Phlorizine

The attenuations are prepared from the glycoside, Phlorizine, C₂₁H₂₄O₁₀ · 2H₂O, MW: 427.4, which occurs in the bark of root and trunk and in the branches and leaves of various members of the Rosaceae family, e.g. apple, cherry, and plum trees.

When small quantities of Phlorizine are taken or, better, injected subcutaneously, this precipitates a severe glycosuria which occurs without any preceding hypergly- caemia and continues even when the blood-sugar level becomes low. This effect comes about because the kidney has become permeable to lower levels of blood-glu- cose.

In kidney diseases, glycosuria occurs late, minimally or not at all. Thus it seemed obvious and consistent with the Law of Similars and the Reversal effect (Arndt- Schulz) to use Phlorizine in the treatment of diabetes mellitus. However, this was not attended by spectacular success, probably because in most cases of diabetes mellitus we are dealing with degeneration phases or genetically determined phases which, being cellular phases, are on the right of the Biological Division, and are therefore, as Hahnemann remarked in the Organon, no longer fully accessible to cure with single homoeopathic remedies in most cases, being manifestations of Psora.

A doctor who is working in a biological way and is not achieving results with sin- gle remedies along the lines of classical homoeopathy enlists a number of curative possibilities which can be realised throug E. Bürgi’s synergistic principle, i.e. com- bination-remedies, especially if these are used parenterally and thus come into close contact with the body’s Greater Defensive System directly and possibly undiluted.