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| Vita brevis, | Life is short, |
| Ars longa, | the art is long, |
| occasio praeceps, | opportunity fleeting, |
| experimentum periculosum, | Experience perilous, |
| iudicium difficile. | and judgment difficult. |
– Adams, Charles Darwin. The Genuine Works of Hippocrates. New York. Dover. 1868.
In certis unitas, in dubiis libertas, in omnibus charitas (In necessary things unity; in uncertain things liberty; in all things charity)
Dear Reader,
Welcome to our Spring 2021 issue! We continue to find ourselves in the middle of a pandemic with possibly no end in sight with the development of genetic variants of SARSCoV-2.1 Yet, though not unexpected, the lack of investment in proper investigational studies in alternatives to regular medications and vaccines is a cause for concern for open-minded physicians and the public. There are also serious concerns over safety and efficacy of the current vaccines on the market. “The world has bet the farm on vaccines as the solution to the pandemic, but the trials are not focused on answering the questions many might assume they are.” Peter Doshi reports.2 The current treatment guidelines of COVID-19, whether they are anti-viral, steroid, or monoclonal antibodies, offer anywhere from none to at most modest benefits to a small subset of patients—such as speeding up recovery time in hospitalized patients given remdesivir, or prevention of dying in supplemental O2 and ventilator patients given dexamethasone.3 In all these discussions of “COVID-19” as a “disease,” we are again reminded that as H. Coulter says, “The disease entity is a statistical mean or average of a number of different cases, and its description may not match the description of a single one of the observed cases … and it is hardly surprising that orthodox pathological and therapeutic theory pass through the bewildering changes and gyrations which are apparent to any student of medical history.”4 [Ed. It.]
In contradistinction to allopathic methodology, homeopathy classifies disease by the agent of cure; i.e., “the myriad cases of disease be ordered in terms of the medicines which cure them, or … that cases be distinguished from one another on the basis of their symptoms.”5 Thus, in the current epidemic, we find many homeopathic practitioners treating successfully individual cases of moderate severity of “COVID-19” without the fanfare of large scale studies.6 ,7 We continue to treat and study this disease, but the methodology of homeopathy has not changed in over 200 years, showing as Coulter observes that: “A well observed symptom is an unchanging datum. Careful physicians for generations have found that the homoeopathic characterizations of disease processes are as true for them as for their predecessors. The homoeopathic system is a sturdy and stable edifice because it rests on this firm methodologicalfoundation.”8
It is our sincere hope that the homeopathic community of practitioners continues to develop a more thorough therapeutic understanding of this disease so that such questions as Genius epidemicus and treatment of the different stages of this disease will be adequately answered only by demonstration of the effectiveness of the individualized treatment after the fact rather than by an “a priori” assessment of pathognomonic symptoms, confusing the situation and more in line with the allopathic approach because the “clinical presentation is variable.”9
Respectfully submitted,
Alex Bekker, MD
Editor in Chief, AJHM
First Vice President, AIH
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