Medorrhinum
TALKS ON CLASSICAL
HOMOEOPATHY
GEORGE VITHOULKAS
George Vithoulkas: I shall give you the keys to see Med.
Med. is also indicated in between treatments as the case unravels. Sometimes it
reaches Med. or it may start with Med. Either the sycotic miasm is fully on the
surface or it is the second or third layer down. So it is a remedy that you
should understand very well. There are points that you cannot miss it with, if
you will remember them.
In seeing so many
Medorrhinums., I have seen mostly two types: there is a kind of polarity
present there. But before we go into the types, I think I can describe the
children and how you may see it in the children. They look as if they are not
well fed, as if there is a kind of trace of looking old there. Usually these
children are difficult to manage. They are not as difficult as Cham. or Cina.
or Calc-p., but they are still difficult to manage. They seem not to know what
they want. They seem to go into fits of anger and passions. Many times they
will show a hardness which is not usual with a child. Where other children will
show an over-sensitivity - a kind of unnatural over-sensitivity - which means
that they may not care about their parents or their brothers and sisters, but
they will care for their dogs very much.
There is a great
attachment to their dogs. This is probably due to a sensitivity with which they
were born and a kind of shock which they have received during their life. Then
they withdraw from the people and from the family. They attach and express
their feelings through loving their animals.
Question: Would you
see that with Nat-m. too?
George: Maybe, yes.
But not to the extreme that we see in Med. Also you will not find the hardness
towards animals which a Med. will show, and yet as they grow up there may be
somebody who goes from one extreme to the other. It comes like a sort of
madness inside them and they can harm the animals and be very hard. They can be
very insensitive, whereas at other times they can be extremely sensitive,
crying and being exhalted with seeing a flower. These polarities - the hard and
the soft, the insensitive and the very sensitive, the male and the female - one
is very male-like and macho. This is typical of Med. Lots of sex, and you will
see most of the Med. types going towards this direction.
Yet the other element
which is inside them comes and blends together with the feminine and takes over
the organism. Then the person will go towards homosexuality and becomes a very
feminine type of man.
As Med. progresses in
pathology, he starts having a weakened memory. He will start a phrase to say
something and in the middle of the sentence he will forget what he is saying.
He performs exactly as I have demonstrated here. Med. did not help me.
(Laughter)
Question: Is this
mostly a male remedy?
George: Mostly a
male, but quite a lot in females.
Question: Could this
also happen with feminine homosexuality?
George: Oh yes,
definitely. And it is a homosexuality which is not acquired. Some are born
homosexuals and they don't want to talk about it at all because they don't want
to change it. There are others who are suffering a lot mostly through
over-indulgence in sex. They have not been able to stimulate themselves in sex,
and eventually they go into homosexuality and this is an acquired homosexuality.
In Med. are mostly the deep types of homosexuality. These are born. It is from
the miasm going from generation to generation.
Question: Is this the
person who knows right from the very beginning that they are different? A man
who knows that he is feminine?
George: Yes. They
want this type of sex.
Question: Are they
frequently of the type who would try to change their sex through an operation.
George: Yes. Of
course, this will not be only Med. Our drugs have this, especially on the
sexual level, and that will be Plat. Strangely enough, Puls., with its feminine
type organism makes a male homosexual; but in Puls., the male will usually say,
"I have the idea and I have the fear that I am homosexual." They may
not have had any experience, but the fear is there. So you see it is a much
lighter situation than in Med. So in Puls. there is the fear of being
homosexual. I have seen this for instance in very crude people. The builders in
Greece have the heaviest jobs. They are the tallest. Or they will work with
concrete. Those that carry concrete to the buildings are the most muscular type
and the most crude or primitive. Yet you may get a Puls. and in this type of
man they will say, "I have the fear that I am homosexual." It is a
deep down fear and this fear can drive them so much that they may try to have
an experience. You see how much lighter is the homosexuality in Puls. In Med.
it is deep.
Question: So he is
the assertive homosexual. He would be the male?
George: Not
necessarily. He can be passive also.
There is a feminine,
soft part to Med. But in this femininity you may not see it as blending and
causing a homosexual to appear. You may see it as a great supersensitivity. The
person goes around and I will describe to you a Med. man who wakes up in the
morning. He is not feeling well. He is having all kind of pains and he is lazy
and his mind does not work and he goes to the office and his mind still does
not work. He tries to concentrate and he cannot. His mind always goes off to
sex.
As the time goes by,
and the evening comes, it seems that this man who was weak and dull during the
day suddenly attains a kind of concreteness and wholeness. They come into
themselves and they can concentrate better. They can work much faster. They
generally are the men and women of the night. Night is their living time. In
students, people of that age, they are very mischievous.
They go to the
university all day long and just look for a woman. The teacher will teach, but
they will be thinking of a woman. Forget about what the teacher is saying. They
are full of mischief. They are so driven by sex urge that they will usually
have illegal sexual affairs. There is a married woman and then a man may be
married or not married, and they will have a love affair. The instinct is so
deep and driving that they cannot. help it. The strange thing is that they will
enjoy something which is illegal or illicit. There is just the sense of being
mischievous inside. They go towards excesses.
Question: This is
both the heterosexual and the homosexual?
George: Yes,
excesses. The whole idea of excess is running through the picture of Med.
They will have
catarrh of excessive nature and sinusitis and ..... The discharge in general
are excessive. The feelings are excessive. The growths - tumours grow quickly.
And you will see the idea of excesses behind the Med. patient. It is
interesting how we see the gonorrhoea miasm go through from generation to
generation. I had a case .... It is interesting in looking back through the camera
at myself. Restlessness and many other things. I have taken it and ...
(Laughter). A nice idea about myself. We tend to do all this and if you study
the materia medica, you will take every medicine under the sun. It is difficult
to understand.
Question: That hasn't
hurt you any, has it?
George: May be. I
forget words easily. I don't know if it is because of the Med. I took or
because of my natural deterioration.
Now we are going
through from the next generation. We see cases, for instance, where there is a
constant, very disturbing headache in a woman which is not ameliorated by any
kind of medicine which she has been taking. So you take a case and you see
traces of Med. in her. I remember such a case with the daughter of a high judge
in Athens. He brought the daughter in. I was taking the case and he would watch
her very seriously. She was eighteen. How can I ask him in front of the
daughter whether or not he had had gonorrhoea? So I said that I wanted to ask
him something and that we could go into the next room. We went into the next
room and I said, "Did you have gonorrhoea before you were married?"
"Who did not?" was what he answered. I said I did not (Laughter). Of
course with Med. they have headaches that are beautifully affected. But then he
had another daughter with the same symptoms. In one daughter they came out as
deep-rooted headaches. The other daughter had this appearance of a child who
has not been well fed with a fixed idea that she was fat. She was thinner than
Sep. or Laur.
Question: Did she
have anorexia?
George: No, no
anorexia. It was a fixed idea that she was fat and she had to keep thin. I
believe that she was quite ill mentally by this time. She was wasting. She had
this idea in her head that the skin was not healthy. I tried different drugs. I
gave Sil., Calc., because I believed that she was putting on weight very
easily, etc. These did not work until we gave Med. You see the idea of the
miasm running through the family because the father had not been evaluated enough.
In this case, because there were certain symptomatologies that would lead to
Sil. first, then Calc., and then to a third remedy before I gave Med. I don't
remember now what led me to Med. It must have been one keynote together with
the history which I knew from the sister.
Eventually because of
that incident of headache, the whole family became homoeopathic. They saw in
one month that the headache had disappeared and did not come back. Eventually
the whole family came. This gonorrhoea which was treated, led to this. He said
to me, "Does gonorrhoea have anything to do with this?" I said,
"No." You never say that because the father had gonorrhoea now your
child is suffering, because then you may create a great problem in the family
or in the mind of the father. But you have to have the information.
Now back to the
pathology on the mental level: He forgets words and sentences as he talks. He
stops. He does not know what he was talking about. May be he will make a strong
statement just because he is very frustrated and he does not know what to say.
He will say something and you will feel that it is queer because he has started
this way and then has switched to another way. If you attend carefully to what
he says, you will understand that. There is a gap in his talking.
There is another
peculiar thing with the memory. There is something which happened yesterday and
he had the impression that it happened one or two weeks ago.
Question: Something
that happened a long time ago?
George: Yes, something
that happened yesterday he thinks happened a long time ago.
Question: Could you
give us an example? I am not really quite clear what you mean about his
starting a sentence one way and then changing to another.
George: Yes. He wants
to say that last week he had been going to Monterio to do something and he
would say, "Last week I went to San Fransisco." What he started to
say was quite different from what he came up with. There is a gap. Everybody
has that, yes? It must be strong. It is not just one symptom. You will see many
keynotes in Med.
Question: Are you
saying, George, that he just finishes a sentence with something that may not be
related?
George: With
something. He does not want to make himself appear as a fool and he does not
want to show that his mind has become completely blank. He tries to cover it
up.
Question: Will there
be a pause?
George: Yes, there
will be a slight pause, of course. If you are taking his case, he will give you
the information. He will tell you. He will want to cover it up and will do that
by completing the sentence with something else altogether.
He knows that it was
not really what he wanted to say, but he had lost it completely. He understands
that his mind is breaking down. He does not want to show it.
Med. cases are not
very open people at all. They are very closed unless you get the highly
sensitive type. Yet the very sensitive is not a closed-up person like Nat-m.
They are outgoing. They may not socialize easily, but when they are in
congenial company, they will express themselves and their emotions very much.
They go with a friend whom they like and they will be full of expression, these
sensitive types. They will be admiring nature and expressing their feelings,
but it is too much towards that direction.
That is usually the
type that overturns and gets mixed up and becomes a homosexual.
Question: What is the
difference between that type and Nat-m., who will also open up with close
friends?
George: Yes, Nat-m.
will open, but these people are much more expressive in Med. In Nat-m. it will
be difficult to express so easily a feeling of sentiment or emotions. Even with
a close friend. They may have a serious discussion, but they are more
intellectual. They will discuss whatever is far from real emotion. They will
avoid discussions that touch upon emotions. They can analyze and be very good
psychologists. They can analyze, and this is why Nat-m. people are the type to
whom others will go to confess and tell their problems. But he will never go
and tell his own. Not because he does it on a calculated basis, he just cannot
do it. "I cannot tell because they will feel that I am not as good as they
think." He simply cannot express emotions. Yet he can express ideas and he
can talk about ideas.
But even these
intellectual discussions a Nat-m. will not do if he is not in a familiar
society.
Question: Even the
ideas?
George: Even the
ideas. If he does not have a receptive person, a friend, with him, the Nat-m.
will tend to be isolated, by himself, and he will make great efforts to
socialize. Because they are intellectuals, they will think immediately,
"What now. I am talking nonsense about whether the weather is good or
not." They may be able to say that it is nice whether and things like that.
In the meantime they criticise themselves and say, "What kind of nonsense
are we now talking about?", and they will say, "What is your purpose
of coming here?" because it is so stupid. They look at people very
critically and then they become insensitive. There is a kind of insensitivity
towards others. Nat-m. is very sensitive, but you will get the kind where they
will be insensitive to others emotionally. They look from a detached point of
view at people. They don't understand what is going on inside you and so they
look on the surface of what is coming up. They do not look deeply. They do not
want to mix their feelings. In order to understand somebody, I must be open to
the feelings of that somebody, otherwise I cannot understand him.
Nat-m. people are
afraid that they will be hurt if they are open; therefore they don't understand
others so much. But if you go and tell a Nat-m., "I have a problem",
he will believe whatever he is told. Whatever comes out, a Nat-m. will believe
and show great detachment as far as the problem is concerned.
He can easily go
outside the problem and see a solution for the person. That is why you go to
them for advice. They don't get involved. I tell my problem, "I had a love
affair and now that girl has left me and I have given her all my love and now
she has completely rejected me and I feel this and that." Now the Nat-m.
will not sympathize. They will not mix their emotions with the emotions of the
other person. They see in a detached way and, therefore, they are able to advise
better.
A Nat-m. finds it
very difficult to see what is behind a man's feelings. They tend to be
idealistic people, but at a certain level they are insensitive to the extent
that they don't really feel the other person because they don't mix and go
inside the other person. They can handle a situation which is very difficult
because of that kind of detachment. They have done it because they were hurt,
may be as a young boy or an adult, or ....
This is different
from Med. Med. will be behind his emotions, if I may use that phrase. The
emotions will be vested by the whole of the emotions. In Nat-m. the person will
be behind his ideas. When he expresses an idea, he is altogether there. When he
expresses an emotion, he is behind it and expresses about one tenth of his
emotions. He may want to say that they are in love with somebody but they
cannot say it. For years they can love a person and they cannot say that they
love him. They think that they will make a fool of themselves. The Med. is emotional,
instinctively emotional in a way. He goes into love affairs and infatuations
with all of his being. They will tell you that they enjoy sex very much and
there are excesses in their life. This is prominent in Med.
Question: So this is
a remedy that on our scale of sensitivity would be ....
George: This can be
very much up and very much down. It is a remedy which goes to the extremes. You
have extremes. When the two extremes of male and female blend, you have a
homosexual. The born homosexual.
Question: What
happens if you give a homosexual the Med. then? Is there any particular change
in their orientation?
George: I have once
or twice seen a change in the homosexuality in Med. cases.
Response: Put it in
the water supply in San Fransisco. (Laughter)
There is a large
percentage of homosexuals in that town now.
George: The more you
understand Med., the more you will feel that it is needed. It is a sycosis that
has gone through from generation to generation which has brought about deep
distortions.
If you over-indulge
in sex, what you have is that pendulum swings to the other side and you have a
kind of neutrality and they cannot be aroused. That is the time when they can
go into homosexuality.
Question: Because of
the illegal or illicit nature of the actions?
George: Yes, Med. is
the man of the night. He lives in the night and in the dark. This dark element
is symbolic. It is within their nature to do illicit things as far as sex is
concerned. You will go into perversions. You are going to go into illicit love
affairs. Without morality behind it, he is demoralized and weakened.
Question: What is
happening in the S.F. community is that
it is no longer illicit. They are very open about it. So what would that do
with Med.?
George: I don't
believe that they feel it is not illicit. In the depth of their hearts, Med.
people go into fits of anger, fits of passion, fits of discharges. Everything
is excessive.
Question: Can you
describe how a Med. patient would react to a flower - a rose?
George: Yes. They are
so sensitive sometimes that they pass through a phase where there are roses and
they climb a fence to pick a rose, just for the pleasure of having it, and then
it withers. He has a kind of mania. It is something which is too much - beyond.
It is the excesses again. It is pathological.
We are people who
always want to find that which is normal and we want to use a rule for that. We
could say that everything which is moderate is best and so, therefore,
excessive eating becomes pathological, excessive loss of appetite is
pathological. We say that sex should be moderate. Those things which go into
extremes my create the genius or the schizophrenic.
I have seen children
brought in the office and you get the history that this child has been doing
fine until lately. She had been first in her class since primary school and
through secondary school. Then she went to college. Suddenly then they break
down. They cannot carry on any more. The excesses were there. The mind was working
in an excessive way. It is not always Med., but it is pathological. So in order
to keep up their balance these people need a special surrounding.
It is good that they
now create schools where the excessively intelligent people can go. These
people should not have any kind of stress and they should not compete. This
should be minimized because their natural tendency is to be over-active in
their minds, but it is pathological all the same.
Question: If you saw
someone and you thought that they were a Med. and you could not get any family
history of gonorrhoea, would that bother you?
George: No. We do
always get the primary gonorrhoeal discharge. Again these people have been
living such vital lives and they have done a lot of illicit things. You get a
man in the army, for instance. He goes through life having all of these illicit
affairs.
Then he retires. He
finds himself in a state where he cannot tolerate his inner guilty feelings any
longer. He will go into great anxiety and feelings of guilt. Then he will turn
into a religious fanatic. He will pray for the good of others and they will
have a lot of power. They will pray and they will see effects through their
prayers through this magnetism and vitality which they have. And yet you will see
that underneath this there is a pathology. They are extroverts and they do this
in front of people - they will pray in front of people. Yet you will see the
elements of Med. in them.
I remember such a
case. He was a General. This is exactly the type I was describing before. He
came to be treated for a chronic catarrh. He was having a post nasal catarrh
for the past three years and he has bothered because he would make snorting
sounds when he would try to clear his nose. These people are very very vital.
He was sixty eight-seventy years old and very vital. I thought he must have had
gonorrhoea and how was I going to ask him that. They are very religious people
and they do not like to remember what they have done in the past. So how are
you going to handle it? You have these post-nasal discharges but there are no
other keynotes on the case.
You always want to
confirm your diagnosis. What are you going to do and how are you going to ask?
If you ask him, "Have you ever had gonorrhoea?" He will say,
"No", because they are hypocritical. They try to hide what they have
done. He thinks in his mind, "What does my nose have to do with whether I
had gonorrhoea twenty-thirty years ago?" So he thinks that it does not
matter. So understanding that, I did something else. I said, "At what age
did you have gonorrhoea - twenty or twenty two maybe?" Of course, I was
taking a chance. But I was sure that about the character and knew that it was
Med. 100%. He said, "Around that." He got well on Med. and he came
after a year and a half or two years when he had a kind of relapse. He could
still remember the pressure that I put on him and he could never swallow it. He
said, "Why did you do that?" He wanted to make some trouble for me.
He said, "I have a relapse", and so he needed me again, otherwise he
would never have come back. So I knew what his past was. So he said this and
that about his nose running again. He said, "I have great esteem for you
and I believe in homoeopathy, but I have a complaint." I asked him what it
was. He said," The way that you asked me the first time I came to you
about gonorrhoea." I tried to excuse myself and said, "What did I
say?" Was I a prophet or something like that? So I told him that there
were symptoms which showed me absolutely clearly that he had had gonorrhoea and
I wanted just to confirm it and that the age at which he had had it was very
important. So then he asked if this had anything to do with his nose. I said,
"No, I just wanted past information and all that." He got his second
dose in 1972 or 1973 and he never came back.
Question: Was he
religious?
George: I don't know.
You see you cannot find out unless you know these people and follow them.
The family can
sometimes give you this information, but I believe that he was. I believe that
he would have become more balanced. There is that element "If I pray, it
is the end of the world and God is absolutely there." To tell me that so
easily showed an egotistical element which is very strong in Med. They are very
egotistical and authoritative with their family. Do you know how these
emotional people will behave if they are hurt? They may not talk to a member of
the family for a month. They have grudges inside themselves and they will
remember it after a month or two. You ask them to explain what is going on and
they will say this and that about themselves and that that is not right. They
will say, "I am right and you are wrong." Always they are right and
the others are wrong. That is a nexus in the egotistical element.
Question: Is Sulph.
that way too?
George: Quite
similar. Perhaps Sulph. is more so. I think that Kent gives both of them in
italics.
Question: From you,
we have three remedies which bear grudges - Nat-m., Sulph. and Med.
George: Yes, but the
one that really hears grudges is Nit-ac. They can remember that you hurt them
for as long as three years. Then you go and tell him that you are sorry and
that you hurt them and that you did not understand that at the time you hurt
them but this hatred which they feel inside cannot change. This is important to
remember in Nit-ac. They cannot change. Even if you confess and say hat you are
sorry that you hurt them, there is something that is inside which will not
allow them to forget. But not with Med., not at all. They will be okay. If you
just confess that you are wrong and that they are right, it is okay.
Question: With this
general you were talking about, for example, you are saying that as a Med. he
has some sense of guilt and some feeling of discomfort that was associated with
his past, and so he tried to atone for it by going to the other extreme of
becoming religious and pure? So he must know some place inside that that is
what he is doing. And so when you and your interview hit on that, it seems like
there is an element of recognition involved. So would not that in itself have
created an aggravation and a cure of curative response?
George: I don't think
so. There had been thirty years of post-nasal catarrh and that would not
change.
Response: I am not saying
that that relapses the remedy.
George: I felt that
this particular man did not understand something which was really an insight.
He was rather irritated by that and the way that I put the question, because I
let him no place to get out and to hide. I put him in a corner by the question.
He found himself in a corner and he did not like that. I was very serious about
question of, "What age did you have gonorrhoea, twenty or twenty two? I
did not laugh. I was absolutely sure and he was irritated and he kept that
grudge until two years later when he returned to my office.
You see there again
the element of ... you see there was a full catarrh for about ten days before
he cleared up. In two years' time, because he had taken some antibiotics for a
cold or something like that, the catarrh started again. If there is a kind of
information that you have given him and he now has it, then why does he
relapse? After antibiotics. You see it is a kind of balance of the whole
organism after the remedy, then it unbalances itself through antibiotics and
then he has relapse. I repeated Med. on him because he would not give any
information. He was a big guru of a Christian type and he was fanatical. This
was excessive.
Question: It is like
Oral Roberts? (Laughter)
George: These people
are doing good work, after all.
Question: Can you
explain to me the relationship between gonorrhoea and the sycotic miasm? Is
there a predisposition in a person who gets gonorrhoea and then develops
sycotic miasm or does everyone who gets gonorrhoea at some point have a sycotic
miasm? What is the relationship there?
George: Do you want
me to finish Med. first and then I will tell you?
Response: Yes.
George: You see, as
the mind breaks down, you go further into pathology. The memory breaks down,
there is anxiety and a sense of guilt which comes. There are excesses in
expressing emotions and especially on a sexual level. As the mind breaks down
slowly, the anxiety takes place more inside him. As the anxiety rises, his
sexual appetite starts going down. Then in the mind there is a kind of anxiety
in the sense that he is in a hurry. He wants to finish things quickly. This
hurried feeling is associated with stresses and eventually brings about a kind
of state of mind which is really a turbulence, like the sea. It is a violent
and wild state and distracted. They cannot concentrate. There is something wild
inside with a feeling of a storm inside the brain which does not allow them to
express their thoughts or feelings. They become sort of like Alum. That girl
did not show this element of excesses, but the way that she described her
symptoms could be Med. in the final stages. But she would say that there was a
hurried feeling inside the anxiety. I never have time enough to finish the work
I have to do. There is a tremendous hurried feeling. Anxiety, and then that
wild state of mind, and then the feeling that they are going to break down.
There is a fear of insanity. Just a little before that state, they will get
different fears. The main fear is that somebody is behind them and somebody
urges them to talk fast. These feelings or urges to walk fast I don't know if I
have mentioned it, are seen in Nat-c. They walk outside in the street, and they
feel as if somebody is telling them to walk fast. "Walk faster, walk
faster. And more fast." Until they are completely exhausted and they calm
down. But then it comes again.
Question: Are there
auditory hallucinations?
George: Almost. It is
not auditory yet. It is "as if" someone was telling them to do that.
That is another thing.
If you hear the voice
telling you something, it is very advanced state. It is a state where they feel
"as if" somebody is behind them. They go to wash in the basin and
feel that somebody is behind them, and they will turn to see. They will walk
down the street and as they walk, they hear nothing but they have the sense
that somebody is following them and they will turn around to look. And then
there is a fear of the dark in Med.
Question: Does Arg-n.
have that last symptom that you were describing? There is someone behind them
and they walk fast.
George: Yes, it is
different. That is another thing that I don't want to go into just now.
Question: The girl
yesterday felt persued. Is that different also?
George: Yes. When
there is fear and delusion - real delusion - that she is being pursued. They
believe it more and more and it is not a delusion any more ... or rather an
illusion becomes a delusion. I will finish Med. quickly. I shall give you the
keynotes.
Starting with the
child, this will go mostly through the lungs - asthma - joints and mucous
membranes, especially the upper respiratory tract. You will see big discharges.
You will see inflammations in the joints. This is in children. They will have
asthma which is worse at 2 a.m. You may
confuse them with Kali-c. In their stomach, they will get an aggravation at 2
o'clock in the morning. It is Med. It is also Ars. and Kali-c., but it is also
Med. Now these children, whether they have respiratory troubles or not, they
will sleep in the knee-elbow position. This position will relieve their
suffering as well. Asthmatic breathing becomes better in the knee-elbow
position. This is a keynote which you may also see in grown-ups. It is
interesting that I have seen children changing their positions from normal to
that after a vaccination. And there you need Med. You know, between the
small-pox vaccination and Thuj. and how Thuj. will antidote the small-pox
vaccination, and how the vaccination is considered as a sycotic trait miasm by
Burnett and others. Now I have seen children change their position of sleep
after a small-pox vaccination.
Question: Other
vaccinations also?
George: No, in a
small-pox only.
Question: I had a
patient who had asthma and she was lying like this all night long. Only in this
position.
George: What did you
give her? Med.
Response: No, I did
not. I gave her Calc. for other reasons. It helped her some, but it did not do
enough. Is that close?
George: May be. If
that strikes you, then tell them to examine their position during the night
when they wake up. Then you can prescribe the remedy. Of course, it might be a
similar position. I don't know the dynamics of that position. May be dynamics
are more or less the same with that position.
The time of
amelioration is after sun-set. They obtain relief and feel better
psychologically, emotionally, mentally, and physically.
Question: Are you
talking about just children now, or are you talking about everybody?
George: Everybody.
Again, a great keynote is the sensitivity of the soles. It is so tremendous
that they cannot step. This great sensitivity may tip you on the Med. side. The
entire sole.
Question: It is not
like a neuroma situation then?
George: Especially
the heels. No, not like a neuroma. Not when you have a spur. They will be very
sensitive and eventually it develops that they cannot walk anymore. It is very
SENSITIVE. Sil. is also sensitive and Calc-f., Calc-p., Sulph., but the whole
sole is involved. Then the entire foot gets very warm and they will stick their
feet out from the covers the same as Sulph. will do. The position of the grown
up in sleep is usually lying in the face. There is a cough which is ameliorated
if one lies on his face and they usually will need Med. Yet when they cough,
they will cough inside the pillow and then the cough subsides. Sleeping on the
abdomen is their natural position, and the greatest relief is in the knee-elbow
position, and coughing is relieved by lying on their face in the pillow.
Question: Their feet
stick out because the sensitivity is to the covers or because they are hot?
George: They are hot.
If it is because of sensitivity to the covers, it is Lac-c. or Lach. There is
an amelioration with the sea. And in 95% there will be amelioration by the sea
and in 2% it is aggravated by the sea.
Question: Does the
description mean right down on the beach?
George: Down on the
beach or inside the sea. The salt effects actually.
Question: So, New
York City would not count?
George: No. Not even
here where we are sitting near the ocean. They go down near the water and when
they come back everything is gone. There are no pains and they feel great.
Question: Do you have
any idea why that is so?
George: No. When you
see the combination in their desires related to salt, it will be underlined
twice or three times, desires sweets will be underlined twice, desires fat will
be underlined twice and desires ice is only Med. They will take cubes of ice
and put them in their mouth.
Response: I had a
patient one time who was breaking her teeth because she was chewing ice so
much. I gave her Med. with relief.
Question: But is this
ice water or ice?
George: They like ice
water, yes, but the characteristic is ice cubes.
Question: Also, do
you ever see them with an aversion to fat or only desire?
George: Sometimes
aversion, yes, but mostly desire for fat. When you see this combination, you
know that it is only Med.
Question: Do they
enjoy crunching other things besides ice?
George: No. Another
thing you must not forget, because of the excesses in sexuality, you will find
masturbation. In grown ups you will find a lot of Med. He will do it to relieve
himself because of the excess need. But soon he will have a relationship and it
will stop. It is not the sensitive person who is closed up, such as Staph. and
Plat., who has become introverted.
Question: You say
that it is to relieve what?
George: The excessive
hormonal imbalance in their body creates a tremendous urge for sex. Another
thing for the babies, the urine seems to be acid and it creates a kind of
eruption around the genitals and the perineum as well as in the gluteal
regions. The whole area is red.
Response: We call it
"diaper rash."
George: Yes, in a
predisposition to Med., there is this type of urine and then there is this
eruption.
Question: Is it not
the yeast?
Response: Most
commonly, a lot of kinds get very bright rashes from monilia - the yeast.
George: I don't know
what you are describing when you say yeast.
Response: It is a
fungus infection that is very common in children and they get a very bright red
rash - very bright - and it spreads.
George: But it has to
be in that particular place, around the anus, the genitals.
Response: It is
common though.
George: Common?
Response: Yes.
George: It may be as
common as Med. (Laughter)
Response: It is
easily suppressed too. This is not with Cortisone but with anti-fungal
medication.
George: May be you
have something different here which I don't see so frequently. What I see does
not go away so easily. So this may be a more intense type. You could try Med.
in those cases if you see this intensity. It is very bad. It stays in that
particular area. It makes the child cry and very uncomfortable.
Question: So in a
rash like that on a baby, if you were to use Med. you would use it in a low
potency? If it is strictly a physical thing and there is no history of
gonorrhoea?
George: Yes. Also, WE
MUST BE CAREFUL WITH MED. IN CARDIAC CASES. Don't give it higher than 200,
ever. If you give it in a higher potency, it goes deep into the system and
creates a big aggravation. Give 30 and at the most, the very most, 200.
Question: What might
happen?
George: You may see a
great aggravation, the heart pumping faster, a lot of pain. You will need a lot
of knowledge to bring him around after this aggravation.
Question: Do women
show the same picture as men?
George: Yes, the
same. Med. IS BASICALLY AN EXTROVERT. You are not going to confuse it with
introverted remedies. It is interesting to see how this extroversion is
relieved by discharges. Discharges of any kind.
Question: Including
emotional?
George: Yes,
including emotional, when he is expressing himself. Med. will go from the
mucous membranes to joints and then to the heart. You don't see the acute
rheumatic heart any more?
Response: It is very
rare. That used to be in the 30's and 40's.
Question: Where do
the lungs fit into that picture?
George: The mucous
membranes. It will mostly involve the upper respiratory tract and you will
sometimes get asthma. But mostly it will be a sinusitis and post-nasal
discharge.
Another thing that is
very characteristic of Med. is a kind of mucus in the throat and when you try
to reach it with coughing, you cannot. There is a sense of mucus stuck there
which you cannot reach to bring up. Another keynote is the desire for oranges.
There is a TREMENDOUS desire for oranges. It is a keynote and they will say,
"I can eat 30 oranges."
Question: That is
pretty common in Greece, they have a lot of good oranges there.
George: Yes, during a
certain period.
Question: Green
apples too?
George: That is
almost characteristic. GREEN UNRIPE FRUITS. They delight in eating absolutely
green fruits - unripe ones. We will never finish with Med. You will have to
study it in the books.
Question: Which
books?
George: All of them -
Kent, Clarke all of the information for guiding symptoms and the materia
medica. For me, if you really want to study, do it with Kent. He gives you most
of the essentials. You see, I produce the most essential things out of my
experiences and give you that. Then you can work with the books and what has
been said in the past.
Question: Is there a
predisposition for sycosis?
George: Do you want
to hear?
Response: Kent wrote
about that. He said that there are two types of gonorrhoea.
George: Two types of
gonorrhoea. I know about that. That is not the issue that I am going to
discuss. I will give you certain other information about the predisposition to
sycosis. This predisposition to
sycosis has been created initially by
gonorrhoea, of which we have two types: the one type is the chronic sort of
condition and the other is acute and does not do anything. It can be treated
with Penicillin or it will go out by itself if you leave it alone.
But the chronic
gonorrhoea will produce a secondary condition, usually with warts. This is the
less harmful stage. Excrescenses - tumours and warts. There is an idea of tumours
projected on the skin. If that is suppressed, it will go into the mucous
membranes, usually of the upper respiratory tract. If that is suppressed, it
can go to asthma. Or you can suppress gonorrhoea and it will go straight to the
joints. It will cause inflammation of the joints - what we call monoarticular
arthritis.
Question: Are you
talking about from gonorrhoea?
George: From
gonorrhoea, yes. Or you may have a polyarthiritis. If you suppress from there,
there will be an effect on the heart. Say now that a father had gonorrhoea and
was treated suppressively. Then he has a child. The mother is healthy. This
child most probably will be very prone to gonorrhoea. Out of five men who have
been with a woman, he will be the one to get gonorrhoea. That is the
predisposition.
So if there is a
father who has had gonorrhoea and the mother has had a sycotic miasm, or has a
miasm through her father, there will be a lot of sycosis in the family. The
child will sometimes be born with cancer - a tumour which develops in the deep
organs quickly. It might be that the child has cancer or it will be mentally
ill, or it will have a severe chronic condition. Now this child has intercourse
with a person who has gonorrhoea. The child will not get it. Why? Because of
the gonorrhoea of the parents, which has appeared now in that child. The second
stage of gonorrhoea - the gonorrhoea miasm - protects the child from the first
stage.
Then there is a case
where the father is healthy and the mother is healthy, without a predisposition
to gonorrhoea. The child is considerably healthy, but if it goes and gets
contact with gonorrhoea, it will get it only after a lot of exposure.
Question: Can get the
gonorrhoea or the miasm?
George: Because the
child's health is in a high condition, that prevents a predisposition to
gonorrhoea. But if he exposes himself repeatedly and at the same time stresses
his body, his health eventually will weaken and he will get gonorrhoea.
It is the same thing
that happened to me with Rhus-t. Why do I know that I cannot get the Rhus-t.
poisoning? Because I do not have the predisposition. I have taken Rhus-t.
myself and it has helped me, therefore, I do not have this predisposition. So I
go and scratch myself with this and nothing happens. But if I keep on doing it
and exposing myself, eventually I shall also get it, I am healthy towards
Rhus-t.
Question: Can you
determine whether or not you would get the acute or the chronic gonorrhoea?
George: What
determines that is the other person.
If the other person
has the secondary gonorrhoea, you get the secondary gonorrhoea. If the other
person has the primary, you will get the primary gonorrhoea.
In this case, where
it is very positive - extreme - this child who is born is very much predisposed
to get the gonorrhoea miasm. This child then comes with a woman who is having a
lot of vaginal discharge, chronic conditions of the ovaries, or kidney
infections. That is the stage where he will get urinary infections.
Also if there is a
woman who has a great disposition, who comes into contact with a man who had
gonorrhoea ten years ago, she will get the acute, inflammatory stage of
gonorrhoea. This predisposes her to inflammations of the uterus, salpinx or the
ovaries.
Question: Even though
she no longer has it.
George: Yes. It has
been suppressed. It is interesting to see then. The husband here has gonorrhoea
and the woman is the child with the predisposition. She will say, "After I
married, I was prone to cystitis." Or she will say, "Sometimes I have
nephritis", or, "I have problems with my genitalia."
Then the first remedy
that we have to think of is Med. Especially if you know that the husband had
gonorrhoea.
Question: What
transmits it?
George: I don't know.
The fact remains that the woman has said, "After I married I had cystitis
all the time." You will get this history if you look and have enough
patience. You will get this history quite frequently.
Question: This is the
wife of the man who has himself had gonorrhoea?
George: This is the
wife with the father of the child who had gonorrhoea and the mother was
healthy, so she took the predisposition without having any symptoms. She was
born as a healthy child, but with a predisposition towards gonorrhoea. But she
is quite healthy. She is less healthy than the mother, but more healthy than
the father.
Question: What about
the mother? Is she going to have a miasm because of her ...
George: Yes, she is
going to develop it most probably. Now this is the mother who comes from number
three case. Okay. The healthy mother comes from number three. The number 3
produces a child who is healthy and who has a predisposition towards disease.
So this mother will
not get it from the father, because she is a healthy mother, without a predisposition
for gonorrhoea. She will not get anything from the father easily. So that means
that after marrying and having a child, the first child will be more healthy
than the second or the third, because by then there will have been three or
four of five years of exposure to this man. She may be healthy enough not to be
affected, also.
Actually if we go, we
may say that the person who gets gonorrhoea is more healthy than one who does
not unless the one who did not, is in excellent condition. But that is very
seldom. These healthy conditions these days almost don't exist.
Question: So this
person would get symptoms on a more secondary level? such as urethritis?
George: This one will
get the urethritis and discharge. The one with a great predisposition will
immediately take the first stage. He will also get the second stage, but not
the urethritis. He may get deeper infections. This time he is predisposed to
any stage of gonorrhoea.
Question: Why would
he be healthier than the one who does not have it?
George: The father
and mother had gonorrhoea. The child is born with severe chronic disorders
which protect him from the initial stage. This is negative to the initial stage
of gonorrhoea.
Question: If the
father has not had gonorrhoea himself, but is the child of one or two, does he
also transmit this to his wife?
George: This child
here will not transmit.
Question: What about
the one in number one?
George: The number
one will not transmit. He will not transmit it to the other person, but he will
transmit it to the children. If this gonorrhoeal type is married to a person of
this group he will have the first case. If that is married with a person of
that group, they will have a child with a very severe condition, with a less
severe gonorrhoeal predisposition. That is how the miasms are ... that is why
you sometimes see a person who will say to you ... like sailors who will go to
a specific woman. So they come back and one of them has gonorrhoea. It does not
mean that the others are too healthy that they do not get it. They might have
been too sick to get it.
Question: But doesn't
it still weaken their health?
George: Not
necessarily.
Question: How is it
that the child in case two will not cause any problems than as one? So that he
won't transmit it to the one?
George: He will not
transmit because it is a mental case. This case we saw yesterday, she cannot
transmit any of the sycotic miasm which she has to a partner. She will transmit
everything to the child. But you have to have the initial discharge in a person
at any stage in order to transmit it. Once the generation has gone past ... for
instance, I had gonorrhoea and my child now has it, he will not transmit it to
a partner, but I can transmit to anybody that I come in contact with according
to their predispositions. The more the predisposition is there, the more I can
transmit. I believe that the predisposition has to be very high in order to
transmit secondary or tertiary stages of gonorrhoea. The predisposition must be
very high. This man must have had a lot of predisposition in his parents for
gonorrhoea because he got it immediately. Then he gives it to the child, and
the child can get it immediately.
Question: In case
one, the way the father could transmit to the mother would be only on a stage
of having the active discharge?
George: Yes.
Question: Or having
had it suppressed?
George: Yes.
Response: I don't
understand that. If he had it suppressed and he did not have the discharge, how
is it that he transmits it, whereas case two won't transmit it?
George: I don't know.
This is what we see in the clinics. When the man is married and has no
discharge at all, but once he marries the woman and the woman starts having
troubles. Then you give Med. to the woman and everything goes away.
Question: He sexually
transmitted it to his wife. Why do you suppose it is so powerful?
George: Because they
come in contact very much with the mucous membranes. The skin is a very
protective covering for the body. If I was to eat that poison oak and let it
come in contact with my mucous membranes, I believe that I would get it, I
don't dare do that. There is a big difference: when I put it on my skin,
nothing happens, but I touch it to my mucous membranes and I break out.
Response: The Indians
eat the buds in the early spring to immunize themselves.
Question: When you
talk about the predisposition and the initial discharge, does that mean a
difference whether it is in acute or chronic gonorrhoea? Is that predisposition
towards one or the other or just any gonorrhoeal discharge?
In the children of
any of those families, do they have that predisposition towards a sycotic miasm
or just towards gonorrhoea itself.
George: You see, when
we say sycotic miasm, we actually mean a set of symptomatology which has
developed from the initial discharge, but now has nothing to do with that. So
the sycotic miasm is not transmitted as symptomatology - like picture from one
to the other. We may have two generations and we will see sycotic miasm in
children.
Question: That was
not the point of my question. When the predisposition is towards getting acute
gonorrhoea or the chronic form of gonorrhoea, is there a difference?
George: If that child
comes in contact with a person who has an acute condition or the acute
suppression in the secondary stage, they will get it. But if the child comes in
contact with this, it will not get anything.
Response: That is
clear, but it is not clear whether they get the twenty days type that is then
gone or whether it will be a chronic type.
George: We are
talking about chronic. We are talking about that type of gonorrhoea which has
an effect which is secondary and produces warts.
Question: Is there
any difference in a predisposition toward the acute gonorrhoea?
George: I don't know.
Question: Do we even
know that it exists?
George: Yes, it does.
You will see gonorrhoea which has had no effect on the person. It is in acute
gonorrhoea and then it has gone.
Question: And it is
the gonorrhoea itself? It is not the health of the person that determines it?
George: No, it is the
gonorrhoea. After antibiotics it went away, and did not cause any
constitutional disturbance. So it is not a miasmatic type of gonorrhoea. It is
like you have an infection which lasts for twenty days and then it is gone.
Sometimes you get a history like that. They will say, "I got gonorrhoea
one or two times." Or you say, "Did you get gonorrhoea?" and he
says, "Yes, four times." Now if he had the chronic gonorrhoea the
first time, that gonorrhoea, being suppressed, would have protected him from
getting the initial discharge again. That means he got the type of gonorrhoea
which was curable and left him without immunization.
This is the same idea
as immunization here. That is why my argument is against vaccination. This
gonorrhoea man is immunized towards syphilis or gonorrhoea. He will not get it.
Why? Because now he is very sick. That is why he will not get syphilis or
gonorrhoea now. Syphilis is not seen a second time - very seldom. That means
that it was cured. It was a cure of syphilis. Then we have a second primary
infection. But if you don't get it the second time, even if you are exposed,
that means that you are constitutionally sick. That is why this sickness, which
is now in a second stage, prevents you from getting the first stage.
The same thing
happens with the vaccinations. We give it to the children which from now on
protects them from the acute stage. My point of argument is that - and I am
doing research on it and hope I shall be able to complete it - you know the
multiple sclerosis problem is quite severe, especially in European countries
and in America. So I have done a lot of studies concerning the real cause of
multiple sclerosis. Some have attributed this to the high intake of fat in the
diet. But some say that it is distributed geographically.
Take Israel. People
have gone to Israel primarily from Europe and America and the children were
vaccinated. In Israel the number is nine on 100,000 people. In Iraq, which is
right next to Israel, the number is nil. The people in Iraq have never had a
vaccination.
Or you go to South
Africa and you see eleven in 100,000, from the European based people, and nil
for the blacks, because they have never been immunized. It is so simple and
still they cannot see it. You go to the Arabic world where they have not had
special care in treatment and there is no multiple sclerosis. Then you get
people in researches and you see immediately when they have been vaccinated,
they have neurological disorders.
Question: Now they
say that multiple sclerosis comes from suppressed measles.
George: Yes, but they
don't think that by vaccination for measles they are producing more and more
multiple sclerosis.
Question: So now that
W.H. O. has discontinued small-pox in the world - small-box vaccinations - can
we look towards less?
George: It is not
only the small-pox. It is the Salk vaccination - all of these vaccinations
given an immunological response in the body which is more or less specialized.
So especially the vaccinations affect the nervous system and it is going to
cause much more damage. You will see in the future much more multiple
sclerosis.
Question: Are there
any more homoeo-therapeutic conclusions you can draw from this? How do you
treat these conditions?
George: Just on the
constitutional picture.
Question: So you
think the oral polio vaccine is bad?
George: Yes, the oral
polio.
Response: Then it all
ends up in the paper diapers. It comes out in the faeces.
George: It is a
different thing then when they inject it into the body, than when it is
circulating in the air. Here we have a forced injection. The body can do
nothing but have a reaction. According to the different reactions that a body
has towards the vaccination., we can determine whether he has the chronic
condition from the vaccination.
Question: Now I am
confused. You are saying that if it was injected there is more likelihood that
they will get the multiple sclerosis than if it is taken orally?
George: When it is
taken orally, it is also forced on the body.
If you are injecting
it, you are also forcing it on the body.
1st Response: What
they find in studies is if one of the siblings in the family takes the oral
vaccine, then it comes out through the stool and is transmitted, and that some
protection actually spreads to the other members of the family. So you are
saying that that also would predispose them to multiple sclerosis?
2nd Response: That
would be more of a natural protection. It would not be forced so much.
George: Yes, it is a
different thing when you have a natural situation. We are naturally protected
and our body is establishing defenses. Now I am here in California and I do not
live in my environment. I am sure that my body is bringing about defences in
order to counteract the climate, which is very wet here and I am not used to
it, to counteract with the atmospheric pressures and the surroundings, the
poison oak and other violent things which are around. My body is bringing
immunological responses, but within limits. Once you have a quantity of
exertion, you determine. You take so much and that is the point where you get
reactions.
Question: In other
words, if you are exposed to gonorrhoea and you get it and you are treated by
Penicillin and then you are exposed again and again you get it, that means that
you don't have the miasm. You are throwing it off?
George: Yes, until
such time as you are exposed and you don't get it, then you have had it.
Question: So the only
way that you knew that father had the miasm was because he said, "Who
hasn't had it?" You only supposed that he had the miasm because of the
symptoms in the daughter?
George: Yes, by
seeing Med. in a child, I can be sure that the father had it.
Question: Why not the
mother?
George: May be the
mother also.
Question: Or
small-pox vaccination instead of gonorrhoea.
George: Yes, they can
have the miasm. Small-pox definitely creates disturbances.
Question: So you
could produce a state of Med. symptomatology in the child from small-pox?
George: Yes, from
small-pox.
Question: Then
everybody has it.
George: Yes,
everybody. But it is according to the reaction that we had when we were
vaccinated that we determine how much effect it had on our body. A person who
does not have any predisposition towards vaccination, that means that if
vaccination was coming in the area, small-pox was coming as an epidemic in that
area, the people who will not get it have no predisposition at all. You
vaccinate the people, you will see no effect. Whether they took it or did not
take it, it has no effect. You will see others who have a big reaction with
fever and so forth. Their organism survives. Most probably these were good
reactions, but they are not vaccinated any more and they are predisposed to the
epidemic. That means that by the reaction in their body it took away all of the
effect of the vaccination and now they are predisposed to the epidemic if it
comes. They are not protected any more.
Question: The
interesting thing is to examine the allopathic literature. You can't say that
what George is saying is wrong by looking at the allopathic literature. I did
that, having a prejudice against what he was saying, and I could not prove from
an allopathic point of view to myself from the allopathic literature. They do
show, especially in India where they were doing widespread vaccinations, there
is a lot of data on that. There would be villages which were protected and they
would leave other villages unprotected, and the protection rates are about the
same in vaccinated versus non-vaccinated persons. And this is in adjacent
villages.
Question: Why does
small-pox not exist now?
George: Because of
the hygienic conditions under which we live and because we are too sick to get
it. If you have an epidemic coming in New York now, very few people are now
healthy enough to get it. We are too sick. We are protected. If we vaccinated
all of us, we are too ill to have a reaction from the vaccination and so they
will say that the vaccination did not "take" with us. Only a few will
get some reaction from small-pox vaccination now.
Response: I know
cases in Bangladesh, India, are they all too sick also? Because their hygienic
conditions are not so good.
George: Their hygiene
conditions are much better.
A second point of
view is that they come in waves during our history - tides. It will come back
if we lift up our health or live a little less hygienic, especially if your
general condition is raised. We will be more involved.
1st Response: There
seems to be a double bind involved.
2nd Response: One
thing that confirms is that they have extensive studies on non-reactors from
vaccinations. W.H. O. really homed in on that. How did they get them to react?
The vast majority something like 8% - of the ones of the study who did not
react the first time, it takes four-five times before they can get them to have
a reaction to the vaccination.
First Response: They
are wearing down their resistance to the vaccination.
Second Response:
Well, they are repeatedly exposing them to a toxin basically.
Question: So, if a
lack of reaction means that you are too well or too sick, what about a normal
sort of reaction?
George: There is the
other class of people who will react and after the vaccination they will have
what is called side-effects. Oh, I forgot to tell you that those people who
have a BIG reaction will be the ones who will get it in case of an epidemic.
They are predisposed.
Question: So the vaccine
does not make any difference at all.
George: The vaccine
does not make any difference, because if their health is in a condition to be
able to counteract the small-pox, if it was coming, they would have a reaction
and come out of the small-pox well. But there is another class where we have
the side-effects of a vaccination and that means they get a BIG reaction and go
into the encephalitis and nephiritis. These people would have died during the
epidemic. They are very much predisposed and they will experience it most
violently. They are extremely predisposed. They most healthy are the ones who
will react. Then also the most healthy are the ones who don't react at all. May
be it is because they are in a very good health that they do not react. Second
in health come those who react, they have a high fever for one-two days, and
then it is gone. The third is the case where they are vaccinated, having a big
reaction with many side-effects, and they will have problems for the rest of
their lives. Then there is a weak reaction which shows a predisposition there
which is not great, but the organism is not strong enough to throw it off,
therefore it is grafted for life. Those people will tell you that after the
vaccination they started with headaches, or asthma, or ....
Question: Are they too low now to get the small-pox?
George: No, they will
not get it. If the epidemic comes, the only people who will get it are those
who have big reactions and went through it. All of the other people will not get
it.
Question: Big local
reaction, not meningitis?
George: Big local
reaction. A reaction with fever and where you see the body is throwing away the
toxins.
Response: That's
survival of the fittest.
George: You should be
acquainted with all of these statistics. There are flu epidemics. There was a
very severe one in Spain in 1929 or 1930 which killed millions. It left the old
and sick people untouched. It left the mentally disordered untouched. It killed
all of the healthy people. Old people with cancer and tuberculosis were not
affected.
Question: Why do the
new epidemics usually hit the people who are old and sick? What can Med. do?
George: Med. can be
effective here in the very severe cases. Once this person gets gonorrhoea, you
can give Med. and it can be effective.
Question: So it can
stop this from happening?
George: It can
minimize it. The mother and father, treated correctly, will bring up a child
which is much better.
Question: But you
cannot just give Med. You must have symptoms.
George: Yes, you must
have symptoms of gonorrhoea. He might have symptoms of a Med. condition, or he
may need Nat-s. or Calc., or Sulph. or any of the other remedies.
Question: So any
remedy can remove a sycotic miasm?
George: Almost. You
cannot say that any remedy can do that. There are certain remedies which affect
the sycotic condition more, others towards the syphilitic condition, but in
cases of a gonorrhoea, for instance, Merc. which is syphilitic, can be
indicated.
Question: Does this
pattern you are describing also apply to the syphilitic miasm sustained
mechanism? It is not just gonorrhoea that we are talking about?
George: Yes, I also
believe that it applies to cancer and tuberculosis also. What I say are all my
ideas. You will not find them in any book. But there are things which have
given me these ideas - certain facts and pictures.
Response: You should
hold off the publishing of these facts for a little while.
Question: You said
that Med. was effective over there. Well, there is a circle there. Med. was
effective there. Will that produce a sensitive offspring? Where you have a
minus over there, will that change the . . . .
George: Minus the
gonorrhoea discharge.
Question: He is
saying that if you give Med. to that person will they ...
George: Yes, yes,
yes. After Med. you may have ....
Question: Then they
get it if they are exposed?
George: Yes. One has
to have had a lot of experience to see clear-cut cases to be able to draw
conclusions. So I have a lot of information, but I don't know how reliable it
is so far about other remedies. These remedies which I am giving you are the
most common ones that I know best.
So sometimes I give
you information which may not be very different from what you already know. There
is a kind of an experiment going on. You take the information which you have
and then there is an element which is new which you have to incorporate into
the picture. I try to give it to you in a way that can make it alive for you. I
don't have information about all of the remedies in the materia medica. I wish
that I did have it. But there is some information about different remedies and
I have brought certain cases through which you can get an idea of the different
remedies, but yet it is not the complete picture. So what I have given you are
remedies which I knew quite well, more or less. Now if you want me to talk
about any other remedy, I will give you my experience.
Response: The ones
that you have had most experience with will probably be the ones that we will
use most often.
George: That is
right. But sometimes you have to resort to Kali-br. like yesterday, and this
remedy is not frequently indicated. There are remedies which I prescribed only
once in my lifetime so far. One time only. Sometimes you hit a constitutional
remedy on a person which is a very seldom indicated remedy and from that person
you can infer a lot but it is not enough. You should have another case and
another case, and see the common things which run through them.
