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Nosodes:
Comprehensive Classifications and Some Reflections.
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Devadiga (L.C.E.H.) |
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When I undertook to write
this article, I had thought it a piece of cake as I had the
feeling that to update the list of nosodes and sarcodes is an
easy job. It was not so easy, as I started having difficulties
on reading the books.
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Nosodes - By definition
a nosode is "a medicine prepared from the diseased part
or discharge of a living being." It is derived from the
Greek word "nosos" meaning disease. They may be of
vegetable kingdom (secale) or animal kingdom (Ambragrisea) or
bacterial culture of Human origin (Psorinum). |
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While listing the names of nosodes,
some queries did arise in my mind. One was regarding the origin.
Dr. William Lux who is considered to be the founder of Isopathy,
used the discharges of human and animals to treat the people.
Hering used it after proving it on humans as homoeopathic remedies.
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Some of the drugs used in Isopathy
are Anthracinum, Cholelithinum (Cholesterinum), Hippozaenum,
Hydrophobinum, Influenzinum, Medorrhinum, Morbillinum, Scarlatinum,
Variolinum, etc. There were other remedies like Alveolinum,
Ascardinum, Balanorrhinum, Gonorrhinum, Helinum, Nephrolithinum,
Otorrhinum Lominum etc. which could be used but due to have
been discarded due to lack of standardization.
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Some of the nosodes are questionable e.g. |
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(a) Ambragrisea - It is not clear whether it is a healthy or
unhealthy discharge of the sperm
of
whale i.e. whether it is a sarcode / nosode.
(b) Malaria Officinalis - It is not a discharge but is called
vegetable nosode as it is swamp
mire
that has been potentised.
(c) Bacteria/Fungi are animals or plants in their own right.
They are labeled nosodes
because
they are pathological to other beings. Inspite of this, quite
a few fungi are left
out
of the list of nosodes.
Nosodes are divided into four groups and designated N-1, N-11,
N-111, N-IV, depending upon the nature of material used. N-1
is made from lysates of micro-organisms capable of producing
bacterial endotoxin e.g. Typhoidinum, Bacillinum, etc. N-ll
is prepared from microorganisms capable of producing extra-cellular
toxins, e.g. Diphtherinum, Anthracinum etc. N-111 is prepared
from pure toxins. N-IV are made from micro-organisms, virus,
clinical materials from human-convalescents or diseased subjects,
e.g. Variolinum, Psorinum etc. Query - When drugs are prepared
directly from microorganisms or virus - can we label them as
diseased or should they be put under animal kingdom? The name
nosodes has given way to a new term - "Bio-therapeutics" which
seem to be more appropriate. They include diseased products,
disease causing organisms and disease preventing vaccines and
toxins. These thoughts and queries will not alter the use of
the remedies but will change the understanding of the term nosodes. |
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