26/03/2020
Detoxification in Homeopathy (Homotoxicological Theraphy)
The Body’s Own Greater Defensive System
So how does the body defend itself against the influence of the homotoxins?
Reckeweg’s view of the body’s counter-reaction is that of a Greater Defensive System. This system consists of five subsidiary systems which are mutually interlinked and render homotoxins harmless in the course of their defensive fight.
These (5) subsidiary systems include, for example:
1.Antibody formation; defence through
the use of neuronal adaptation hormones;
2.Antitoxic defence by way of the nervous
system;
3.Detoxification via the liver;
4.Detoxification via the connective tissue, which
represents an extensive storage and
5.Drainage system taking up the waste material
which comes from the cells and transporting it away via the lymphatic system, or else
storing it.
If this system is affected, for example by the chemotherapeutic drugs, sulphonamides, antibiotics, immuno-suppressives, salicylates etc. which are in common medical use nowadays, the intervention in the normal course of biological defence may in part be extremely effective, but it will also be attended by tremendous danger.
However, if the Greater Defensive System can be influenced in a harmonic way, then the progress of disease can be reversed bringing about a change of phase in the direction of recovery. Thus, to give an example of what may occur, a duodenal ulcer may regress into a carbuncle and, after this has healed, the pathology in the duodenal area will also have disappeared. This process in a positive direction was termed
regressive vicariation by Reckeweg. The continued progression of a disease so that
the patient’s condition deteriorates Reckeweg called progressive vicariation. (Vicariation has long been suggested as a mechanism for recovery of function following brain damage. Essentially, this concept involves the ability of one part of the brain to substitute for the function of another.
*Homotoxicological Therapy*
In homotoxicological treatment, it is therefore of great importance to administer homoeopathic remedies in the appropriate homoeopathic attenuations, since otherwise they would reinforce the body’s toxic state or exert a negative influenceupon it.
Building upon the foundation of Samuel Hahnemann’s homoeopathy, Reckeweg
has made a compilation of homoeopathic Single and Combination remedies for the
treatment of the various diseases from a homotoxicological point of view. An
extremely wide variety of therapeutic agents is employed.
Homotoxicological therapy has as its objective the stimulation(merangsang) and regulation (mengawal selia) of the body’s self-healing powers.
As an essential part of holistic medicine, this also includes a biologically correct life-style, the avoidance of iatrogenic (Medical Definition of Iatrogenic: Due to the activity of a physician or therapy. For example, an iatrogenic illness is an illness that is caused by a medication or physician) damage, which can be caused by the use of excessively strong chemical drugs – among other things – and, finally, a further aim of this mode of treatment is the achievement of self-help and motivation by the patient. However, where extreme cases require them, it does not exclude the employment of other therapeutic measures, of which familiar examples are antibiotics and corrective surgery.
Bad Kissingen, Germany Claus-F. Claussen
