Table of Contents ACKNOWLEDGMENTS... 4 FOREWORD BY JAN SCHOLTEN...5 INTRODUCTION...7

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1 Table of Contents ACKNOWLEDGMENTS... 4 FOREWORD BY JAN SCHOLTEN...5 INTRODUCTION...7 Identifying Miasms and Nosodes, and the History of Miasms...9 History of Miasms in Homeopathy...13 New Microbiological Practicalities...32 Identifying and Prescribing Nosodes...40 BURKHOLDERIALES Hippozaeninum...55 Pertussis Miasm...64 Pertussinum Nosode...69 CLOSTRIDIALES...89 Botulinum Nosode...91 Clostridium perfringens Nosode The Tetanus Miasm Tetanus Nosode ACTINOMYCETALES ACTINOMYCETALES: CORYNEBACTERIUM Diphtherinum Nosode Propionibacterium acnes Nosode IV

2 ACTINOMYCETALES: MYCOBACTERIUM The Tubercular Miasm Tubercular Nosode Remedies Bacillinum Burnett Nosode Tuberculinum bovinum Nosode Tuberculinum aviaire Nosode Leprosy Miasm Leprominium, The Leprosy Nosode Johneinum Nosode Proving of Johneinum ENTEROBACTERIALES Bach Bowel Nosodes Proteus (Bach) Colibacillinum Typhoid Miasm and Eberthinum (Typhoid Nosode) Yersinia Miasm Yersinia pestis Nosode Yersinia enterocolitica Nosode Rattus PARASITIC PROTOZOA Parasitic Miasm or Parasitic Group Malaria Miasm and Malaria Compound Nosode Toxoplasmosis Nosode INDEX OF REMEDIES GENERAL INDEX V

3 Bacillinum Burnett Nosode Bacillinum Burnett Nosode Homeopathic abbreviation Synonyms Tuberculinum Burnett Nosode Bacillinum Tuberculous Lung Tuberculose Lunge Tuberculosis hominis Human tuberculosis Description The remedy Bacillinum was originally made from tubercular lung tissue (or initially expectoration) from a human suffering with tuberculosis. Along with the tubercular bacteria, the raw material for the original remedy contained tissue and products resulting from the tubercular infection. These latter products include the various toxin by-products as well as other bacteria typically present (such as Streptococcus, Staphylococcus and even elements of ringworm and mycosis). Burnett coined the name Bacillinum due to the documented presence of tubercle bacilli in his source. As described, tuberculosis is a serious condition which can be fatal. It is important that a patient or client having this condition is diagnosed and monitored by a licensed physician. Emergency medical care may be required. If this disease is notifiable in your area, the appropriate steps should be taken. Information from homeopathic literature describing treatment of this condition should be read subject to this caution. Scientific Names Mycobacterium tuberculosis (Zopf 1883) Lehmann & Neumann 1896 Bacillus tuberculosis Bacterium tuberculosis Mycobacterium tuberculosis typus humanus Mycobacterium tuberculosis var. hominis MTB 189

4 Actinomycetales: Mycobacterium Commentary As I mentioned in the Tubercular Miasm and Tubercular Nosodes chapters, from the classic descriptions of tubercular remedies it is sometimes difficult to tell what particular kind of Tuberculinum the author is discussing. After Kent's introduction and popularization of Tuberculinum bovinum, there was much discussion and even argument about whether to use Burnett's or Kent's remedy. Most of my colleagues have been trained to simply regard Bacillinum as a poor cousin to Tuberculinum bovinum, interchangeable with it. In the past, when I investigated further and then clinically applied Bacillinum in a more specific way, I became convinced that the remedies were different. The main difference can be grasped by attending to its source - Bacillinum was made from tubercular lung tissue or expectoration from a human suffering with tuberculosis, whereas Tuberculinum bovinum was made from a tubercular gland of a cow. The varied raw material of Bacillinum along with the sparse and unfocused mental and emotional symptoms in the traditional literature make the disposition difficult to grasp. I will therefore attempt to offer a broader yet also more specific understanding. I have concluded that Bacillinum, once homeopathically prepared, shares symptoms of various remedies; among these we find not only the tubercular remedies, but also the homeopathic remedies Streptococcinum, Staphylococcinum, Ringworm, Pyrogenium and even Syphilinum. My understanding of this remedy is from direct experience of its use as a single remedy which includes an understanding of its various "parts" and even of its many related miasms (particularly the tubercular, the psoric and the ringworm miasms). In its complexity, Bacillinum is similar to Oleum jecoris aselli (cod liver oil), which I have described, in the first volume of the Clinical Focus Guide, as similarly multi-faceted, and even as a "pre-tubercular" remedy constituted of many different minerals and naturally-occurring ingredients. I also mention this because Bacillinum is the main remedy that follows Oleum jecoris. With the Bacillinum patient's tendency towards affability, business relationship problems, and physical issues such as abscesses and fevers, you can see this similarity to Oleum jecoris. In Bacillinum, one of the main dispositional themes has to do with hectic striving but then a failure to manifest rapid change. The tubercular patient becomes consumed by the endeavor to overcome, and to break free of, a perceived problem, particularly one that is threatening or impinging on their own survival, or on the hopeful survival of the structure of their family or a close group. To the Bacillinum patient, these impingements seem life-threatening and dangerous, even though they may not be so. The patient may frequently use the words "disaster" or "dangerous" to 190

5 Bacillinum Burnett Nosode describe even simple challenges or problems. You get a sense that the problems are not all as big as the internal feeling the patient has about them. In the end, though, the Bacillinum patient may take on enormous tasks of social change. They feel a compelling need to save their family, or even mankind, from an imminent threat that will create death and destruction, or loss of the ideal. In addition, underlying this activity, the Bacillinum patient has conflicting core beliefs which account for the difference that this remedy has from other Tuberculinums. The Bacillinum patient wants to break free of conventional restrictions (like other Tuberculinums,) but is conflicted by a severe timidity, by an impression of failure, and by a desire to please others even to the point of subservience. They can experience an internal weakness which can manifest on the mental-emotional level, as well as in physical symptoms and pathology. In light of this, their desire to break free is attempted in a more internalized fashion than other Tuberculinums, and frequently meets with failure, disappointment and sadness. Individuals needing Bacillinum are attempting to manifest their strong idealistic and romantic vision of a perfect world - they feel driven and consumed to do many things at one time, and to work hard in doing so. They feel the need to save the world, or those persons that they are related to. For them, there is a constant feeling of multiple imminent threats and also of social constrictions all of which they are determined to overcome. They may attempt this through artistic endeavors, spiritual pursuits, idealistic social action, or also through the accumulation of material wealth. In spite of being idealistic, they can be very materially orientated with a strong worry about money - an issue of survival. I have seen two "phases" in Bacillinum. First, there is the active phase of passionate hectic activity that pushes changes forward in order to manifest the desired result. In this first phase, idealism can combine with workaholism and intense hectic activity. In the other broken-down phase, there is instead a collapsed or frustrated ability to manifest, or to change the world around them. This generates a feeling of miserable frustration, and bitter disappointment, of subsequent physical collapse, and the related worry and symptomatology. This ability or inability to manifest materially is present dispositionally in all those homeopathic remedies that are associated with the pituitary gland and hypothalamus (as a spiritual conduit); I have elaborated on this while presenting a case of homeopathic Pituitary anterior at the 1996 IFH (International Foundation for Homeopathy) Case Conference. This shared thematic similarity is why we see Bacillinum in symptoms or rubrics that reflect issues of the pituitary and endocrine system such as: "Generalities, Growth: length, in, too fast" and "Mind, Harshness, rough, children, in" (Pituitary anterior) 191