Editorial – Spring 2020

The more intense an acute disease, the more evident and numerous are its symptoms; while at the same time it is also easy to discover suitable remedies, provided there is a sufficient number of medicines to select from, whose positive action on the body is known. Among the symptoms produced by a great number of medicines, it is easy to find one that contains morbid elements, from which might be composed an artificial disease very similar to the totality of the symptoms of the natural disease that is present. This is precisely the remedy that is desirable.

Aphorism 152, (S. Hahnemann, Organon, Third American Edition, W. Radde)

Dear Reader,

It is with great pleasure that I submit to you for perusal the current issue of the journal. The section Of Some Interest will describe some of the highlights. Certainly, orthodox medicine’s current state of therapeutic bewilderment and near panic level anxiety about the novel coronavirus epidemic is not warranted for us as homeopaths. Many epidemics have been treated effectively in the past, and there is no reason to assume that this one is different as far as the adequacy of our state of homeopathic knowledge and ability. (See section In the News. ) There is a specific methodology of deriving the clinical genus epidemicus that must be followed and jumping the gun on speculating about the possible remedies can be counterproductive. We must wait for more treated cases, though some information has been published about the symptomatology in The Lancet that may prove to be useful. (www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(20)30183-5/fulltext)

As always, I am looking forward to your comments, suggestions, and submissions.

Warm regards,
Alex Bekker, MD
Editor in Chief, AJHM
First Vice President, AIH