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THE SPIRIT OF HOMEOPATHIC MEDICINES - Didier Grandgeorge
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HAHNEMANN said there are two treasures in life:
- good heath
- a clear conscience.

Homeopathy provides the first, Love of God and neighbours provides the second.

What is good health?
In HAHNEMANN's ORGANON we read that when we are in good health an energetic balance is prevalent in our body which promotes the correct function of our organs.The spirit which animates the body permits us to reach the highest purpose of our existence.

What is disease?
Disease is the consequence of a rupture of the energetic balance. For example look at the Greek mythological story of DANAÏD'S BARREL: the fifty daughters of the king of ARGOS DANAË, all exept one, killed their husbands the night of their wedding. As a consequence they were condemned to continuously fill a barrel. The barrel had holes from which the water escaped.
- The barrel represents the body
- The water our energy
- The holes are the unresolved problems of our unconsciousness.

Symptomatic ways of healing represent continuously filling the barrel.
Curative medicines plug the holes.

The TITANIC sank because of the iceberg: our psyche is like an iceberg. Consciousness is the visible part, unconsciousness is under the sea, invisible, crowded with our internal animals.

In the BIBLE, God created the animals, then God created Adam: he said "Adam, you have to name the animals"

In French there is a play on words between NOM(name) and NON(no): Adam had to say "no" to his internal animals, NO TO THE INSTINCTIVE FORCES HE HAD IN HIS UNCONSCIOUNESS.

China: the first pathogenesis made by HAHNEMANN
The first pathogenesis made by HAHNEMANN is a good example of this point of view: it showed fatigue from anemia by blood loss or from loss of fluid by prolonged diarrhea. Michel ZALA from FRANCE studied this remedy and gave the following image "a tree which has lost its bark": the consequence is an escape of energy. In fact CHINA is extracted from the bark of a Peruvian tree. But the mental symptoms of CHINA in the pathogenesis showed a great FEAR OF ANIMALS. WHY??? The person needing CHINA is afraid to look under the bark of his consciousness at the animals living in his unconsciousness: it means the fear of his internal animals.

For example it is the case for someone who refuses to do psychoanalysis and is always tired because of the holes in his Danaïde's barrel which he cannot plug. After taking this remedy he should be able to make the analysis and then to see the synthesis, the spirit.

After taking this remedy, by chance, HAHNEMANN was able to make a lot of pathogenesis, and to confront himself with the great part of his internal animals.

The Minotaur and the labyrinth
Unconscious is like the labyrinth of Greek mythology. THESEE is the man who went into the labyrinth and killed the minotaur.

It is the same symbolism with the bullfight: a man in a luminous costume (=a man who has the Knowledge) kills the bull (=says "NO" to his interior animals). To get out of the labyrinth, THESEE needed ARIANE'S THREAD.

The moral of the story is that Love is necessary to get out of the labyrinth!

The three qualities of love
Like white light which can be split into three basic constituant colors

  • blue
  • red
  • yellow

Love consists of three dimensions:

  • The first dimension of love is the infinite love provided to the baby in the womb of his mother who is a godly being. The baby is in an egotistical position: everything comes to him, he doesn't have to do anything, the mother provides everything for him. In this position, we say "I" It is a self centered existence.
  • The second one, in the middle of life, is love in a circle: your husband, the children, your society. Altruism is for all the people in the circle, but HELL is always possible: we are SERBIAN, you are CROAT and so on....
  • The third dimension: you say "them". It is the cosmic love for everybody: the centrifugal radiance of altruistic love. There is a play on words in French between DIEU-GOD, and dit"eux"-say"them".

CHRIST said "I am the light of the world" "I am one but I am three" because he had the three dimensions of love within him.

IT IS THE PURPOSE OF EVERYONE TO BE IN THE THREE DIMENSIONS OF LOVE, IN THE WHITE LIGHT, IN KNOWLEDGE.

The correspondence between the three dimensions of love, the three Hahnemann miasms, the three psychoanalytic levels described by FREUD, and the symbolism of the human body

  • The first position, the egotistic one,we say "I"
    It corresponds to the
    oral state of FREUD,the PSORA of HAHNEMANN, EROS for the Greeks.
    It is the condition of the foetus in the womb of its mother and the 18 first months of the baby's life. After birth there is a fear of deprivation, fear of suffering from cold, hunger, lack of oxygen from difficult breathing. The pleasure is to be caressed, to eat. The organic correspondances are the feet, intestines, the heart, mouth and nose. The typical diseases linked with this state are allergic conditions (in the womb we were protected against the exterior), respiratory diseases (ex.asthma) digestive diseases, cutaneous problems (eczema, psoriasis).
    At 6 months the child is teething, and a fear of being devoured appears: it is the
    Sadean oral state. In the world a lot of people live in the oral state in poor developed countries and suffer from diarrhea, tuberculosis, leprosy.
  • The second position, we say "we"
    It corresponds to the anal state of FREUD, the SYCOSIS of HAHNEMANN, PHILOS for Greeks.
    The child after the 18th month escapes the influence of the mother, and is attracted to the father who teaches him the limits necessary to live in society: being clean, controlling the sphincter, speaking for communication. We have to say: NO.
    In French there is a play on words between "NON" "NO"and "NOM" "NAME".
    "In the name of the father "means" within the limits learned from the father". We have to renounce the unlimitted period of the oral state, that is what paranoïac people refuse to do! People refusing to say "no", to avoid conflict and to remain in fusional love, will be invaded by cells without name: cancerous cells.
    Money problems and secret clubs are linked with this state which ends in the
    sadean anal state.
    In our rich society, with the importance of money, this state is predominant.The biggest companies try to impose their unique ways of thinking, as happened in the TOWER of BABEL where everybody had the same name!
    Physical symptoms are tumorous conditions, excess of weight, cholesterol and so on... Symbolic correspondences with the human body are the knee (in French: GENOU="JE-NOUS " "I-WE"), the kidneys, the heart, the ears.
  • The third position, we say "us"
    It corresponds to FREUD's OEDIPUS COMPLEX, HAHNEMANN's LUETISM and the Greek concept of AGAPE..
    After the age of 3 or 4, the child discovers the relationship that exists between his father and his mother. The node is
    jealousy, with the pulsion of killing the father to return with the mother's love. The central homeopathic remedy is lachesis.
    Lachesis is the name of one of the goddess Parque who protected Oedipe from being killed, by order of his father, when he was a baby.
    When he is 7 years old, the child escapes from this state after a mystical experience in which he renounced the urge to kill somebody and chose, instead, to love everybody.
    The organic correspondances are the FEMUR bone (FAIT MÛR=BEEING RIPE), the HIPES (Jacob fought all night with an angel - his interior animals - and became victorious for the price of a hip injury), the GROIN (l'AISNE=laHAINE). The liver (LE FOIE-LA FOI THE LIVER-THE FAITH).The eyes (Probleme d'yeux-probleme DIEU: problem with sight-problem with GOD).
    In society people raising this state are in the process of becoming "universal friends"
  • Clinical case: a young mother consulted me: "all of us in the family have eye problems" I hear "we all have problems with GOD in our family" according to the precedent "phonetical cabal" with the French word "d'yeux"-DIEU. So I asked her: "is your family religious ?" "No" "Our parents were Jewish, but they all disappeared in the concentration camps. "The remedy was OPIUM which means that the heaven doesn't exist.

Unresolved Psychological conflicts create our diseases
"In the beginning was the WORD, and the WORD became flesh"
This Biblical sentence explains the somatisation of our unconscious conflicts. In French there is a play on words between "mot" and "maux" (word and diseases). If you cannot say the word, you will suffer from disease. What you fail to affirm makes you infirm.
Our dis-ease becomes disease.

The three levels of our unconscious explain the exeption to individualisation

  • The collective unconscious: it is the level of the third dimension of love; the same remedy covers lots of people in societies experiencing epidemic conditions or collective intoxications. For example in FRANCE now every baby ingests daily large doses of Calcium Fluoride to prevent tooth decay: the mental of CALCAREA FLUORICA is materialism and fear of poverty which is typical in our advenced society.
  • The family unconscious: This level explains family history; the same remedy applies to several people of the same family: we are confronted with inherited family problems as in the case of OPIUM, mentioned before.
  • The individual unconscious: It is our own history, our own way of living. The remedy needs to be carefully determined by individual factors, and specifically tailored accordingly.

The different ways to cure a patient from psychoanalysis to allopathy through homeopathy
When the word strikes our ear (the level of psychoanalysis), the nervous influx brings information to the brain's cortex. There are neurotransmitters carrying the information from cell to cell: chemical substances, similar to thoses found in nature like OPIUM for example. After the first connection (the level of the similimum in the unicist homeopathy) this information is transmitted to several point (the level reached by pluralist homeopathy) and finally to the periphericals organs of our body (the level for complexism, phytotherapy, allopathy).
Homeopathy is a bridge which offers a link between the two parallel worlds: psychanalysis and allopathic medicine.
MARC BRUNSON, a Belgian homeopath, says that our materia medica is like a pile of bricks: if you understand the spirit of the remedy, you will see the castle! You can also
"speak the remedy" for a rapid psychanalysis and a fundamental cure.
For exemple a young mother, happy with her child's cure, decided to consult one of my colleagues for a gynecological problem. He decided to give her KREOSOTUM. After taking this remedy, she read in my book that this remedy was linked with the fear of rape. Instantly she remembered the day, when she was 10 years old, when her uncle raped her: all this had been forgotten, and the price she had paid for losing this memory was a lack of energy.

The spirit of some remedies linked with death and grief
Death and grief problems are very important causes of holes in our Danaïde's barrel. WOODY ALLEN says "As long as a man will know he is mortal, he will not be able to relax". The solution is to know that life continues after death, but that is another problem!


ARSENICUM ALBUM: the fear of the death of the body
Arsenicum album, the white metal, is suitable for people who don't think there is anything after life: they are clinging to material things, they don't want to lose anything.
Life is possible with a certain degree of
molecular restlessness:
- If it is too great, it is the death by fire, burning: arsenicum in acute cases
- If it is too little, it is death by freezing: arsenicum in chronic cases!
Example; an acute case: It is a case of media otitis in a girl about 6 years old. I saw her in the morning after a very restless night with high fever. In the morning, prostration alternating with restlessness, frequent thirst for small quantities of water.The mother was very anxious: "did'nt she need antibiotics?" I prescribed her Arsenicum album 15ch every hour and when I returned to see her in the middle of the day the fever had dropped, she was reading a book, and the mother was quiet. The tympanic membrane was the same as it had been in the morning: sticked out with pus. In the evening: no fever, tympanic menbrane well, she had a good afternoon. I asked her "Where you afraid of something?" "I didn't want Daddy to poison the little dogs!" In fact their dog had had puppies and they where planning to get rid of them with poison. And we meet again the old poison Arsenicum album!
In French phonetical cabalism the answer to death problem is in the word:
"la mort du corps" = "l'âme hors du corps" - "the death of the body" = "the soul out of the body"


URTICA URENS: the death of the father
Urtica urens is a "small remedy" well known for urticaria, fish poisonning, deficient milk in nursing mothers, rhumatism. The key of the spirit of this remedy was given to me by the following case: a boy, 8 years old, lost his daddy from a heart attack one night. His grandmother woke him and took him to her house, without being able to say to him "your daddy is dead". Over the following days he became covered with urticaria, and this country woman cured him with soup made from stinging nettles.
Sometime after I went to the hospital to see a newborn baby.The mother asked me for some remedy for her because she didn't have enough milk to breast feed her baby: I gave her Urtica urens with a good result. 8 days later I asked her "what happened that morning when your milk disappeared?" "the nurse brought my baby and I saw he was all yellow" "but that is just a normal jaundice of newborn infants! Tell me something about your father?" "My father died a few years ago of liver cancer: one day he turned yellow, and 3 weeks later he was dead!" When she saw here child yellow that morning she had remenbered, subconsciously, the death of her father.
Another day, a man brought me his boy, 4 years old, for chronic deafness with glue ear. He himself suffered from asthma. I asked him "why are you asthmatic?" "when I was young I had eczema and I have been treated by topical cortisone. Eczema disappearred and now I am asthmatic. "Okay: why did you have eczema ?" "My mother was nursing me at the time she suddenly lost her father and she stopped lactating. It meant I was weaned very abruptly, and I became covered in eczema". I gave both of them Urtica urens. One year later the father had fully recovered from his asthma and his child no longer had chronic otitis.
Urtica urens, stinging nettle contains a lot of silica and this remedy is very close to Silicea.
When a father kisses his baby, the touch of his beard or stubble pricks like nettlerash.


MURIATIC ACID and the death of the mother
A woman brought me her child, a boy 7 years old suffering from chronic bronchitis. In his health records I noticed "hemorroïds" several times. It is rare in children and I know that in KENT's repertory the one remedy for this symptom is Muriatic acid. I asked the mother "and you,how are you?" "not well: I never have a good sleep: I have terrible dreams - I dream that my mother is dying!" "and how is your mother?" "my mother died of tuberculosis when I was 7 years old". I referred to HAHNEMANN's materia medica and I read for Muriatic acid: "I dream of the death of my mother, the 4th day." I give them both Muriatic acid and they both recovered their good health.
Sometime after, a man brought me his baby for a 24th month examination. The baby was fine. At the end of the consultation, the father asked me for some remedy for hemorroïds. He had been suffering for 3 weeks without any result from allopathic medicines. I saw his anxious look, so I ask him "how is your mother?" The man sat down and with great distress explained to me he had heard 3 weeks before that his mother had been diagnosed with terminal cancer.


HURA BRASILIENSIS and the death of the child
One of us, PHILIPPE BARTHELET, presented one day the case of a woman suffering from rhumatic polyarthritis. He cured her well with Hura brasiliensis. He divined this remedy because she dreamed she was putting candles on the grave of her child who had died from leukemia several years earlier.
This symptom was similar to one in the pathogenesis made by BENOIT MÛRE with this remedy. I wondered if this substance was not linked with the anxiety resulting to the death of a child. Sometime after a woman came in with her 17 year old son. "My son is allergic to latex" I noticed the anxiety in her face "Has anyone lost a child in this family?" - because I knew hura brasiliensis was a latex (in the rhumatic polyarthritis the blood coagulates the latex) "my first child died of meningitis at 18 months!" she replied, weeping. I have subsequently treated, with succes, a lot of cases resulting from the death of a child with this remedy.
Hura brasiliensis is good for people who want to remain in fusional love with their children: to escape this one is obliged to die, or to have a disease like leprosy which exiles you from society. Our joints are composed of latex fibres which suffer in polyarthritis.


CALCAREA SILICICA: caring for the Dead
Calcarea silicica doesn't want to leave a dead person: it still take care of them, speaking with them.... These people are opposed to all vaccinations and eat only organic food. They give their children names of their ancestors.
A woman came to consult me about her 10 year old daugther, who couldn't sleep alone and who had slept with her mother since birth. Nobody had been able to do anything about this situation. The girl had unsuccessfully undergone psychotherapeutic treatement. Her medical records indicated that she had never been vaccinated. "My daugter isn't at any risk, due to our organic diet" claimed the mother who was dressed in dark clothing. "Have you ever suffered from grief?" "yes at 16 years I lost my father" "And now, your father, where is he?" "My father? But....he is here!" she pointed to the space next to her - vacant. "he never left me, I talk with him about everything" "I have never spoken of this before, because I was afraid people would think I was mad!"

As we can see, the spirit of the homeopathic medicine offers rapid access to the unconscious of our patients, and the physician becomes a guide in this labyrinth, able to help them to battle their internal beasts.

Didier Grandgeorge, Frejus, FRANCE


Références :
"The Spirit of Homeopathic Medicines" Didier Grandgeorge, MD. North Atlantic Books, Berkeley, California,1998.
"L'esprit du remède homéopathique : ce que le mal a dit" Dr Didier Grandgeorge. EdiComm 1992.
"Homéopathie chemin de vie : grandir sous le regard d'un pédiatre homéopathe" Dr Didier Grandgeorge. EdiComm 1998.
"L'homéopathie exactement" ouvrage collectif de l'Ecole Hahnemannienne de Fréjus-St.Raphaël, tomes 1, 2, 3, 4). EdiComm 1996-1999.

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