Biochemistry in Homoeopathic System of Medicine

Abstract

Background [1-3, 10, 20]: When Dr. John Paterson (1890-1955) of United Kingdom read out his paper on ‘Bowel Nosodes’ to the Rodanienne homoeopathic society at the meeting of the International Homoeopathic League Council in August 1949 at Lyon, France, he actually brought out the relation between biochemistry and homoeopathy. He not only presented the clinical aspects of the ‘bowel nosodes’ but also the biochemical analysis of each of the nosodes. Although Dr. Jacob Moleschott (1832-1893) and Dr. Justus Von Liebig (1803-1873) were the motivators to lay the fundamentals of biochemistry, the motivation could lead to the introduction of Biochemic system of medicine into homoeopathic therapeutics by Dr. Wilhelm Heinrich Schussler (1821-1898) after 24 years of Dr. Paterson’s efforts i.e. in 1973. Dr. Schussler introduced more and more biodynamic explanations for therapeutics of mineral salts. The Biochemic system of medicine or the inorganic cell salt therapy is the oldest form of nutraceutical therapy approved and recognised by the World Health Organisation (WHO) as one of the complementary therapies. Dr. Schussler developed the Schussler tissue remedies using an unique system of cellular therapy, biochemistry (the chemistry of living tissues) which continue to be popular in homoeopathic therapeutics in current times. As each & every drug in Homoeopathy is only proved on human beings, all the drugs have a mental component as it is only human beings who can express their physical & mental symptoms during proving of the drugs as per the guidelines set by the Homoeopathic Research Councils (HRC) of each nation. In India, Central Council for Research in Homoeopathy, an autonomous body under the ministry of AYUSH lays out such guidelines. The article gains more relevance during the current COVID 19 pandemic which has precipitated the stress levels of population since March 2020 and most of them are more prone to physical and mental disorders during their life stage thus disturbing the biochemistry of the body. The biochemic system of in homoeopathic therapeutics tries to restore this disturbed biochemistry.