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Supplement to

The Art of Getting Well

Homeopathy for Arthritics: Western Medicine

or Homeopathy --

Which One is Real Science?

Sources are given in references.

Authors of contributions\quotations are alphabetically arranged;

major author, if any, is underlined.

Dr. Jacques Benveniste, Farrington, Sir Alexander Fleming,

Samuel Hahnemann, Hubbard, Dr. Edward Jenner, Kent, John D.

Rockefeller, Pierre Schmidt/Responsible editor/writer Luc De

Schepper, M.D., Ph.D., Lic.Ac., D.I. Hom

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Luc De Schepper, M.D., Ph.D., Lic.Ac., D.I. Hom

As an alternative practicing physician for the last 23 years, I

feel blessed that I “saw the light” at an early stage. Dissatisfied with

internal medicine which I viewed as routine, mostly technical work,

I embarked on the road to greater understanding after two years of

family medicine. Acupuncture was my first love and first introduc-

tion to homeopathy, since it was included in the 3 year acupuncture

course. In these last 23 years, numerous were my successes, and

yet, I feel myself thinking back on the failures that I encountered. If

anything, these unresolved cases were the major stimulant for fur-

ther studying and exploring alternative routes to health.

I remember one case vividly. I was still in the beginning of my

career. This sweet lady of 53 years old walked into my office with

her husband. It turned out that she was mute since experiencing a

sudden fright two months prior. One morning she was looking out

of the window, when she saw a funeral passing, with the husband of

her best friend walking behind the casket. This unexpected news,

the sudden internal storm aroused in this patient, provoked a sudden

muteness. She had not spoken since. The best professors and

healers gave up on her. I failed too. Fear and fright, related in

acupuncture to the Kidney and Adrenal organ can cause extensive

drainage of Vital Energy from this essential organ. In spite of my

regulating treatments in acupuncture, there was no response. How

much I wish she was walking through my door again! Aconite,

Opium or Gelsemium would certainly be considered, and I feel,

would have a reasonable chance of success. How much I regret not

knowing more about homeopathy at that time.

The road to these alternative healing arts was not an easy one.

Even at that time, colleagues scoffed at the “unscientific” approach of

acupuncture and homeopathy. Numerous were the laughs, cures

were dismissed as coincidences or doctors claimed that the patient’s

diagnosis was not correct in the first place (note that it was their

pathological diagnosis). In the United States, it seems that the situ-

ation is even worse. I don’t know about you, but I am tired of

hearing uninformed doctors speaking on TV and radio about the

totally unproved, unscientific healing method, homeopathy, or the

“big H” as they call it among them laughingly. This way of thinking

has affected enough lay people to stop them looking for help, once

allopathic medicine has given up on them. I invite all these people,

professionals and lay people alike, to read carefully the following

article and judge for themselves!

Allopathy Has No Law or Principles

It might come as a shock to most, but one needs only to study

the history of Allopathic medicine closely to discover that most find-

ings in modern medicine are really accidental, and not the result of

pure scientific thinking. Even when fortune dealt medicine such a

good hand, somehow scientists did not follow up with common

sense deductions that could have been built into laws and principles

useful for newer, scientific discoveries. Two examples will clarify

this. The first one was the dramatic discovery of Penicillin. One

morning, a bacteriologist comes to his laboratory and finds that “some-

thing,” which he later identifies as a mold, has settled in his culture

and has stopped the growth of his microorganisms. He carefully

records the result and immediately forgets about it. Only after many

more years, after similar experiences, Sir Alexander Fleming did

something about it and these accidents resulted in the new, much

heralded field of antibiotics. The second example was the introduc-

tion of the small-pox vaccination by Dr. Edward Jenner in 1796, a

country doctor with a sound mind. Cow-pox, so much resembling

small-pox, proved to be effective against the dreaded disease and the

world of vaccination was born. Alas! No further deductions were

made from this accidental success. Yet Hahnemann expresses in the

6th Edition of the Organon

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so well the laws of similars and

dissimilars:

Two similar diseases cannot, like two dissimilar diseases, re-

pel each other, suspend each other or complicate each other. On the

contrary, of two diseases similar in symptoms, when appearing in

the same individual, the stronger will permanently overcome the

weaker.”

What an opportunity missed for allopathic medicine! It would

have been the opening step to the acceptance of the law of similars,

our homeopathic gem. This is as close as modern medicine comes to

homeopathy, although later numerous homeopathic remedies, such

as Sulphur, China, Mercury, Colchicine, Argentum Nitricum, Digi-

talis, Selenium, Fluoric Acid, . . . were taken from our Materia

Medica

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and in the common allopathic fashion, given in large doses

with often negative results. Fear of thinking, or inability to think,

possibly both, prevent the medical profession from proceeding from

the purely fact-finding stage of empiricism to the stage where useful

generalizations lead to the improvements in the field of science.

Science must be defined as the faculty to predict, inasmuch as

scientific predictions are made possible through the knowledge and

application of natural laws. In the year 1831, a great cholera epi-

demic swept Europe, and later America. The physicians dealt with

the problem as usual and the sick died in droves. Hahnemann, not

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