NOSODES - SARCODES - ISODES in HOMEOPATHY

Nosodes (e.g. Tuberculinum) and Sarcodes (e.g. Adrenalin) are homeopathic remedies made from products of disease or from discharges or secretions, of human or animal or vegetable origin. Isodes, or isotherapy, applies to the above when taken from and used for the same patient. (aka microimmunotherapy or biotherapics)

Dr H C Allen, who wrote the Materia Medica of the Nosodes, stipulated that he regarded these drugs as homeopathic, and not as isopathic, remedies; that they were to be proved as homeopathic remedies and prescribed according to the totality of the symptoms.

However not all nosodes do have a full proving, yet they are often prescribed with success even when not on the totality.

Dr O A Julian, who wrote 'Treatise on Dynamised Micro Immunotherapy', which includes a 'materia medica of biotherapics (ex-nosodes)', differentiates betwen their application in acute and chronic cases recommending prescribing on aetiology in acutes (i.e. the 'idem') and on the totality in chronic cases, suggesting that 'the immunotherapeutic remedy is to be added to the constitutional and temperamental remedy'. He also argues that the Unicist-Pluralist quarrel 'is a false quarrel, because it is situated in the abstract. A living being, healthy or ill is a whole in himself and his environment. He is one and multiple.'

Certainly there are many examples of cure where the nosode has been prescribed with success in tandem with other homeopathic remedies, or on aetiology, or on miasmatic background alone; that is, not prescribed on the Unicist principles of single remedy, single dose, on the totality as stipulated by Dr Allen above.

The only way to discern the best strategy for any given case is that the prescriber considering the use of the nosodes should have first learned the available MM of the nosode in question and have at the very least read Hahnemann's Chronic Diseases and the books mentioned above. Then a personal verdict can be passed, judged on the full texts from protagonists on both sides of the arguement, the decision being made without succumbing to hasty conjecture.

Nosodes will often resolve a case where all other remedies have failed, or prepare the ground for well indicated remedies to once again have the desired effect.

See the nosodes MM