Isopathy
The Isopathy is an alternative medical treatment, different from that of homeopathy is derived. It was founded in 1833 by the Leipzig veterinarian Johann Josef Wilhelm Lux (1773–1849). Efficacy has not yet been scientifically proven.
description
Lux assumed that he could treat animals with anthrax if he potentiated the blood of sick animals thirty times and then gave it to them for internal use. Instead of the “similarity principle” (“similia similibus curantur” - “similar things will heal similar things”) of homeopathy, he set the “principle of equality” (“aequalia aequalibus curantur” = “the same will heal the same”). The term "isopathy", which was mentioned by Samuel Hahnemann in Organon 5 (§ 56 footnote) as early as 1833, is no longer used in its original meaning, but rather associated with the biologist Günther Enderlein .
According to Enderlein, the isopathic healing principle was already known to ancient doctors. One would find it e.g. B. still today in the "cattle urine therapy" of traditional Indian medicine. The urine of the cattle would contain an abundance of so-called “spermites”. By this, Enderlein understands biological regulators from the cycle of a hypothetical , endogenous , polymorphic microorganism in the blood, which he called "endobiont". This microorganism in the blood can be found in all mammals and is responsible for a large number of chronic and degenerative diseases. Enderlein regarded this microorganism as a "primal symbiont " of the vertebrates, which penetrated into the precursor organism of the mammals hundreds of millions of years ago. The endobionts are subject to a natural regulation mechanism in which the more developed, disease-causing growth forms are broken down and excreted by the "spermites". The cattle are naturally highly contaminated, so that the urine contains plenty of "spermite". These are identical to the core proteins called "chondrites" of the mold " Mucor racemosus " (Fresen), from which Enderlein produced his isopathic remedy "Endobiont chondritin".
Lack of knowledge of the historical references and the enderleinschen original work is now under Isopathy a historical treatment direction of Alternative Medicine understood in the pathogens to remedies are processed.
Isopathy was based on the now refuted doctrine of pleomorphism , which was supported by some scientists at the end of the 19th century and the beginning of the 20th century, namely Antoine Béchamp and Günther Enderlein. According to this teaching, microorganisms would be present in the body under special conditions in various forms and stages of development. The healthy organism can break down the pathogenic, more highly developed forms and render them harmless, whereas the sick, over-acidic organism cannot. Through the administration of non-pathogenic developmental stages of a germ (protites or endobionts), a breakdown of the further developed bacteria or fungi can be triggered and the patient recovered.
The symbiosis balance can be restored through isotherapeutic drainage by means of certain medicines (which contain the primary forms of the pathogen in a prepared form according to the specifications of isopathy) . Products containing toxins in the body (e.g. pus), body products (e.g. hormones), conventional medicine and freshly obtained materials from the patient's body (e.g. autologous blood) serve as the basis for the medication.
In addition to drug therapy, isopathy is particularly concerned with maintaining the natural body environment. In addition to correcting the acid-base balance, a healthy diet with lots of fruits and vegetables and little animal protein is part of every isopathic therapy.
history
The founder of homeopathy, Samuel Hahnemann, criticized isopathy as early as 1842 as a method causing "calamity and aggravation of illness" (note on § 56, Organon der Heilkunst, 6th edition). Isopathy is therefore not to be confused with homeopathy in its thinking and understanding of disease.
In 1925, the zoologist Günther Enderlein (1872–1968) , who worked in Berlin and Leipzig , used dark field microscopy to describe mobile “mini-living beings” that, in his opinion, formed compounds with more highly organized bacteria. Depending on the milieu, the bacteria then develop into harmless or disease-causing bacteria. Microorganisms are thus able to change shape ( pleomorphism ).
Scientific consideration
Enderlein’s discoveries and postulates could not be understood by modern microbiology . The methods of isopathy are therefore not recognized in scientific medicine. Similar to homeopathy , there is no scientifically sound proof of the effectiveness of isopathy.
literature
- Emil von Behring : About healing principles, especially about the aetiological and isopathic healing principle. In: Deutsche Medizinische Wochenschrift 5, 1898 (Marburger Aula lecture).
- Johann Josef W. Lux: The isopathy of contagions or: all infectious diseases carry the means of their healing in their own infectious substances. Submitted to the Coriphae of Homeopathic for strict examination. Christian Ernst Kollmann Verlag, Leipzig 1833.
- Günther Enderlein: About the endobiontic nature of bovine leukosis. In: Akmon. Building blocks for full health and acmosophy. 1, No. 1, 1955, pp. 71-81.