Relational and Biochemical Strategy Homeopathic Combination Remedies Lecture on Docteur Henri Bernard’s Doctrine By Dr Robert Séror Traduit du Français en Anglais par : Mme Babbleworld.

Relational and Biochemical Strategy
Homeopathic Combination Remedies
Lecture on Docteur Henri Bernard’s
Doctrine
By Dr Robert Séror
Traduit du Français en Anglais par
: Mme Babbleworld.

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. Frédéric Samuel Christian
Hahnemann and chemistry : (<>)
;
II. Combination Remedies and James Tyler Kent : (<>)
;
III. Kent’s students : (<>) ;
IV. The works of Doctor Georges Hodiamont : (<>)
;
V. Doctor Henri Bernard’s work : (<>)
; The clinical analysis of the six biochemical stages : (<>)
;
VI. Individual homeo-strategy tentative. Practical applications : (<>)
;
Extension of the therapeutical palette : (<>)
;
Georges Hodiamont’s chemico-physiological technique : (<>)
;
Practical Synthesis : (<>)
;
The Therapeutical Precedence : (<>)
;
Bibliography : (<>).

The aim of this chapter is to
show how to obtain one or several combination remedies, starting with a
remedy present in a repertory or HMM, whether or not they have
pathogenesis, in the MM.

Indeed, since the beginning, the combination remedies have escaped
general homeopathy with or without the repertory.

A lot of other homeopaths insist on the fact that this procedure is not
at all homeopathic, and our aim to show that contrarily to public opinion,
this is well and truly part of our Doctrine, and that further more, there
are very many more modern and unexpected applications to it.

On this apparently new route, three enlightened homeopaths :

Samuel Hahnemann, James Tyler Kent and Henri Bernard.

Around these three, several satellite homeopaths, and not the least of
them :

Hodiamont, Clarke,
Douglas Borland, Fergie Woods, Charette, Duprat, etc …

1.
Frédéric Samuel Christian Hahnemann and chemistry

This is a little known aspect of S.C.

Hahnemann,
that of a chemist. And yet, while browsing through the long list of his
works, it is easy to see that S.C. Hahnemann
was well and truly a chemist before being a doctor.

His father-in-law was a pharmacist, and

Hahnemann
trained with him for months and months. Either way, the end of the 18th
and 19th
century medicine could hardly be called that, rather a compilation of
bizarre and extravagant recipes.

Look through historical and unreplaceable works like those of Dr.
Richard

Hael,
and Professeur Bradford, his
Master on S.C. Hahnemann,
and especially S.C. Hahnemann’s list of chemical work before 1810
; there are about 27
of them. Some are translations, other are creation.

Better still, some of S.C.

Hahnemann’s
translations from French to German
laid the path in the chemical world, taking into account the notes and
additions of the Father of Homeopathy. For example, that of the Frenchman,
Demachy.

I have often repeated and demonstrated that S.C.

Hahnemann
was more of a chemist and hygienist than a doctor. One should also read
from Pierre Schmidt’s,
alphabetical glossary for the Organon as well as Chronic Illnesses, how
precise and pertinent Hahnemann’s
knowledge on chemistry is. One has the impression that he knew all about
today’s biochemical concepts.

What I never found in S.C.

Hahnemann,
written out black on white, is an indication to create combination
remedies, like Kent and his students did. The only interesting idea in
this first paragraph, is that Homeopathy since the very beginning, been
linked to chemistry, and a very fine and precise one at that.

With J. T.

Kent,
on the contrary, everything is written out black
on white.

II.
Combination Remedies and James Tyler Kent

Paraphrasing is not sufficient in this domain, it needs translating
from his MM, and the

New Remedies.
(the extensive version of which I have integrated into my own site
” Homéopathe International “) . Here then are
excerpts of this translation:

Materia Medica for

Alumina

” …. Once you get some good provings, on oxydes or a
carbonate salt, and that the mental symptoms will have been underlined,
you will be able to use these mental symptoms in a presumptive manner, to
prescribe another salt with the same base, but with few mental symptoms in
its proving.

For example, you have a group of symptoms leading you to think of

Alumen
; but the mental symptoms of Alumen
have not been objectivized in the proving; but you know the mental
symptoms of Alumina,
which is the base of Alumen,
Alumen
being the oxyde ; well, if your patient has the physical symptoms of Alumen,
and the mental ones of Alumina,
you may very rationally, prescribe Alumen,
and expect cure of your patient, because aluminium is present in
both. ”

Materia Medica for

Arsenicum
Iodatum

” …. After studying the elements in this remedy, one may
conclude that this is a deep constitutional remedy “

Materia medica for

Calcarea
arsenicosa

” ….. As this remedy results from the chemical uniting of
two deep acting and well proven remedies, one can conclude that this
remedy would be long and deep acting, well adapted to chronic
illnesses.”

Materia Medica for

Ferrum
phosphoricum

” … It could not be less active than the

Ferrum
and Phosphoricum Acidum which it
contains. ”

Materia Medica for

Iodum

” … the remedy may not stay inactive, and therefore moves
day and night. This remedy has the same symptom as in

Kalium
Iodatum. ”

Materia Medica for

Kalium
Bichromicum

” …. This remedy make people thinner, like all

Potassium
salts. Potassium
salts are generally susceptible to cold and dry weather.. Like other Potassium
salts, it has cured
epilepsy. ”

Materia Medica for

Kalium
Sulfuricum

” ….. Two deep acting remedies come together to form this
combination.

Dewey,
gives the best biochemical introduction . For years, Dewey
noted the cases he had cured with this remedy, and this showed that the
results were justified by the study of the two remedies composing Kalium
Sulfuricum “.

Materia Medica for

Magnesia
Carbonica

” …. As with all other Magnesia based composed remedies, it
has some very violent neuralgic pains “

Materia Medica for

Natrum
Sulfuricum, New Remedies

” …As indicated by the name, it is made out of the chemical
combination of

sodium and of sulphur.
It has the magnificent properties of sodium
and of soufre ; one day, this will
become a grand remedy… Natrum
sulfuricum, up to a certain point,
combines the magnificent properties of Natrum
muriaticum and Sulphur, in our
Western regions. ”

I will stop quoting here to add that

Kent
seemed rather worried by these composed remedies ; as one reads on, one
gets the impression that he is hesitant, that he is not very sure of his
writings ; but then based on Schluesser,
and Dewey’s
works, he readily admits the practical use of these composed remedies, and
especially, the technical way of getting them out of our MM, even without
provings.

However, in the

New remedies,
you will find detailed provings of some of the remedies, easily found by
composing the remedies with each other. Here they are, one should think of
them in daily practice:

III. Kent’s
students

I mean Kent’s
, English students, because they are
the ones who brought this way of thinking into Europe. After Margaret
Tyler, there are 5
other English Kent students who were the gossip of the time; Doctors:

Margaret Tyler, Sir John Weir, Douglass Borland, H.
Fergie Woods et Robert Gibson Miller.

There are of course, many others, but they never wrote anything, and
were never heard of again.. I found one of Kent’s obscure students
through an English correspondent in Ireland, who told me about one
Christmas Eve he had spent with

Kent,
while he was still a very young homeopath. This story is on
” Homéopathe International “.

But of these

5
English students, Douglas Borland.
Was definitely the one who used the remedy combination techniques the
most.

Indeed, his master work,

Children’s
types, of which there is a
translation in the Annales Homéopathiques (which was edited again in 1986
by my friend, the regretted Docteur Pierre Joly),
if you are not familiar with Shakespeare’s
language.

I am not expressing myself correctly on

Borland’s,
combination remedies; Borland
performed some kind of mental acrobacy, incessantly combining the
practical MM knowledge, with the clinical type of the sick child.

It is in fact, a living demonstration of the artistic way in which Kent
taught his best students.

Borland,
who was Kent’s direct student, i
thought that Kent
probably did the same thing in his private life. Indeed, when one reads
his observations, all reported by his students in the New
Remedies, one does not have to be a
genius to realize how fast Kent
went, and that he never used the long and sometimes burlesque
questionnaire, of which there is an integral translation in my press
magazines Cahiers de Biothérapie. This questionnaire is also integrally
reproduced on my internet site.

As far as I know, only Pierre

Schmidt
used this kind of questionnaire, preceded or followed by a real ritual. So
to get back to our thoughts, Kent had two ways of working, one expressed
in the MMH and his New Remedies, the other compiled by his British
students..

Let’s go back to around

1954.
Kentisme had become the new dogma of the Homeopathic University of London became
the doctrine of Learning of the Homeopathic Faculty of London
(except for Clarke and Burnett, amongst others), and their bible was Kent’s
repertory and MMH.

After Margaret

Tyler,
there came Sir John Weir,
and these last two, at Foubister,
formed very fine students who taught his works throughout the world.

Amongst the last of them, my Friend, Doctor Jacques

Hui
Bon Hoa. Not only did he get the
Hospital Prize, but he also graduated from the University of Homeopathy in
London. This is an enviable prize when one is aware of the titanic work
required from their English and foreign students. The Master is Dr. Foubister,
commonly known as the father of Carcinosinum.

Doctor J.

Hui Bon Hoa,
published a small book of 100
pages, in 1963,
called : Kent’s Homeopathic
Repertory Technique.

I will now take a few lines from this book, word for word, to represent

Kent’s
teaching to his English students.

Page

50
:

” Composite remedies cannot be repertorized. “

Observation

10

” A patient who looks

Sulphur,
but who is sensitive to music and noise is in fact Natrum
sulfuricum
. So, practically then, every time you see a Sulphur
patient, which is very frequent, just check Natrum
sulfuricum first.”

Observation

11

” The repertory says

Calcarea,
but the child is puny with long lashes (Phosphorus).
Calcarea phosphorica
gets him much better quickly and the appetite is improved. ”

Observation

12

” The repertory says

Arsenicum
album, but the patient is a cold
patient. We shall give Arsenicum
iodatum 30
CH., sensitive to both cold and heat. ”

And so it is for all combined remedies like

Calcarea
sulfurica, Calcarea
silicata , two very important
constitutional remedies, Kalium
arsenicosum, not as rare as one
might think, Natrum arsenicosum,
Natrum silicata, etc..

Also, there is some of

Kent and
some of Borland
in my friend Jacques Hui Bon Hoa,.
And I might add, that whichever repertory is used, computerized or not,
you will never get the combination remedies, missing out therefore on a an
extraordinary therapeutics palette, with a clinical adaptation and
examination such as you have never seen.

Today, thanks to the work of our two French speaking homeopaths, the
way is paved, but curiously enough, neither of the two have generalized it
in day to day practice..

These two doctors Henri

Bernard,
who professed in Bergerac,
and Georges Hodiamont,
who professed in Brussels.

Of course,

Henri Duprat and John
Clarke, looked into the question in
their respective MM’s respectives, but they never realized that they had
a “time bomb” in their hands..

Same thing with

Roland Zissu and
Henri Voisin, Lathoud and Charette ;
all four in their time, provided the profession with remarkable and
original working tools worthy of sitting on any general homeopath’s
desk, but the same remarks apply to them as to Clarke
et Duprat.

So here we are after this long journey in the French speaking zone with
Georges

Hodiamont
and Henri Bernard.
We shall study them successively, because it is through their work and the
repertory analysis taken from my repertory that I managed to draw out a
practical, allowing any General Homeopath to prescribe at least 300-400
remedies, without alternating, but in successive unicism.

You can take it even further, but it is absolutely necessary I need to
know more on biochemicals and botany. I set myself to the task every day,
theoretically and practically. (

I
wrote this in 1983,
now we are in the year 2000).

IV. The
works of Doctor Georges Hodiamont.

This
is a very important chapter, because we are about to study the works and
ideas of the person I consider as one of my Masters, because his work
allowed me to go further still, without getting lost in the homeopathic
jungle.

Once more, it was my Master, Doctor Robert

Dufilho,
who told me about this Brussels doctor around 1958,
as he had just read and studied the first of his works. I always trusted
my Master, Robert Dufilho,
whose constantly renewed and pertinent advice had me discover not only
Homeopathy, but also my “Homeopathy”.

This is what I tell my young colleagues who ask me for advice. First
follow those who you think worked intelligently,

and
then work to discover your own homeopathy.

Doctor

Hodiamont
paradoxically discovered Homeopathy in France in 1942
while being a refugee. It was another researcher Doctor Paul Nogier,
known today worldwide for his work on Homeopathy and Auricultherapy, who
gave him his first book on Homeopathy : one
book of Léon Vannier.

At the liberation,

Hodiamont
met Léon Vannier,
who gives him access his library and gets him working for him. Thereafter,
Docteur Hodiamont
goes back to Brussels where he is not well received by his colleagues in
Brussels, the Masters of Belgian Homeopathy at that time.

But he perseveres, and starts work. From

1949
onwards, there are 5
books, which I consider major to the study of our discipline.

If you don’t know

Hodiamont,
you don’t know modern homeopathy; this is going back to the oil lamp
era. This very major piece of work had been noticed by Doctor Pierre Schmidt
in Geneva, and he wrote, please read this very carefully:

” This new presentation would show that the symptoms of the
MMH remedies, develop along chemically logical lines (underlined by us),
enabling thereby the comprehension, the why’s and how’s if possible,
of a group of symptoms apparently contradictory without any link…

This is a trial interpretation run based on physiological chemistry,
considering each

remedy as a physiological entity. It is the essence of

Hahnemann
and Kent.

This work is at the brink of a whole new concept.. It will definitely
be more than interesting to those who have an inquisitive mind, and are
not content with the basics, but who are eager to learn and increase their
knowledge. (

Dr. P. Schmidt, 1951,
in preface, Vegetable Remedies and Homeopathy).

But to my mind, Pierre

Schmidt
either forgot to teach his students that, or else he was sorely
misunderstood, which is possible when one does not constantly question
oneself, or one’s own knowledge of our discipline.

I think that progress in any life discipline, is being able to forget
almost instantly what has been our passion until then, so as to be able to
accept as true, a new scientific outlook.

Staying trapped in your ideas, without ever criticizing them, without
ever developing them, without ever opening your mind and intelligence to
the attitude of others ; you then become a slave, a prisoner of a
systems of ideas or scientific method. This kind of scientific must be
left to his own solitary and senile thoughts.

All of

Hodiamont’s works
are important, but the ones in which the Brussels homeopath expresses his
ideas more remarkably are :

Homéopathie et Physiologie,

Nouvelles études d’Homéopathie.

Now don’t go thinking that these are new ideas : the merit of
Hodiamont is the very deep synthesis and updating to the day’s
biochemical knowledge. But there were already pioneers in this field.

Apart from

Hahnemann et Kent,
whose works I have already cited here above, it is worth mentioning the
works of:

In France : Doctor Mouezy-Eon (

1932
to 1939)

In England : Doctors Burt, Black, Dudgeon, Drysdale, Haynard

In the US : Doctor Hempel and the Baltimore research club

In Germany : Doctor Hugo Schuls and especially Doctor Leeser (

1933)

All these colleagues approached our MM on the triple basis of

Chemistry

Physiology

Toxicology

I have no intention of a word to word chapters and remedies, excerpts
of

Hodiamont’s MMH
because it would be boring.

I invite you to refer to it and to read clearly what

Hahnemann
et Kent confusedly felt and tried to
express.

But

Hodiamont’s
works are just an invitation to take this new approach of the MMH further.
Another French speaking homeopath, Doctor Henri Bernard
who professed in Bergerac, will take us even further through his
remarkable work, into the knowledge of our patients and the MMH.

V. Doctor
Henri Bernard’s work

Doctor
Henri Bernard
is contemporary. Around 1949,
he created the Société Homéopathique d’ Aquitaine with Denis Demarque.
He only died around 10
years ago. He published several articles and 4
key works, the essential of which is in his Traité
de MMH.

The following is a ” digest ” of his work from
which it is possible for us to extend our therapeutical palette without
further questioning, nor additional repertory analysis. This man was
misunderstood; a lot of us never realized the immense scope of his work in
Homeopathy. Henri

Bernard
is the founder of the Constitutions
Biochimiques (Biochemical constitutions).

This is not based on an esoterical or alchemy doctrine, but on clinical
and biochemical observations. The proof is that starting with

Kent,
and moving onto Hodiamont
and Bernard,
the ideas are still productive, meaning that it is possible to take it
much further than Bernard
and get to Individual and not Universal constitutional types with
biochemistry. This is a major and completely new approach, the basis of
what is about to follow.

I only prolonged the path drawn by Kent and his students, developed by

Hodiamont,
specified by Bernard
from the discussed results from repertory analysis and from my comparative
MM. I have endeavoured to be as complete as possible.

Some of us have more or less approached the subject, but nobody as far
as I know, has provided a general and immediately applicable to our
everyday practice, panorama. In everything I have ever done, I have always
pinpointed my colleagues, General Homoeopathy Doctors like myself.

A healthy person is a human being with a biological,
clinical and especially biochemical balance. This person has an objective,
visible and descriptive and morphological constitution.

Disease couples

morbid symptoms
to the morphological constitution, and that is objectivized obviously, by
a pathogenesial morbid group.

To this pathogenesial morbid group corresponds a therapeutical series
well defined by the repertory analysis, based on the Concomitants Doctrine
by

Boenninghausen,
based on my repertory software ; As for Bernard,
he describes a series of successive remedies for three basic
Constitutions.

These three Constitutions are for Henri Bernard,

The Carbonic Constitution

Phosphoric and

Sulfuric.

Nebel et Vannier

added Fluoric to
these. It is only a question of descriptive and clinical facility. Note
that for Henri Bernard,
the Big basic constitution is the Sulphuric
one, the same conclusions as all our
Great Homeopathic Clinicals, since Hahnemann,
and Nash, for who Sulphur is the
greatest remedy of our mm.

Any of the best repertory analysis always put

Sulfur
in the first five remedies. That is no reason for prescribing it. But
practically, the cure of chronic disease always needs Sulphur.

Henri

Bernard
noticed that the basic constitutions, the constants, is provided by carbonic
acid for the Carbonic, phosphoric acid for the Phosphoric, and sulphuric
acid for the Sulphuric. But one must keep in mind that a

Carbonic (CO

3H)
–

Sulfuric (SO

4)
–

Phosphoric (PO

4)
–

Anion

will fix the ideas better.

When an acid element, or an acid radical combine with a basic radical,
the result is a salt. Every different salt with the same acid radical is a
pathological state of aggravation or improvement, depending on whether you
are moving down or up

Henri Bernard’s
“biochemical ladder”.

Henri

Bernard
describes 6
steps to his ” biochemical ladder “. These are :

1. The Calcic ou (CA) + stage

2. The Magnesic or (MG) + stage

3. The Potassic or (K) + stage

4. The Sodic or (NA) + stage

5. The Barytic or (BA) + stage

6. The Ammoniac or (NH

4)
+ stage

The calcic stage being the first stage of the illness, the ammoniac
stage being the terminal.

Let us look at the

carbonic
constitution for example. When
enjoying full health, there is nothing to be said about this person whose
Constitution is based on the acid element. As soon as he become ill,
combining the acid element with the basic element, there is a series of
successive clinical pictures of aggravation:

1. Calcarea carbonica (CO

3H)
® (CA)+. The calcic stage

2. Magnesia carbonica (CO

3H)
® (MG)+. The magnesic stage.

3. Kalium carbonicum (CO

3H)
® (K )+. The potassic stage.

4. Natrum carbonicum (CO

3H)
® (NA)+. The sodic stage.

5. Baryta carbonica (CO

3H)
® (BA)+. The barytic stage.

6. Ammonium carbonicum (CO

3H)
® (NH 4)+).
The ammonia stage.

As you go down the ladder, they are clinical stages of aggravation, as
you go up, they are clinical stages of improvement. With the same
reasoning, this is for the sulphuric and phosphoric constitutions.

1. Calcarea Sulfurica

2. Magnesia Sulfurica

3. Kalium Sulfuricum

4. Natrum Sulfuricum

5. Baryta Sulfurica

6. Ammonium Sulfuricum

And for the phosphoric Constitution,

1. Calcarea Phosphorica

2. Magnesia Phosphorica

3. Kalium Phosphoricum

4. Natrum Phosphoricum

5. Baryta Phosphorica

6. Ammonium Phosphoricum

But you could, and there is nothing to stop you from doing it, follow
the same reasoning for the Fluoric Constitution, described by

Nebel
et L. Vannier, and then you
get :

1. Calcarea Fluorica

2. Magnesia Fluorica

3. Kalium Fluoricum

4. Natrum Fluoricum

5. Baryta Fluorica

6. Ammonium Fluoricum

Before pushing Henri

Bernard’s ideas
any further, let us look into the clinical syndrome of each of these
biochemical stages.

The
clinical analysis of the six biochemical stages

Each of the biochemical stages that we have just described gives a
general clinical syndrome, taking into account the look of the patient,
and his type of illness.

This picture is drawn as the homeopath observes for repertory analysis.
In fact, it is another keyword, another remedy genius which he adds to his
store of diagnosis.

One could call it the

Biochemical
Genius of the patient.

It is quite possible, once the quest for keywords is over, to add

Mg
stage, or Natrum
stage on the corner of the
observation; but then, what are the clinical, pathological, objective
criteria leading one to a fast diagnostic such as these ?

Also, what is the point of it ? Apart from the possibility of
prescribing different salts stemming from the same acid, there is the
concept of

prognostic.

Indeed, a patient coming up

Bernard’s
ladder going from the sodic to the
magnesic stage, means he is moving towards healing. The reverse means
aggravation. Here we see that to Hering’s
laws of aggravation and improvement, depending on whether the symptoms are
going up or down , we must add another chemical prognostic criteria, that
of Henri Bernard.

Calcarea

Magnesia

Kalium

Natrum

Baryta

Ammonium

Study of the Calcic stage.

One often finds this stage in healthy adults and children. All illness
start at this stage and end with it. The

Calcium
metabolism, its elective tropism
is especially present in the bones, therefore in the growth, the endocrine
glands (parathyroid, thyroid, ovaries). It also keeps the inner and outer
nervous systems balanced. It controls the reactivity of the voluntary and
non voluntary muscles. It has considerable scope of action on the blood
and coagulation. The dysmetabolism will therefore give :

Muscular

Heart

Circulatory

Hemorrhage

Growth

Rickets

Osteomalacy

Scoliosis

Lymphoid matter and glands

All illnesses start with this stage and end with it, but, one must
emphasize :

chronic illness.

Study of the Magnesia stage

In this stage, there is more nervous sensitivity, in the cortex, the
cerebellum, medullar, nuclear and gland cells.

Clinically, one observes : exaggerated reflex, with contractions,
spasms, hyperesthesia, hypertonic state.

Mentally, one observes temper tantrums, restlessness with shouting, and
excitement. One often sees this in teenagers, children and young adults.

This stage is characterized by its shortness; it doesn’t last long ;
it is transition between the

Calcic
stage (improvement) and the Potassic
stage (aggravation).

Therefore :

CA <--- MG ---- > KALI

These patients are sensitive to cold and improved by heat and air. The
pathological phenomena arise brutally and quickly. Although some elderly
people have it, it is mostly children you will see with it.

There is a lot of Magnesium in the red blood cells, in the muscles, the
brain, nerves, endocrine glands, bones and teeth. When there is not enough
of it, you get neuralgia. There is an appreciable quantity of it in the
thymus, testicles, ovaries and especially in the

Thyroid.
It activates gastric and intestinal diastases, which is why it is so
important in the major functions of nutrition and assimilation.

Therefore, it is elective tropism for the stomach, the intestines, the
liver and the pancreas. The muscular chronaxy is elongated by it. If it is
lacking, the muscular chronaxy will shorten and there will be contractures
and spasms. Because of its presence in the gonads, when it is
pathologically lacking, it will entail sterility for the man and the
woman. Lastly, it has a major action on the central nervous system
(depression, cyclothymia, morose, melancholy).

Study of the potassic stage (Kali)

In this stage the

Dynamis is
much more imbalanced. But there are equal phases of improvement and
aggravation.

It is a mental and physical oscillatory state. The reactions are
nevertheless slower than those at the Magnesia state. Psychologically, it
oscillates between gayness and blues, rage and sadness. The

Kali
group is present in the neurasthenic
and cyclothymic states. These are remedies for over exertion, excesses. Potassium
is widely found in vegetables.

In our organism, it is present in the central nervous system, the
marrow and the bulb, peripheral nerves, the peripheral nervous system and
the heart. When it is lacking, there are hypotension and bradycardia
problems. It inhibits the contraction of the non striated muscles, and
increases diuresis. If it is lacking, it brings on problems with the
metabolism of water, and at the hydrogenoïdal states often start at this
stage.

There is anemia, nasal and genital hemorrhaging, hypotonia and muscular
hypoexcitability (motor muscles ; visceral muscles : stomach, intestines,
bladder, uterus).

The depressive state has breathing and circulation problems, anemia and
rheumatism pains.

Hydrogenoïdism will make the patient sensitive to damp cold, better on
moving and increased diuresis. The patient does not burn his waste well,
and so it comes out as

urates.

Lastly, because of the water metabolism problems, the patients mucous
tissues dry up intermittently.

Study of the sodium state (Natrum)

At this stage, the

Dynamis,
is literally exhausted; the patient’s reactions are extremely weak and
unstable. It is a state of abandon, a free for all, a “straw
fire”, wrote Henri Bernard.

It is present in chronic states, old ones, through which the
pathological processus has consistently worsened, but it is degenerative.
The patients have had all sorts of therapy, allopathic or homeopathic.

There is a homeopathical

iatrogen
pathology, because of the immoderate
and unconsidered prescriptions of so-called homeopaths (Hahnemann),
but whose culture of our discipline is minimal.

French Homeopathic Learning is too simple, too basic ; there is no
ambition ; most of our young practitioners just parrot homeopathy.

They need a homeopathic technico-strategic culture, which is the only
thing which can install a reasoned, intelligent and efficient practice of
our discipline. Of course, the knowledge of the MM is more than
necessary , but they need to know the ” verbing ”
of the MM, stemming from its deep-rooted knowledge.

One must therefore not only learn the MM, but also the MM

Génie,
which is not the same thing.

Sodium

(NA), has an elective
affinity for the skin.
The NA
ion is greatly responsible for regulating the water metabolism in our
body. The dysmetabolism of water can lead to either excess loss of
it ; which will generate excessive dryness (dehydration) ; Henri Bernard
pulled what he called the Muriatical
constitution out of it.

Reversely, any disruptions of the ”

NA”,
metabolism will retain water, which means for Henri Bernard,
chronic reticulo-endotheliosis or Sycosis.

Sodium

plays an important part in
our organism, in the subtle mechanisms of oxydation
and the balance between acids and bases in our blood.. Grauvogl
correctly saw the problem clinically.
Whatever, and despite its age, the classification is satisfactory, because
it corresponds well to what we, Homeopathic GP’s, see every day in our
practice. Anything clinical, objective, real must be of interest to us,
Clinical Doctors.

Yet, it is obvious that

Grauvogl’s
Oxygenoid is often present as Natrum
Muriaticum, or Natrum
Iodatum, or Natrum
arsenicosum. The reverse is also
true; Natrum Sulfuricum, Natrum
Carbonicum, Natrum Sulfuratum, Natrum Aceticum,
are Hydrogenoids.

Grauvogl’s
three clinical types correspond to simple objective types, obvious and
real, and must not be rejected because of the easy filing either
therapeutically or didactically.
There is a fast and practical distinction, a first overview, the homing in
will only be possible later on by listening, observing and the patient’s
trust.

Playing with words, I would say it is up to the Doctor to be patient,
and not the patient ; at least in our scientifical discipline, which
is a mixture of today’s medical thoughts and the taste, the tact and the
French clinical sense.

Sodium

is therefore implicated in
the water metabolism, but also in the mineralization
of our tissue. The same processus we
talked about a bit further up, for H 2
0,
applies to the minerals as well; the mineral dysmetabolism goes on to
Henri Bernard’s
Sodic state,
i.e. demineralization, or overminéralisation.

These dysmetabolical processes show the importance of Henri

Bernard’s
Sodium
state, in homeopathical and clinical diagnosing.

Study of the Barytical stage (BA)

Henri

Bernard
Barytical
stage shows evolution towards induration, thickening, sclerosis
of our organism and its components.

Arteries, tissues, vessels, organs all sclerose and so considerably
lose their functional capacity. The suppleness, the immediate response of
our organism is practically non existent.

Functional, hormonal, blood, metabolic and nervous inadaptation. You
can imagine what will happen if you get for example, renal artery or
encephalic sclerosis.

Baryum

scleroses because it has a
dehydrating action on our tissues and organs. That means on a deep
clinical level, there is an aggravated oxygenoide
state.

Dehydration means sclerosis, a slowing down of the nutrient exchange.
Everything slows down, is

unadapted,
thence the slow growth of the child, physically and mentally ; and
the same thing in elder people for the mind and the cardio-renal system.

Henri

Bernard barytic stage is
always mono symptomatical in children and young adults, local, and
therefore reversible.

A barytical child, with successive similimums, will come up Henri

Bernard’s
” biochemical ladder ” (within one to three years):
sodic, potassic, magnesic, calcic stages, ending up with his last
similimum.

It is within the first three visits that the homeopath must plan his
strategy, foreseeing difficulties and possible failure. All this is
feasible with the practical and technical data from the above cited
works..

Study of the Ammoniacal (Ammonium)

Nitrogen salts (NH

4)
+ always entail bad mental and physical phthisis. There is hardly any
Dynamis left. Everything has slowed down, nothing reacts, nothing adapts
quickly.

This is the last step of

Bernard’s
” biochemical
ladder ” and the Ammonia stage is often present in serious and
often desperate conditions with blood poisoning.

The patient has major circulation, breathing and cardio-vascular
problems.

The blood urea level increases to above acceptable levels, and
hemorrhaging starts. Skin, mucous, general nutrition, all reflect the
general slowing down and anoxemia.

These are Henri

Bernard’s
six stages. Before reviewing all the practical applications of biochemical
Homeopathy, one must underline that it is not necessary for the patient to
go through these stages one by one; a very serious illness can move an
adult from the Kali
to the Ammonia stage
within a few weeks; with efficient therapy, the reverse is also true.

The variables in

Bernard’s
ladder are the cations CA, MG, K,
NA, BA, NH 4.

It is the acid element,

carbonicum
acid, phosphoric acid and sulphuric acid,
which is constant, proving Bernard’s
three basic constitutions.

VI.
Individual Homeo-strategy tentative. Practical applications

A . Aim : The
individual therapeutical sequel

The outdated idea of unique similimum should be replaced

by
the unicist but successive individual Therapeutic Sequel
as everyday practice has shown us.

As we all know, the patient goes through different stages of
improvement or aggravations to cure or die; these remedies are stages
which the homeopathic GP with correct training, can recognize with correct
interpretation of the state of his patient.

These remedies are linked through

synergy,
asynergy and incompatibility. Henri Voisin pushed
the study of the homeopathic families of remedies very far, but was not
understood.

His time has now come. As shown in the chapter I have dedicated to this
homeopathic remedy, the lists we use daily are incorrect or incomplete,
thence the remaking of the synergeticals and non-synergeticals, with

three
valorizations.

Rational use of this technical data will be a great help in knowing and
understanding what we are doing and what it is leading to. This is one of
the major advantages of Unicism ; doing it differently would be like
driving at night without headlights ! Is this what we really want ?

The patient’s improvement and aggravation is covered according to
clinical use, by the harmonious use of a synergetical or non-synergetical,
successives stages,

in time,
leading to cure of chronic illness and of its vector, the patient, within
two to three years.

Furthermore, the knowledge of the ” barriers ” to
cure on the one side, and the use of the remedies, stimulating the patient’s
reaction on the other side, is enough to set the cure moving until
healing.

This shows how important the study of homeopathic strategy and
technique is. This strategy is to the homeopath, what semiology is to the
clinician.

A Homeopath only knowing a hundred remedies, but using this
homeopathical technique and strategy would still be a very fine and
efficient practitioner.

How to deal with
these stages ?

The homeopathic observation has already been discussed in another
chapter. Homeopaths listen, observe and get patients to specify; they
write down not the symptoms, but the “genius” of the illness, so
as to elucidate the genius of the remedy.

They also use clinical examination and typological observation. One
must understand what is meant by this. Typology is only a practical method
of observation destined to facilitate the work of the homeopath ; it
is not a science as such. If such were the case, we would not have these
innumerable typological descriptions varying through time.

20
years ago, we were using the Nebel – Vannier system.

What is left of it ? Would you have the courage to categorize your
patients into Martians, Apollos or Mercurys in the middle of an
international congress?

This is history. At best, we can use the toxinic series who are in fact
due to Antoine

Nebel
more than to Léon Vannier.

As a matter of fact,

Antoine
Nebel, this unrecognized genius,
linked his toxinic series to Grauvogl’s
three constitutions. Personally, I
tend to use these as a first approach because they are simple with no
esoteric, occult or unrational connotations, and that they correspond to
clinical reality.

Henri

Bernard’s
constitutions are much more refined and modern, because they are based on
biochemistry, embryology and epidiemology. They are more difficult to
understand than Grauvogl’s,
but once understood, Henri Bernard’s
three constitutions are very useful for everyday practice.

I repeat, this use is only a means of being faster and more efficient.
It is only a tool, nothing else.

Supposing tomorrow, another colleague suggested a different method of
classification, faster, easier, more specific and rational than those of
our elders,

Grauvogl et Henri
Bernard, we would happily use it.

In

Kent’s
MMH and New Remedies,
he is constantly talking about Schluesser
and his biochemical salts, as
a means of trying to structure his homeopathy. Several times, at the
beginning of the study of a remedy, Kent
starts out with reference to Schluesser
or Dewey.

Dewey

also tried a botanical
classification, and Kent,
who was a prisoner of his Conferences on Homeopathic Philosophy and his
Aphorisms, made reference, several times to this interesting approach in
his New Remedies.

At the moment, nobody realized the importance the

19
the century American homeopaths attached to Schluesser
theory. Today, Indians are discovering its importance in cancer therapy. I
published the results in my XXXVII nd press edition of the Cahiers de
Biothérapie. The only English homeopath who succeeded in staying far from
the esoteric trends that swept the U.S. homeopathy in the 19^th
century was John Henry Clarke, although it was so rich and rich in future
promises.

There are still around a hundred homeopaths in the U.S. today who still
work with the obscurantism of the last century ; they are older
people ; there is another current coming to light, which is solid,
scientific and resolutely tuned into the

3rd
millenary, and we will definitely be talking about it as it emerges on the
soil that witnessed Hering, Knerr,
Nash, Lippe, Boger, les Allen.

But all these typological notions, results of repertory analysis, with
or without polychrests, only concern around a hundred of unitary remedies,
which is very little, taking into account the immensity of our homeopathic
pharmacy.

There is still a lot of work to be done, and part of it is finding a
practical way of extending our therapeutical palette to

300/400
unitary remedies starting with simple keywords Boger
type.

This is possible for homeopaths wishing to progress and put themselves
into question.

B.
Extension of the therapeutical palette

After this very long
theoretical essay, here at last is the materialization of all these
concepts, coming to us from Hahnemann
and his Organon of Rational Medicine
in 1810
(please note the exact title of Hahnemann’s
major work, that very few people know through and through). The title is 1
ère édition de l’ Organon.

1.
Dr Henri Bernard biochemical ladder

Once all the different accompanying clinical or biochemical syndromes
are grasped, it is easy to use.

When writing down the keywords for the patient, it is sufficient to
write down at the end of the observation

:
Na stage, or Baryta
stage.

So when the repertory comes up with a

mineral simile, it means that there
are six possible and immediate developments.

For example, a

Sulfur
patient at Bernard’s sodique
stage will get Natrum Sulf
and not Sulph.

But before doing that, you will have to check your MMH, for the
pathogenesical likeness between your patient and the supposed remedy.

The

2
best MMH’s with regard to the impressive amount of studied remedies with
regard to Hahnemann and clinical toxicity, are Boericke’s
and J.H. Clarke’s.
In French, Duprat et Voisin are the
major ones.

Bernard

explained in his Traité
de MM, the outlets of his ” biochemical ladder “, only
for the three constitutions which he described: Sulphurical, Carbonical,
and Phosphorical ; he adds the thin Sulphurs
which he calls Muriatical
(derived from Nat-Mur.).

The point is to spread this technique to the mineral world of our

MMH.
Here is how it is done :

Say, the repertory suggests

Nitricum
Acidum. But the clinical observation
and development of this patient shows us he is in Bernard’s
potassic stage.

So the remedy is therefore, not

Nit-ac.,
but Kalium Nitricum,
if things get worse, he will go down Bernard’s ladder, which means : Natrum
nitricum, Baryta nitrica, Ammonium nitricum
; and if he gets better, he will go up the “ladder” to: Magnesia
nitrica, Calcarea nitrica.

But obviously, one should check the remedy picture against the patient’s
picture with all the repertories you may have

Boericke,
Clarke, and Kent’s New Remedies.
Moreover, it is necessary to check whether the chosen remedy exists in the
French Homoepathic nomenclature.

To this end, the French laboratories have given us excellent
nomenclatures but of very different qualities. One must therefore, have an
in-depth knowledge of all of them in order to be able to consult them;
even going to the point, if needs be, of adding the manufacturer’s name
next to the prescription, to avoid the eternal ” this does not
exist in French pharmacopeia “.

You can find this French nomenclature freely included in my Internet
site

//homeoint.org,
but also a new French Latin lexicon of homeopathic remedies. We often
think of the French name of a plant, but do not know its corresponding
Latin name in our MMH. This lexicon is there for that.

It is very important also for us to know the homeopathic synonyms ; it
must be part of homeopathic training ; i have met colleagues who did
not know that :

Cimicifuga = Actea Racemosa,

Colubrina = Nux vomica,

Metallum album = Arsenicum album,

Amara = Ignatia,

Witch Hazel = Hamamelis,

Sabina = Juniperus,

Cepa = Allium cepa,

Flavum = Sulfur,

Mercurius = Hydrargyrum, etc, etc..

To be completely happy with our Nomenclature, but also with the foreign
MMH’s, one must also take note of all the

Acidums,
and their chemical combinations with the cations :

CA +, MG +, K +, NA +, BA +, NH

4
+.

I have counted roughly

15
Acids to be put in our nomenclature, combining with 4
to 6
cations ; so that our therapeutical palette of 15
remedies is now extended to 60
/ 90
remedies. And that is only on Acids.

The same thing can be done with simple

elements.
In our nomenclature 8
non metals, and 23
metals are useful,, say roughly 30.

These elements combine with

4
to 6
cations, which then come to 120-180
new prescription possibilities.

If we add these to the Acids, we extend

45
remedies to 180/270
remedies. I am sorry to give all these figures; they may sound very boring
at first; but this is practical reality; with 45
remedies from the repertory analysis, you can prescribe roughly 200,
according to Bernard’s ideas,
while still checking in our MMH that
the chosen still matches the patient’s picture.

This will avoid having to memorize the

200
remedies in the MMH. The only limit to this idea is the French
pharmacopeia, thence the need of
having our laboratories nomenclatures on our desks. I am used to saying
that the second useful MMH is the pharmaceutical nomenclature.

Henri

Bernard,
studies our remedies in his MMH, in the following way:

20

major constitutional remedies,
to which he adds

60

major complementary remedies

200

secondary remedies or small
drainage remedies making it to around 280
remedies in his MMH.

There are never any combined remedies in a repertory.

You either have to recombine them yourself with

Bernard’s
method, or use Hodiamont’s
which we will explain later.

Unfortunately, there are

never
any small remedies in the repertory;
there are no small remedies in our discipline, only remedies which are not
well known, or not well experimented or used ; you can learn all
about these in Boericke’s.

This work is a real source for MMH, for there is no obstacle in it ;
there are Hahnemann remedies, but also remedies with only toxicological or
clinical pathogenesy which is what

Hering
wanted.

Boericke

was translated into
French by Doctor Guéniot ;
You will find him in the Éditions Similia.
It is the translation of the 9^th
edition but the repertory is missing.

Our discipline is a young one : it will be

200
years old in 2010
; there is therefore still a lot of research, experimenting, discussing,
discarding and starting from scratch to be done; otherwise, how could we
progress?

2.
Georges Hodiamont’s chemico-physiological technique

a)
We shall start by completing the theoretical essay on the method used by Hodiamont
in his works, and more specifically in his Nouvelles
Études d’ Homéopathie and Homéopathie
et Physiologie.

Let us start with

Sulphur,
in Homéopathie et Physiologie,
to get a preview. Hodiamont,
like Henri
Bernard,
describes two different types of Sulphur,
the fat one and the thin one, Oxygenoid
and Carbo-nitrogen,
but this is to do with the chemical combustion of our bodies. He describes
all of the S.
metabolism inside, and then only from this chemico-physiological
description, describes all the symptomatology, and pathogenesy of Sulphur.

In his other MMH’s.,

Hodiamont,
uses purely chemical, physiological, physiopathological, botanical and
toxicological knowledge for each remedy.

He is therefore using the same homeopathical logic that Hahnemann used
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