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In a series of articles, Iris Bell, M. Further, the more often the organism is presented with the homeopathic preparation, the more resilience that occurs, again similar to the cell culture experiments that demonstrate that repeated exposure imparts lasting vigor to the system.
Additionally, when the homeopathic preparation is administered to a healthy individual, the metaplastic effects are found to enhance the disease related defense mechanisms of the organism. This process is based upon the principle of similarity as the organism perceives the remedy as a stronger disease state than the current affliction and is able to make adjustments at the cellular level to restore the normal homeostatic state.
There are viral organisms that can potentially infect humans resulting in a variety of diseases. Many of these are considered to be benign illnesses acquired during childhood when the immune system is developing causing little harm unless the child is malnourished or immune-compromised. In naturopathic philosophy, it is the soil, not the organism that gives rise to infectious disease.
Because of the limited complexity of viral capsules, they are often composed of similar capsomeres made up of a limited number of proteins. These caspsids may be of icosadhedral or helical symmetry and are termed nucleocapsids when combined with nucleic acids.
Many of the viruses that infect humans possess a simple nucleocapsid structure that mediates contact with uninfected cells while other more complex viruses modify themselves once they come in contact with the cell surface.
The immune system can be divided into two functional components, the innate immune and adaptive immune systems that are activated in response to a viral exposure. The innate immunity response results from recognition of viral or bacterial components such as nucleic acids, by a limited set of cellular recognition receptors, and secondly through the activation of intracellular signaling mechanisms once the virus has entered the cell or bacteria adheres to the cell wall.
This occurs through pathogen-associated molecular-patterns PAMPs via pattern recognition receptors. Repeated exposure to the virus or bacteria will evoke a similar response due to genes encoding for the receptors and signaling mechanisms. Repeated exposure to the viral signature, results in an enhancement of this mechanism.
Also part of an initial innate response involves the proteins of the complement system and other acute phase proteins such as collagen containing C-type proteins or lectins, whose function it is to bind to oligosaccharide or lipid structures on the bacterial or viral capsid.
These act to eliminate viral and bacterial organisms through opsonization, phagocyte activation, complement activation or inhibition of cell growth. Found in the blood and interstitial fluid, they are rapidly produced by the liver in response to foreign invaders. The adaptive immune response will take days to evolve because both the T and B-lymphocytes must identify the virus. B-lymphocytes form cellular memory for the specific virus while T-lymphocytes recognize viral infected cells through recognition of processed peptide proteins found on the surface of infected cells.
With both T and B-lymphocytes, the more often an exposure to the virus or viral signature, the more rapid the response time due to developing immunological memory. Nature has provided sufficient amounts of lymphoid tissue throughout the oral, nasal and respiratory tracts in order to accommodate antibody formation to specific viral invaders.
These are primarily made up of B-lymphocytes and the mechanism is enhanced by an initial activation of the innate response in order to allow sufficient time for B-lymphocyte recognition and formation of antibodies. This process is largely bypassed by injecting vaccines through the skin where attenuation and recognition of the virus resulting in the formation of antibodies in response to the vaccine is less effective.
This also occurs to some extent because peripherally, there is a preponderance of T-lymphocytes compared to B-lymphocytes. Conventional vaccinations work primarily on the adaptive immune system, the immune response being measured by the formation of antibodies, whereas homeopathic nosode preparations affect the innate as well as the adaptive immune system. This is probably the reason that antibody titers are generally not found following nosode administration because the immunity developed by the cell occurs primarily through the innate mechanism.
This probably occurs due to subsequent exposure to the virus, but because of the protection and enhancement of the innate cellular defense mechanisms imparted by the nosode, the patient does not develop the disease, only antibodies. This seems to parallel the work conducted by Chavon, Boyd and Patterson when they demonstrated immunity to Diphtheria following nosode administration as they too utilized high potencies. In fact it was the success of homeopathic medicines during an epidemic of Scarlatina in Germany in that brought rapid recognition to an emerging medical therapy.
Hahnemann published a pamphlet Cure and Prevention of Scarlet Fever in At the time he promoted Belladonna as a specific prophylactic remedy for Scarlatina. This was later changed to include Aconite as other homeopaths found it worked as well.
Homeopathic vaccination involves the use of the routine administration of a series of specific viral nosodes in order to confer long-term resistance.
Homeoprophylaxis involves the use of individual remedies, selected in an individualized and non-routine manner, to reduce or eliminate the morbidity of epidemic and sporadic contagious acute diseases in the short term. Homoeopathic vaccination is a relatively modern day innovation, largely developed as an alternative to allopathic vaccination, whereas homoeoprophylaxis is well rooted in classical homeopathic practice.
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