Homotoxicology - an Alternative approach to Medical Treatment &

 In conventional medicine, treatment is often only based on the symptoms of the disease. From a homotoxicology point of view, symptoms arise when the body’s defense mechanism has reacted to the threat. Therefore, if we were to remove the symptoms alone we are only getting a superficial return to health.  The similarity between homotoxicology principles and conventional medicine is that disease is always a biological process.  In homotoxicology,  homotoxins describe those agents that can cause illness (influencing the functions of the matrix and cells of the body) and can be chemical, biochemical, physical and psychical. Furthermore, homotoxins can be anything in excess e.g. excess carbohydrates leading to diabetes in cats. The symptoms of illness that we witness or experience is the bodyʼs own biological reaction (defense system) to get rid of the toxins. In chronic conditions, homotoxins become residual toxins and are not being simply eliminated from the body in a short period of time.  Homotoxicology is a biotherapeutic treatment – a regulation therapy rather than a suppression therapy. 

Classical homeopathy is the practice of selecting a single remedy and its appropriate dilution.  These remedies have been selected based of the clinical picture of the patient and which, in fact, can cause similar symptoms should it be given at high doses.  However, at low doses, they stimulate the body’s defenses to restore health.  Hans-Heinrich Reckeweg (the founder of Homotoxicology) combined the principles of classical homeopathy and modern medical science.  Reckeweg’s preparations contain complexes of single remedy ingredients at different potencies thus connecting the use of conventional medical indications of disease and homeopathy.  

Effective treatment of disease requires an understanding of how the body reacts to the homotoxin. When the body is being exposed to a homotoxin or homotoxins there will be an initial effort to rid the body of the homotoxin through the body’s ability of excretion or elimination e.g. flu viruses are excreted through our ability to produce mucus. Should the homotoxin penetrate the epithelial barrier it can cause a different bioregulatory reaction known as inflammation e.g. bronchitis. Inflammation is essential to the bodyʼs ability to recover from disease. In fact, many animals with chronic diseases being treated with homotoxicology remedies will experience inflammation as part of the healing process. If the homotoxin, gets past the inflammatory phase of biological reaction, it will penetrate further into the tissues of the animal and the homotoxins are now stored in the extracellular matrix. This is known as the deposition phase of the disease. This phase of disease is often without clinical symptoms and in fact can be mistaken for elimination or cure in conventional medicine.  Following the deposition phase is the impregnation phase and is reached when the homotoxins become impregnated in the matrix or penetrate into the cells. This impregnation often causes blockage of metabolic and enzymic pathways and leads to over-reaction in many cases e.g. asthma, inflammatory bowel disease.  The final two stages of disease progression involves the homotoxin causing cellular damage and the natural defense mechanism is unable to eliminate the toxin.  The degeneration phase represents chronic disease while the dedifferentiation phase represents the point at which there is abnormal cell proliferation e.g. malignant tumours. 

Understanding the current stage of the disease will allow for appropriate therapeutic approach and the selection of remedies.  The remedies selected are excellent alternatives to conventional medicines for any medical condition.  In addition, they can be used safely and effectively with almost all conventional medicines and other alternative medicine modalities.