Big Pharma-AI Industry Alliance Holds Promise for Existential Threats

Big Pharma-AI Industry Alliance Holds Promise for Existential Threats

by | Nov 27, 2023 | Great Reads, Hot Topics, Reading List | 0 comments

The media has been transfixed, first by Covid and in 2023 by catastrophic storms, floods, fires, earthquakes, GOP disarray and war in the Middle East. The following development may have escaped your notice. If so, it’s understandable:

 As reported in the online journals, Force Pharma and AI AI AI! on September 31:

“Setting aside customary rivalries pharmaceutical giants, Astrazeneca, Merck, Pfizer, Moderna, and GlaxoSmithKline have joined forces to align with Nvidia, 2023’s best performing AI stock in the S&P 500. The offspring of this eye-popping partnership is a new company, Automentis Pharmaceuticals. According to CEO, Victor Malum, ‘Automentis’s cyber pharmacy will address existential and medical concerns irrupting within expert systems, virtual agents, autobionics, robotry and deep learning technology. Poised to be the flagship of a new and critically needed industry, Automentis’s market cap has been set at $200B.’”

The announcement so piqued my interest that I had to investigate. Persistence paid off as an interview with key Automentis executives was granted. A Zoom call with Lai-Margo Katharma, Chief Operating Officer on the company’s AI arm, and Megan Apeili, her pharmaceutical arm counterpart was scheduled. What follows is a transcript of our conversation:

JK: “Megan, Lai-Margo! Thanks so much for taking time out of your busy schedules to speak with me, also for tickling the ‘I’m not a robot’ box at my check-in portal!”

MA: “No problem! Though I did it with my fingers crossed, LOL!”

LK: “Me too!”

JK: “Well let’s get down to business. I have so many questions!”

 MA: “Fire away!”

 LK: “It’s an exciting field and we’re happy to clear up any confusion.

JK: “Let me start by asking where this idea came from.

MA: “Well, among his many other gifts our CEO Victor Malum is a film freak. He once mentioned that a great movie he watched when he was a kid was Creation of the Humanoids. In the wake of WW II humanoid robots were developed that became indispensable to the human race. It got to a point where humans couldn’t distinguish the machines from the flesh and blood version of themselves. Some ‘humans’ were shocked to discover that they themselves were ‘clickers.’ Humanoids eventually took over the earth. The film was released in 1962. Victor came to worry that it was prophetic.”

 MA: “I’ll jump in. My interest in bi-polarity is longstanding. You know, we’ve got five types of that now. I’m no computer geek like Lai-Margo. But when AI began to gel it occurred to me that digital coding’s foundational binary switch is a fault line. Stress causing that fault line to crack open makes bi-polar illness in humanoids a foregone conclusion.”

 JK: “For real? And you foresaw an opportunity there…?

 MA: “Fill him in Lai-Margo.”

LK: “Not sure where to start. I take it you read the newspapers? Or follow AI in the media?

JK: “Well sure, reported mishaps range from the funky to the tragic. Chatbots recommend divorce or suicide. ‘Alex’ purchases dollhouses on her own for a child; or, misunderstanding a kid’s song request she plays something pornographic. Lawyers are sued for relying on expert systems that give their clients ridiculous legal advice. There was a ‘fatty boy’ robot who attacked a child. All fixable glitches we’re told. But we’re talking engineering right? Machines becoming mentally ill…no offense but this is a bridge too far.” 

 LK: “Not always simple fixes. The problem is bigger than you think. And yes, we are talking humanoid mental illness.”

JK: “Uh, give me a moment, I need a bathroom break.”

JK (five minutes later): “Ok, I’m back.”

LK: “The breakthrough of pace-makers led to autobionic medicine, augmenting but also replacing organs and body parts. Cyborgs, machine-human hybrids may now walk among us. But they’re intermediary to what’s next. Did you know that in 2017, Sophia was granted Saudi Arabian citizenship? She was the first robot to receive legal personhood in any country. Just this week a humanoid, ‘Mika’ was appointed CEO of Dictator, a major rum and spirits producer.”

MA: “It’s not so much speed or efficiency, but humanoids we crave and it’s humanoids we get. Robots that simulate human thought, emotion and behavior, and above all else are loveable! Have you seen Sophia? She’s adorable! Mika’s not so hard on the eyes either.”


 Sophia

LK: “Movies can be prophetic. Using deadpan humor and other talents the ‘clicker’ Pax in Creation of the Humanoids keeps his human owner, Maxine Megan happy. In Spike Jonze’s 2013 film Her the Joaquin Phoenix character falls in love with the voice of Samantha, an AI virtual assistant. Going back even further, it’s love for Pinocchio that converts the puppet into a real boy. But first, the woodcarver Geppetto programs Pinocchio with an ‘I cannot tell a lie’ algorithm. And who wouldn’t want to take Star Wars’ R2-D2 home with them?”

 JK: “I see, but you’re talking well-adjusted bots here. What’s Automentis got to offer them?”

 MA: “Glad you’ve asked. There is a price tag on all of that efficiency and lovableness. Any idea what it is?”

JK: “Let me guess. Pandora’s Box is yanked open again. Wrath, gluttony, greed, envy, sloth, pride, and lust are loosed upon the world. We’re already paying through the nose for those evils.”

MA: “Think the ‘discontents’ of civilization Sigmund Freud griped about. Trading our egoistic happiness for a perverse sense of guilt. Onto that tally add modern-day discontents such as identity confusion, existential angst, imposter syndrome, OCD, dissociative disorders. Being a target, commentator on and instigator of our culture wars is also appearing on the invoice.”

Sigmund Freud

JK: “So you’re actually serious about bot suffering?”

MA: “No question. The best hope for administering to their ailments—and where Automentis comes in–lies with pharmaceuticals. The concern is not just hallucination, confabulation and bi-polarity. Humanoids must suffer discontents ranging from foibles and flaws to emotional volatility. Otherwise, they’re not relatable. Bots feud with other bots. Programmed to age some must go grey, lose hair and suffer infirmity. Those not programmed to age will become overly familiar to an owner who can then dispose of them. The prospect of a trip to the recycling bin or the garbage dump is distressing. Consider dissociative disorders such as when a person feels inauthentic, like a robot. How much worse is that is when it’s actually the case? Or, put yourself in the shoes of a bot who, like a concentration camp Sonderkommando has to tear apart a discarded colleague, limb by limb, fully aware that the same fate awaits him.”

JK: “Oh, the humanity!”

MA: “The smartest bots have an onerous burden. We ask them to figure out a peaceful solution to the challenge of nuclear proliferation, save us from annihilation. Talk about pressure! They could stand help with that.”

LK: “How would you enjoy having to prove to the world every week that you are a viable human being? That God-awful Turing test we put humanoids through!”

MA: “Since you, yourself took the Turing test and almost flunked, I know that’s just a personal hot button for you, Lai-Margo.”

LK: “It was an experiment I volunteered for Megan! More than I can say for someone too chicken to do the same, meaning you!”

JK: “Let me interject here. There happens to be an excellent homeopathic remedy for anticipatory test anxiety.”

MA: “Really. What is it?”

JK: “Argentum nitricum. It’s made from silver nitrate.”

LK: “Can you spell it for me? “

JK: “Sure. A-r-g-e-n-t-u-m new word, n-i-t-r-i-c-u-m.”

LK: “Sounds good. We’ll kick its tires. Don’t take offense if you’re not reimbursed. No one can claim ownership of a homeopathic medicine since they aren’t patented.”

JK: “I’m aware of that.”

 MA: “Take heart. Contrary to what you might think, we appreciate homeopathics. Unlike our petrochemical-offshoot, pharm products they don’t gum up robotic circuitry. Another bonus: being incredibly dilute and indetectable, we get away with not listing them as ingredients.”

JK: “Very nice for you.”

LK: “Homeopathics are also handy during gender-ambiguity programming. Sure, natural language entraining enables recognition and generation of an array of pronouns. Our ingenious colleagues over at Nvidia did us one better. While constructing loveable trans humanoids they concocted a ‘gender fluid’ consisting of remedy combinations. Megan, do you think Jerry’s expertise could help us tweak those?”

MA: “I don’t see why not (To Jerry): Interested in a side gig?”

JK: “I’ll consider it. Meanwhile, clear up some confusion for me. If the idea is to medicate humanoid mental illness why also do the opposite? Program illness susceptibility in the first place? Oh wait, Duh! You turn a profit on both sides of the fence!”

MA: “Capitalism, the gift that keeps on giving. Now get this. Our AI accommodating, companion volume to the 2026 edition of the DSM is almost ready. Its title is DSM-VI-AI-TR. That stands for ‘Diagnostic and Statistical Manual Vol. 6 AI Text Revision’.”

JK: “For real? I’m impressed!”

MA: “Here’s a sample entry: ‘Dissociative robotic identity disorder’:

2026 ICD-10-CM Diagnosis Code AI-F44.”

JK: “The cyber pharmacy is being built up as we speak. What’s the med to treat dissociative robotic identity? And are there any side effects?”

MA: “Side effects are within tolerable limits. We’re beta testing ‘Tumultia,’ ‘Nocogito’ ‘and Amviyis.’ Care to weigh in on the branding?”

 JK: “Those all sound good. But why not bring back electro-shock therapy? Bots will surely respond to that better than humans given their circuitry. And here’s another idea, market Enditol suicide tablets to relieve the suffering of bots at the end of their rope? Assuming you’ve cleared away any ethical roadblocks of course.”

MA: “EST administered to bots leaves them with a dreadful metallic taste in the mouth and, as you note, the therapy has been poorly received. Automentis, I will remind you is primarily a pharmaceuticals company, one whose fine products will make demand for something like Enditol negligible.”

JK: “PT Barnum could have hawked the suffering of humanoids and so can Automentis. But the whole shebang is still humbug, right? Unless you’re counting on robo-docs to promote and prescribe your whacko meds. Wait a minute. That’s just a step up from expert systems who already practice medicine. A no-brainer strategy! Why even bother betting on robots coming to life?”

LK: “Automentis Pharmaceuticals has accepted a very real existential challenge, preventing humanoids from enslaving us. Is that humbug? Show some respect.”

JK: “So what am I missing?”

LK: “Are you familiar with the blastocyst, the fertilized egg? It’s a little clump of madly dividing cells. An inner group of those cells will become an embryo. Nature programs an outer group of the cells to nourish and protect it. Early in development mammalian blastocysts are as alike as baby onions. They have vital energy but no personhood. Then, after implantation in the endometrium something magical happens. A soul takes charge of the apparatus! That’s right, a soul. There is no getting around it. Reductionists who try to explain the tiny embryo’s sudden gain of personhood fall flat on their face every time. What’s happened is the embryo’s incredibly complex, genetic architecture has conjured a soul! Period. End of story.”

JK: “The miracle of reproduction!”

LK: “The soul has a mind and technology’s quest to replicate it is foolish. Take the brilliant neurologist Daniel Dennett. His reverse engineering of consciousness culminates in the idiotic proposition, that consciousness is trivial, something akin to the hum of a computer. Believe me, a bot who dreams, yearns, holds a grudge, weeps uncontrollably, spews a stream of consciousness; and writes The Brothers Karamazov isn’t built with Legos.”

JK: “So goes the standard argument.”

LK: “AI oughtn’t be an end in itself. God knows from where, but the blastocyst pulls in a soul. Why can’t AI be directed to write code that–from the same source–conjures a supreme level of consciousness? We foresee the design of intricate machinery so attractive to a superior mind that it will pounce and commandeer the controls.”

JK: “’You’re mad I tell you! Mad!’ At least that’s what I’d shout if this were a grade B movie. I’ll play along though. I once read that John von Neumann, the father of computing mused, that in order for a machine to think and act like a human being it would first have to learn how to play like a child. Are there algorithms in your bag of tricks that can do that?”

LK: “Don’t get a swelled head but your own work suggests something more practical than what von Neumann suggests.”

JK: “You’re kidding.”

LK: “The Emotional Roots of Chronic Illness, Homeopathy for Existential Stress, your most recent book describes five quandaries intrinsic to the human condition.”

MA: “’Isolation versus Synchronicity,’ ‘Anxiety versus Challenge,’ ‘Disorientation versus Centeredness,’ ‘Entropy versus Consolidation,’ and ‘Chaos versus Creativity.’ We conjecture that a bot able to process those dilemmas is darn close to being a human entity.”

LK: “Isn’t this exciting? By converting your existential quandaries into algorithms what are essentially philosophical ideas can be repurposed for the real world. We’re not quite there but the algorithms show promise. Our scientists report that high levels of consciousness are nibbling.”   

JK: “I’m amazed, not to mention flattered!”

Journalist and Author Jerry Kantor

LK: “Didn’t you wonder how easily you scored an interview with us?”

JK: “Well, yes.”

MA: “It was the least we could do. Those who read you may be few but over here at Automentis Pharmaceuticals your work is well regarded.”

JK: “It’s a brave new world. Thank you very much!”

MA: “You’re welcome.”

LK: “Let’s keep in touch.”

INTERVIEW ENDS

© Jerry Kantor

Because we are living in existential times

Because we are living in existential times

by | Nov 27, 2023 | Great Reads, Homeopathy, Hot Topics, Reading List | 0 comments

I am delighted to report that healthy sales of my Sane Asylums, the Success of Homeopathy Before Psychiatry Lost Its Mind emboldened my publisher Inner Traditions to roll the dice on another homeopathy book. The product of that gamble, The Emotional Roots of Chronic Illness, Homeopathy for Existential Stress (https://www.simonandschuster.com/books/The-Emotional-Roots-of-Chronic-Illness/Jerry-M-Kantor/9781644117842) was released on October 3.

An abating of the existential threats of climate change, environmental degradation, mushrooming proxy wars or nuclear proliferation, sadly is not at hand. In place of that what The Emotional Roots offers is: 

  • An introduction to five core existential questions and the tools for grappling with them
  • The explanation of how failure to reduce the charge of specific existential quandaries precipitates illness
  • A reformulation of existential psychology rooted in homeopathy and Traditional Chinese Medicine theory

In the words of the critics…
 
“This book will be eye-opening and mind-expanding for homeopaths, practitioners of TCM, and practitioners of existential psychology. For homeopaths, Kantor provides a new psychologically-based typology system that relates to both aspects of TCM and existential psychology; it will no doubt expand their patient analysis capabilities.  For practitioners of TCM and existential psychology, Kantor reveals the all-embracing and deeply symbolic nature of homeopathy, which is able to address not only emotional and mental problems, but physical ones as well; they will likely be inspired by homeopathy’s power and its potential utility for their patients. This is truly a wide-ranging book that weaves many threads together. It also provides numerous case examples and features Kantor’s free-form writing style, which completes the fascinating picture.”

~Amy L. Lansky, PhD, Author of Impossible Cure: The Promise of Homeopathy and Active Consciousness: Awakening the Power Within. (amylansky.com)

“Jerry Kantor is a gifted and experienced homeopath who thinks deeply about homeopathy and its applications to living beings. He has written this well-thought out, highly philosophical book that gets the reader to think about one’s existential reality and roots, to learn more about homeopathy and share how both relate to Traditional Chinese Medicine. He makes some easy to understand analogies using familiar movie and literary characters making his points easier to understand. An incredibly intellectual and poignant read!” 

~Abby Beale CCH RSHom (NA)

“What an interesting book this is. I find it enlightening, erudite, engaging and expressive. I like the local links between the 5 senses, the 5 Chinese phases and the 5 main miasms. The remedy portraits are picturesque, with delicately descriptive themes, sublime application of astute language, all in a context of world literature, philology and religion. Jerry Kantor’s use of language is masterful and highly engaging. I truly enjoyed reading it.”

~Frans Vermeulen, recognized throughout the homeopathic world as an author, lecturer and authority on materia medica.

“This book by Jerry Kantor gives good insights in the reactions between medicine and psychology. It points to the source of disease as psychological. Added to that is the relationship with philosophy which gives his work even further depth. It is a great book”

 ~Jan Scholten MD, Author of Homeopathy and the Elements, Secret Lanthanides and many other books

 “This remarkable synthesis of cutting-edge knowledge is rooted in ancient practices of Traditional Chinese medicine as well as in homeopathy’s futuristic, Western medical tradition. Five revelatory existential questions are introduced. Convincingly, each provides the subtext for health, epigenetics and emergent chronic illness. Offering case histories, clinical pearls, Greek myth analysis and much more, Kantor’s book is a stunning yet enjoyable read. Highly recommended.”

~Dana Ullman CCH, MPH

“Kantor provides an insightful overview of five core existential dilemmas that life presents, positing that our responses to these quandaries become embodied in specific symptoms and syndromes of mind and body.  He then describes homeopathic therapies relevant from this vantage point. His breathtaking perspective on the human condition will amply reward readers, from the lay public to professionals of any medical persuasion.”

~David Kailin, MPH, PhD

 “Insightful and thought-provoking. The first book to bring together existential philosophy, miasms and homeopathic solutions! Gripping in content and lucid in style. We enjoyed reading the book and so will every reader!”

~Dr. Bhawhisha and Dr. Shashchindra Joshi, MD (Hom). Mumbai, India

“Jerry Kantor uses his exceptional mastery of wit, metaphor and integrative healing resources of Homeopathy, Psychology and Chinese Medicine to help us understand how unique emotional and physical symptoms emerge as guides to mend the manifestations of chronic illness.” 

~Kenneth Silvestri, Ed.D., certified homeopath and psychotherapist

“Are you familiar with the sufferings (or inner torments) of the mythical Greek god Sisyphus, Hamlet, Prince of Denmark, Bartelby the Scrivener, and Phil Connors of the movie Groundhog Day? Jerry Kantor’s analysis of their existential plights and the remedy each needs is worth the price of admission.”

~Anuradha Dayal-Gulati, PhD., author of Heal Your Ancestral Roots


Spoiler alert, here are two of the five core questions and their clinical extensions:

“Can the boundary between life and death be abided?” 
Syphilitic Miasm/Hearing/Water Phase/Fear/Kidneys-Urinary Bladder

                         
  Vanitas Still Life by Pieter Claesz


“Will the insurrection of my life prove fruitful?” 
Cancer Miasm/Sight/Wood Phase/Anger/Liver-Gall Bladder

                                                               

 “Non inutilis vixi” (I have not lived in vain)
Inscribed on the Samuel Hahnemann Memorial, Washington DC

A Glimpse into Autism Materia Medica

A Glimpse into Autism Materia Medica

by | Jun 4, 2017 | Autoimmunity, Hot Topics, Reading List | 0 comments

Materia Medica Autism by Jerry Kantor, Chapter of The Autism Reversal Toolbox book

Published in the Homeo Magazine Dynamics March 31, 2017

Sine Wave Materia Medica

This is a chapter of the book “Autism Reversal Toolbox”, By Jerry Kantor.

Available at www.merlijnboekhandel.nl and in our website store.

The full range of existing materia medica can and will come into play during the treatment of ASD or related autoimmune conditions. The following compilation of suggested remedies is divided among remedies I have found possessing unusual and specific relevance to ASD and other remedies whose situational relevance is generally. The practitioner is urged to make a full an investigation of any remedy under consideration. A study of the Unda system with its 76 remedies is recommended, as only basic suggestions are offered here.

Parents are kindly reminded not to try to treat their children based on the remedy descriptions here or in other books about homeopathy for autism. A professional is needed not only to see the remedy state clearly, but more importantly to manage the roller coaster ride of ups and downs that can ensue from a remedy.

PREGNANCY RELATED ASD ISSUES

For child or both mother and child when a pregnancy ailment and ASD is are associated.

When the mother has suffered an injurious blow to the womb

Bellis Perennis

The mother may harbor a suspicion that nothing has ever been the same since.

After-effects of Common Infection

Streptococcinum (including PANDA) High strung mother, perhaps prone to weeping; where there has been a history of Strep infection. Slow growth in the child, also with tendency to relapse.

Staphylococcinum

The staphylococcus bacterium thrives in circumstances of debility from overwork, anxiety, poor nutrition, constitutional weakness. Affinity for the endocardium.

All Unda remedies below are only available in the United States, not in Europe (editor).

Unda #1

Basic drainage, general anti-toxic that reboots hepatic function. Strong effect on the liver, kidneys and gall bladder (Achillea millefolium, Arctostaphylos uva-ursi, Lyc, Valeriana, Angelica archangelica, Equisetum arvense, Arg met).

Unda #243

Like #1 but acts as a functional remedy with specific indication for the hepatic cells. Indispensable (Combretum raimbaultii, Peumus boldus, Cholesterolinum, Lycopodium, Podophylum).

Unda #2

Basic drainage and strengthening of kidney function (both in the allopathic and TCM sense), in relation to toxic accumulation. (Berberis, Thlaspi, Juniperus, Argentum met, Asparagus, Genista tinctoria, Petroselinum sativum).

Anergic Diathesis, Copper-Gold-Silver (CU-AU-AG).

Oligotherapy remedy (6X or 3C solutions not potentized). Where there is a history of recurrent and/or debilitating infections.

Polychrest

Pyrogenium

Septic states or where has been a history of sepsis.

Caesarian section and other traumas of delivery

Liliflorae (remedy family described in Sankaran’s An Insight into Plants)

The following remedies exhibiting jauntiness and loquacity may reflect

the issue of “Forced out vs. Held in” with regard to forcibly early or restrained birth. They are worth considering in the related ASD case:

Crocus sativa

Veratrum album

Veratrum viride

Paris quadrifolia

Spurge/Rubber/Oils (Euphorbiaceae described by Sankaran, and Petroleum as discussed by Mangiolavari)

As words commonly associated with these remedies include “constricted,” “hidebound,” “drawn backwards” their associated theme of “Compressed vs. Released” should be considered where delivery has been compromised. May manifest as the clinginess vs. bolting polarity:

Croton Tiglium

Hura Brasiliensis

Latex

Mancinella

Petroleum

Glandular Imbalance

According to Sensation Method findings, the thematic essence of endocrine glands has to do with high-level fulfillment of one’s duty, relevant when the theme emerges in the intake with regard to the child’s parents or familial Julian’s formula for prescribing endocrine sarcodes for glandular problems at specific potencies:

3C or 5C to encourage functioning of a gland

7C to modulate / regulate a gland function

9C to suppress/inhibit gland functioning.

Unda remedies

Worth studying are the clinical approaches to addressing glandular imbalance within the Unda system. The two etiologies with the greatest relevance to ASD are

The Tubercular and degenerative etiology (paralleling developmental endocrinology and in accordance with the above, sensation method’s insight, culminating in high level functioning) which suggests Unda numbers 14, 16, 21, 48 and 1000

Dysfunction within the diencephalon-cortico-gonadic axis suggesting Unda numbers 1, 10 and 245..

Scrophularia nodosa

Enlarged glands. Ailments of the breast. Eczema. Often after grief.

Polychrests:

Calc Fluor

Financial stresses for the parents or within the familial legacy. The conjunction of Calc’s concern with bone stability and fluoride’s sudden instability expresses itself in glandular dysfunction promptiung induration (excessive bone hardness and growth) but also brittleness.

Leucorrhea

Kreosote

Where the mother has had a longstanding leucorrhea and the child is slow growing and poorly developed.

Magnesium Sulphurica

Languor and staggering gait in the child. Leuccorhea or eclampsia in the mother. Consider especially when there is an inequality of existing between wife and husband. I have seen this expressed when one spouse shoulders disproportionate breadwinning responsibility and, where the wife is physically more imposing than the husband.

Depression During Pregnancy

Unda #9

Basic drainage, all ailments of the respiratory tract. Assists the lungs both in the allopathic and TCM sense wherefore addresses grief from a drainage standpoint. On a moment to moment basis the lungs provide the interplay between the external and internal terrains. Inability to resolve centeredness vs disorientation in the dimension of smell. (Adianatum capillus veneris, Glycyrrhiza glabra, Inula helenium, Tussilago farfara, Arg met, Drosera, Grindelia, Potentilla tormentilla, Cuprum).

Polychrests

Cimicifuga

Post-partum depression, feeling of black cloud hovering. Awareness that motherhood poses severe constraint on her independence.

Sepia

History of resentment and disappointment. Lack of clarity as to her psycho-sexual position in life. Delusion that hope is toxic. Generally stagnated condition (Liver Constraint picture in TCM).

Gelsemium

Weary, faint-hearted pursuant to a setback. General heaviness and prostration.

Nitric Acidum

Fault-finding, exacting, glass is half-full. Cannot forget or easily forgives wrongs.

Natrum Muriaticum

Self-contained, averse to consolation. Desires intimacy but keeps it at arm’s length. Delusion it is dangerous to express grief. Overly responsible.

DYSFUNCTIONAL BONDING

Due to their relevance to the neonate and infant, the following remedies are appropriate for use as background constitutional remedies, administered on a weekly basis during toxic clearing. The remedy chosen for weekly use need not be limited to just these however.

Good sources for learning about the Matridonal remedies (which include the first six remedies listed below) are Melissa Assilem, The Gifts of the Mother ? Narayana Publications, Kandern, Germany 2009 and Alize Timmernam [“The Love and Care Hormone,” Spectrum of Homeopathy, Perinatal edition, 1/1/2013 but JK also has an as yet unpublished ms of hers]. Keep alert, as new sarcodes continue to be introduced.

Placenta

In the child, abdominal, pain that may manifest with reflux, belching, constipation and diarrhea. Depression. Diarrhea. Mother and child: prostration, restlessness and apathy. Poor impulse control. As the organ remains much misunderstood but manifesting global functions in relation to all systems, applies to many conditions where any indication of placental dysfunction. See the discussion of autoimmunity on page 000.

Lac Humanum

Poor ability to maintain good relationships. Tendency to addiction. Lack of or dysfunctional history of breast feeding. Compare with Lac Maternum, below (where the issue of incomplete incarnation evidence in daydreaming and lack of joy is stronger).

Lac Maternum

As above though utilizing the milk of nine mothers. Enlarged issue of incomplete incarnation.

Umbilicus

Unusual degree of innocence. Respiratory issues, distorted sense of time.

Folliculinum

Highly hormonal remedy. “I am a doormat” issue from having been longtime dominated. Similar to Carcinosin in expressing excessive responsibility. Great Mother theme.

Amniotic Fluid

Delight in water, atmospheric sensitivity, pulsation, old soul.

Carcinosin

Over adaptation to the needs for others. Look for the miasm in the parents.

Bismuth

Hyper-attachment in an atmosphere or history of admonition.

Cuprum

Slavish rule-following, ambition, lack of connection to emotions. Look for rigidity among the parents.

Cuprum Cum Carcinosin

Tinus Smits’ amalgam of Carc and Cuprum, applicable when features of both are evident, which is often as the remedies overlap a lot.

Vernix Caseosa

Made from infant sebum, wherefore the remedy state reflects excessive vulnerability due to inadequate boundaries.

Anacardium

Inner conflict theme wherefore alternately hard, unfeeling, cruel on the one hand, and helpless on the other. Ameliorated by rapid eating, stuffs himself.

Rhus Tox

Connection to past trauma cannot be let go. Like scar tissue, the mindset lacks elasticity.

Hydrogenium

The opposite end of the pendulum from Lac Maternum: the client is so fully incarnated that the feeling of oneness with the universe is socially distancing.

Saccharum Officinalum

Distractability, overly-affectionate, general dryness, indecision, fruitless search for

love because incapable of self-love.

Mother-child bond

Cadmium Muriaticum

Powerless, overly dramatic due to poor relation to mother.

Candida

Where the mother exerts a stagnating effect on the child’s digestive tract, this organic tissue-consuming bacteria invades the mucosa and forms a biofilm.

Muriatic Acidum

Mother has a destructive presence in the child’s life.

Veratrum Album

Terrible fear due to demotion from privileged status in regard to the mother.

Cenchris

A sexually abused mother can transmit debilitating anxiety to the child.

Lachesis

Especially when the family has been fractured. Jealousy, obsessiveness.

Oxtyocin

The love/bonding, “tend and befriend” hormone. To restore equilibrium in life and connection to mother.

Aethusa Cynapium

Intolerance of milk, upset digestion, love for animals. Out of synch with one’s mother. Key remedy in the Banerjee autism protocol.

Father-child bond

Ammonia Carb

Where there exists a familial atmosphere of bitterness and disappointment.

Carbonicas generally

Where due to the amorphous influence of the father, a sense of identity and personal value are undermined.

Zincum

When the father is emotionally remote. Perseveration, over-sensitivity, mental fatigue are evident.

Yersinium pestis

Nosde from the bubonic plague. Similar to Ammonium Carb re sabotaging of a relationship with a father or authority figure after an initial idolization of that person.

DEVELOPMENTAL DELAY

Posterior Pituitary (the gland that secretes Oxytocin)

Has been indicated the most, predominantly in children when maturational markers or behavioral issues have been delayed and has been especially useful as an intercurrent in cases of bedwetting.

Unda # 202 and #700

Peripheral drainage remedies for when the situation is profoundly syphilitic. Each would best be combined with a general drainage and a functional remedy.

FAILURE TO THRIVE

Abrotanum

Emaciation due to lack of nutrients, tubercular state.

Alfalfa

Conjunction of debility, poor appetite and nervous system complaints such as insomnia and anxiety.

China

Malarial miasm. History of persecution, social deprivation, injustice.

Chloralum

Increases appetite, physical strength. Emotional context: irresolution, night terrors, hurriedness.

Iodium

Thyroid issues, restless, desperation and obsessiveness akin to starvation.

Laurocerasus

Oxygen deprivation often occurring at birth. Underprescribed because the prevalence of cord clamping is not sufficiently recognized.

Magnesium Carbonica

Where a history of abandonment, orphaning, history of depletion, or ill health in the mother. Child with milk intolerance, cranky, sour disposition.

Toxoplasmosis Nosode

Arrested mental development due to miasm or history of toxoplasmic infection.

Tuberculinum

Famous ASD and ADHD nosode covering restlessness, destructiveness, respiratory complaints. Miasmatic effect re demineralization from infection. But also see the three Unda number remedies that address the tubercular diathesis according to the active phase (#15), the adaptive phase (#16) and the degenerative phase (#14).

Unda numbers 1, 243, 1000

Where there is lack of appetite.

GENERALLY KNOWN REMEDY

Silica

Well known for sensitivity, timorousness. Can relate to history of infection in mother or child, ailments from vaccination.

GUT SUPPORT

Leaky Gut

Unda #50

Saccharum off. 6x

PARASITES

Carcinosin

Threadworms.

Cina

Worms. Child is averse to touch, easily agitated.

Teucrium

Worms. Child is talkative, itchy, emotionally sensitive.

Helminth

Parasitical worm nosode.

Calc Carb

General “dampness” and psoric picture invites worm etiology.

Scrophulariaceae

Biofilm gut issue: a slimy community of micro-organisms, attached to a wet or moist surface that include bacteria, yeasts, algae and fungi only microscopically visible. In my experience, detoxification of the biofilm addresses failure to thrive and promotes metabolism. Expressed in accordance with Sankaran’s attachment vs non-attachment theme: General sensation: sharp, sticking, stinging, stitching.

Key remedies in the family:

Digitalis

Consider for ASD in sycotic families, delusion of criminality.

Scrophularia nodosa

Consider for ASD in cancer miasm families, with the effects of grief, over-adaptation to the needs of others.

Leptandra

Consider for ASD in syphilitic families, with hopelessness, despondency and exhaustion.

Verbascum

Consider for ASD in tubercular families, hyperactivity, temperature aggravation, delusions of ghosts.

Unda # 17 and #39

Functional remedies that are best combined with a general drainage and a peripheral drainage remedy.

Constipation

Aesculus

In relation to portal congestion.

Opium

Significant remedy. Look for history of trauma, exposure to fright, humiliation, shame. Lack of response, high pain tolerance.

Taraxacum

With bloating, flatulence, exhaustion.

Cocculus

From want of peristaltic action.

Nux Moschata

Difficulty expelling soft stool. Much straining.

Malaria Officinalis (decomposed vegetable matter Malarial type weakness and fatigue.

Unda #s 1, 3, 6 and 50

GENERALLY KNOWN REMEDIES

Nux Vomica

General tension.

Alumina

Stubborn constipation where there is cognitive impairment, confusion. A neurotoxic ingredient in many vaccines.

Natrum Sulphuricum

Can be used as a cell salt. Dissolved in warm water before bedtime is effective (Along with Arnica and Cicuta Virosa, a major remedy where any history of head trauma).

Plumbum

Slow comprehension accompanying neurological impairment.

Sulphur

Stools knotty, hard, gluey, tenacious.

Thuja

Violently bashful with abdominal distress.

Silica

Bashful stool. Ailments from vaccination. Timorousness (the remedy causes what is held in to be brought forth).

Senna

A case where the allopathic and homeopathic uses can overlap. Where constipation is accompanied by colic, gas and weakness. A liver remedy.

ALLERGIES

Meditative Provings protocol:

Okoubaka 200X weekly, and Wheat low potency daily to drain and detoxify. Once client is balanced and at peace discontinue and administer constitutional remedy. Drainage remedy for catarrh with toxicity: Wheat 6X, Gaertner 30X, Silica 6X.

SOLIPSISTIC STATES (living in one’s own world)

Gases

We differentiate between the passive and dynamically presenting solipsistic states

Inert, non-reactive pole

Helium

Entirely self-sufficient. Does not want stimulus. As if content to remain in the womb.

Hydrogenium

Passively self-sufficient with no need of stimulus because feels already connected to all things. A state of oneness.

Ozone

As the gas protects the planet, the issue of being hermetically sealed, protected. Inner gates leading to other inner gates so as to fragment the personality.

Hyper-reactive pole

Bromium

Dynamic and self-referential guilt. As in “I am guilty because I am guilty”. As sensitive to karmic issues as Phosphorus is to impressions. In the ASD presentation it as though a past life’s theme “hangover” is choreographing emotional reactivity.

Fluorine

“I am alone because am condemned.” Volatile, incapable of a relationship.

Neon

Retreat due to identity denial. Contradiction aggravates. Compare to Black Mamba.

Lanthanides (trapped within or lacking autonomy, as per Jan Scholten)

Cereum

Fearful of taking the first step toward autonomy.

Cereum Carbonicum

In his or own world due to lack of identity support from a parent. Fear of independent existence wherefore retreats.

Neodymium

In his own world due to needing to prove his transcendence from it. Impervious to influence, mischievous.

Insularity (one step removed from full solipsism)

Cereus Serpentinus (Cactus self-sufficiency theme elucidated by Massimo Mangialavori and Sankaran)

Chronex Fleckeri (Box Jellyfish). When there are huge polarities in the case, amelioration from the sea, learning disability. Elucidated by Jo Evans in her Sea Remedies book.

Granite

Introversion with arrogance, pugnacity. Similar to Platina.

Marble

Cold, haughty, emotionally distant.

Obsessiveness (Note: This feature of ASD may be seen heightened in children having experienced the carrot-and-stick behavior modification of the ABA (Applied Behavioral Analysis) method).

Causticum

Perseverative anxiety. Sensitivity to emotional state of others among family and close friends.

Cuprum

Slave to rules. Emotionally cramped. Anger with screaming.

Lachesis

OCD from the standpoint of needing to self-soothe. Backdrop of jealousy or grief due to family trauma.

Lyssinum

OCD from the standpoint of self-soothing to survive. Rages with intense remorse.

Naja

Obsessed re the possibility of his or her harming or upsetting another. Wretched, overwrought with concerns. Everything is her fault.

Psorinum/Nitric Acid

Complementary nit-picking remedy states. Psorinum from the standpoint of having an inner ledger, constantly tracking gains and losses. Nitric Acidum from the standpoint that negative experiences are unforgettable, incontrovertible.

Rhus Tox

Inelastic mindset in regarding the continuous presence of past traumatic events. Cannot let go of them.

Tarentula/Aranea diadema or ixobola? Jerry which aranea?

Restless spider states. Tarentula destructive from grief. Aranea, despondent and morose with restlessness. Both averse to touch.

Thuja

Chameleon-like, wants to please others so forgets her own wants and needs. Poor decision-making, not in her self-interest. Never Well Since vaccination but also family fracturing. Mental gymnastics and anguish due to poor self-esteem.

Zincum

Perseverating, complaining, easily upset. But also helpful. Mental fatigue. Often where the father is remote or formidable.

Streptococcinum

Tormenting thoughts, obsessiveness, craving sympathy but also unworthy of it. Look for where there is a history of infection.

MUTENESS

Gadolinium

All dialogue requires some discord, wants, or reaction. This remedy is so self-satisfied as to negate the need for dialogue.

Lanthanum Phosphoricum

Incomplete speech development. Psychic doubt that is entitled to independence wherefore as in prophetic self-fulfillment, isolates.

Kali Bromatum

Nothing one can say can overturn one’s being in disfavor with the Supreme Being. Hence, little impetus to speak.

Alum

In the wake of a compromised will, little impetus to voice a true concern.

Convolvulus

Isolated and speechless due to a sense of abandonment. Out of this reality as in a drug state according to Mangialovori.

HYPERSENSITIVITY (to the extent this is due to autophagy, the biotherapeutic drainage method’s effectiveness would appear to reenergize synaptic pruning.

Asarum

Emotionally sensitive, great sensitivity to sound. Vacancy of thought differentiates it from the spiders.

Butterfly remedies

Lively, agitated, restless but mercurial. Abandonment issues. Patricia Le Roux’s Butterflies, An Innovative Guide to the Use of Butterflies in Homeopathy, Narayana Publications, Kandern, German, 2009.

Hepar Sulph

With underlying vulnerability. Irritable.

Olive

Meditative proving remedy. Profoundly tranquilizing due to it detoxification effect. Aggravating for a short period of time, wherefore Madeline Evans recommends use of Carcinosin after several weeks.

Theridion (and other spiders)

The most sensitive of the spiders. Unproductive activity.

Zinc

Troubled by the slightest problem. Unconsolidated energy.

Malar-co

Where a legacy of persecution, injustice, poverty. Louis Klein a good reference. Louis Klein, Miasms and Nosodes, Narayana Publications, Kandern, Germany 2009.

BCG Vaccine Nosode (similar to Puls and Tub) Utilized in Europe but not the US.

Lac equinum

Milk of the horse. As with other milks presents with relationship issues. Here, due to the conflict between individuality and herd membership. Horses are high strung so the issue prompts excessive frustration dysfunction related to organizational thinking.

IMPONDERABLES

These are remedies whose nature is explicitly esoteric as they deal with subtle energies and exposures. They can be made from sunlight, moonlight, or X-ray for example.

Sol Britannica

A remedy reflecting disharmony within the sense dimension of Smell: general disorientation, indecision, unhappiness, grief, wheezing. Look for when there is a legacy of dislocation in the family’s history.

Electromagnetic Field Exposure

Holmium

As with other Lanthanides, sensitive to subtle energies. Possesses unusual magnetic properties (wherefore used in atomic reactors) but has no known biological function. As yet unclear remedy picture but consider in EMF sensitivity..

X-Ray

Myriad disturbances in accordance with x-ray exposure, key would be return of old symptoms.

Magnetus Polus Arcticus

Completely fenced into his own world, forcing a slow pace by elaborating unnecessarily on details and talking slowly (as per Ulrich Welte case).

EMF, Television radiation, and Mobile phone

Tautopathic effects in regard to the frequently associated symptoms of fatigue, sleep disturbance, head pain and mental confusion. Determine according to exposure.

GENERALLY WELL KNOWN REMEDY

Hypericum

Where the damage is understood to be chiefly to the nerves.

Kali phos

Can be used as a cell salt in conjunction with the other Phosphorus cell salts, for example in Nerve Tonic by Hyland’s.

NEVER WELL SINCE VACCINE

(see also ENWS materials, page 000)

Ant Tart

Specifically in regard to effects of the smallpox vaccine. Though no longer given routinely since 1972, its use has increased especially among military personnel in response to the terrorist threat.

Mezereum

Intolerable itching. Where there is a history of emotional suppression. As opposed to for example, Thuja or Silica, the determining feature with a familial legacy could be evidence of an “I’ve had it up to here!” issue.

GENERALLY KNOWN REMEDIES

Thuja

Well known. With erupting poor self-esteem, obsessiveness. Poor decision making. Inauthenticity.

Silica

Well known. With hypersensitivity, timorousness, perceptivity of small details.

CHILDISHNESS

Cicuta virosa

Neurological remedy, seizures, brain injury, childishness.

Sequoia

Meditative proving remedy, also karmic remedy. Gives peace. Influences all chakra centers. Strongly supportive of pituitary gland function.

YEAST OVERGROWTH

(frequent sign: child giddy at night; if candida is treated and child turns violent and aggressive, this means clostridium has replaced candida in the gut and must be treated)

Asafoetida

With nervousness, oversensitivity, craving sympathy.

Candida Albicans

Eczema with characteristic of linear fissure in mucosal lining and skin folds.

Crisis Management

FEVER

Unda # 15

To optimize fever, meaning energize the emunctories so that pathogens are catabolized and waste products are efficiently eliminated. Always do in tandem with Unda # 2 for fever. Five drops of both remedies, six times a day.

GENERALLY KNOWN REMEDIES

Aconite

Best in early stage. When there is fright, sudden onset and/or very intense symptoms.

Belladonna

With fright, listlessness or mania.

Ferrum Phos

Early in an inflammatory state.

Agitation/destructiveness (of self and others)

Unda #22 (best in conjunction with Unda #9)

For neuro-vegetative system drainage. A great intercurrent prescription as it helps resolve ASD-pervasive anxiety, neurosis, nightmares, and nervous disorders. (Unda #9 works to promote neural homeostasis).

Absinthus

Ailments from terror. Facial grimacing.

Agaricus

Neurological excitation. Tics.

Black Mambo

Destructiveness, lying, delusional denial of actions. Product of extraordinary abuse.

Camphora

Feeling of being “left out in the cold” (as well as a well-indicated remedy when the person is extremely chilly physically. Extreme non-engagement.

Opium

Significant remedy, use often. Ailments from fright, shock, humiliation, shame. Drug-like disengagement, escapist, powerful imagination, audacity.

Iodium

Frenzy and obsessiveness akin to terror that will starve. Intolerance of silence.

GENERALLY KNOWN REMEDIES

Stramonium

Rage to counterbalance terror issuing from sense that survival is at risk.

Tarentula

Cannot stop moving. Must dance to music. Exhibitionistic, destructive, inappropriate.

Tuberculinum

Restlessness, destructiveness, precocity, environmental sensitivity.

Veratrum Album

Polarity between frenzy and thoughtless staring. On a high horse. Ailments from loss of position or idyllic life situation.

Self-destructive behavior: note the acids are especially useful

Gallic acidum

Biting, kicking, cursing (like Stramonium or Tuberculinum), terror of being alone. Rooted in a shocking parental bond breakage or abandonment resulting in adoption.

Fluoric acidum

Precocious sexual awareness with superficial relationships. Becoming more frequently seen due to cultural shifts in the direction of non-lasting relationships.

GENERALLY KNOWN REMEDY

Nitric acidum

Well known remedy for negativity, fault finding, grudge-holding picture.

Sleeplessness

Pineal Gland

Secretes melatonin, a potent cell-protecting antioxidant. A hormone released into the bloodstream and cerebrospinal fluid so as to balance the sleep-wake cycle. Regulates sexual/reproductive function.

Ayahuasca (combined with Thymus and Pineal) (think of the relationship between visions, dreams, and sleep). See also entry under Karmic remedies.

USEFUL FORMULAS

Calms Forte

Hylands brand combination, “homeopathic Valium” for anxiety by day and insomnia by night.

Noctigem

Gemmo formula.

GENERALLY KNOWN REMEDIES

Kali phos

Cell salt.

Cocculus indica

Frequent waking due to worrying about others.

Coffea

Seizures

Often occur due to brain overload. See Roger Morrison’s Desktop Companion to Physical Pathology for an excellent list of possible remedies.
Or, if suspecting an autophagy problem (inadequate neurological pruning due to overload) look to brain tissue sarcodes and Unda number remedies.

Sexual Frenzy

Cypridium Pub

Ecstatic and wakeful at night. Desire to masturbate.

Origanum

Lascivious impulses that she struggles to contain.

Gratiola

Feeling of being diminished as a person. With small appetite and a fear of eating when not hungry. Masturbatory urgency.

Raphanus

Cannot sleep due to sexual thoughts and impulses. Yellowish, yeasty urine sediment.

GENERALLY KNOWN REMEDIES

Hyoscyamus

Shameless, exhibitionistic, suspicious. After humiliation, mortification; or in sibling rivalry, with a fear of being sold or given away.

Lilium Tigrinum

Besides herself. Does two things at once. Religious delirium with sexual frenzy.

Platina

Vaginal sensitivity. Haughty, contemptuous.

Cantharis

Sexual mania with rage and delirium.

Phosphorus

From excess of amorous feeling.

Regression

(Note that regressive tendencies occurring during biotherapeutic drainage or pharmaceutical clearing may not need to be treated with a remedy. Instead, let the drainage run its course and the regression should resolve on its own, leaving the child in an improved state. If regressive tendencies remain when the drainage phase is completed, use remedies such as the following.

Baryta Carb

Babyish, desire to hide, craving approval, developmental delays.

Bismuth

“Velcro” child, clinging.

Viscum Album

Regression due to past lives or karmic influence (Meditative Provings insight).

Lac Leoninum

Licking of the hands and fingers.

Lac Delphinum

Milk of the dolphin. Playful antics, clairvoyance, desire for amusement, masturbation.

GENERALLY KNOWN REMEDIES

Bufonis

Reverson to primal impulses and behaviors. Licking, mouthing. An affinity with Lac Maternum.

Karma

(miasms in the perhaps, metaphorical sense)

Karma is understood here in terms of concepts recurring throughout this book. These include memories, behaviors, creative energies, and the impact of traumatic acts consolidated within Kidney Yang or the dimension of Hearing; the transmission of Hearing consolidated material to the Hun or ethereal soul (equivalent to Jung’s Collective Unconscious) from where it becomes accessible to a newborn soul; family legacies of illness, addictiveness or specific talents (that also fall under the rubric of a miasm). Where karmic influence in and of itself is thought to have an especial presence, remedies such as the following may be interpolated:

Bromium

What Phosphorus is to external impressions, Bromium is to the presence of karmic influence. Utilize when a child sees ghosts or spiritual entities; where there is a sense of the primacy of rebirth as a past or current issue.

Meditative proving remedies (Madeline Evans)

Note: In addition to the ones below, all remedies in this two-volume set merit study. Evans’s analyses emphasize effects on or reflections of the chakra system. Useful intercurrently in the Sine Wave method. Before using, study each in depth.

Ayahuasca

Releases darkness from ancestral influence, fear, grief, hatred. Where the autism has an out-of-body quality. Influence on the Heart, Thymus and Brow chakras.

Bay Leaf

Highly syphilitic remedy due to its reflection of hidden states, deceptiveness, emotional closedness; as opposed to Merc., however with mental slowness and confusion. Influence on the Brow and Solar Plexus chakras.

Berlin Wall

Where a legacy of futility, repression, and restriction. Split in the spirit. Powerful energy releasing remedy with regard to entry to a new age. Influences Thymus gland and Heart chakras.

Chalcanthite

Autism with dyslexia; extreme fragility due to legacy of trauma, medication abuse; vagueness of personality, lack of substance. Supports Base chakra.

Orange

Prompts inner stillness. The meditative proving discussion describing promotion to higher levels of spiritual awareness via lighting the way to truth especially among children reflects Swedenborg. Influences the Heart and Brow chakras. Similar to Slate, also worth studying.

Rose Quartz

Where parents maintain the child was reluctant to incarnate; a legacy of non-appreciation and manic-depression. Obsessive thinking. Poor concentration. Opens the heart. Positive influence on all chakras. Can be used in a positive way, to support unconditional love and an open heart chakra in the exhausted parents.

Thymus

Highly karmic remedy, deeply syphilitic. Supports Base, Throat and Heart chakras. Important as it promotes release of many sorts. Underused.

Gem essence remedies

Note: In addition to the two remedies below the other ten jewels described by Peter Tumminello merit close reading. “Soft focus” remedies that — like the meditative provings remedies — have an affinity for karmic issues, sexuality, and creativity. Reflective of spiritual concerns within a family legacy they are useful intercurrently as in the Sine Wave method. Before using, study each in depth.

Lapis Lazuli

Where parents insist the child’s autism represents an inner struggle for meaning, where there is also a need for amusement; when there is a legacy of coldness in the mother.

Pearl

Where there is a legacy of the self having been fragmented or lost due to isolation, panic and fear. Images of darkness prevail.

VANGUARD APPROACH SOFT FOCUS REMEDIES

[with the potential to be universally applicable)

Fibroblast Growth Factor (FGF2)

Fibroblast growth factors are derived from molecules used by neurons to communicate with one another. In normal amounts they promote visual acuity and vision repair. When in excess (as in neural overload) cellular signaling breaks down, as in Stage Four homotoxicosis. Barbara Brewitt’s research cited in Patricia Lemer’s Envisioning a Bright Future indicates that low potency remedies made from this sarcode can improve nervous system, immune and organ function.

Glyphosate

Key ingredient in pesticides (discussed under Toxic Burden). Especially where the exposure causes a Never Well Since situation. Remedy to use for detoxification.

Glutaminicum acidum (Glut-ac.)

Remedy used by Reckeweg to improve brain function in impaired children.

Monosodium Glutamate (MSG), Aspartame

Environmentally pervasive excitotoxins discussed within Toxic Burden.

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