Isopathy

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See also: Homeopathy and vaccination

Isopathy is a therapy related to homoeopathy. It was invented by Johann Joseph Wilhelm Lux ( 1773-1849) in the 1830s.

It differs from homeopathy in general in that the remedies are made up either from things that cause the disease or from products of the disease such as pus. These are referred to by isopaths as nosodes and are subdived into auto-nosodes and sarcodes. Many so-called homeopathic vaccines are in fact a form of isopathy.^[1]

Isopathy, giving nosodes or other remedies supposing to be equal to the disease is not according to traditional theory of homeopathy^[2]. Hahnemann:

• A third mode of employing medicines in diseases has been attempted to be created by means of Isopathy, as it is called - that is to say, a method of curing a given disease by the same contagious principle that produces it. But even granting this could be done, yet, after all, seeing that the virus is given to the patient highly potentized, and consequently, in an altered condition, the cure is effected only by opposing a simillimum to a simillimum. ^[3]

Mostly homeopaths try to give the simillimum, this means not giving the remedy equal but similar to the disease; this could be a nosode as well. Association: In psychology similarity appeal to the associative abilities, this is well known in education when working with metaphors.^[4]

Many of the criticisms that are leveled at homeopathy are also leveled at isopathy.

[edit] Notes

1. ^ Isopathy
2. ^ What is homeopathy: Isopathy
3. ^ The Organon of the Healing Art § 56 Sixth Edition
4. ^ Mental Menagerie: Animal Imagery