The Natural Repertory of Prof. William Nelson

AN OPERANT DEFINITION OF HOMEOPATHY
Homeopathy has been cloaked in mystery and misunderstanding, in
that there are many principles which have not fully done justice to the
complete range of homeopathic action. Many proponents use
homeopathy in vastly different ways making the field look confused and
irregular.
One of the misconceptions is that it is assumed that all things are
reversal in homeopathy that what a substance causes in a large dose it
will reverse in a minute dose. This is not always so, and we will dedicate
this chapter to that topic.
As is pointed out in the chapter on snake venoms, the Arndt-Schultz
law allows for the principle that what a poison might do at a raw dose, an
extreme dilution of that poison will often time produce a paradoxical
reversal of activity. If a patient were having a heart arrhythmia or
irregularity, rattle snake venom, which causes a proteolytic effect on
tissues and also has a cardio toxic effect on the heart muscles,
oftentimes in small quantities, can help reverse the arrhythmia and
stabilize the heart. The chapter on venoms and poison goes into this in
detail.
Dr. James P. Isaacs, in his book entitled Complementarity in Biology:
Quantization of Molecular Motion. (James P. Isaacs, John C. Lamb: John
Hopkins Press: Baltimore, 1969), points out another law of pharmacology
which is Wilder’s law of initial value. In Wilder’s law, if a substance is not
a poison, as we make it more and more dilute, one of three things will
happen: 1) it still could have a reversal, 2) there might be an increase in
the original effect, or 3) nothing may happen at all. This is Wilder’s law of
initial value. It is often used in pharmacology to chart out dose response
curves.
Many herbals, plants, glandulars, minerals, etc., are used in
homeopathy and are not poisonous. Some of these will not always have
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