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Beetle in my pill
Thursday August 30 2007 19:30 IST
Maneka Gandhi
I use homeopathy a lot. But when surfing the internet, when I came across
this line: The Secretary, Department of Ayurveda, Yoga and Naturopathy, Unani
Siddha and Homoeopathy, is fascinated by the use of cockroaches in homoeopathic
dilutions, my heart sank. Even more when I found it really happens. In India,
cockroaches (blatta orientalis) and American cockroaches (blatta Americana) are
used to treat chronic bronchitis, a form of asthma characterised by suffocation
with an accumulation of mucus and acute cough and this medicine is standardised
in the Homoeopathic Pharmacopoeia of India.
And that is not the only insect. Cantharis prescribed for burns and urinary
tract infections is made from Spanish Fly, a beetle. Coccus cacti prescribed
for whooping cough uses another beetle. European spiders are sourced for
preparing tarantula hispanic for nervous disorders. The honey bee is used for
insect bites and allergies. Lachesis is derived from cobra poison and is
prescribed for all blood infections, blood poisoning and blood decay. The
ladybug, Coccinella septempunctata, is used in neuralgic pains of the teeth,
gums and mouth; the honeybee (Apis mellifica) relieves sore throats and insect
bites. The Red fire ant (Formica rufa) is used for arthritic conditions,
itching and crawling sensations upon the skin. The Black Widow (Latrodectus
mactans) is a remedy for ailments of the heart including angina.
Homoeopathic drugs are are not just made from vegetables and minerals.
Unfortunately they also use animals 300 different substances have animal
extract. According to the main manufacturers in this country they breed the
animals and insects they use which I am not sure they have made legal by
asking for permission from the government, which means there are laboratories
in this country growing lice, cockroaches, mosquitoes, bedbugs, wasps, red
ants, and scorpions. There are 300 substances of animal origin in the pills,
granules or liquid granules, gels, syrups, pills or collyriums.
Some of the whole animals crushed and used live include jelly fish, lice,
American cockroach, the Indian cockroach, mosquito, honey bee, bed-bug, red
ant, wasp, spiders, scorpions, snails, locusts, caterpillars, scabies mites,
kissing bugs. red starfish, roasted sponge, yellow viper, copperhead snake, red
coral, rattlesnakes, coral snake, purple fish, cobras, leeches, and skunks.
The whole animals that are used dried include Spanish fly, beetle, and green
lizard.
Some of the secretions from animals used are Orchitinum (from the testicular
extracts of man), Ophorinum (from ovarian extract of cow), Hippomanes (from the
amniotic fluid taken from an unborn or newborn horse), Moschus (from dried
secretions of the male musk deer), and Oleum morrhuae (from cod liver oil).
There are products of animal glands/hormones too. Examples are pancreatinum
(from pancreas of beef), pepsinum (from the stomach of pig), pituitary (from
the posterior portion of the pituitary gland of sheep), thyroidinum (from whole
endocrine glands of sheep or calf), oophorinum (from the ovary of cow, sheep),
thyroid gland of sheep, and lecithin from animal brains.
The brief list I have given is only a small sampling of completely bizarre
ingredients. The rest you can find at any Homeopathic Meteria Medica or ask
your homeopathic doctor and watch him squirm around as he tries to answer.
The origins
The word Homeopathy is taken from the Greek, homoios meaning like and
pathos meaning disease. It was established in 1796 by the German doctor
Samuel Hahnemann who posed that injecting a substance with similar effects to
those of an illness and which would be toxic at a high dose could cure that
same illness with the use of an infinitesimally small dose. Thus coffea (based
on coffee) can be used to treat palpitations and insomnia.
Hahnemann used the same chemical drugs, animal parts, herbs, reptiles, insects,
metals, minerals, acids, and radioactive material which are still employed by
modern homeopathic and allopathic doctors. He believed that the remedies took
on the spirit, especially in the case of the animals, reptiles, and insects. A
common practice of his was to suffocate live birds into the alcohol to capture
the spirit of the animal into the remedy. This is still practiced today in such
homeopathic remedies as Formica Rufa or Myrmexine, used in the treatment of
arthritis made from crushed live ants.
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