Let us consider the following: Substances which produce some kind of fever (very
strong coffee, pepper, arnica, Ignatia bean, arsenic) counteract these types of
intermittent fever.
I took for several days as an experiment four drams of good china twice daily. My
feet and finger tips, etc at first became cold; I became languid and drowsy; then by
heart began to palpitate; my pulse became hard and quick; an intolerable anxiety
and trembling without rigor; prostration in all the limbs; then pulsation in the head,
redness of the cheeks, thirst; briefly all the symptoms usually associated with
intermittent fever appeared in succession yet without the actual rigor.
To sum up: all those symptoms which to me are typical of intermittent fever as the
stupefaction of the senses, a kind of rigidity of all joints but above all the numb,
disagreeable sensation which seems to have its seat in the periosteum over all the
bones of the body- all made their appearance. This paroxysm lasted from two to
three hours every time and recurred when I repeated the dose and not otherwise. I
discontinued the medicine and I was once more in good health.
In another place Hahnemann quotes this from Cullen:
I have endeavored to explain in my first outlines of practical medical science that
the bark in this instance acts through its tonic effect on the stomach and I have
found nothing in any writings which could make me doubt the truth of my
statements.
And Hahnemanns remarks in opposition to Cullen:
If the author had detected that the bark had the power of producing artificial
antagonistic fever.. Certainly he would not have held so firmly to his mode of
explanation.
A somewhat similar observation of Hahnemanns is to be found in another part of
the same action:
That in order to cure certain forms of intermittent fever, a kind of artificial fever
must be produced with Ipecacuanha.
This experiment of Hahnemanns with Peruvian bark has already been exhaustively
discussed by homoeopaths and allopath.
Discussion
From, the above argument of Hahnemann, it is clear that he had a different concept
and explanation about the therapy of Malaria. And he developed this concept many
years before the discovery of malarial parasite. He explained different types of
intermittent fever and different manifestations of intermittent fever and the role of
ecology in the manifestation of symptoms and stages of intermittent fever. The
ConclusionThe observation and opinion of the committee for Nobel Prize about ineffectiveness
and side effects is interesting.
We as homoeopaths know that Artemisinin will also meet with the same fate as
Quinine. Till the homoeopathic principles of individualization are not followed
malarial diseases will continue to plague humans.