According to National Institute of Health (NIH), there were approximately 23.5 million American’s suffering from an autoimmune disease in 2012. Moreover, Department of Health and Human Services, in 2017, reported that autoimmune disease (AID) is ranked first in the top ten list of popular health topics. Autoimmune disease has a severe impact on a health, which may lead to various complications in different part of the body, such as heart, brain, kidneys, glands, and nerves. Increasing rate of autoimmune disease is mainly due to genetic and environmental factors, which include dietary components, toxic chemical, and infections.

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Autoimmune diseases include inflammatory bowel diseases (IBD), rheumatic arthritis (RA), multiple sclerosis (MS), celiac disease (CD), hepatitis, autoimmune thyroiditis (AT), systemic lupus erythematous (SLE) and type 1 diabetes (IDDM). According to International Journal of Celiac Disease, in 2015, stated that the environmental factors are strongly related to cause autoimmune diseases, which include infections, ecology, and nutrition.

Diagnosis of AID is challenging due to lack of basic knowledge about disease pattern, to identify treatments, and design clinical trials. Increasing awareness among the population about autoimmune diseases and its complications is expected to contribute towards the growth of autoimmune disease treatment market.

Innovation in the treatment of AID is expected to augment the autoimmune disease treatment market. For instance, researchers at the Perelman School of Medicine in 2016, found a way to target a specific subset of antibody, which is responsible for the activation of pemphigus vulgaris (PV) autoimmune disease. The researchers designed chimeric autoantibody receptor therapy (CAART) that can be used to treat this disease without harming the healthy immune system.

Moreover, researchers at the Cumming School of Medicine in 2016, developed a new class of Nano-medicine to treat diseases, specifically type 1 diabetes, multiple sclerosis, and rheumatoid arthritis without compromising immunity. This Nano-medicine is currently being developed at Parvus Therapeutics, Inc., and is funded by Innovate Calgary.

According to the American Autoimmune Related Diseases Association (AARDA), in 2017, approximately 50 million Americans are suffering from autoimmune disease. High prevalence of autoimmune diseases demands for new treatment approach, which may include biomarkers, stem cell research, and genetic research. Biological agents such as TNF agents, monoclonal antibodies, tissue and organ engineering procedure, gene-based delivery system, modulators of the immune system, and cell-based treatments are under evaluation for the treatment of AID in near future.

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Jane, 26, was seen in the Emergency Room three times in the past 2 months for what Jane called an “attack:” chest pain behind her sternum (chest bone) and severe nausea. Usually while in the ER she also had a bout or two of severe, explosive diarrhea. Once the diarrhea occurred, the ER doctors knew the chest pain and nausea were related to the digestive system instead of the heart.

Despite the prescriptions to prevent recurrences of the symptoms, they returned. First would be the chest pain, then the nausea (and sometimes vomiting) then the diarrhea. When the diarrhea settled later in the day, so did the other symptoms. The chest pain and subsequent symptoms occurred maybe twice a week; she never went longer than 10 days without an “attack”. When she could no longer tolerate the disruptions, she sought care outside the medical system.

As Jane’s symptoms had begun a relatively short time ago, the change in her health status would be considered “acute.” In homeopathy, to find a remedy, the practitioner looks at what has changed from the norm using the acronym CLAMS:

Concomitants: what other symptoms exist with or occur because of the main concern; what accompanies the main symptom? The onset could be from anything physical, dietary, emotional or mental; or a combination of these.
Locations: where is it exactly? Does it move to other locations or has it spread?
Aetiology (“etiology,” old spelling but still used for the acronym): what caused it; when did it begin?
Modalities: what makes symptoms better or worse?
Sensations: what does it feel like, taste like, look like, etc.? How do the 5 senses perceive the symptoms?

Concomitants

The chief symptom is the chest pain. The concomitants are what accompanies or follows the chest pain.

The concomitant symptoms nausea, occasional vomiting and diarrhea that follow the chest pain. Flatus (gas) is also present as well as belching.

The pattern was the pain followed by nausea about 1 hour later (occasionally vomiting) then the diarrhea would start an hour after the nausea. All symptoms would continue together until the diarrhea would end, then all other symptoms ended too.

She also had a craving for a salty snack with sweet pieces, “like a trail mix with peanuts and raisins or M & Ms”.

Locations

The pain in the chest is behind the sternum (the chest bone in the center of the chest to which the ribs attach and behind which are the heart and esophagus). Nausea was in the stomach and the diarrhea was in the bowels.

Aetiology

The pain began 2 months ago. She was married 2 ½ months ago.

Attacks occurred once or twice weekly; in the past 2 months she never went more than 10 days without an attack. If an attack occurred, it was always between 4 and 5 a.m., waking her. If untreated by the ER, the attacks lasted until early afternoon around 1 or 1:30 p.m.

She had a long history of digestive issues, beginning with projectile vomiting in her youth and continued throughout her lifetime. It happened soon after she would fall asleep (around 10 p.m.); occurred maybe once a month in her youth, then 3 or 4 times per year later in life. She had every medical test available to diagnose the condition but nothing was ever found. It was later decided by the medical profession that it was genetic as her father had a “sensitive stomach.” Anti-nausea drugs were given but were ineffective; she never had nausea, just the vomiting. In the end, she stopped the drugs and just dealt with the vomiting if it happened. It always happened shortly after falling asleep so it never disrupted her life.

Modalities

Although Jane was on several different drugs, there had been no change in the pattern or the occurrences. Her prescriptions were 2 different ones for nausea and 1 for GERD. When treated in the ER, the pain and subsequent symptoms ended an hour or two after onset.

She often feels dehydrated after an episode; when treated in the ER for the pain, they also treated the dehydration with IV fluids.

Jane modified her diet to include only bread, chicken and a few vegetables. She believed this helped “a little” with the severity of the pain but it did not decrease the frequency of the attacks. She has been unable to determine if her diet contributes to the pain, nausea or diarrhea.

All symptoms are better if crunched with knees up to chest. Worse if she is active.

No subsequent symptoms affect the pain in the chest.

Sensations

Pain: like “pressure and like a huge splinter sticking me in the heart. Like I was having a heart attack.” The sensation lasts throughout the attack; it does not lessen with vomiting or diarrhea.

Nausea and vomiting: the nausea came in waves of greater intensity; on those peaks she would either vomit or not. Emesis, vomitus, was undigested food from the night before, then she would have the dry heaves once the food was gone.

Diarrhea: explosive with gas that smelled like Sulphur; belching also smelled of Sulphur. Diarrhea smelled of Sulphur and was offensive. It is loose, watery. The early diarrhea has round brown balls mixed with pieces of undigested food from meals even several days ago—usually vegetables such as corn, peas or spinach; or “hard-to-digest foods”. As the diarrhea episodes continue, they just become brown water. Amount of each stooling is of little amount, much less than a typical bowel movement for her. During each episode she has approximately 5 bowel movements.

It often takes her 2 days to recover from the attack; she feels weak and tired after the episode.

Finding the Right Remedy

When looking for the right homeopathic remedy, the whole person has to be considered. All of the symptoms Jane relayed were of the physical condition, the changes physically. When asked about her mental/emotional status during the attacks, the only thing she mentioned was anxiety because she didn’t want the symptoms to get worse to where she had to go to the ER.

Having an underlying “weakness” in the digestive system, as seen in her long history of vomiting, it was evident that a stressful event would impact this system. Granted getting married is a stressful event, but what is the perception of the stress that is impacting her body?

How is Jane usually? Jane considered herself to be a thinker and a doer. She is always thinking of that next project, or of what needs to be done. She is happiest when she is actively working on a project or planning one. Her mind is always thinking. She used to have difficulty falling asleep because she was thinking so much; she loved to think every waking moment. She liked to wake early to start a project, even if she fell asleep relatively late; she used to wake up at sunrise (around 5 a.m. daily, even in the winter when the sun rose later in the morning). Now she sleeps a couple more hours before starting her day.

Lack of sleep has always been an issue for her, and she wondered if her symptoms are worse due to lack of sleep as she has been sleeping less the last couple of months because her husband and she own a business and this is the busy season, and they are newlyweds.

She loves being outdoors but is hating the winter this year because it is too cold and too much snow to go outside for any length of time. In the spring and summer she always has her windows open for fresh air.

She is very religious and prays often, although she is upset that her prayers regarding her chest have not been answered.

The following rubrics were chosen:

Thoughts, persistent
Ritualistic behaviors: praying.
Anxiety about health.
Ailments from diarrhea (weakness, tiredness, dehydration, need to recover for 2 days after event).
Delusion (belief) that she is forsaken (God has not answered her prayers).
Craving for salt and sweets.
Craves fresh air.
Fresh air ameliorates (makes her feel better).
Sensation of splinters, splinter-like pain in chest.
Pressing pains in chest.
Gastric complaints accompanied by flatus, from loss of sleep.
Onset or worse at night (between 10 p.m. and 6 a.m.)
Diarrhea and nausea.

The remedy selected: Argentum nitricum (Arg-n).

Interpretation

The common theme between Jane’s physical symptoms and her mental status was that she always felt better when she was moving, thinking, doing something. Her mind was always active and engaged in thought except when asleep. The diarrhea is a physical manifestation of rapid motion, rapid movement.

Before getting married, she used to awaken around 5 a.m. daily to do tasks or projects. Since marriage, she would sleep in. Her “attacks” occur between 4 and 5 a.m. when they do occur.

Result

Because Jane had misunderstood the instructions, she took only 1 dose in the month before her first follow-up. After that 1 dose of the Argentum nitricum Jane’s symptoms improved dramatically; she had only 1 attack in the month but the pain was so mild that she was able to fall asleep and it never progressed to having nausea or diarrhea. She was instructed to repeat the dose if the symptoms occurred again—but they never did.

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As my first draft of this article was approaching that of a big novel, I realized I needed to shorten it for an article. I originally intended to discuss 3 of the homeopathic aphorisms in detail—now I will touch on the first and shorten the second to just have the key points. I think you will likely get the idea just the same.

The Homeopathic Aphorisms are guiding principles laid out by the Founder of Homeopathy Dr. Samuel Hahnemann several centuries ago. Dr. Hahnemann was a physician, trained in the medical arts of the time; but when he discovered his patients weren’t actually healing under medical care, he chose to find something different—he discovered homeopathy. He then assigned guiding principles to this form of healing. This is the first aphorism:

“The high and only mission of a physician is to restore the sick to health, to cure as it is termed.”

We aren’t really taught to think of “cure,”or if we think of cure we see it is as the removal of symptoms, that the symptom is the disease itself. But what is cure really, in Hahnemann’s views? Cure is the complete restoration of health; and restoration of health is not only the removal of symptoms but the removal of the ENTIRE disease process.

Not disease management, not remission, not symptom suppression.A complete absence of the disease in its entirety.

The asthmatic would not wheeze or have shortness of breath—not because of taking her meds—but because she no longer has asthma. The man with arthritis wouldn’t have the pain not because he took the pain meds but because the joints were completely healed.

This is cure in the homeopathic sense.

Hahnemann’s second aphorism talks about the best method the physician is to use to provide this “permanent restoration of health:”

“The highest ideal of cure is the rapid, gentle and permanent restoration of health; that is, the lifting and annihilation of the disease in its entire extent in the shortest, most reliable, and least disadvantageous way, according to clearly realized principles.”

The first qualifier is that the cure be rapid, meaning moving, acting or improving with great speed. But what is the ideal time-frame for a cure?

Who is to say how long it will take a person to heal as it is very individualized and based on how long a person has had the illness. It is not up to the physician or the person to decide—the body decides. A person with a recent cold will very likely heal faster than someone who has had degenerative arthritis for the past 5 years.

The point is, though, that the cure should be as rapid as possible but always be moving forward.

The second qualifier is gentle. This puts a limit to the first qualifier. It should not be harsh or damaging in any way. Let’s look at an example: suppose you have to travel 100 miles from point A to point B. There are many methods to get there. You can go by foot; it may take 2-3 days and your joints are going to hurt a lot. You can use a bicycle and get there in a day or more; but it won’t be easy physically for most people to cover the distance without some discomfort. A motorcycle or scooter would get you there in a couple of hours and not cost a lot in gas. You can use a car and get there in a couple of hours; but you have the higher cost of the gas which some would see as not gentle. You can rent a helicopter or plane and get there more rapidly but the cost would be high. You can also strap yourself to a rocket and get there in minutes, but…well, the harm to your body would be extreme to say the least.

So, we see the quickest ways are also the most damaging (to the body or wallet). The slowest method is harmful to the body as well—taxing on the joints. Taking a car is the same speed as the motorcycle but costs more. So it appears the fastest and gentlest method would be the motorcycle or scooter—you can cover the distance in a couple of hours AND it is the most gentle on the wallet.

For healing, if the progress is too slow, the person is suffering too long and it is the physician’s responsibility to relieve the suffering. Conversely, if the remedy is causing too much suffering because it isn’t gentle enough, we aren’t doing a service to our patient either.

So for the healing to be ideal there has to be a balance between the rapidity and the gentleness.

The third qualifier is permanent restoration of health.Permanent—meaning lasting or forever. So once there is restoration of health, there should be no further symptoms. If it comes back, it is not cure, just symptom suppression or palliation.

But what is permanent? Does it mean once you heal the flu that the person would never get the flu again? Does it mean once the depression is healed that the person will never be sad again?

No.

Even after a person is cured, he may get sick with something again. However, it usually is resolved rapidly and without further complication.

Let’s look at “relapse” and “recurrence.” If something comes back soon after care or annuallyit is most likely a recurrence. If it comes back shortly after stopping the remedy, it means the cure has not been complete and is a relapse.

If a person stays healthy for a long time after stopping the remedy, then it is considered a cure.

So why does a person get sick again? An acute infection depends partly on the vitality of the person but also on the virulence of the bug. Chronic stress (physically, mentally or emotionally) can wear on a person, even a person who was restored to health. The person may be cured from the affliction they had. It then becomes the person’s responsibility to maintain that health state. If the person returns to eating poorly or having a high stress level, it will wear on the person’s health to the point where a disease process will again take hold. It may even cause thesame chronic condition the person had before if this is the area of “weakness” for the person.

Suppose you own a nice car and you have an accident because you were driving recklessly (a pre-existing condition) or someone hit you (the virulence of the bug). You now take your car to a mechanic (the homeopath). The mechanic polishes it and fixes the dents (with a remedy). He then hands you the car. Is it his responsibility that you drive safely or stay away from crazy drivers? No. If you drive carelessly or someone else hits you, you can again take your car to the mechanic to help with the damage, but after a while, even with the best repair work, the damage will still show, and the wear on the car will last longer (like age-related problems). If you decide to not use the car, when you go to start it, it won’t start as well (sedentary lifestyle). If you don’t get it serviced regularly with good oil and water (good diet and nutrition) there will be more wear and tear on your car (degeneration).

Ensuring cure is permanent is never the responsibility of the physician; it is the responsibility of the “owner” to ensure that his body, mind and spirit are cared for.

Now let’s look at the annihilation of the disease in its whole extent. Disease is not a thing but a process. Annihilation means the person as a whole gets back to optimum health—not just physical health but also mental, emotional and spiritual health. It is the removal of the ENTIRE disease process.

And the principles must be reliable, trustworthy. It becomes reliable when there is no relapse. It means that it has been proven in numerous clinical trials in numerous cases. Results are reproducible. All science is based on laws and rules. Without these, there is no reliability. Hahnemann wanted it so that everyone could be cured by following these rules. They are easily comprehensible, realizable so that they can help many. If they were too confusing, not everyone could be reached and healed.

The beginning of the aphorism stated: The highest ideal of cure.Ideal means perfect. But in real life, there are some times when a disease is incurable. Not every person with every disease can be cured. Still, the focus is to obtain the best, the highest ideal cure for each person. A person who was born with no kidneys will never have kidneys (which would be the ideal cure), but the highest ideal cure for the patient is to have the least impact from his state.

Homeopathy has the ability to affect great change in people—to heal them. All you need is someone to look at what your body is saying, interpret the symptoms and direct you to the right course of action. My focus is always to help the person attain the best possible health they can; my focus is always that highest ideal of cure, using the fastest, gentlest and most reliable method—I chose homeopathy. And I always say: “When it’s time to heal, choose a Classical Homeopath!”