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Tuesday, June 8, 2010

[Nagorik_Shokti] The Monster With A Thousand Heads



 

The Monster With A Thousand Heads : The Organon and Statistics

-- Remus Mihaila, MD
 

"It is easy to doubt matters which cannot be laid before our ocular vision, but in itself this doubt proves nothing at all, for according to the old rule of logic: negantis est probare"

from The Chronic Diseases ( I:79)

Based on the 6th edition of The Organon of the Medical Art and The Chronic Diseases Their Peculiar Nature and Their Homeopathic Cure 1, 2, two most important books written by the founder of Homeopathy Dr. Samuel Hahnemann, I have decided to further show the links between the superior philosophical concepts regarding disease and treatment in Homeopathy on one side, and their consequences for the future, and on the other side. I have also tried to show the usefulness, actually the necessity, of mathematics as a tool when applied correctly, in describing such concepts at the level of biological sciences, with its most common application - the bio statistics.3

The simple statistical model that I want to present here, through its incontestable recognized validity,3 has many usages and consequences, in particular on the correct understanding of the relation between health and disease, disease definition and levels, and the correct level where the treatment of chronic diseases in particular should be calibrated on objective facts, in accord with the original ideas that we can find in the founding homeopathic books.1, 2

To further illustrate the above ideas, I would first of all like to present the set of concepts as they are described by Dr. Samuel Hahnemann, that would lead to the idea of making such a model, in their original presentation as they are described in The Organon of the Medical Art the 6th Edition1 and in The Chronic Diseases Their Peculiar Nature and Their Homeopathic Cure.2

1.The Organon

Aphorism 103 – " I had to investigate the chronic wasting sickness (namely and principally Psora) much more exactly than ever before. I had to do this because of the extent of the symptoms in these chronic diseases and also because one patient carries only a part of the symptoms in himself, while a second or third patient, etc suffers from some other befallments which likewise as it were, are only a part torn off from the totality of the symptoms that make up the entire extent of one and the same disease. Therefore, the complex of all the symptoms belonging to such a miasmtic wasting sickness (in particular psora) can only be ascertained from very many such individual chronic patients. Without such a complete overview and total image, the medicines that are homeopathically curative for the whole wasting sickness (namely the antipsorics) cannot be searched out. These medicines are at the same time, the true remedies for the individual patients that are suffering from these chronic maladies"

2.      The Chronic Diseases

"But usually, after repeated attempts to conquer the disease which appeared in a form always somewhat changed, residual complaints appeared which Homeopathic medicines hitherto proved, though not few, had to leave uneradicated, yea often undiminished". (I:4)

"What was the reason of the thousands of unsuccessful endeavours to heal the other diseases of a chronic nature so that lasting health might result? Might this be caused, perhaps by the still too small number of Homeopathic remedial means that have so far been proved as to their pure action?, The followers of Homeopathy have hitherto thus consoled themselves; but this excuse, or so called consolation, never satisfied the founder of Homeopathy particularly because even the new additions of proved valuable medicines, increasing from year to year, have not advanced the healing of chronic (non venereal) diseases by a single step…" (I:4; emphasis added)

"…What is there to prevent this? The answer to this question which is so natural, inevitably led me to discover the nature of these chronic diseases…. The Giver of all good things permitted me within this space of time to gradually solve this sublime problem through unremitting thought, indefatigable inquiry, faithful observation and the most accurate experiments made for the welfare of Humanity". (I:5)

" These are the characteristic secondary symptoms of the long unacknowledged, thousand-headed monster, pregnant with disease, the Psora, the original miasmtic malady which now makes its manifest appearance". (I:78; emphasis added)

And also below, one of the most peculiar and hidden paragraphs, in an explicative note: 

"To prove the psoric nature of these chronic diseases without acknowledged infection, we do not even need the fact that the anti psoric remedies prove effectual therein; this serves only like the proof to a correctly solved mathematical problem" (I:79; emphasis added).

I consider the above paragraphs of greatest relevance for my demonstration as they are at its base. They indicate a statistical model which I consider to be a necessary reality, starting right from the beginning, with my lectures on homeopathic texts and in particular on The Organon of the Medical Art.

Although I make below a presentation for the theoretical model and its collateral ideas, a few years ago I used the same principle which I describe today, and the results were surprising and a real proof for the validity of the model itself that anybody can try any time. At that time, using the results only for justifying economical needs, I did not know that a wonderful science has already founded a whole system on such observations, and that this validates its usefulness and truth.

Samuel Hahnemann observed from clinical experience that in chronic diseases, although he and those that followed the homeopathic principles correctly, have applied the treatment as indicated by these principles in counting the totality of the individual signs and symptoms, there were patients with relapses and for them the disease did not stop in its progress.1,2

Through careful observation, he could see at some point the cause of these failures was the impossibility of treating some patients with chronic diseases. These belong to a disease that is at another logical level than the combination of individual signs and symptoms, and is invisible to the eye in its totality. It is a collective statistical disease that makes the remedy almost impossible to find if we start at the individual level.

I will show below that the collective statistical disease does exist indeed.

Samuel Hahnemann made the connection with the ways of transmission and origins of such disease, and he showed the links of the statistical disease with certain origins and ways of transmission, in particular parasites and micro organisms. He also discovered there is not only one such collective disease. During his life, he proved three of them which have origins in infectious diseases. He called them Miasm and they were Psora, Syphilis, and Sycosis; of which Psora is the oldest and the most widespread amongst the patients with chronic diseases. To avoid their transmission, the treatment of the miasms must always be homeopathic from the start, from the moment of infection to avoid the contamination of the new subject with the disease, and to further avoid the spread of such a disease in ways that may not necessarily be via infection.

Based on the above, I would like to show that in fact miasms are statistical diseases in the common sense.

Following Samuel Hahnemann, through the work of other homeopaths, other major miasms have been discovered and connected with their ways of transmission

However, there is another homeopathic principle which states that for homeopathy it is not necessarily important which types of stressors are involved in the development of a disease. We may never have complete access to the full possible variations in the type of stressors or their strength. Combined with a logically possible internal susceptibility, and based on the above as a principle of incontestable validity, I have started in the search of mathematical functions that would best describe such an idea.

Searching for possible models, I have first realized that Homeopathy does not use any quantitative concepts in the description of the disease parameter. It operates with perceptible signs and symptoms which statistically speaking are qualitative variables, and not quantitative or numeric variables.

Inside the science of statistics, I have found a few mathematical functions or tests belonging to inductive statistics, which are used in data correlation, and when applied these will show if there is a mathematical correlation between variables. Amongst them, there is a specific statistical function, the Chi square test that can in particular be used to show and certify such correlations between variables.

This is exactly our case and I believe is a clarifying answer.

As we want to find valid correlations between signs and symptoms, as qualitative variables, and Chi square is more permeable to errors in introducing these variables, it is without doubts that this function is suitable for our purpose.3

At the same time, being permeable to certain errors in introducing the qualitative data to be processed, Chi square is also indicated by the fact that it would be impossible to accept that any symptom which at any point in time is similar at the conceptual level to the same symptom in another patient, can at the same time be fully similar to the same symptom in another patient in reality, in its objective expression.

For that reason, as we are starting from homeopathic principles which indicate such a study, we need to further expand the study with the aid of and inside homeopathy. It is a necessity that in performing the study, the best description of qualitative data (symptoms and signs) will find their expression in the homeopathic Materia Medica, as the place we can find maximum degrees of expressing the perceptible signs and symptoms we see in patients with chronic diseases suitable for our study.

The Chi square function

The Chi square test is a statistical function that shows if 2 qualitative variables are independent in a random population and it has a wide range of applications in research within biological sciences.3

It can only test if the two variables are independent without indicating, which is smaller of greater. It does not express quantitative differences between variables, it just express if the variables are independent or correlated.

The first step in applying the chi square test is to establish the correct hypothesis. The null hypothesis is indicating that the two variables are not correlated and they are independent.

There are many tutorials on the web for the Chi square function and its applications and is not the purpose of this communication to be a Chi square tutorial which is a clear mathematical function with well defined characteristics and very simple to use and calculate.

Our hypothesis is that in a 2x2 table, in the 2 rows present or not present are variables indicating the patients that have a specific symptom and the patients that do not have it. In the columns are the symptoms to be checked for the null hypothesis (for independence). Symptom 1 is tested against all other symptoms until we finish the testing of it with the symptom 1 with all the others we have found in the randomly chosen patients.

The Chi square shortcut function for 2x2 tables is:

 

 

 

 

 

A

B

A + B

 

C

D

C + D

 

A + C

B + D

A + B + C + D = N

X2 =                 N (AD – BC)2        

           __________________________     

           (A + C) (B + D) (A + B) (C + D)

Theoretical examples:

 

Present

Not present

Total

Symptom 1

67

34

101

Symptom 2

36

15

51

Total

103

49

152

Chi Square 0.2804

For significance at .05 level Chi Square should be >/= 3.84 which is the minimum level where we can accept or reject the null hypothesis using the Chi square function.

The distribution is not significant

 

Present

Not present

Total

Symptom 1

23

55

78

Symptom 3

36

22

58

Total

59

77

136

Chi Square 14.377

P </= 0.01

The distribution is significant

The degrees of freedom for the 2x2 table are 1.

If we would have for example 30 symptoms as a total after introducing random data from individual patients, S1 to S30, then, as shown before we will test S1 with all the other 29 independent symptoms in 2x2 tables, and for example we find that S1 has a statistical correlation with S5, S6, S9, and S22; then if from the practical result we cannot reject the null hypothesis for S1 being associated with the variables mentioned, then we cannot reject that they are all associated with each other as well.

We do the same with each one of the symptoms until we have tested them all against possible correlations and we have finished all the possible combinations, and then we connect the correlative chains together. As they all are independent, they will join in an imaginary root at the source that has produced the qualitative variables.

In such a way we have built a three-dimensional inductive statistical disease, impossible to see in any of the individuals who belong to it. It is a reality that cannot be seen but it is as real as anything we can see with the open eyes.

Conditions in using Chi square function:

The sample must be randomly drawn from the population.

Data must be reported in raw frequencies (not percentages);

Measured variables must be independent;

Values/categories on independent and dependent variables must be mutually exclusive and exhaustive;

Observed frequencies cannot be too small.

Before discussing the ideas derived from these theoretical facts and this model, which is specific within the science of homeopathy, I would like to further comment on some of the ideas at their general conceptual level, starting from the level of accepted validity of the above model.

As shown above in the mentioned texts, the model is first of all I believe, in complete concordance with the original ideas of the founder of the science of Homeopathy Dr. Samuel Hahnemann. It is first of all showing the philosophical level at which homeopathy was created. It is a complete conception about the term chronic disease and its consecutive treatment, which reaches the heights of the absolute. It is a true system of medicine derived from fine observations and their correct interpretations. 1,2

First of all, as we all know that in homeopathy the correct diagnosis equals the correct treatment through the correct identification of the remedy, further search past that point is not necessary or possible.  When we have 1 remedy being identified through the statistical model for a particular chain of associated symptoms we can say we have revealed one of the heads of the monster. This is a statistical disease, discovered in an objective way through inductive statistics, using a superior logical model indicated by homeopathy. It is a miasm in full light, without the need to find its origins or ways of transmission. It shows clearly at which level, and why and how we need to start the treatment.1,2

A consequence of the above facts is also a logical necessity in accepting the movements of the "heads of the monster" in different planes, as suggested by the results. The weakness of the statistical model through its incapacity to reach 100% precision is also its strength and warning. It is a small lack of precision that is showing a variation that it cannot catch at the time of its application, which is nothing else than the movement of the living statistical disease in all possible directions. That is exactly what the inherent small level of errors of the model is showing in an objective way. A movement is a development, a dynamic movement in a certain direction, and not a fixed entity that can be expressed in definitive numbers or states.

A first possible cause of such movement can be related to the previous idea, that as we do not have total access to all the factors which can produce disease in general, and such a statistical disease in particular, it is without doubt a reality that the above stressors have an important geographical variation in presence and strength, also leading to a variable geographical response in the individuals. In such a case, for many miasmatic diseases we cannot use correctly the miasmatic remedy that we find by using this model, without testing the validity of the expression for that remedy on a specific territory, and then using its objective and possibly specific certification, which is the presence of the particular miasm. This is especially so when we are at a very long distance from the territory where a remedy was calibrated on a local miasmtic tendency. Based on the above, and combined with the specific characteristics of a population, I expect that we will find different miasmtic tendencies in different geographical areas.

It is another example, which illustrates how Dr. Samuel Hahnemann had good reason to use the metaphoric image of a monster with a thousand heads. This symbol as it is shown here expresses his mathematical thinking, and also his surprise of the developments of the disease itself, an invisible living creature revealed only by statistics. And we will further see how that this also refers to the constitution as well.4

If we process the data we have obtained at the statistical level and we find the main separate tendencies, it is obvious that they are all joining together as they are dynamic entities present in human populations. Without the human subjects they would not exist. It is an imaginary monster with many heads (revealed by statistics) of the same biological body.1,2,5

A consequential result is that at the level of representation, the homeopathic remedy suitable for the treatment of that level has a circular shape at the individual level, (where it was first created using descriptive statistics), then travels around the body in an imaginary circle which closes at the mental level. It then becomes spherical in its full three-dimensional (via inductive statistics) shape, best described by Leonardo Da Vinci's Vitruvian Man.6,7 The Vitruvian Man shows how the human body can anatomically fit at the same time in a circle in one plane, then becomes a sphere in a three-dimensional plan. Both are geometrical shapes of the absolute. At the same time it will also fit perfectly inside a square in one plane that becomes a cube in a three-dimensional plane, both being geometrical shapes of mathematics and calculus. In the original drawing we can also see how the human can touch both the circle and the square with the middle finger which is number three regardless of where we start counting the fingers of one hand. This is also a universal reality indicating the negation of duality. This is a conceptual connection beyond coincidence, lying between ideas and representation. The drawing shows a philosophy of medicine, telling the message and universal truth that Leonardo Da Vinci wanted to send from his time. It is a way of thinking as a source, and not a simple coincidental drawing as it may look at the first sight. Simple and very complex, with many meanings, an art in itself, and in the same time an inspiring way of thinking, speaking about numbers as well, which seems to transcend historical time.

Following the above, a most surprising idea self-arises from this calculation and model.

Creating the statistical remedy has first of all an importance in the treatment of the total statistical disease at its dynamic functional level.

However the statistical remedy itself was created using descriptive statistics, adding together symptoms and signs of the individuals from provings on healthy people.1,2,8,9 For the above model we have used inductive statistics which in fact magnify the total picture in a three-dimensional plane, like accessing another dimension. It is clear that the remedy we created in such way is a perfect three-dimensional spherical image of the similar disease, and is showing and acting at the same time at the level of three-dimensional possibility in the individual patient.

The same remedy in such a way is the measure of a dynamic specific level as an incontestable proof of a constitutional functional answer 4 inside a population (a group) and at the same time at the individual level in that population. It is a constitutional and functional memory at the same time. It has the characteristics of a memory as it is a calculated entity and has a definite presence and at the same time is complex functional as indicated by the lack of the total number of organic symptoms in an individual that join together only after using a statistical function. Something we can see through a simple mathematical function, but we cannot fully describe it, as that is exactly the key in mathematics, its inability to describe a functional memory that we can see as our psychological level has a start exactly at such level and has the freedom to express it.10,11,12

Even if we start building the remedy only at the organic level, using organic ways of expression where the standard is more clearly defined, just like any homeopathic remedy; the calculated statistical remedy is also asking for its specific set of psychological tendencies. This time it is at a calculated expression in a population, and is a reflection of the level of its possible presence in the individual as a multidimensional (non dimensional) reality.

That has several consequences.

In such a case, the psychological level is an immeasurable dynamic function in itself, and supposedly is the result and expression of those lower levels of dynamic cumulative functional tendencies, which arise from the imperceptible organic molecular developments, and it then has imaginary layers within the same function, each one expressing a qualitative difference from the others. Based on its unique characteristics and unitary way of expression, we can safely search and most definitely find psychological particularities in the statistical disease characteristics.

These are measured by the matching remedy inside the perceptible language of this function, without even the presence of virtually any perceptible organic symptom at the body level. The perceptibly expressed psychological function is the magnified expression of a microscopically functional and non-perceptible level of smaller invisible functional combinations, which pre-exist before reaching the expressed level. Thus if the statistical tendency does exist in an individual, supposedly only at the microscopic imperceptible level, it is impossible not to be expressed in its dynamic movement by the superior perceptible levels, which are the instantly magnified image of the dynamic movement at the microscopic level. Also small movements in the layer below within the same function will lead to big movements of the above level.

Dorn, one of the followers of Paracelsus, best describes that in De Speculativa philosophia: "Sic paulatim scintillas aliquot magis ac magis indies perlucere suis oculis mentabulis percipiet, ac in tantam excrescere lucem, ut succesivo tempore quaevis innotescant, quae sibi necessaria fuerint."  ("That is how he will perceive with his spiritual eye as some sparkles will be more and more transparent day after day, joining together in a such bright light as after that, he will know everything is necessary for him".) 10  

This is a functional memory in its full light, sitting above a multidimensional (non dimensional) reality that communicates between planes through the Ether, as a Sun above a Kingdom with no borders and no enemies It has the freedom to describe itself and its own creation in simple words, as being the result of an original need that has no causality.

It is an example of how words are created as spherical entities at the subliminal level of the collective subconscious from where they start being perceptible, just before being expressed at the individual level. This is at the collective level of functional memory, and then they travel through different layers of individual expression as through the Ether and reach their expressed level in an individual. This is a result of a functional need that is contained in itself as an individual functional three-dimensional memory, where "the possible" is equal with the image we see in front of out eyes.

If Psora is present in an individual, it will peculiarly deviate the formation of ideas and words in a certain dynamic direction that the practitioner must find.1,2,4,5,13

He was also indicating, as Paracelsus also did, the presence of an "invisibilem solem plurimis incognitum" inside the human.10

The characteristics of the psychological level as a function above another non-perceptible functional level, allow further investigations without the change in the concept of the characteristic itself. It is a function that has no other way to express itself than through the magnified answers of the same function at the lower levels. Up and down and in all directions within that function we have variations of the same level of expression without change in the ways of expression, as in the case of the body where things start from a functional level to a defined organic expression. Having an organic base as well, the psychological level has a depth that is perceptible without the requirement of any other tools. At any time we may be able to see a tendency within itself using the same concepts without switching the concepts. That is not possible at the organic level without starting to measure things which require continuous changes in the tools we use, the more we go inside the organic below the symptoms.

As the psychological level is by itself as a concept and function, independent in its way of showing perceptible symptoms, there are no doubts we need to consider that level, practically and conceptually as mentioned, as a separate function, based on its unity and unicity of self expression, in a different way compared with the all the organic ways of expression. Then we can say there is a central tendency for a remedy at that level in an individual. Even if we would consider the individual body as a unitary entity without separating the different organs in systems, the characteristics of the statistical remedy are not present at that level, as we built its presence based exactly on the lack of the individual characteristics.

In that way, being a unique function where the symptoms have actually only a functional dynamic way of expression, and having its roots in lower levels of functional activities, the psychological level indicates independence in expressing some tendencies. It is a unique function that is expressing other functional levels. It does not require the presence of any of the organic symptoms to actually indicate by itself the presence of the possible dynamic statistical movement at the individual functional level which precedes the organic expressions, and which can possibly lead to perceptible organic disease symptoms in the course of time.

That is not the situation with the organic perceptible symptoms. If we have the example of a patient in which we see just one perceptible symptom and that symptom belongs to the statistical disease, we would not be able to easily and precisely identify the statistical remedy at the individual level. To do this we would need to calculate the correlations based on such a model, or we would need to reveal with great precision  the peculiar psychological characteristics that belong to that remedy. This requires skills and experience, but at the same time there is no better medical device to follow a mind than another mind (the practitioner's) looking for specific tendencies belonging to a disease. The weakness of this method is actually its validated valuable strength as well.

If we further develop the idea, if the functional level seems to mathematically indicate the presence of another level of memory, the functional memory, above and past DNA or even included at its level as an inductive and immeasurable memory as precise as the genetic model is, then any normal individual psychological tendencies that are perceptible and are also matching the characteristics of a statistical remedy in a population, must be carefully monitored in its dynamics as it is possible that when it becomes of a marked intensity measured by the patient itself in his feelings, it can be a warning of a future possible organic pathology and may indicate homeopathic treatment using the miasmtic remedy as a prevention of further such developments. Sulphur for example as one of the miasmtic remedies discovered by Samuel Hahnemann will treat the "ragged philosopher" and actually strengthen the philosopher within its own limits of happiness, a difference measured by the individual strength, a measure that the individual would perceive if things tend to become too intense.

And we have today practical models and methods, such as the one discovered and promoted by Dr. Rajan Sankaran, one of the masters of modern homeopathy. Dr. Rajan Sankaran shows in all his books, the real practical results we can get with homeopathy as a treatment, using the peculiar psychological characteristics and tendencies of the patient in finding the correct remedy.13

If instead of following the organic symptoms of the individual, we simply follow a special and unique function that can express itself tri dimensionally (which we can classify for purely logical purposes as an "organ - function") within the same function; and then we consider its qualitative specificity in expression, unicity and unity; then the "organ-function" is revealed as a superior dynamic complex function, which is independent from the body and organs at least in its level and ways of expression. Thus we find the functional level everywhere in the body in different ways of expression.

It does incorporate present and past, individual and collectively in a way that no other level of the body organic functional level itself can show, as demonstrated.

The self arising consequence from finding the statistical remedy and its specific mental dynamic tendencies, arising from this conceptual classification, plus the result that indicates them as a necessary presence, thus become incontestable proofs for the presence of the collective subconscious.10 It is a simple, logical and objective demonstration of first of all it's existence, and secondly its presence, in any one of its various forms. It demonstrates the dynamic constitutional mental characteristics of a statistical disease, which is more at the level of possibility, and matches the mental characteristics of the miasmtic remedy that is self-arising from the statistical model.

Homeopathy is an independent system of Medicine and a science.1,2,5,8,9 With the help of a statistical model deriving from its own concepts, it proves in a simple and objective way the presence of what used to be and maybe still is for many, "a controversial concept". It's general meanings are present in many psychological or philosophical systems, but just as  postulated general concepts without a specific clear standard, and without a proven existence as independent reality of the so much debated and also valued Collective Subconscious.11

If we have a perceptible organic symptom belonging to the statistical disease, can we go further below that to find more about it or about the disease? The symptom in itself is a cumulative qualitative measure that as we will further see, does expand itself below in an imaginary conical shape.

On the other side, the presence of any of the organic symptoms is also an indication for the statistical remedy.

Inside, at the functional level we have a defined constitution for a specific disease tendency (seemingly spherical in its shape), which is impossible to measure in its quantity, due to our tendency to use inductive statistical tests starting from individuals who express only a part of the same visible tendency.

These results also show that the disease is extending for the same reason as we created it, using a statistical correlative function showing things are accumulative and not disseminative.

The chi square test itself is indicating an individual level of well-defined possibilities that we can see only at the collective level at the moment we have used it. Virtually, at the level of a spherical three-dimensional possibility, each individual patient can have in time all the symptoms, an indication that if not treated perfectly at the level of possibility, things are advancing towards accumulation in the proximal descriptive visible reality. Therefore they are not a protective mechanism avoiding the functional collapse as may be considered by mistake.

At the same time, the functional constitution differs in its three dimensional characteristics in different people belonging to a population, and we may also find that not all people belong to a specific statistical disease tendency in a defined population.

This is a complete "genetic" model of the statistical functional disease tendency, having at the base a precise functional memory, also indicating its correct treatment, a dynamic, functional treatment matching perfectly the statistical spherical level of development for the specific miasm.

The model also shows that the disease could start within the susceptible individuals anytime at any point from the surface within a spherical shape of possible functional developments, and that level is as a consequence, a functional memory.

Then how are we going to calibrate the current view of the genetic model on such a development? I believe it is currently impossible, and the first idea arising from here is that we may need to accept another level of memory that is functional, and although supposedly past DNA it may well be included at the DNA level as a defined independent functional entity. This would be impossible to measure although it seems that at the individual level it can be fully described by using inductive functions. That is a reality that we could not see without inductive statistical functions and at the same time it is impossible to calibrate at the molecular level. The functional memory may be logically speaking contained at the DNA level, but it will be impossible to calibrate, and it shows that the genetic model is incomplete in its description. We can accept the functional level of memory at the DNA level, but it is impossible to measure it with the tools we currently have.

The remedy and the statistical disease indicate the presence of the functional constitution that is either post DNA, or at its level, and the cumulative cone is with the base inside and the top outside at the level of perceptible symptoms.

The statistical disease is an objective fact. It also shows that the accumulation comes from inside the organic level, and makes a full picture past the level of perceptible symptoms, and is imaginary outside the individual body. The mathematical model in fact indicates an internal functional predisposition. Although it is evidently expressing parts of the disease at the body level, that level is already too low yet at the same time is a maximum limited by the perceptible symptoms, without any chance to show it in its full development.

If that would happen, we are at an end, which is very close and easy to see by everybody.

And as the above is logically correct, the following implication is that searching for the statistical disease below the perceptible symptoms backwards towards the DNA will show the same pattern, but a hundred times more complicated in its individual variations.

The organic and well-defined microscopic world changes below the level of perceptible symptoms. It extends and varies a thousand times more than the statistically perceptible movements of the heads of the monster.

That is another incontestable proof of the philosophical level reaching the heights of the absolute on which the Organon was created, showing that investigation inside the body will be impossible to follow at the level of present possibilities and has no logical reasons, as it will not find a measurable answer that will describe the disease as a totality. For an organic symptom to be perceptible by the patient and consequently by the practitioner, it requires combinations impossible to calibrate and follow deep inside at the molecular level. The world of qualitative changes is showing to extend inside as a cumulative imaginary cone with the top at the level of perceptible symptoms and the base inside at a precise functional level.

Based on the above facts it is not logical to consider that the organic symptoms are different at the organic level. They constitute the statistical disease, which shows that although we are on a maximum we are on an inadequate level of reality if we take as a standard the expressed organic individual level. Below them we can reconstitute that disease if we search towards DNA, as we do in searching the particular characteristics of the statistical disease at the psychological level. It shows that the reverse way towards DNA will not find that measurable disease tendency at the genetic level, as we imagine it today. It is at another level of reality, which is impossible to show without a mathematical function in any of the individuals that belong to the same miasm. The only way to see the full disease in an individual is when the possible disease has already become organic and is no longer inductive.

The above is in total concordance with the idea we find inside the books of Dr. Samuel Hahnemann,1,2 that the truth we need for the cure is not inside the molecular universe of the body more than it is on the skin (at the perceptible level of symptoms). When we have cured the visible symptoms we have treated the disease in its complexity as stated in the Organon of the medical art:

"As little as we mortals can see into the process in the household of healthy life – which must remain hidden from us creatures just as certainly as this process is exposed to the eye of the all-seeing Creator and Sustainer of his creatures – just as little can we see into the internal process of disturbed life in diseases. The inner process in diseases becomes known to us only through perceptible alterations, ailments and symptoms; this is the only way our life gives utterance to the inner disturbances."  (1; p. 27, n. 21)

As an example, the nature itself shows that the dynamic flow inside the patient requires time to be expressed in perceptible symptoms from the moment of infection for example to the moment of perceptible expression. And what does that show more than certifying once again that the perceptible symptoms are a result of an accumulation that comes from inside outside, towards the perceptible symptoms in a conical shape with the top at the surface and the base at a level of functional possibilities within a well defined memory?

"Does it not take three, four or five days after vaccination is effected, before the vaccinated spot becomes inflamed? Does not the sort of fever developed – the signs of the completion of the disease – appear even later, when the protecting pock has been fully formed; i.e. on the seventh or eight day?" (2; I:33n)

The organic, perceptible symptoms are on an imaginary projection in between the molecular functional level that is the base of a cone shape with the top at the level of the statistical disease. They are also at the same time a maximum of what can be expressed, the top of a smaller cone (the individual cone) with the same base, the molecular functional level.

That shows nothing more than that we need to postulate again the evidence of a different level of memory, a multidimensional (non dimensional) memory which although it may be at the DNA level, needs to be there by itself as a separate functional entity. Moreover it appears independent and spherical in its representation. If the inherited functional level were transmitted through DNA, the only place where we have an expressed validation of the DNA characteristic would be at the psychological level, as a perceptible function that is the result of smaller levels of the same way of expression.13

The fact that the above dissociation at the organic level does not follow the same rule at the psychological level is also a logical consequence arising from the general major differences in properties between the psychological characteristics and the organic ways of expression. It is also a consequence of the radically different functional level on which the world of ideas is organized, buffered from chemical processes by immeasurable layers of functional activities separated by Ether, in comparison with the organic individual level, which has as an expression a measurable entity. However, it is also logical that all the functions will express perceptibly lower levels of imperceptible functional activities. However, the psychological level is unique in its language.10

It appears that the mind is the only function that can visibly expand itself in a complex way at the perceptible collective level, a tendency that we find for the organic symptoms only at the mathematical imperceptible level. The presence of the symptoms inside the statistical remedy has no visible correspondent at the organic level, apart from when things are processed statistically. But again statistically, the result indicates that the same remedy is inside the unique features of the psychological function, and we find it through method in reality as well as shown by homeopaths in practice.

It is a necessary and demonstrated reality to accept that the psychological characteristics are only able to be present at a perceptible level between individual and collective levels, as there are no better objective demonstrations other than the ones arising from mathematical deductions. We need to add signs and symptoms derived from the statistical disease to the organic universe at the individual level, but we do not need to do the same at the psychological level, for the fact that the result shows they must be there and nowhere else.

If we look at the incapacity of the organic symptoms to show the head of the monster, which we can see through mathematics, at the individual level; that is nothing else but the image of the already known DNA function to manufacture the individual body and its molecules, without either necessarily containing the specific tendency in itself, or just because it is exactly what is missing from the model itself. If we have a cumulative cone with the top at the surface and the base inside then that is in opposition to the model we have today where the top of the cone must be at the DNA level as the starting point. It just shows that the functional level of memory is spherical and the starting point can be anywhere at the level of possibility as mentioned above.

Based on the above I would also like to further discuss this extension. Some would maybe still say that the same information is contained in the DNA and may just be a protective mechanism. I will further consider again that idea as well.

We need to start from the point where we could see the impossibility of calibrating the genetic model on such a development if we don't postulate an independent functional memory.

The above is not a viable idea. We must look at the scattered perceptible organic symptoms, as they express themselves in an individual, and are the first proof that can lead to such an idea. They cannot reach the statistical disease, they are a part of it and they correlate with each other, showing accumulation and not dissipation.

At the molecular level as we know, it is a microscopically organic–functional universe below the perceptible level, and a dynamic movement is shown that is coming from inside towards outside in a cumulative cone with the top at the level of the symptom.

If we take the symptoms of the statistical disease and search for them at the genetic level as we see it today what would we probably find? Maybe individual small proofs for the perceptible individual segments of the statistical disease as the statistical model shows it in an objective way, after counting the perceptible signs and symptoms, and in any way not a descriptive proof for the total disease as a possibility.

The only place where DNA can be validated as a result of a postulated functional memory level on an individual basis, and which contains the data for the statistical disease as a dynamic inherited memory, is again the psychological level. In this way things are in a reverse logical order and they start from top to bottom, from function to organic. How can a perceptible functional level that is the magnified expression of smaller levels of functionality, validate the manufacturing process if it is not an independent entity that validates and expresses just itself, and nothing in a mechanical way, and which starts with manufacturing the first molecule?

In this way, homeopathy is shown to be a place where we can find an explanation of a very specific possible functional validation for what we know as the molecule of life, the original point where any individual living universe has its physical starting point. But a specific mathematically proven functional level, created after the molecule that is at its origins- just using the molecular combinational level post the manufacturing process- cannot validate the function of the molecule and be at the same time a creation of it unless it is actually included as a separate entity at that level. That is not possible without accepting that the functional specific dynamic three-dimensional tendency is contained within the functional tendency in itself at any level we want to start.

In applying the above model, I believe it is more practical that when we process signs and symptoms to validate their statistical connections, we do not necessarily need to use mental characteristics even if they are well defined by a remedy. It may be almost impossible from the beginning to standardize inside such a function, as these mental characteristics may not necessarily be self-arising for everybody, the psychological level being an informational universe by itself. It can be the Universe itself. In that way we would introduce further unwanted qualitative descriptive errors, considering the limits of describing in an absolute way such a situation. In such a way, the mental symptoms can actually shorten the length of the full miasm, sharing associated symptoms with the organic.

Based on the above deductions, it is probably better if we develop the miasm by only using at the beginning the organic symptoms. The organic level is actually the one that has perceptible limits in reaching its level, and is easier to standardize for qualitative variables. Then to further validate its presence and prescribe safely we just need to add the calculated mental characteristics of the discovered miasmtic remedy, and search for them inside the thinking of the individual patient and prescribe safely.

All the above have a connection with the idea that shows how Homeopathy reaches the limits of the absolute, and is a possible answer to the question on how can we treat a disease that we discovered using statistics. It is evident that if the disease can be represented as a sphere, using the disease itself in its artificial dynamic form is the most simple and logical answer, if not the only one. It is difficult to imagine an example that would be in contradiction conceptually with such a conclusion.

Based on the above facts, we can say that with the current ways of treating chronic diseases, if we cure the symptoms and signs and we do not see them anymore, then the statistical disease will disappear, it does not exist anymore.

But, based on current medical research, can we use anti asthmatics on people that have chronic cirrhosis (if for example we know that chronic cirrhosis in a population is associated with asthma) along with the liver treatment, if we discover it is the best at a certain point, in an attempt to cure the signs of the statistical three-dimensional inductive disease in particular individuals?

That will never happen to be a practical valid approach, as the different drugs are very independent, organ related and functional related in one plane in their conception and in the end there is no specific miasmtic statistical connection between each of them at the level of the statistical disease, at the level of a functional possibility.

Also, it shows the side effects of current drugs we have, apart from the fact that they are not "in line" even with the specific problem they are designed to treat, as they are derived from investigating the molecular universe, for which only contraria contrarii is the supreme truth. It would be impossible to further think that logically they can join together in healing such a three-dimensional disease level.1,2

The only place that is an expression of how much a drug can affect the statistical disease is the placebo effect that we detect in common trials, and today we describe it as an error in trials for therapeutics. Placebo does not exist as an error. Placebo is exactly the measurable course of the healing process in a multidimensional (non dimensional) plan. Placebo does present itself as an error if we consider that the psychological processes do not contribute/belong in any way to the disease. In such a way we actually produce the biggest error in accord with the already demonstrated facts.

This is another proof that they have not been chosen homeopathically even at the short molecular functional level, with the collateral consequences on treatment results that we can see.

However, I would say that the above deductions are actually valid as they were made inside one system as a need to calibrate it's reality to the reality of the remedies in homeopathy.

I find that such an idea is not a correct one, as the application of statistics in revealing the statistical disease is independent of homeopathy although it is indicated by its principles. It cannot be contested in any way in its validation, which precedes discussion on individual systems or methods.

Building the homeopathic remedy on such a model is actually an indication of the superior level at which Homeopathy was created, and is a practical answer for the treatment of the functional level of the disease which we can only see through mathematics, and which extends itself as if into another dimension.

Moreover, releasing the concept of disease into the hands of correct logical thinking and mathematics, and not into concepts that follow only individual developments- in fact not even thinking of such threats- is beneficial for any medical philosophy and in particular for Homeopathy This is actually the only system of medicine to date, able to offer a practical standardized logical solution to the three-dimensional expansion of the chronic diseases, the discovery that Dr. Samuel Hahnemann, himself the creator of Homeopathy, made starting at the experimental level and which today we express through a statistical function.1,2

In consequence, if we do not treat correctly the statistical patient in a homeopathic way (in line with the functional development of the disease) with the help of statistics, such a level of development can spread at the invisible functional level in impossible to measure ways and continuously threaten humanity at the level of the "invisible" patient.

Objectively speaking, as urgently as possible homeopathy needs to be considered as a superior alternative- at least at the conceptual level- to the current conception of treatment in chronic diseases. The conclusion is self-arising as an independent idea without any subjective connections, and I believe everybody can see that such data speaks more than personal opinions. In the end I believe we all can go past personal affinity to a certain model of thinking (as I did myself), in the name of our Master, the Patient and his sufferings, praying to the Universe for help. We treat the individual, but what do we offer to the statistical patient we have found through a powerful tool, the statistics? A living giant, the size of this Earth inside individuals, that shows one more time how the truth is extending from the individual level to his sufferings, and we need to treat him, as we want to be treated for our sufferings.

To fully comment on the proven facts, we also need to emphasize again the logical idea that the lack of expression of the symptoms at the organic level and also their correlative tendency is actually an indication of accumulation at the invisible statistical level and at some point all the patients will actually show the signs of the same disease at the organic level when the miasm has reached its full power.

But starting exactly from the individual organic symptoms we created the statistical disease and things are ascending and not descending, otherwise such a disease could not exist.

We would not have such a statistical disease if the lack of expression to the organic perceptible level would be a protection as said.

We cannot even think of making such a conclusion by relying on supposed protective errors in this proven specific collective tendency. Homeopathy is the only possible practical hope of an up to date way to fight such diseases, both at the conceptual level and as a standardized practical method, and which addresses the treatment at the appropriate level of development of the disease itself.

To offer just a few modern examples: cancer has reached unprecedented epidemic levels, old infectious diseases are striking back with great power as the bacteria became stronger after using antibiotics, AIDS is rising with little hope for a classical cure in the near future. These are just a few examples, which indicate we must start actually searching for the heads of the monster at their visible end. We must start with diseases, which are observable without using inductive statistics.15

I do not believe these are necessarily the result of increasing life expectancy, as we may think. They are the diseases that are already threatening humanity in the indefinite but immediate future.5,8,9

Within the specific system of Homeopathy, these facts first of all indicate in a precise way the level at which the treatment of chronic diseases should start, first of all with the proof they belong to a well-known miasm. The demonstration shows that at the psychological level we will find the statistical remedy by using personally perceptible tendencies that belong to a miasmtic remedy. And the first practical use of such a fact, is the possibility of preventing organic pathology at the moment where the patient, who already has a certain psychological constitution which belongs to a calculated tendency, senses a different intensity in his thinking or feelings.   We can then match such a development to a known remedy without even knowing if it is a statistical remedy or not. Even better, if we know that it is actually a statistical remedy, we will have a well-defined standard and concept to prevent further pathological developments.

The model has practical use. As an example, if we have a patient with a one sided organic chronic disease, then with experience it is very possible that at the psychological level we can reach the statistical remedy, even though it will be impossible to create it at the individual level based on the organic findings. The standard must be the psychological characteristics of the remedies. If we know that the organic symptom belongs to a statistical remedy, then we have a narrow set, a well-standardised tendency to follow at the psychological level, and certify in a mathematical way the level at which we prescribe, having as a reason the shortest time to heal a patient. And that is the one step cure as desired by Dr. Samuel Hahnemann.1,2

Another idea concerns the level of common statistical trials, where currently the results are not accurate or easily observable. As we have shown here, without treating the miasmtic level it can be impossible to have a total healing process.

Consequently, the disease shows itself as a unitary spherical entity, an informational spherical storm inside the patient, first of all a consequence of the simple logical and practical fact that The Vital Force cannot split itself inside its own unity as shown by the cure itself (we would not have any cure if the Vital Force were able to answer in multiple ways). Any logical attempts to combine remedies in order to match the exact disease are not in line with the theoretical model as indicated first by Samuel Hahnemann and are not following its logical meaning, or its mathematical and objective validity as proven here. It may be possible furthermore that different remedies even logically chosen, will act at different levels inside the spherical model of the functional memory and they may not be complementary in any way in their actions.

Several smaller spheres will not fit inside another one without gaps. One sphere will fit inside another one or will include it. On the other hand, if we have two bigger spheres than the one we want to cover, thinking they can cover the disease by their infinite number of dynamic points inside; if we consider the mathematically proven disease as a functional process, they will never be in line in their movement (best described by spinning around their own axis. They will match each other in all ways of movement but again will not be in line with the dynamic movement inside the disease. The sphere represented by the disease will be covered, but its dynamic movement will not be covered as expressed by the Law of similars, which best describes that process. In consequence, any modification of the original concepts stated by the Organon  are actually in conflict with the Law of Similars as proven here.1

The proven psychological tendencies belonging to the characteristics of a known remedy, connected with the idea of the possible description of the tendencies using a priori standards, may be the broad base level at which to start either to search and follow a possible peculiar development as a prevention, or an easier expressed standard which can help in catching the main miasmtic tendencies in a population at the individual level. (Here I specifically refer to the valuable idea promoted by David Little indicating there is a practical connection between the valuable Hippocratic typology and a possible homeopathic standardization model at the psychological level.) 4

That may also indicate the fact that the miasmtic diseases are just peculiar attachments to the normal different psychological characteristics, showing how the disease has actually taken the most incredible form, being hidden inside the normal psychological typology and also resembling them. That is why in my opinion the constitutional remedy as a correct definition, is the remedy that will check if the similarity with itself is genuine and natural, able to confer freedom and happiness in all directions, and will actually help with any pathology arising from exaggerated personal tendencies belonging to the otherwise just natural similarity. It checks the similarity and is re-establishes the balance of forces within that similarity, increasing the strength of the individual over his own characteristics. It is a practical tool against the ultimate disease strategy in which it actually resembles individual normality. It can actually strike through the intensity of such normality, and is a process showing how the disease process causes an imaginary split within a unitary harmony which cannot split within itself without loosing its balance.

It is effective also at the start of such a tendency.

As I have demonstrated above, we can find at the psychological level the expressed perceptible dynamics of the miasmtic remedy by just following the individual, proving the mathematical presence of a miasmtic tendency in a population has a broad standard, at which level the treatment has a very defined and more easily accessible standard (if the word "easy" can be used in this context).

The movement of the miasmtic tendencies also indicates another practical usage of such a model in following their dynamics in a precise definite way, and is a valuable tool in showing their presence and movement in a defined population. That requires most definitely an initial serious collective effort in introducing regional random data to be processed for their precise mapping at the global scale, and then to represent their movements in a spherical model.

The mechanism of action for the homeopathic remedies is already clear.

Succussion will increase an already functional memory that the substance is eliciting by its presence in the water as a remedy, water being also the main liquid in the human body.

Successive dilutions will increase the distance between the infinite numbers of the possible statistical points inside the sphere, allowing the dynamic process to be magnified to a higher degree than the similar dynamic process in the body that is affecting the original perfection of the Vital Force. The Vital Force will answer to the magnified artificial disease, as it is stronger, "forgetting" the similar disease movement inside itself as a corrupted functional memory. Then the artificial disease is interrupted and the happiness is restored as the one who created it left it.

Succussion increases the functional memory (the specific rotation of each point around its own axis) as it is a dynamic memory (described by movement and also by well defined characteristics) and dilution is making it adaptable on the disease level, increasing at the same time the distance between the moving, dynamic points.

The current concept about disease is able to see the monster using the same calculations, but having no wings to fly into another dimension. Hence it is just an active spectator of a statistical game that is taking place at the level of the mathematically proven functional memory of the Vital Force.1,2

The only way to travel through the Ether is the truth that is there and nowhere else, as we see through a simple mathematical function. At the individual level it is an expression of the multidimensional (non dimensional) memory structure of the collective subconscious, culminating with its supreme multidimensional (non dimensional) expression, which is the self-consciousness. This will never be explained by the DNA model as we imagine it today, which has it's origins in itself with no causality, and stems from an original functional memory which created the living Universe, and is described in its reasons as a need, the same need that started everything.

Although being told during History through various ways and expressions that the Beginning and The End, the Forever Living Universe, is his Father, the Human did not fully understand that behind such a simple explanation can be his true freedom and the end of his loneliness.11,12,14  An absolute freedom, bordering and also including the negation of the Everything and also of the Nothing, which shows how the ideas start at the virtual level, in the very depth of the Universe, then filter through the collective subconscious, and find their final expression in words at the individual level. In this way the words show as being of real cosmic value. The peculiarly distorted words at the cosmic level, showing as Dreams and Delusions, are either the start or the aggravation of personal or collective tendencies, or else are the measure of a responsible acknowledgement of their importance. In this case they are a measure of a healing process that originates backwards, from the individual towards the collective.

Considering the above freedom as being too dogmatic and "not enough," the Human has started to split life from lifeless in the name of logical thinking based on never ending proofs.

This arises from impatience and an immediate need of absolute power over the world of whom he is the child, and which he needs to carefully understand. 11,12,14  This was the beginning of the Heavy Time, the History, the Pain and Psora.

Based on immediate needs, he has started to create a new world without fully and carefully understanding all the logical variants of the world on which he resides, and on which he is developing this project.

Today, we see how non-dimensional, non-measurable life is restoring life inside the Human body, showing in a very personal and common way that the border between life and lifeless does not exist indeed at the non dimensional informational level. A historical lesson, and a big hope from the Forever Living Universe, which shows in a practical way the benefits of considering The Creation as the starting point in any scientific judgment.1,2,5,12

It shows how the Forever Living Universe is opening with happiness His old gates for His beloved children.

Happiness for everybody!

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Acknowledgement:

The author would like to thank Derek Briggs, for his review of the English in this paper, and for his inspiring mentorship, transferring to me his own deep love for homeopathy.

 






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