[Omeo33] Art 0767 - eCAM, 2007, 4 (3)

[Gino Santini]

Brief Homeopathic Pathogenetic Experimentation: A Unique Educational  
Tool in Brazil
Marcus Zulian Teixeira

In homeopathy, many difficulties are encountered in understanding  
theoretical presuppositions because they represent different paradigms  
from those of hegemonic science. In our medical school, we developed a  
brief homeopathic pathogenetic experimentation course to be added as  
curricular content and a didactic method in homeopathic disciplines to  
add practical experience to the theoretical approach of homeopathic  
presuppositions. In accordance with the premises laid out by  
Hahnemann, the father of homeopathy, brief pathogenetic  
experimentation was offered on a voluntary basis for students who were  
free of chronic diseases and who had not regularly used medication in  
the last 3 months. The clinical test, either crossed or sequential  
(randomized and blind), was used as a study model. Single weekly doses  
of a homeopathic medicine of 30 cH or placebo were taken by  
participants during 4 weeks after which crossover of the experimented  
substances took place for another 4 weeks. Polycrest medicines were  
used so that symptoms developed by the participants could be compared  
to those described in Homeopathic Materia Medica. Thirty-three of the  
50 students who studied homeopathy as an elective discipline over the  
last 4 years at the School of Medicine of the University of São Paulo  
(FMUSP) participated. Participants described symptoms according to  
specific methodology including many comments with peculiar  
characteristics and notable idiosyncrasies. All these students  
endorsed the course because it contributed to their understanding of  
how dynamized substances produced symptoms in healthy participants as  
well as the cure of symptoms according to the casual similitude  
principle. Brief homeopathic pathogenetic experimentation proved to be  
an effective method to observe the idiosyncratic manifestations of  
human individuality based on qualitative methodology, thus building a  
basis of understanding of homeopathy.

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