Unproven nosodes, their use, and some thoughts thereon^{[ * ]}

Summary

Out of 11,000 prescriptions only 170 were of the unproven nosodes, and most of these have had other remedies so that conclusions would be mere opinions. But I am able to give the cases of five children and five adults (from 33 to 63 years old) in which the help was quite definite and the results due entirely to the nosode—in one child even decent food was lacking (beyond the school dinner during the war). My conclusion is that when these are needed each is just as important to that patient as any other remedy would be if it were indicated. in two of the cases a neoplasm was feared. In three the whole mental outlook was changed for the better. In one a mental, breakdown was feared (she had been given a year's leave, but went back to India rejoicing before the end of that time).

The one rule for their prescription must be a most definite “never well since so and so”. The “so and so” being an illness from which recovery was very slow or never complete. The other rule is not to repeat, for a very long time and usually other remedies are called for. (Kent's rule must be followed, that is, the same symptoms must return). This is why I favour giving a series of potencies daily, running up, as Hahnemann suggested and Miss Tyler publicized.

^* A paper read to the Faculty of Homœopathy, June 4th, 1959.