence to  one another within a potency chord.

The basic potency of an Injeel is generally D10 or D12, with equal parts of D30 and D200 as additional components. As a rule, Injeels of the  ”forte” type contain equal parts of (D4), D6, D12, D30, D200 and possibly D1000. With the administration of a potency chord the organism is addressed on several  hierarchical levels, namely on the organotropic level by the low potency, on the functiotropic level by the medium potency, and on the ”informative“ or ”mental“ level with the assistance of the higher potency.

Since, particularly during the course of regressive vicariations of chronic or severe illnesses of phases 4, 5 or even 6, considerable functional and informative errors occur in addition to the macroscopically detectable organic-structural errors, such potency chord preparations are also suited for the excretion of cellular illnesses due to the high potencies contained therein.

The principle of the potency chord is that any adverse reaction which may occur upon application of lower potencies of a medicinal agent can be mitigated and reduced through the simultaneous administration of higher potencies of the same medication (high-potency inverse effect). As a rule, treatment should always commence with simultaneous application of single-remedy Injeels, catalysts, and specialized preparations. The forte forms are to be administered in treatment of acute disease and illnesses which have become organically detectable.

Classical homoeopathic remedies

Anti-homotoxic medicine seldom requires – especially when the indication is obvious – homoeopathic single constituent remedies in single potencies. These single remedies are administered in terms of classical homoeopathy according to the simile principle. In anti- homotoxic medicine these single remedies are available as ampoules. Figure 7 shows an overview of the single remedies in single-potencies (ampoule form), which are available in addition to the single remedies in potency chords, nosodes, suis-organ preparations, etc.

D = X

Therapy with Anti-homotoxic Preparations from Heel

The Heel Company provides the following medications for use in anti-homotoxic therapy:

Combination preparations

composed of several potentised single substances (in low to higher potencies): Specialized preparations (e.g., Cralonin, Vertigoheel, Traumeel S, etc.) Homaccords (e.g., Aconitum-Homaccord)

Composita preparations (e.g., Echinacea compositum S)

Single-constituent homoeopathic preparations

as potency chords or as single potencies. Potency chords are labelled with the  supplement ”Injeel“ or ”Injeel forte”; they contain high and higher potencies to calm possible initial reactions:

Classical homoeopathic preparations

Homoeopathically adjusted allopathic medications (e.g., Penicillin-Injeel) Catalysts (e.g., Ubichinon-Injeel) including those of the citric-acid cycle Nosodes (e.g., Sinusitis-Nosode-Injeel)

Suis-organ preparations (e.g., Cerebrum suis-Injeel)

The administration forms are injections, solutions, tablets, drops, nasal sprays, suppositories, and ointments.

Combination preparations

Specialized Preparations

Today, these specialized preparations are employed in practices of all types, regardless whether the practitioner is naturopathically oriented or not. These valuable medications (e.g., Vertigoheel, Traumeel S) also find application at university clinics and similar institutions. Figure 6 represents only a limited, subjective selection from the extensive assortment of specialized preparations available.

Fig. 6: Selection from the range of specialized preparations

Preparation	Chief Indications
Cralonin	Geriatric heart, cardiac neurosis
Engystol N	Influenza, febrile virus infections
Gripp-Heel	Influenzal infections
Lymphomyosot	Lymphoedema, tonsillitis, increased susceptibility to infection
Rheuma-Heel	Non-articular rheumatism syndrome
Spascupreel	Colic, myogeloisis
Spigelon	Headache
Traumeel S	Arthritis, arthrosis, sports injuries
Vertigoheel	Dizziness of various origius
Viburcol	Fever, minor infection, excitation
Ypsiloheel	Vegetative dystonia, globus hystericus
Zeel/Zeel comp.	Arthrosis, polyathrosis

Homaccords

Homaccords are preparations which contain one or several active substances in respective potency chords. Usually a low potency is combined with a medium potency and a higher potency. The background of this potency combination is the nearly 100 year old therapeutic experience that the simultaneous administration of low, medium, and higher potencies causes a reduction of the initial aggravation. As is known, initial aggravations occur particularly often during the administration of higher potencies given individually.

Homaccords are available both as attenuations for oral administration as well as in ampoule form for subcutaneous injection. This multipotent form – among other applications – is particularly appropriate for treating chronic illnesses.

In the ampoule form of the Homaccords, the individual constituents’ potency-levels are generally two to three stages higher than those found in the drops. These highly- potentised elements exert a subduing effect on any possible initial reactions, hence cases displaying initial aggravation are a rarity.

Composita Preparations

In order to obtain a preparation which is highly effective on the one hand, yet low in risk and side effects on the other, the expedient solution was to unite a number of various homoeopathic single-remedy medications, homoeopathically adjusted allopathic medications (see below), intermediary catalysts (see below) and – in certain cases – suis- organ preparations (see below) within one single combination preparation.

Through the multiplicity of constituents within Composita preparations, a broad, in-depth therapeutic effect is achieved. The basis for this are the various points of action at which the constituent medications develop their efficacy. The basic principle of the Composita preparations will be explained vicariously with the example of Euphorbium compositum Nasal Spray. This nasal spray preparation contains as classical homoeopathic botanical constituents Euphorbium, Pulsatilla, and Luffa operculata, further the anorganic-chemical, classical homoeopathic substances Mercurius bijodatus, Argentum nitricum, and Hepar sulfuris, the nosode Sinusitis-Nosode and the suis-organ preparation Mucosa nasalis suis. The constituent ”Euphorbium,“ which lends its name to the preparation, demonstrates  clear relations to illnesses of the upper respiratory tract in its drug picture. The organotropically implemented low potency of Euphorbium resinifera is supported by the constituents Pulsatilla, Luffa, Mercurius bijodatus, and Argentum nitricum, which contain in their remedy picture the symptomatology of catarrhal inflammatory processes of the upper respiratory tract according to the Materia Medica Homoeopathica.

From a therapeutic viewpoint, the purpose of the Sinusitis-Nosode is to treat the illness underlying the chronic sinusitis etiologically (phase 3, deposition), which has settled in the area of the upper respiratory tract. It accomplishes this by reactivation based on the isopathic therapy principle through excretion via the excretion phase. The homoeopathically adjusted organ extract Mucosa nasalis suis basically acts on the mucous membrane region of the upper respiratory tract (homologous animal tissue; Schmid1), Reinhart2)). All of  the applied active substances occur  in potencies between D2 and D13, in other words, these are active substances in the so-called low potency and medium potency range; potencies of these ranges basically act organotropically and functiotropically according to the homoeopathic view. The therapy of chronic sinusitis is possible particularly through the nosode because nosode preparations exercise a positive effect especially on chronic processes and may reactivate them. In terms of anti- homotoxic therapy a chronic illness already in a matrix phase (phase 3 or 4) is re-activated in terms of a regressive vicariation according to Reckeweg and is returned to the inflammatory phase 2. The organotropically acting, classical homoeopathic remedies Pulsatilla, Hepar sulfuris, Mercurius bijodatus, Euphorbium, and Luffa can then fully develop their efficacy in this activated inflammatory phase.

Thus, this rational basic principle of uniting substances of diverse efficacies in one compositum preparation provides a new, therapeutically promising access to the treatment of chronic illnesses. The following reflections should elucidate this more closely:

• Because chronic illnesses usually progress in syndromes and unite various causes into one diagnosable clinical syndrome, a medicinal therapy with the assistance of one single substance is seldom promising, as experience shows. By classifying the diagnosed disease into the Six-Phase-Table of Homotoxicology, the selection of the respective homoeopathic remedies for diseases of the matrix phase as well as of the degeneration and the dedifferentiation (neoplasm) phase, that is, basically for cellular diseases to the right of the Biological Division, need not be limited solely to the classical homoeopathic remedies from the botanical, mineral, and animal kingdoms.

• In combination with nosode preparations, suis-organ constituents, and catalysts, the therapist gains the possibility to treat further progressed cellular phases to the right of the Biological Division, because, by removing the enzyme blockades though the catalysts or through an isotherapeutic ”massive nosode dose“ as well as through the suis-organ preparations, a regression of the disease in terms of regressive vicariation is activated.

• As soon as a regressive vicariation into a humoral phase has taken place through the penetrating nosodes, catalysts, and suis-organ extracts, the organotropic, classical homoeopathic remedies can effectively induce the healing of the developing inflammatory phase.

• The potency D8 of the organ constituent Mucosa nasalis lies in the so-called substitutive range. To this extent, this range is comparable to the organotropic range of  the classical homoeopathic lower potencies (Schmid)1) and explains the direct action of these organ preparations on the homologous human tissue. With potencies up to the order of magnitude of approximately D12, a material action of these active substance molecules on endogenic function bearers such as enzymes, membrane receptors, and cellular structures of immunological cells or organ cells is still given, according to present conceptions, through the material presence of active substance molecules or their fragments (Heine).2)

• Since, according to Paracelsus, every poison is its own antidote, the dose determines whether a substance has a poisonous or a healing effect for the patient. The potentised nosode can also be designated as its own antidote. The no-sode – in this case the sinusitis nosode – is extracted from a pathological secretion of a sinusitis patient. This effluence contains the complete information of the illness ”sinusitis.“ Through homoeopathic preparation and potent zing to D13 in the present case, a direct toxic effect is excluded, on the contrary, the specific antidote effect of the nosode in terms of the Arndt-Schulz inversion law is released through the potent zing.

Moreover, potentised homoeopathic substances comply fully with the Arndt-Schulz law, which generally purports that weak stimuli, e.g., potentised homoeopathic substances, exercise a stimulative effect. This statement is basically supported by the modern hormesis research in toxicology, which demonstrates that a highly toxic substance such as mercuric salt, administered in the milligram range, exercises a strong toxic effect. However, after potent zing to D8 and higher, it demonstrates a stimulative effect which practically reverses the original toxic effect. The German pharmacologist  Prof. Schulz  was already able to repeatedly verify the ”bi-phasal“ effect of active substances in his experiments 100 years ago.

This means that a substance in a certain dose range exercises a toxic effect and loses this toxic effect after further dilution (potent zing). After potent zing a new, therapeutically useful effect reveals itself which represents practically the opposite of the original toxic effect.

Such reversals of effect and phasal effects of highly diluted toxins, e.g., anorganic salts from heavy metals and organic substances were also described by T.D. Luckey3) and E.J. Calabrese4) in recent overviews.

References

1. Schmid, F. Anti-homotoxische Medizin, Band I: Grundlagen, Klinik, Praxis; Aurelia-Verlag, Baden-Baden, 1. Aufl., 1996
2. Heine, H. Lehrbuch der biologischen Medizin – Grundlagen und Systematik; Hippokrates Verlag, Stuttgart, 2. Aufl., 1997
3. Luckey, T.D. Hormology with Inorganic Compounds. In: Luckey T.D., Vleingopal B.Hutcheson D., editors. Heavy metal – toxicity, safety and hormology. Stuttgart, New York, San Francisco, London, Georg-Thieme-Verlag, 1975; 81-103
4. Calabrese, E. J. Biological Effects of Low Lever Exposures to Chemicals and Radiation; Lewis Publishers, Inc., Michigan, 1991