Organotherapy

Drainage &
Detoxification
A starting point to safe practice for Homeopaths,
Herbalists, Naturopaths, Traditional Healers
and enlightened Medical Doctors

Dr. Joe Rozencwajg, NMD

Emryss Publishers
 Foreword

This book started as a compilation of my own practice. As far as I can remember, I

always used some form of preparation for the in-depth treatment after a few patients
suffered aggravations from the right remedy. Then I started being asked about this
or that form of drainage, how to detoxify and was it a real thing or just a New Age
fad. Eventually I thought it would make sense, and life easier, to put some order
in what I was doing. While doing that I realised that over the years I had in-
deed accumulated a lot of knowledge and techniques that needed some order and
logic. At that time I wrote an essay for our local homeopathic journal, Homeopathy
NewZ, which you will find, however modified, as the first Introduction.

I also came to see that there were lots of correlations between different methods;
that they were synergistic but that every type of practitioner, homeopath, herbalist,
nutritionist, naturopath, was often doing his own little system without daring to
investigate what others were using. What a waste! And moreover, many of those
techniques were written, used and described in other languages.
Surprisingly, nobody ever bothered to translate any of them (except Dr. Maury)
and to put them together so that they could be learned and used as an addition to
ones core practice.

So here it is. Without pretending to be complete or exhaustive, there is a lot of

material, techniques and references.
Might I suggest you put aside any preconceptions and read it fully? Then try to use
any technique you feel comfortable with or which is the closest to what you already
know. After that, try some other ones. Your patients will be ever so thankful.
By the way, English is not my mother tongue, so, if you find grammatical errors or
some style of writing that is not the Queens English, bear with me, please.

Dr. Joe Rozencwajg, NMD.

 Contents

First introduction 2
Second introduction 4
Prelude 6
Background and Theory 10

Organotherapy 14
From Cannibalism to Remedies 15
Herbal Organotherapy 19
Kidneys 19
Liver 20
Heart 21
Endocrine glands 22
Thyroid 22
Adrenals 23
Brain 24
Skin 25
Immune system 25
Herbal Organotherapy Chart 27

Gemmotherapy in Organotherapy 28

Nutritional Organotherapy 30
Brain 30
Immune system 31
Heart 32
Lungs 33
Liver and Gallbladder 34
Kidneys 34
Stomach and Intestines 35
Colon and Bowel Flora 35
Thyroid 36
Adrenals 37
Diabetes 37

Oligotherapy 39

Organopathy 40
Drainage 44
Nutritional drainage 44
Kidneys and Urinary tract 45
Liver 52
Pancreas 56
Blood 58
Lymphatic system 59
Veins 60
Arteries 60
Heart 62
Lungs 64
Colon 65
Endocrine in general 67
Thyroid 68
Adrenals 68
Male 69
Female 70
Skin 70
Brain and Nerves 71
Drugs 73
Joints 73
Nutritional Drainage Chart 78

Phytotherapic (Herbal) drainage 80

Alteratives 81
Kidneys and Urinary tract 83
Liver 86
Pancreas 89
Blood 89
Lymphatic system 89
Venous system 91
Arteries 92
Heart 94
Lungs 94
Colon 95
Endocrine in general 95
Thyroid 95
Adrenals 97
Skin 98
Brain and nerves 100
Joints 100

Gemmotherapic drainage 102

 Homeobotanical drainage 104

Homeopathic drainage 106

Channelling remedies 110
Remedy relationships 112
The Kollistch list 114
Drainage remedies 118
Kidneys and Urinary tract 120
Liver 129
Pancreas 132
Spleen 133
Blood 134
Lymphatic system 135
Veins 137
Arteries 139
Heart 141
Lungs 145
EENT 150
Digestive system 152
Stomach 152
Pylorus 154
Intestine and Colon 154
Rectum and Haemorrhoids 158
Endocrine in general 160
Carbohydrate metabolism 160
Thyroid 161
Adrenals 162
Male 164
Female 165
Breast 165
Skin and mucosa 167
Brain and Nervous system 171
Bones and Joints 174
Serosa 176
Specifics 176

Osteopathic drainage 178
Transmission of energetic information in the body 183

Detoxification 188
Sweat it out! Far Infra Red sauna 188

Enemas and colonics 191

 Nutritional detoxification 191
Cilantro and Chlorella 192
Specific detoxifiers 195
Nutritionals 195
Minerals 197

Phytotherapic (Herbal) detoxification 199
Chelation 200
Lithotherapy 201
Isopathy aka Isotherapy 202

Lesser known techniques 206

Gemmotherapy 206
Lithotherapy 228
Oligotherapy 234
But you Forgot to mention my Favourite technique 240

Summary 243

Conclusion 245

The Author 246

References and Bibliography 248

Index 251

Other books published by Emryss 268

 First introduction
mainly aimed at Homeopaths (but useful for everyone)

Homeopathy is the treatment of diseases by remedies chosen according to the Law

of Similars.
All Homeopaths agree on that. Well.most of them.

But is that all?

How comes that sometimes a remedy, obviously well chosen, works poorly? And
this even when the choice is checked by colleagues and teachers, and the same
remedy is suggested?
How comes that a well-chosen remedy sometimes gives terrible aggravations?
Wrong potency, wrong dose, are we told. However, is that really all?

Hahnemann, Kent and most of the contemporary Classical homeopaths advocate the
use of a single remedy without any interference from any other form of treatment.
That is an ideal.
But is it always attainable? And is it always justified?

In todays world, we are confronted not only with diseases, acute or chronic, but
with a slow intoxication (intoxication is the introduction of external harmful
compounds in the organism) and intoxination (intoxination is the flooding of the
organism by internally produced harmful compounds, including bacterial toxins)
of our organisms, a slow, subtle, insensible but all pervading and almost un-
avoidable poisoning: adulterated food, water polluted with the best of intentions
(Cl, Fluor), polluted air, EMF from computers, TV, phones, power lines, vaccines
and medications, etc,

Our Lebenskraft (I am using the German word Lebenskraft instead of Vital

Force because there has been too many arguments about what Hahnemann really
meant by this word, and so many different translations. I do not want to become
entangled in useless semantic arguments), Life Energy, Ki, Prana, Ruach, whatever
you want to call it, is busy fighting the poisons and the diseases with the help of
most of our organs.
To treat with Homeopathy, we introduce an artificial disease that is supposed to
displace the natural disease. But it does not do that on its own; the remedy needs
the involvement of the Lebenskraft and the active participation of all our organs.
3 First introduction

What if they are too busy just maintaining life? Wouldnt that explain why a well
chosen remedy does not work?

What if the supplementary imbalance from the remedy just pushes some organs
into a totally chaotic answer instead of starting the repairs? Wouldnt that explain
many unexpected aggravations?

Wouldnt it make sense to prepare the body to heal? Isnt it logic to optimise the
function of each and every organ before the real treatment starts?

That is the purpose of Drainage, Detoxification and Organotherapy. And it is nothing

really new, it was well done and codified by the French School of Homeopathy with
famous names like Fortier Bernoville, Duprat, Vannier, Conan Meriadec, Michaud,
Allendy, Bastien, Barbier, Nebel, Rouy, Zissu and many others.

Many Classical Unicist Homeopaths claim that the Simillimum is its own draining
remedy.
Yes. Maybe. Sometimes.
Undeniably, there are situations where the correct remedy restores the normal
physiology and functions so that total health is restored, toxins, poisons, metals,
xenobiotics are eliminated and everything is running smoothly forever after.
Are you willing to gamble on this affirmation? ......I am not!

I see too often patients receiving the correct prescription without any reaction or
at best a very weak one indicating that the remedy was indeed correct but also had
its action inhibited.
If I can avoid aggravations, complications or lack of efficiency, if I can speed up the
recovery of a patient, then I will use whatever is needed.
There is no contradiction between Drainage and Hahnemanian Homeopathy.
One prepares the way for the other.
It is true that sometimes, by unblocking the function of the organism, the Lebenskraft
is freed to perform its original task and produces a cure, or at least a sensible amelioration
without the prescription of a Simillimum. So what?
Isnt that in absolute agreement with Paragraph 1 of the Organon? The physicians
highest and only calling is to make the sick healthy, to cure, as it is called.
And indeed detoxification is nothing else but the removal of obstacles to cure.

When you plan a long trip in your car, dont you check and repair it beforehand to
ensure a safe trip? Why would you do that for your car and not for your body?
 Second introduction
aimed at other Natur al Medicine pr actitioners
(but Homeopaths could learn something from it)

Detoxify! Purify your body! Clean your organs!

Our patients are swarmed by advertisements and articles trying to sell them products
with health benefits centred on the concept of being full of harmful substances
that need to be removed.
And many are trying, eventually arriving at the clinic with bags full of empty
boxes and no results whatsoever.
We know there is truth in the cleansing mantra, but we also know we need
to give a precise treatment, individualized to the need of each and every patient
according to his history, his clinical condition, his pathology and his desire to ex-
plore one way rather than another.

Yet most of the prescriptions I see are trademark products, the latest combination
or the latest special juice from an exotic place, or whatever else. They might work
but there is rarely any logic in the matching of the patient with the product, except
maybe the financial logic.

As health practitioners, as professionals, we are bound to understand not only the

patients problem but how our remedies, drugs, medications, techniques, whatever
we use, work, what they do exactly, when to use them and when not, why use them
and why not......That is the aim of this book.

Not to teach a technique. But to explain how to use what you already know in a
proper way to achieve a proper, effective and safe detoxification; and maybe also
to show how others do it and encourage you to explore more in depth different
avenues that can complement what you already do. You would not be reading this
if you did not want to enhance your knowledge.
Homeopaths will find dynamized remedies, Herbalists will find phytotherapic and
gemmotherapic remedies, Osteopaths will find some organ adjustments, Naturopaths
will find Nutrition and all of the above and everybody could learn about little
known but very useful techniques like Lithotherapy, Oligotherapy, Gemmotherapy,
Homeobotanical Medicine and others.
You will also see the links between those different approaches and how they can
blend with each other without loosing their individuality; and you will be able to
offer different possibilities and alternatives to patients who might be scared to try
some of them for whatever reason.
5 Second Introduction

No book can claim to be complete and exhaustive; this one is not different. You
might have a very successful way to detoxify that is not listed here. Fantastic!
How about publishing it? You might know of yet another herb that could help;
let me know.

This work is based mainly on my personal experience backed by the vast amount
of knowledge and clinical experience of Masters of the Art of Healing. It still is and
will continually be a work in progress.
 Prelude

How did we get there anyway? How comes that earlier practitioners were able to
treat many diseases with just a few remedies, and we, with all the accumulated
knowledge of centuries of practice and with all the progress in knowledge, cannot
match their feats?
As I wrote in the introduction, it is exogenous toxicity. Let me be rude, crass and
vulgar for a moment: we are completely screwed, we are in deep shit and we have
nobody else to blame but ourselves!

That does not mean that ONLY exogenous toxins, metals, poisons and xenobiotics
are the culprits in the worlds state of health and that all the natural techniques we
use are worthless UNLESS we remove them; daily practice shows that this is far
from the truth. Nevertheless, many cures could be accelerated or completed with
a good cleansing

Genetics, constitution, diathesis, miasm, terrain, whatever you call it, is modified
by exogenous toxins:
no matter how strong our genetic background, our constitution is, a poison re-
mains a poison and will act as a poison, all the time, every time it is the interaction
of the poison with the terrain/constitution/genetic that will create either a specific
disease or a specific weakness that in turn will allow a disease to emerge. Removing
the toxins, or at least lowering their level and influence, allows the body to go back
towards a more virginal terrain that can then be treated more easily with natural
(meaning reinforcing the normal, healthy physiological activity) medicine. Not doing
that explains partial results and failures in the hands of the best practitioners.

Let me give a few examples of what modern day living and technology is introducing
in our bodies and the result thereof, without writing a textbook of toxicology.
When looked for, all those substances are found in our bodies.

Dioxin: cancers, brain damage, endometriosis

PCB: leukaemia and other cancers, heart problems

Pesticides and Insecticides: CFS, Parkinson, bladder and colon cancer, other
cancers, heart pathology

Phtalates (leaching form plastics): hormonal modifications

7 Prelude

Styrene and Benzene: hepatitis, leukaemia, encephalopathy, paralysis, convulsions,

arrhythmias, cancers, CFS

Toluene: nail deformity, menstrual disturbances, liver destruction, haematological

problems, MI, depression, paraesthesia, neuropathies, CFS

Vinyl: cancer, birth defect, genetic damage, auto-immune diseases

Xenoestrogens (mainly phtalates): mimics estrogens and cause early puberty,

endometriosis, and gynaecological cancers

Fluoride: behavioural changes, arthritis, bone cancers (osteosarcoma), heart, brain,

kidney injuries and hormonal changes, thyroid dysfunction

Chlorine: increases cholesterol level because of direct damage to vascular endothe-

lium (cholesterol is used to patch the damaged wall); transformed into chloram-
ines and chloroform when comes in contact with proteins, becoming a carcino-
gen; thyroid dysfunction

All the heavy metals: aluminium, arsenic, cadmium, lead, mercury and many others
are often the undetected and not thought about cause of multiple diseases in each
and every organ and function of the body; just look up the table of contents of an
Internal Medicine textbook, many if not most of the diseases listed there can be
mimicked or caused by heavy metals.

I should also write about GMO, radioactive pollution, EMF pollution (e-fog), etc,..
That would be too much for this book but the association of heavy metals and EMFs
brings us to a very interesting phenomenon called The Antenna Effect.

It appears that people who have heavy metals stored in their bodies have them
act as antennas and attract, focus, electromagnetic fields around them, causing
weird symptoms that cannot be explained otherwise through physiology or physio-
pathology. The more metals are present, the strongest the antenna effect, the worst
the symptoms; no wonder that in time, cellular changes happen and cancers are
created; this could very well explain the discrepancies between many studies relat-
ing the use of cell phones and the occurrence of brain tumours: should the load in
heavy metals in the brain be known, we might well find out that the more metals
are present, the earlier and the more aggressive (?) a tumour will be. I would be de-
lusional to believe we can stop the use of cellphones, laptops, computers, wi-fi and
other components of electro-smog; at least, through proper detoxification, we can
minimise if not completely remove that antenna effect. I refer you to Dr. Yoshiaki
Omuras research for more details.
Organotherapy, Drainage & Detoxification 8

Dr. Robert Becker, in his book Cross Currents describes that bacterias in culture
exposed to EMFs are fooled into sensing this as an immune attack and in reac-
tion secrete much more powerful toxins; through the antenna effect, germs that
would otherwise not bother us might become more virulent, especially in patients
loaded with heavy metals, compounding the effects of those metals with chronic,
virulent infections. More reasons to get rid of the toxic metal burden.

The xenobiotics were unknown not so long ago and our bodies are not engineered
to deal with them; heavy metal pollution was not as intense as it has been for the
last century, even though they were creating havoc for a long time: for example, it
is said that the lead pipes bringing water to the Roman households were responsible
for the chronic occurrence of brain damage in the Roman population and eventu-
ally responsible for the decline and demise of the Roman Empire.

All that comes on top of the usual and well-known causes of endogenous toxicity
created by liver, kidneys, adrenal, endocrine and other insufficiencies whose origins
are found in infections, trauma, malnutrition or dysnutrition and even emotional
events. Diabetes, kidney failure, liver failure, hypothyroidism, Addisons disease
are found everywhere in the medical literature dating back to Ayurvedic medicine,
Chinese medicine, Greek and Roman medicine up until now. Those insufficien-
cies start at an energetical level where all conventional tests are normal, but can
be diagnosed for example through TCM diagnosis, then follow with functional
problems where the clinical picture is clearer but still the usual tests are normal or
borderline but still in the acceptable range, to end with full blown failure when
finally the patient stops being considered as suffering from depression or being a
malingerer..organotherapy and drainage at the earliest stage possible will be a
lot simpler and save a lot of sufferingand money.

Hahnemann clearly states in the Organon that removing the cause of disease is
paramount to the success of a treatment: remove from damp living quarters, remove
from areas of malaria are examples found in his writings. The same applies today
with chronic poisoning of our bodies. All those xenobiotics, chemicals and heavy
metals can mimic or cause ANY labelled disease in any body system. How would
you expect to cure any of them while their triggers are still present and active?

Is there any use to test which exogenous toxins are present (the endogenous almost
always appearing in the usual conventional lab work)? As a scientist, I definitely
would love to know what I am dealing with; as a homeopath using Isotherapy, it
would be useful in order to prescribe a precise isotherapic remedy; as a herbalist
and nutritionist it would also be useful in order to fine tune the prescription of
herbs and foods or supplements known to selectively remove said toxins. Yet there
are some drawbacks:

you would need to test for every known metal and xenobiotic unless there is a clearly
9 Prelude

documented contamination, in which case no test is needed except in order to know

the level of contamination; even if it was possible, the costs would be prohibitive.

Some useful tests are difficult to perform and very costly, needing specialised labo-
ratories, dioxin for example; very few practitioners would have access to those labs
and even fewer patients would be able to cover the costs, as public health generally
does not get involved.

There are many controversies in the ways of performing and interpreting the re-
sults of tests: for example, the ongoing discussion whether hair samples should be
washed or not before testing; or what does a certain level of toxin in the hair really
mean? The body managing to expel it through dead tissues? A continuing intoxi-
cation? Contamination? And the same goes for the absence of a toxin in the hair or
in the urine after a provocation test: it does not mean the tissues and organs are not
saturated with that toxin, it means only it is not present where you look for it.

And last but not least, the discrepancy between the acceptance of the results by
practitioners of different specialities: forensic experts rely very much on the results
of those tests, sometimes ending up in long jail terms or death penalties where it
still exists, whereas many internal medicine specialists scoff at them .. go figure

In any case, practically, I tend to use general detoxification procedures at all times
and add to them specific therapies, like Isotherapy, if one of the toxins is known. In
all my years of practice, I have used hair mineral analysis only twice, and it was not
useful as I could not do the tests again after treatment to objectivate the clinical
results, for financial reasons. So, here you go: it would be nice and useful, but it is
not indispensable, in my opinion, of course.

Shall we proceed to learn how to remove them?

 Background and Theory

We meet again our old friends and precursors, Paracelsus and Hippocrates.
In his Commentariae Aphorismos Hippocrati, Aphorism 21, Paracelsus writes:
When Nature searches for an outlet, the healer must help it find the appropriate
place, for Nature is a better healer than man.

Nebel, a Swiss Homeopath from Lausanne, is credited as the first homeopath to

use drainage as such and to give it a theoretical formulation; he called the drain-
age remedies channelling remedies (Remdes canalisateurs). [Nebel. Canalisation.
Propagateur de lHomopathie 1915].

In an article in 1934 [Homopathie Moderne 15 Janvier 1934], Nebel attempted to

demonstrate that the use of intercurrent remedies, like Nux Vomica, during an
antipsoric treatment, as Hahnemann described, is actually a kind of drainage,
and by doing so, that Hahnemann used drainage during his treatments without
identifying it.

Nebel was treating tuberculous patients and demonstrated that by adding drainage
techniques to the homeopathic treatment, his patients had very few aggravations
and were improving faster.

Rouy, a student of Nebel, made a distinction between drainage and channelling.

Drainage uses remedies that are known for their physiological action on an organ,
whereas channelling is the use of antidotal or complementary remedies with the
Simillimum to direct and control its excesses, its aggravations.

Roland Zissu extended that notion into homeopathic drainage and organopathic
drainage.
Homeopathic drainage uses low potencies of remedies that are complementary to
the Simillimum and are selected upon the local symptoms and signs, or medium
potencies of complementary remedies selected upon more general symptoms and
signs, for the purpose of preparing the action of the Simillimum and prevent aggra-
vations. [NB : for Zissu and other contemporary French homeopaths, a low potency
is 3X, 5X, 3 to 5 CH, a medium potency 7-9CH].
Organopathic drainage uses remedies known, often through Herbal Medicine, to
have a pharmacological action on the target organ, or remedies that have strong
homeopathic signs and symptoms linked to an organ, like the scapular pain of
Chelidonium used in liver drainage.
11 Background and Theory

Many other authors, French in general, refined the definition and use of drainage
(Fortier-Bernoville, Duprat, Allendy, Tetau, Conan Meriadec, Maury whose book-
let has been translated in English, etc,).

Drainage will cause a specific functional stimulation of the organism or of the target
organ(s) through remedies specifically selected either through local or loco-regional
symptoms and signs, or through known physiological activity on the targeted organ
or tissue.
Channelling will control the effects of the Simillimum by modulating its action; that
is why channelling remedies are complementary or antidotes to the Simillimum.
For practical purposes, if drainage has been done correctly before giving the Simil-
limum, there should not be any need for a channelling remedy.
Alternatively, if drainage has not been done, one or more channelling remedies
should be administered in low potency with the Simillimum during its period of
activity, if need be.

Draining before the Simillimum will optimise the function of the organs, draining
after the Simillimum will complete the elimination and the cleansing. Channel-
ling before or with the Simillimum will modulate its action and avoid aggravations
and complications.

Drainage respects Herings Law: it has to go from inside out, from the most impor-
tant organs to the less important ones. This means that a drainage therapy targeted
towards the nervous system should show an improvement of the nervous symptoms
associated with, for example, an increase in urine output, or some mild diarrhoea,
or a skin eruption. But if the kidneys are drained and nervous symptoms appear,
something is wrong and the situation should be reassessed.
Classical homeopaths, unicists, should not despair! There is a way to respect the
single remedy mantra and to perform drainage.

First of all you must be certain of your Simillimum; then instead of going straight
to a high potency, the same remedy is first given in low potency and worked up
to the desired higher potency. It is not exactly a single dose, but it is still a single
remedy. It respects the concept that the remedy is its own drain and the concept of
using a low potency to cleanse, prepare the organs.

The use of ascending LM potencies is an example of inadvertent drainage where the

remedy is its own drain. Margaret Tylers technique of ascending potencies (30, 200,
1M) is also akin to that way of thinking, although the purpose is not drainage.

Roland Zissu [Matire Mdicale Homopathique Constitutionnelle] introduced the

notion of Miasmatic Drainage, with different remedies according to the miasm
involved. This is actually another presentation of the old notion of prescribing a
nosode when the properly indicated remedy is not working or removing a miasmatic
Organotherapy, Drainage & Detoxification 12

block. When should it be done and why not do it in every case before, or after, the
Simillimum is a totally different discussion.

According to Zissu, and as practised today, we will use different draining remedies
according to the symptoms.

Localised symptoms: like the base of the lung - Right lung (Chelidonium), Left
lung (Ranunculus)

Tissular symptoms: skin (Fumaria, Saponaria), serous membranes (Bryonia)

Organ symptoms: spleen (Ceonanthus), kidneys (Berberis)

Biochemical symptoms, depending which product has to be removed: uric acid

(Urtica), poisons, antibiotics (isopathic)

We should by now realise that drainage is the use of a localised, specific, targeted
Simillimum; we use the totality of the symptoms of the organ, tissue or function
with its modalities to choose a remedy, or a few remedies if need be.
There is absolutely no antagonism between unicism and drainage; these are comple-
mentary techniques based on a sound understanding of physiology and pathology.

The low potencies that are used, from tincture to 3X or 3C, induce cellular activity
of short duration; the low potencies work better on cells, organs and tissues, they
have a short action, quasi pharmacological, and they need repetition for their ac-
tion to be sustained. Slightly higher potencies, up to 5C or 6C might be used or
added if we want to act also on a cellular or tissular energetic level.

A great supporter of drainage, Dr. Michel Guillaume, wrote: The concept of

drainage in homeopathy has no other purpose than to be functional. Indeed, it has
the merit of allowing the global understanding of a pathological case and to better
adapt the corresponding homeopathic treatment (my free translation from Basses
Dilutions et Drainage en Homopathie, Coulamy & Jousset, page 338).

Naturopaths and Herbalists have used the concept of cleansing for as long as
they have existed.
From fasting to colon therapy to liver remedies for the liverish and the all-impor-
tant alterative herbs, all those techniques are based upon recognizing a physiological
problem and trying to resolve it: lack of elimination because the emunctories are not
working properly, overload of toxins that the alteratives will remove through non-
specific organ stimulation and repair.
Herbal remedies, minerals, vitamins target organs and functions and can all be
explained through biochemistry and physiology; understanding those mechanisms
of action is essential to provide the optimal treatment without overloading the
13 Background and Theory

system with unnecessary additions. They are organ or function specific but are not
patient specific, which can lead to some problems.

The old practitioners like Lindlahr, John Christopher, the Eclectic School, the
Physiomedicalists and the Thompsonians all knew and used drainage and de-
toxification, sometimes very energetically with violent reactions that were called
healing reactions. This is definitely something we should avoid by tailoring our
treatment exactly to the needs of the patient.
 Organotherapy

If the organs have been compromised, are not functioning properly, no matter how
much stimulation is given through the drainage remedies, they will not play their
role and the treatment is doomed to fail.
We need to repair the organs, and that is the field of Organotherapy. It should be
used first in the process of healing.

How to recognize which organ or organs to treat?

A full anamnesis and physical examination are of course essential. The history of
medications will be useful: the chronic use of steroids, for example will direct to-
wards adrenal and pituitary treatment, thyroxin supplementation towards thyroid
and pituitary, a.s.o.
Some symptoms are obvious like breathing problems, urination, palpitations;
some are less clear, like low back pain, is it skeletal, muscular or are the kidneys
involved?

Blood tests, ultra-sounds, X-Rays, CT scans or MRI are somewhat useless; when
they are showing pathology, the damage is already pretty advanced and although
repair is possible, albeit slow, it is always best to nip the problem in the bud, when
it is still at a dynamic and functional level.
In my practice, I found very useful to use the diagnostic tools of Traditional Chi-
nese Medicine: tongue and pulse examination, interpretation according to Chinese
Energetics and corroboration with the Western Medical diagnosis. For example,
pale borders of the tongue and a weak pulse at the Liver location will point towards
a weakness of the liver function, which should be compared for confirmation with
the symptoms and signs given by the patient.
A quick iridologic examination helps to confirm the problem, as well as an osteopathic
examination.
Every speciality has its own specific diagnostic system, but all of them are oriented
towards the patient. It is time and money well invested to learn some of the different
approaches to diagnostic and their interpretation even if you do not use the thera-
peutic system.
This book is certainly not the place to teach them, but if it can give you the impetus
to learn them, it was not written in vain.
 From Cannibalism to Dynamized
Remedies via Endocrinology

The central idea of Organotherapy (treatment through organs!) is to replace the

failing one(s) by ingesting a healthy one; the logic of that being that every organ is
built upon a relative proportion of amino acids and minerals and by providing the
exact ratio, the repair/building of the target organ will be accelerated.
Cannibalism applied this but is quite frowned upon nowadays, and not very well
received; on the other hand, organ transplant is the ultimate technological form of
cannibalismand it is the ultimate organotherapic method.

Opotherapy was widely used in the 19th and early 20th centuries; it consisted
of administrating the desiccated organs of animals, and especially the hormonal
glands, to replace the failing function of the gland in the patient. It was the pre-
cursor of Endocrinology where only the hormones are given to replace the defi-
cient secretion. Endocrinology evolved from Opotherapy when the function of the
glands was understood and the role of hormones became clearer. Opotherapy was
so commonly used that you will even find it described in one of the books in the
series La Comdie Humaine by Honore de Balzac, where eventually one of the
protagonists dies from and embolus caused by the injection of a poorly filtrated
opotherapic solution.

One of the main proponents of Opotherapy, Henry Harrower, called it Organo-

therapy and published extensively about his practice and results; in 1922, he
published the third edition of his book Practical Organotherapy: The Internal
Secretions in General Practice. In it, he describes cures using extracts of whole
glands. He treated thyroid, adrenal, pituitary, prostatic, ovarian pathologies and
many others and reports definite cures, not needing more treatment and accom-
panied with a return to health. In todays medical world, those would be regarded
as circumstantial or simple case reports without scientific double blind placebo
controlled research; nevertheless the amount of data is not negligible.

Opotherapy is still practiced today through the administration of lyophilised

glands of organically raised animals, providing the right nutritional profile needed
to repair an organ..if you can find them.
The major difference with the scientifically anointed practice of Endocrinology is
that Organotherapy (Opotherapy) aims at repairing and restoring the function of
the diseased gland or organ, whereas endocrine therapy, as useful and needed as it
is, replaces the function of said gland or organ through exogenous administration;
the many negative feedback systems at work in the human body signal the glands
and organs that their work is done, allowing them to shut down and eventually
undergoing atrophy. Hormone replacement has been a blessing and a life saving
Organotherapy, Drainage & Detoxification 16

therapy for many patients with destroyed organs, but as long as the possibility of
repair and avoidance of life-long drug treatment can be entertained, a fair and
obstinate try is warranted.

Another approach, the one that is nowadays called simply Organotherapy by

many practitioners, is to use the potentised organ itself: Liver, Kidney, any involved
organ or part thereof can and has been potentised and used.
In many books and courses, you will find the organotherapic mantra: 4-5C stimu-
lates, 7C regulates and 9C depresses; those who condescend to give an explanation
invoke the Arndt-Schultz Law of pharmacology whereby a very small dose will
stimulate a function, a medium dose will regulate it, a higher dose will depress it
and a very high dose will destroy.

Conventional pharmacology works at medium-high doses within a linear relation

between dose and action; the smaller dose inversion of activity is often used as
an explanation for activity of potentised remedies.
But for the homeopath using high potencies there is not much difference between
a 4C and a 9C, and that difference, although greater in proportion, is not that big
even for those using 30C as their highest potency.
This selection of potency is often described as the French technique and if they
have good results and a great experience with that, why not follow them? Yet a
reading of the French literature shows a totally different approach.
Fortier Bernoville has summarized the organotherapic experience in his booklet
Nosodotherapy, Isotherapy, Opotherapy. He describes the treatment of Graves
disease (called Basedow by French-speaking practitioners) with Thyroid 1M.
In another book, Therapeutics of the Diseases of the Liver and Biliary Ducts, Fortier
Bernoville introduces the notion of exciting organotherapy using lower tritura-
tions and regulatory organotherapy using potencies of 1M and 10M.

Dr. Barhisac gave a daily dose of Thyroid 1M to cure Graves disease. Dr. Dano
used the succession of Thyroid 30, 200 and 1M for the same purpose. Barhisac
again used a mix of a 200C and a 3X of the same sarcode to associate the action of
exciting and regulating the excitation at the same time; others have used up to 1M
and X potency together for the same purpose. Jousset and Collet were great users
of Organotherapy at different potencies. Those are a far cry from the rules taught
nowadays by almost every school of 4C stimulates, 7C regulates, 9C depresses;
this sounds more and more as a total confusion between the Arndt-Schultz Law
that pertains to MATERIAL doses and potentised, dynamized substances that per-
tain to energetic transmission of information. Therefore, the Arndt-Schultz Law
should not be used to explain a rule of prescription that I just demonstrated to be
someones figment of imagination and not corroborated by the clinical experience of
former professional homeopaths. The rightful place of that Law is in the explana-
tion of the inversion of effect that happens according to material dose and is not
related in any way to energetic therapy.
17 From Cannibalism to Dynamized Remedies via Endocrinology

I live far away from France and could not access the archives of the different local
homeopathic societies, but it is obvious there is a wealth of clinical experience waiting
to see again the light of day.

My personal experience over the years has repeatedly shown that the potency in
Organotherapy is not a big issue; as long as a potentised sarcode is provided, its ac-
tion will be that which is needed at that time. As those remedies are not proved, I
tend to avoid high potencies lest I might create a deep seated unforeseen action and
moreover those are not often available. Given the widespread use of high potency
organotherapic remedies in the past, this might just be a theoretical precaution.
Potentised organs provide the template for the repair and are often if not always
used with the appropriate remedies as described in other sections. The potentised
organs are known as Sarcodes and have not been proved; they are used according
to another interpretation of the Law of Similars: a diseased organ will be repaired
if the proper information for its repair is made available. You may realize that this
is my personal interpretation, but it is based on many cases in which this approach
has worked remarkably well.

Pituitary, Heart, Liver, Pancreas, Kidney, Colon, Thyroid, and Adrenal are but a
few of the Sarcodes to be used. Some French catalogues of Homeopathic remedies
have a few hundreds or sarcodes: different parts of the brain (cortex, thalamus,
anterior pituitary, posterior pituitary), each heart valve separately, each nerve sepa-
rately, mucosae of different organs, you dream it, you will find it.
At 3 drops 3 times per day for at least one month, preferably with their associated
herbs for synergy, they will put the concerned organs in their optimal state for
best function.

Sarcodes are made from animal parts; some patients might have philosophical or
religious objections. Jewish and Muslim faiths object to the use of animals that are
impure, not Kosher or Hallal. Many years ago, a rabbinical Psak Din (religious
edict), Achiezer, Section 23 by Rabbi Chaim Ozer Grozenski of Vilna, was made,
based on the rule that preservation of human life and health overrules everything
else according to the Torah: therefore, it was permissible to use parts of non-kosher
animals, like pig cardiac valves or pig insulin; the same applied to potentised sub-
stances and because of the high level of dilution (and the intent to cure), using any
part of any animal to produce a homeopathic remedy was permitted (many thanks
to Rabbi Berel Wein for getting me the reference). The Muslim interpretation is
quite similar (I am very grateful to Dr. Suryia Osman and Dr. Hafeez Khalid for
their detailed explanations): the transformation (Isthala) of a forbidden, impure
(najis) product into another one, like a medicine, makes it Hallal, pure (taahir) and
so is the intention of the prescriber and the patient; in other words, the ruling is
not based upon what it was, the ruling is based upon what it is (I received many
detailed pages of explanation, I hope I summarized it correctly). Christianity does
not seem to have any problems with animal parts (but it would pay to check with
Organotherapy, Drainage & Detoxification 18

Mormons, Jehovahs Witnesses and Amish people). Contrary to common belief,

Buddhists are not forbidden to use animal parts; it is the killing that is frowned
upon; yet if the killing is made by somebody else, then the use of the parts is per-
mitted. I do not know if Hinduists agree with that point of view. Taoists, practical,
pragmatic and down to earth, are grateful to the animal for its gift and carry on
using sarcodes and other bits and pieces. The only real absolute objection comes
from strict vegetarians and vegans; some of them have yielded to the explanations
about the need for a specific animal remedy, and for the others, herbal, mineral,
nutritional and energetic approaches have solved the problem.

I want to emphasize again that there is no strict border between the drainage and
the Organotherapic remedies (except for the Sarcodes); nevertheless if an organ is
weak and barely functional, to stimulate it without repair might just achieve the
opposite effect and push it into failure.
 Herbal Organother apy

A complementary approach to Organotherapy is the use of herbs known to stimulate

repair and growth of the organs.
Please realize that there has been much confusion between Organotherapy and
Drainage in the literature, some authors using both terms interchangeably, either
because they understood it as being the same thing or because of the mixed action
of many remedies.
Almost every single organ or function has a few corresponding remedies to induce
repair and growth available; we just have to learn them. Many of those herbs will
be found in the Drainage chapter and indeed they have both functions. Those
listed here are the ones used to repair the organs before inducing a specific drainage
with the same and other plant extracts, or other remedies.

Kidneys
Lespedeza Capitata
A very little known plant, very useful in acute and chronic renal insufficiency, in
uraemic patients, causing remarquable lowering of urea and creatinine.
Acts by lowering the vascular resistance in the kidneys and increasing the glomerular
filtration.
Increases the excretion of urea and the ion Cl.
To be effective, a material amount should be used, from 30 to 60 drops three times
a day when starting, to 10 30 drops three times a day for maintenance.

Urtica Urens/Dioica, Nettles

A diuretic plant, known to diminish the level of uric acid by increasing its elimina-
tion from the tissues into the bloodstream and increasing its excretion through the
kidneys. But it is not limited to uric acid and is a general diuretic, an alterative and
detoxicant (see Arctium Lappa) and is used when the connective tissue needs to be
drained, i.e. often in all cases of articular chronic diseases.

Solidago Virgaurea, Goldenrod

Stimulates the elimination of fluids and decreases albuminuria (this not being a
dilutional effect but a real drop in albumin loss through the kidneys).
Increases renal filtration.
Indicated in oliguria and anuria of nephritis (Weiss).
Organotherapy, Drainage & Detoxification 20

The homeopathic mother tincture increases the diuresis by 280 to 400 % (Van
Hellemont).

Using those 3 plant extracts together with the Sarcode Kidney 4C and the homeo-
pathic remedy Serum Anguillar has reversed cases of renal insufficiency when the
kidney tissue is not too destroyed and prevents further evolution in other cases.
The homeopathic remedy Apis (the venom of the honeybee) is useful to add when
dealing with inflammation of the kidneys like in acute glomerulonephritis or acute
pyelonephritis; its action of reducing the swelling will accelerate the repair and will
also be useful in some chronic cases when inflammation is a major factor, as if the
auto-immune diseases.

Liver
Cynara Scolymus, the Artichoke
Has properties very similar to Silybum Marianum, they both belong to the Thistle
group. Cholagogue, choleretic, hepatoprotector, reduces hepatotoxicity and stimu-
lates the liver. It is also a diuretic, lowering urea and uric acid.

Taraxacum Radix, Dandelion root

The root also has a diuretic effect, but less than the leaves.
It stimulates the cells metabolism, increases the secretory function to the liver. Ac-
cording to Van Hellemont, it can increase the bile secretion between 2 and 4 times
(hence the recommendation not to use it if there is a suspicion of bile duct obstruc-
tion or of gallbladder infection; this recommendation is valid for all the remedies
that increase bile secretion, of course).
It is considered a liver trophorestorative and a detoxifier with activity on the con-
nective tissues and the interstitial fluids and has demonstrated immunostimulant
and antiviral activity.

Silybum Marianum, Carduus Marianus, St Marys Thistle, Milk Thistle

One of the best remedies for hepatic parenchymal problems. One of the active in-
gredients, Silymarin, has shown the ability to protect and reverse injuries to hepatic
cells when poisoned with CCL4 or Amanita Phalloides (a very toxic mushroom); it
is used in Europe for that purpose in conventional medicine.
It can be used as a tea from the seeds when we do not want to give an alcoholic
tincture to patients with a damaged liver.
This plant should certainly be part of a drainage treatment, but also associated to the
treatment whenever there is a liver problem whatsoever for repair and regeneration:
it stabilises the membranes of the liver cells, stimulates RNA polymerase, prevents
further penetration of toxins into the cells, blocks the toxin binding sites, stimulates
21 Herbal Organotherapy

the regeneration ability of the liver and the formation of new hepatocytes.
It is anti-inflammatory through the inhibition of leukotrienes production by
Silymarin, it inhibits lipid peroxidation, is a free radicals scavenger, it increases the
intracellular concentration of glutathione, stabilises the hepatocytes membranes
and regulates its permeability, enhances cellular regeneration and proliferation of
the Kupfer cells.

Why so many details? Because as a herbal remedy, it has been extensively researched,
giving us a better understanding of its mechanism of action (see Principles and
Practice of Phytotherapy by Simon Mills and Kerry Bone). With that understand-
ing, we are more secure in our prescription as our knowledge is not based only on
traditional uses but also on reproducible experiments that would satisfy any critic.
Some might feel it does not help us in the prescription, but I know that the more I
understand my remedies, the safer my prescription becomes.

Heart
We need the proper distribution of nutrition and remedies to all our organs, as well
as proper removal of waste; for this we need a good functional circulatory system
and essentially a good heart. It is not my purpose here to review all the possible
treatments for cardiac conditions. Only the 2 herbs used for the general repair of
the heart organ are mentioned here.

Crataegus Oxycantha, Hawthorn

Like Cereus, it is a heart trophorestorative, a food for the heart.
It does not contain digitalis-like substances and does not accumulate like digitalis,
so is perfectly safe.
Inotrope positive, it strengthens the myocardial contractions; chronotrope nega-
tive, it reduces cardiac arrhythmias.
It improves coronary circulation and enhances the nutrition and activity of the
myocardial cells.
The blood pressure regularisation that often happens is a consequence of better
heart function, although direct action on the BP has been described.
The German Commission E recommends it for NYHA Stage 2 cardiac insufficiency.

Cereus Grandiflorus, Cactus Grandiflorus, Night Blooming Cereus

Like Crataegus, it is a heart trophorestorative.
It has digitalis-like action without cumulative effects; cardiac stimulation, coronary
dilatation.
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Endocrine glands
Many patients present with the infamous Chronic Fatigue Syndrome, whether
diagnosed as such officially or not, or will complain of constant tiredness, weak-
ness, sleepiness complicated by sleeplessness, lack of reactivity and more. More
often than not they have had blood tests done showing that everything is normal.
Yet a careful examination will demonstrate a malfunction of the thyroid gland as
well as of adrenals (tongue and pulse examinations according to TCM diagnosis
are excellent instruments); quite certainly, the pituitary gland will have been damaged
by trying to compensate for the peripheral endocrine glands dysfunction.
I do not know of any plant specific to the pituitary and its repair through Organo-
therapy is done through the use of Sarcodes. Thyroid and adrenals repair can be
hastened with herbal remedies.

Thyroid

Hypothyroidism:
Fucus Vesiculosus
Very rich in Iodine, its use is almost nutritional in hypothyroidism; it will activate the
thyroid and increase the basal metabolism. Also rich in vitamins and oligoelements,
catalysts, and anti-inflammatory substances. Of course it will be contraindicated in
hyperthyroidism.

Hyperthyroidism:
Armoracia
Stops the secretion of the thyroid hormones and is recommended by Bartram in
this indication.

Lycopus Virginicus
Slows intake of iodine, inhibits the thyroid stimulating antibodies found in Graves
disease through the action of lithospermic acid. Blocks the TRH TSH interac-
tion (Duraffourd & Lapraz). Inhibits peripheral de-iodination of T4 (so less active
T3, PDR for herbal remedies); inhibits iodine transport and release of preformed
thyroid hormone (PDR). TSH antagonist.

Lithospermum
Directly antagonises thyroxin; not considered safe according to the PDR, but Mills
and Bone do not report anything peculiar with this herb.
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Adrenals
Glycyrrhiza Glabra
Glycyrrhizin slows hepatic inactivation of glucocorticoids. It has known aldos-
terone-like effects, hence contra-indicated in patients with high blood pressure or
imbalanced potassium. Although it does not seem to have a direct stimulant or
repair action on the adrenals, its use is justified inasmuch as it allows the weaning
of extraneous cortisone administration which is often the major factor in adrenal
malfunction; and when there is no drug induced problem, Glycyrrhiza is an ade-
quate substitute to deficient endogenous cortisone secretion without depressing the
function of the adrenals, therefore providing at the same time a clinical symptomatic
improvement and the ability to regenerate the gland itself.

Borago Officinalis
This is one of the herbs that has traditionally been recommended to strengthen
adrenal glands weakened by intake of steroids (Bartram); yet when looking up the
literature, there are no studies found to explain the mechanism of action. Never-
theless I trust tradition and have used it in association with good results.

Dioscorea Villosa
Traditionally used in adrenal exhaustion, its indication is backed by the content
in diosgenin, structurally similar to cholesterol and a precursor for the synthesis of
hormones. Here the mechanism of action can be understood as being the provision
of a specific building material directly to the adrenal gland.

Centella Asiatica aka Gotu Kola

Adaptogenic remedy and nervine tonic. The PDR for Herbal Remedies describes it
as having anti-inflammatory and anti-neoplastic effects, acting on the venous tone,
and being a wound healer.

Astragalus Membranaceus
Well known for its immune-enhancement and anti-viral properties, Astragalus is
also an adaptogenic that enhances growth and metabolism, improves learning and
memory.
Organotherapy, Drainage & Detoxification 24

Brain
The brain is an organ like the others, a focus for the accumulation of many toxic
substances due to its high fatty content and problematic to treat with ponderal
doses because of the blood-brain barrier. One remedy is universally considered as
a brain repairing substance:

Avena Sativa
Nerve restorative and brain tonic, antidepressant and tranquillizer, it is also a
very slight thyroid stimulant. It is classified as a nervous trophorestorative by
Mills and Bone, as well as a tonic for chronic fatigue syndrome and debilitating
conditions. In Chinese Medicine it acts on the Kidney Essence, hence acting on
the nerves and brain, along with other actions, of course. Ayurvedic medicine
uses decoction of oats for the treatment of opium withdrawal, a testimony to its
powerful brain action.

Other herbs seem to have a restorative and healing function on the nervous tissues
in general:

Hypericum Perforatum
St Johns Wort is a well known antidepressant herb. It has a definite nervous tissue tro-
pism as witnessed by its traditional use and by the homeopathic indications and uses.

Cypripedium Pubescens
Mild sedative and hypnotic, relaxant, regulator of the autonomic system, it is a
nervous trophorestorative as well as a spasmolytic. An endangered plant, so use
only in potentised form.

Scutellaria Lateriflora or Baicalensis

Another nervous trophorestorative

Verbena Officinalis
Also a nervous trophorestorative, like many others, not to forget Withania
Somnifera.

All those herbs can be used together in the repair of brain and nervous tissue,
whatever the aetiology.
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Skin
The skin is the largest organ and widely considered as being the third kidney,
meaning that it is been used for removal of toxic substances through perspiration.
As we will see when it comes to drainage, perspiration can be used to palliate a
poor function of the kidneys. Sometimes the skin has to be repaired too.
Calendula is the best if not the only herb known as having the dermotropism
needed and the ability to accelerate healing; it can be used externally in local
applications, ointments, creams, liquids and internally as a tea, a tincture or a
homeopathic potency.

Immune system and the Thymus Gland

Under constant assault by viruses, bacteria, vaccines, antibiotics taken willingly or
inadvertently with food, the immune system deserves some attention in many cases.

Echinacea Angustifolia or Purpurea

This is one of the best known and most studied herb in relation with the im-
mune system. There is abundant literature available so I will summarize it as such:
immunostimulant, immunomodulator, anti-inflammatory, enhances resistance to
infection, anti-viral activity and anti-microbial activity.
Echinacea deserves to be in each and every prescription related to the enhancement
of the immune system.

Propolis
Not an herb, but collected from bee hives, so indirectly can be considered as a phyto-
therapic remedy, collected from plants and transformed by bees.
Antiseptic, antibiotic and immune stimulant, there is a plethora of literature available,
which I will not copy here.

Uncaria Tomentosa
Immunostimulant; increases production of inteleukin-1 and interleukin-6 ; can induce
apoptosis in leukaemic cells. Recommended not to be given before or with organ
transplantation, this demonstrates its powerful immune enhancement ability.

Astragalus Membranaceus
Immunostimulant, restores the bodys immune response, particularly effective if
leucopoenia is associated with the immune deficiency.
It has demonstrated an increase in the thymus gland weight, when tested in rats
(Sigura, cited in Mills and Bone Principles and Practice of Phytotherapy).
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There are many other herbs that have an immune stimulating effect and are widely
used for that purpose: Arctium Lappa is an immunoregulator, Fucus Vesiculosus is
an immunomodulator, Glycyrrhiza induces the production of interferon, Baptisia
increases the production of antibodies, Tabebuia Avellanda, Shiitake and Reishii,
Eleutherococcus, Pau dArco, Withania, the list is very long and is worth a book
on its own. Whether those herbs repair the immune system, stimulates it or both is
still not entirely clear and the indication of each one should be weighted according
to the totality of the patients problem, as usual; for example, you cannot give Gly-
cyrrhiza to a hypertensive patient or Fucus Vesiculosus to a hyperthyroid patient;
that seems obvious, yet it is repeatedly done.

Notes