The Natural Repertory of Prof. William Nelson

homeopathic forms, whereas many of these venoms can be utilized in low
doses to accomplish other tasks. There are hundreds of thousands of
insects, spiders, snakes, and animals that carry different venoms. These
venoms have had dramatic potential in shaping medicine. They offer
medicine profound techniques in treating the myriad of diseases found in
the human being.
This is another reason why it is such a tragedy to destroy our rain
forests. Many of the people going to the rain forests are looking just for
plants, herbs, and fungi that might be used in pharmaceuticals, not
realizing that some of the most potent pharmacological acting agents in
the rain forests come from the venoms of these different insects and
animals which are becoming extinct. We must stop cutting down the rain
forests and look in as many different places as we can to find ways to let
nature heal. Nature can heal, and man can destroy.
This short treatise has been only a brief introduction to some of the
pharmacological ways that venoms can be used in homeopathy.
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