Similia Vol 29 No 1 – June 2017

Author: Jon Gamble

Abstract

We are faced with an increasing multitude of complex, chronic diseases. We might think that causational complexities are vaster since Hahnemann’s  day. On the other hand, we now have diagnostic tools to determine what those causes may be. Hahnemann did not have the beneϐit of modern  pathology tests of any kind. For a long time I struggled with how to marry my traditional homeopathic training, in which I was taught the use of the  single remedy based on the totality of symptoms, with an understanding of fundamental causes and the use of non-homeopathic interventions. Once  I made that marriage, and embraced new ways of investigating and really understanding complex chronic diseases, it released me from grimly  adhering to singular homeopathic theory. I no longer had to try and ϐit the patient into a remedy picture or a constitutional concept. I felt free to  listen carefully to the patient’s story, think logically about their disease events, ask different kinds of questions about the family history, look for  evidence of infection, and if appropriate, run spectrophotometry tests.

Three key potential components of cases have to be considered when investigating the causes of chronic disease:
• toxicity (toxic elements and chemicals)
• deficiency (vitamins and minerals)
• infection (infectious disease events and inherited miasms).

Keywords: Endocrine disease, complex chronic disease, Grave’s disease, hypothyroidism, Hashimoto’s thyroiditis, metabolic syndrome, Organon, similimum, spectrophotometry.