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[Martin Miles]

HOMEOPATHY AND HUMAN EVOLUTION

Winter Press, distributed by Cutting Edge Publications 1992

One of the healthy aspects of homeopathy is that since the day the Organon was first published in 1810, there has been a vision toward which thinking homeopaths have reached and to which succeeding generations have

contributed. Homeopathy and Human Evolution is an attempt to further elaborate the homeopathic vision as we move into the 21st century.

In order to understand the thoughtful content which Martin Miles has provided, it is necessary to look at the tradition of which he has chosen to be a part. Martin's philosophical approach falls directly in a line of descent from

C. Hering, J.C. Burnett, M. Tyler and Thomas Maughan. It is interesting to note that Hering was a practising Swedenborgian while both he and Burnett were avid disciples of Paracelsus' medical philosophy.

If Hahnemann's articulation of the miasms represented an approach to the constitutional past and Kent's use of mentals the constitutional present then Burnett and his work on treating for propensities represented the beginning

of treating the constitutional future. For it was Burnett who pioneered the practice, here in England, of using 'disease tendencies' presented by the patient to cure inner causes before they became outer pathology.

However, this mode of approach gives us only one clue to Martin's homeopathic vision, for from Burnett he inherited even more.

One hundred years ago even most British homeopaths, utilising the fad current at that time of pathological Hughesian prescribing, were no more able to effectively treat turnouts and cancer than their allopathic counterparts.

Meanwhile patients lined the waiting room of Burnett with conditions of morbidity of the type seen today only in Third World countries. Why did they do this? Because Burnett achieved positive results where even most

average homeopaths failed. Many times the outer pathological symptoms were so gross that Burnett could not see the causal simillimum. As a result he utilised a systematic approach in which he treated a patient in such

a way as to clear up the symptom picture to the point where the similimum could be prescribed.

Before proceeding it should be made clear that Burnett, Thomas Maughan and Martin Miles have each considered that a prescription is truly homeopathic only if it is made on the basis of the similimum.

Any other mode of prescribing, even, in potency is just that, another method. Burnett followed the following sequence to prescribing was followed:

1 if at all possible give the simillimum, but if the simillimum could not be ascertained:

2 Give the organ remedy for the most affected organ: if that was not recognisable:

3 Use 'Diathetic homeopathy'

a) nosodes (of cancer);

b) constitutional homeopathic remedies

c) specific taint remedies (Thuja in cases of vaccinosis)

4 other: eg the 'arborivital' method of Cooper, (ie herbal tinctures, one dose-wait three months)

This approach followed Burnett in his practice and it is similar to the pattern outlined by Martin in this book. To put it in simple terms: if the patient is in such a state of mess that the homeopathic similimum can not be

immediately identified or the state of the patient is such that it will not produce effective results than clear and build him/her up. In education circles such a practice is termed 'learning readiness'.

In dealing with morbidity Burnett found that nosodes were a powerful tool in unblocking the patient. In fact so effective that he went on to do the original provings of Carcinosin, Bacillinum, etc.

Martin also found them to be powerful instruments in dealing with the drug suppressions, recreational drug abuse, vaccinosis, the effects of the contraceptive pill, and immune deficient diseases of the late 20^th century.

Once again we are experiencing gross morbidity in its latest phase of insidious destruction of the human spirit and its distorted perversion of the vital force. This was a problem which also increasingly confronted

Thomas Maughan in treating the patients that came to him during the late 1960s and early 1970s.

Another dilemma confronting Maughan was that most of his students had not yet grasped a real appreciation of his vision at the time of his death in 1976. Rather, they took their class notes and applied them by rote without understanding. As a consequence the role of combination remedies has been given attention that is not in alignment with their purpose. Combination remedies were meant to be used to achieve a specific result and are given in

low potency to clean up or support the outer being. Meanwhile the 'high' potency homoeopathic similimum is working on the inner being at the casual level to bring about a cure as per Hering's idea of 'Direction of Cure'

Hering's Direction of Cure and Hahnemann's concept of the simillimum are not the exclusive tools of the homeopath. In fact they are the measure of any healing, anywhere, anytime, by any healer no matter the healing technique,

be it Egyptian therapeutic dreaming, Navajo sandpainting ritual, a kind word, acupuncture, shiatsu, etc. If the healing process follows from within out, from the greater to the lesser, from above downwards then the patient has

received the vibrational simillimum regardless of the technology of administration.

Martin has found in his own experience just as did Maughan and Burnett that clearing and budding up the patient is an essential part of dealing with gross morbidity. Thus combination remedies serve to support, accelerate

and provide the sod for the Homeopathic Similimum to do its work of cure, as Kent wrote in his 8th Lecture (pg84-87) regarding cause and ends. Thomas Maughan said in a lecture in 1972:

The means of selection makes a remedy homeopathic. ... Cell salts (& combination remedies) ... are picked in the main on pathological grounds: Here one is concerned with the actual condition of bones, tissues and discharges.

In homeopathy these take least place - one is concerned with the patient first and the body afterwards.

The homeopathic tradition as it is being evolved on the Burnett, Maughan, and Miles line is what can be termed Developmental Homeopathy. It requires that the prescriber be trained to the highest degree to recognise the

homeopathic simillimum needed by the patient; to access the readiness of the patient to respond to it; the ability to 'clear' up the patient when morbidity clouds the picture; and the understanding to prescribe the foundation

needed by the patient in order achieve cure in the least, time with the least aggravation. Meanwhile developmental prescribers need the sensivity to follow the aspiration of their patients and support them in the unfoldment

of their path.

'Homeopathy and Human Evolution' then is the latest expression of a tradition and a vision which traces its roots back through major contributors to the evolution of homeopathy right to its pre Hahnemanian roots in Paracelsian medical practice. It is not a book to be read in one reading but in small doses, to be pondered, tried and tested in the field of experience. Its style may not be everybody's cup of tea but its content has significance for those who

choose to be open to it. It is not important even if one agrees or disagrees with the ideas presented, rather, it is a book to stimulate us to think about what we are doing, to challenge cherished assumptions and ultimately lead us

to a better understanding of the inner spirit as well as the outer technique of healing and cure.

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