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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.
