tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-64574030474525828442012-02-16T10:26:00.488-05:00Homeopathic remedies, the law of Similars, the Minimum dose and other topicsHart Matthewshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13506056179041055052noreply@blogger.comBlogger121100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6457403047452582844.post-34732839336171250632012-02-02T10:18:00.000-05:002012-02-02T10:18:21.431-05:00

Latrodectus mactans, or black widow spider. The poison can have effects remarkably similar to the classic heart attack symptoms, with severe chest pains radiating to the left arm and a terrible feeling of dread. The homeopathic remedy made from that poison has been used effectively in acute myocardial infarction. Quoting from the proving: "Appearance anxious, with extreme fear of dying.

Hart Matthewshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13506056179041055052noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6457403047452582844.post-69571362161422350042012-01-23T10:24:00.002-05:002012-02-01T10:10:42.597-05:00

There are so many things we could talk about regarding the lipid hypothesis of heart disease and the use of chemicals to reduce blood cholesterol. So many things that I am just going to report the facts of this latest study on statin drugs: Statins Associated with Significant Increase in Diabetes Risk 1. In the study population (approximately 153,000 post-menopausal women), there was a 48 percent

Hart Matthewshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13506056179041055052noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6457403047452582844.post-82389633014630992742011-12-27T15:35:00.003-05:002012-02-01T10:09:14.100-05:00

February 3-4 in Chapel Hill, North Carolina. See the seminar page for full details!

Hart Matthewshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13506056179041055052noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6457403047452582844.post-92179254212267049022011-12-03T13:37:00.001-05:002012-02-01T10:09:48.936-05:00

This is a New York Times story about Ambien, the sleep aid, being used to wake people in persistent vegetative states: A Drug That Wakes the Near Dead Knowing what we know about Ambien and the symptoms it causes when taken in pill form, it seems clear that this chemical is homeopathic to the vegetative state described in the article. That is, the drug take in pill form produces a state of near

Hart Matthewshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13506056179041055052noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6457403047452582844.post-42650304481651998332010-12-06T16:29:00.000-05:002010-12-06T16:29:46.888-05:00

The highest ideal of therapy is to restore health rapidly, gently, permanently; to remove and destroy the whole disease in the shortest, surest, least harmful way, according to clearly comprehensible principles.- Aphorism 2, Dr. Samuel Hahnemann, Organon of Medicine, 6th ed., Kunzli et al, trans.There isn't much to object to in this second paragraph of the Organon. But there are a couple of

Hart Matthewshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13506056179041055052noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6457403047452582844.post-67066937786914372362010-10-20T09:50:00.011-04:002010-10-20T09:58:02.802-04:00

Let's now skip over Hahnemann’s next provocative statement of medical generality to answer the question left open by the last post. Hahnemann says we shouldn’t theorize as to the complex internal mechanisms of the body or use our incomplete biochemical knowledge to treat people. So, where should we go to understand someone's illness? If not to lab tests, where? Where is that information we need

Hart Matthewshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13506056179041055052noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6457403047452582844.post-29668228294472475052010-10-12T12:18:00.006-04:002010-10-20T10:09:57.488-04:00

The physician’s highest calling, his only calling, is to make sick people healthy -- to heal, as it is termed.- Aphorism 1, Organon of Medicine [Kunzli, trans.]In the footnote to this first paragraph of his Organon of Medicine, Dr. Samuel Hahnemann goes on to say: We don’t need speculations as to the inner workings of the body, we will never understand every subtlety of the human organism, we don

Hart Matthewshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13506056179041055052noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6457403047452582844.post-71195728478556854312010-10-07T10:29:00.005-04:002010-10-12T17:34:16.122-04:00

The physician’s highest calling, his only calling, is to make sick people healthy -- to heal, as it is termed.- Aphorism 1, Organon of Medicine [Kunzli, trans.] With this opening shot, Dr. Samuel Hahnemann begins his treatise on the healing art. It may not seem like a critical statement at first, and many of his contemporaries probably thought nothing of it. But in a footnote Hahnemann goes on to

Hart Matthewshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13506056179041055052noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6457403047452582844.post-72641755719148697202010-10-05T20:35:00.005-04:002010-10-13T21:01:19.406-04:00

Published in the journal, Nutrition, this month, a critique of the latest dietary recommendations from the U.S. government: http://www.nutritionjrnl.com/article/PIIS0899900710002893/fulltext From the abstract: The initial Dietary Goals for Americans (1977) proposed increases in carbohydrate intake and decreases in fat, saturated fat, cholesterol, and salt consumption that are carried further

Hart Matthewshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13506056179041055052noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6457403047452582844.post-52717198816150449272010-09-29T15:02:00.008-04:002010-09-29T15:39:44.922-04:00

If you read the last post, you may have wondered at my description of arsenic poisoning and its similarity to some cases of the flu. Rather than just giving the physical symptoms you would suffer if you ate arsenic, I also talked about how you would feel (scared to death), about what types of pain you would experience (burning) and what time of the day you'd feel worst (after midnight). These

Hart Matthewshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13506056179041055052noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6457403047452582844.post-36273710912948759562010-09-23T18:17:00.001-04:002010-09-29T15:36:51.638-04:00

The founder of homeopathy, Dr. Samuel Hahnemann, begins his treatise on medicine, health and homeopathy in general terms. He holds off on proposing a complete overhaul of healthcare practices until later in the Organon of Medicine. Instead, he begins at the beginning, by defining good medicine and then aiming a blowtorch at his contemporaries who didn't practice it. We'll get to those sections

Hart Matthewshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13506056179041055052noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6457403047452582844.post-7603557856994238832010-09-22T10:03:00.001-04:002010-09-22T10:09:04.474-04:00

A new client asked me recently where was a good place to get a basic theoretical understanding of homeopathy. He was asking about online resources, and for a minute I was stumped. Several books came to mind, but all the websites I thought of were either designed for the homeopathic student, the home prescriber or the anti-medical enthusiast. People often say the theory of homeopathy is confusing

Hart Matthewshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13506056179041055052noreply@blogger.com1