Isopathy is a derivative of homeopathy that was invented by Johann Lux in the 1830s. Lux was in a sense both a disciple and a colleague of Samuel Hahnemann, the founder of modern homeopathy.

Like Hahnemann, he was a member of the Economic Society of Leipzig. Lux originally became interested in homeopathy as a method for treating animals (he was primarily a veterinarian at the time though he had a background in numerous other sciences) after hearing a lecture that Hahnemann gave at the Society on that very topic. After years of experimentation he had developed his own form of healing: Isopathy – Aequalia aequalibus. Isopathy differs from homeopathy in that isopathic remedies are made up from things that cause the disease in question, or from products of that disease. Many so-called homeopathic vaccines are in fact a form of isopathy.

Holistic Isopathy is a further derivative from Isopathy that is based on the theories of Wilhelm Reich (1897-1957), an Austrian physician & psychoanalyst who originally studied under Freud. In Reich’s search for the driving force of life (what Freud termed the Libido) he felt that he had discovered that such energy indeed existed and dubbed it “Oregone Energy”. Reich then developed a device for drawing on and intensifying this energy. Called the Oregone

Energy Accumulator, Reich experimented with this device on cancer patients by having them sit at the center of it for various periods of time during which they were exposed to the oregone energy that had been built up inside the Accumulator. According to Reich, subsequent blood tests on these patients showed significant improvements in their overall condition.

Holistic Isopathy is based on Reich’s assertion that such energy does exist and can be drawn on and used using the instrument he developed for that purpose. Its other 2 key principals are that the source of a patient’s symptoms may be found in the patient’s own energy field (or “Aura”) and that a sample of this energy field will contain a sample of an energy field that is hostile to life. This so-called “hostile” sample is the sample that should be used to prepare the isopathic remedy. The sample is shaken and diluted just as is the case with Homeopathy until a suitable potency is obtained, resulting in a remedy containing an energetic field identical to the patient’s energetic field.

The 4 main characteristics of the holistic ispothatic remedy are as follows:

It comes directly from the patient’s energy field (”Aura”). It may be suited to every patient. This is regardless of whether the remedy is known in the Materia Medica ( a Latin medical term for the body of collected knowledge about the therapeutic properties of any substance used for healing). It is matched to the patient in a completely “objective” way. The homeopath’s judgement or bias is not supposed to enter into it. The remedy can be obtained irrespective of the patient’s degree of cooperation.

Holistic Isopathy differs from Homeopathy in that the remedy for what ails the patient is not a substance found in nature, but rather in the patient’s own energy field. In theory, this difference makes it possible to achieve a higher degree of agreement between the remedy and the patient, resulting in a more satisfactory therapeutic outcome.

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The term homeopathy is derived from the Greek words “homoios” (”like”) and “pathos” (”suffering”). It is an alternative form of medicine that involves the use of heavily diluted preparations made from substances that would ordinarily cause effects that were similar to the symptoms of the actual disease. This is known as the principal “Similia Similibus Curentur”, or “Like Cures Like”.

Though homeopathic treatments in medicine go back to at least the early 16th century in western medicine (and probably even earlier than that in some Asian societies), it was Samuel Hahnemann, a German physician of the late 18th and early 19th centuries who first gave it a name and a set of governing principles.

While translating A Treatise on the Materia Medica by William Cullen, a Scottish doctor and chemist, Hahnemann became intrigued by Cullen’s theories on the use of Cinchona bark to treat malaria. He began experimenting with cinchona on himself, and found that it caused malarial-like symptoms and concluded from this that it would have the same effect in any otherwise healthy individual. The end result of this an other similar experiments conducted by Hahnemann was his famous healing principle, “…that which can produce a set of symptoms in a healthy individual can treat a sick individual who is manifesting a similar set of symptoms” .

Hahnemann published his first article on homeopathy in a German medical journal in 1796, though the actual word “homeopathy” did not actually appear in print until 1807. As a result of his research and writings, as well as news of the success of his treatments, other physicians began to study his techniques and methods.

At the time, mainstream medicine still advocated the use of such treatments as “bleeding”, “purging” as well as laxatives and enemas for a variety of medical conditions despite their being no scientific basis for their effectiveness, which usually ended up being negligible at best, and extremely harmful and even fatal at worst. Hahnemann favored the use of single drugs at lower doses, and only after first experimenting with them on healthy patients. He was also unique for the time in his advocacy improved diet, exercise, and hygiene as a means of both curing and preventing certain kinds of disease.

The first school for teaching homeopathy opened in 1830, and by 1900 there were 22 homeopathic colleges and 15,000 homeopathic practitioners in the US alone. Due to the aforementioned primitive medical practices still in use at the time, homeopathy became very popular, due to it’s relative success, (and at worse, relative harmlessness) compared to such standard medical practices. Homeopathy also tended to be very effective in the treatment of typhus and cholera, which were both very common (and deadly) at that time due to poor sanitary conditions.

Homeopathy began to fall out of favor in the late 19th century, mainly due to improvements in mainstream medical treatments resulting from enhanced research (ironically in some instances using research techniques and principles pioneered by homeopaths) some of which also ended up ultimately discrediting some of homeopathy’s basic principles. However, in the last 30 years it has staged something of a comeback in popularity.

The Greek homeopath George Vithoulkas was responsible for a great deal of research involving the updating and refinement of traditional homeopathic theories and practices. Eventually, the medical profession began to more widely integrate homeopathic ideas into its practices, and mainstream pharmaceutical companies began developing their own homeopathic drugs. Today, it has become a huge growing business.

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