Nosodes

June 21, 2006

The Homoeopathic Pharmacopoeia Convention of the United States defines a nosode as "homeopathic attenuations of: pathological organs or tissues; causative agents such as bacteria, fungi, ova, parasites, virus particles, and yeast; disease products; excretions or secretions. Nosodes are prepared according to homeopathic specifications, provided the basic substance is not altered and the final product is not adulterated by pathogens or other deleterious substances. The first attenuation must be rendered sterile". This is a very broad definition that is meant to encompass all biologic pathogens that might have use as homeopathic medicines. The important elements are that the substance should not be altered, and that the delivery form should be non-pathogenic.

Definition from Homeopathic Dictionary by Jay Yasgur
Nosode (Gr. noso, 'disease', eidos, 'from') the potentized homeopathic remedy prepared from diseased tissue or the product of disease. It can be used to prevent or treat a miasm or the associated disease of the tissue material or a miasm, as well as for many other uses. Pyrogenium, Psorinum, and Syphilinum are examples. "Hahnemann was the first man to conceive that the products of disease could be used in the cure of diseases. His preparation, Psorinum, was the first vaccine to be made." - T.T.M. Dishington (1928). "Had Hahnemann been with us today, he would undoubtedly have been first and foremost in the field of 'nosodes' - 'vaccines' - whatever you choose to call them. We know it, for he was already there some eighty years ago, in the first volume of his Chronic Diseases. Lux, Hahnemann, Hering, Swan, Burnett, Heath, were always years ahead, sometimes half a century, of Pasteur, Koch and Wright." - M.L. Tyler. "What do homeopaths want immunizing substances for? We have got much better agents which have been used clinically and proved many years before immunization was ever thought of. We call them nosodes." - More Magic of the Minimum Dose (D. Shepherd).