LIGA-Congress New Delhi

LIGA-Congress

01.-04.12.11
New Delhi

Significantly improved success rates in day-to-day practice through the application of homeopathy based on quantum logic

Author: Prof. Dr. med. Walter Köster

Abstract:
At the 1995 LIGA Congress in New Delhi, I was given the opportunity to speak about the fact that Hahnemann and C. G. Jung both evolved a very similar model of thought. What Hahnemann called “peculiar” corresponds to the term “dissociated” as used by Jung. I was later able to discover why this is so. Both employ the same logic, quantum logic!

A quantum can be understood as a totality (Carl Friedrich von Weizsäcker) that has become peculiar or particular, i.e. separated off as a small part (Hahnemann), or dissociated (Jung).
And the patient you are treating is no different. Where precisely that patient is dissociated can be revealed “almost solely” (§153) through the peculiar (“exceptional, odd”) signs and symptoms. We can grasp the notion of holism, or totality, more effectively through its dissociation (§15). Such a totality is Hahnemann’s potentially “disease-tuned [and hence dissociated] life force” (§12). And the concept of life force is very close to that of the quantum; both are virtual, and both show how, through dissociation, you are able to discover totality in factual occurrences. Only the quantum, however, can be precisely defined in scientific terms – which presents an opportunity to make homeopathy an exact science.

Quantum logic medicine offers the chance to administer homeopathic remedies with the precision of quantum logic, a process that is facilitated by the following factors:

  • Hahnemann elaborates a patient’s dissociation as yet still indirectly through the peculiar symptoms. He was not yet able to define his totality directly.
  • By classifying all symptoms as the complementary opposites of one another, you are now able to define the mistunement of a patient’s life force, or the dissociation, directly and in very concrete terms. In order to do so, you perceive the function in the expressions used by the patient as precisely as physicists do when perceiving the mathematical structures in their processes. You treat the data relating to the remedies in exactly the same way. You are then able to confront both - the dissociation (mistunement) of the patient and of the remedy - with one another directly. You also grasp the function between the two: you are able to define the remedy very precisely.

The success of such an approach in day-to-day medical practice is quite staggering. Two of my students reported that their surgeries became temporarily deserted because patients were much healthier than they had previously been. This constitutes a rather unusual sense of certainty for homeopathic practitioners, enabling them to apply Hahnemann’s thought yet more precisely, reliably, and successfully.

Introduction:
The peculiar symptom remains, up until today, the indirect key to the mistunement of life force (Hahnemann) or the dissociation (Jung) of the patient. If it is not repertorizable, homeopathy soon begins to lose its preciseness and certainty.
A direct definition of mistunement has hitherto not appeared possible. Yet the key to this door has now been provided by quantum logic. This makes the patient in his or her function exactly definable. For homeopathic practice, this results in considerably improved success levels due to a degree of certainty previously inconceivable when selecting remedies.

Method:
Both Hahnemann and Jung worked on the assumption that the patient is guided by a virtual impulse (dynamis, libido). The mistunement / dissociation thereof produces symptoms. These can be used to identify the structure of the mistunement; the more peculiar it is in nature, the more apparent it becomes. Peculiar, in German “sonderlich” (Hahnemann’s language), means “particular,” i.e. containing or representing a division. This serves to highlight the dissociation in the patient yet more effectively (cf. my paper given at the 1995 LIGA Congress).

The ideal method Hahnemann hit upon was his ingenious discovery of the peculiar symptoms (cf. my paper given at the 1991 LIGA Congress). Yet there is an inherent problem within this system: the more particular or peculiar a symptom, the more uncommon it thus becomes. The more uncommon it is, the more unlikely it is we will find it in the Materia Medica or in the Repertorium.

Whenever the concrete path is blocked, science has, since the days of the Greeks, resorted to abstraction. If one were able to abstract the peculiarity itself within the symptom, it could then be compared - in similar fashion to a mathematical or geometric shape, e.g. a triangle - to another one. Up until now, this has not been considered possible.

Historically, however, there have been attempts to do so.

  • Von Boenninghausen sought, in the case of stabbing pain occurring in two locations, to have the stabbing-in-itself (abstraction!) transposed to a third location. He called this the “Genius” of the remedy. Today, we would call this the “Function.”
  • Similarly, the “as-if symptoms” are an attempt to represent the common function through a second description of the process deriving from a different level. Abstraction begins when, in two cases, common features are determined, i.e. in this instance through the use of vivid descriptions, as if - within that one event or sensation – a similar thing were being expressed as in the first. Patients, too, often prefer as-if descriptions to abstraction.

If one continues this review of early historical attempts, symptoms can, precisely when they are particular, be used to discover forms of movement that are generally striking on account of the fact that they run counter to one another.

One example that can serve as illustration here is SANGUINARIA CANADENSIS (from the SYNTHESIS repertorium).

  • Delusional idea that she is in a railway carriage and is imploring others to hold her tight (bivalent, sole symptom); she is in a railway carriage that is moving and shaking her about / and unsettling her (monovalent, sole symptom) (from the SYNTHESIS repertorium).

The jolting railway carriage that is shaking and moving her about is a clear counterfunction to the holding tight, which she therefore desires.

This holding-tight function is also evident in another place.

  • Sensation that she is in a railway carriage and everyone around her is speaking so fast that she has to ask them to hold her (Constantin Hering).

Now she has to be held (tight) because everyone is speaking so fast!

As in the case of Boenninghausen’s Genius, one may assume that the function of holding, considered vis-à-vis movement and the rapid speech, might also appear effective in the third location.

This also enables the contradictory pair to be defined even more precisely. If one makes the two functions face one another, considering them not separately but as a single entity, what we have here is rapid movement set against the tight grip (holding on, holding up) that seeks to delay or impede it, which is accelerating, and, on the other hand, holding-on set against the rapid movement, which is delay. In brief, what we here encounter is the complementarity accelerate / decelerate.

In actual fact, we do – as anticipated – also come across the other side, the delay or retardation.

  • Events in their dreams last not for hours, but for weeks or months (from the SYNTHESIS repertorium).

This can be continued at will, moving from these highly particular and functionally precise descriptions to other symptoms of the same remedy:

  • Dry cough, has to sit up, and gas is forced upwards and downwards, which serves to ameliorate (trivalent, sole symptom).

The dry, non-flowing and hence movement-retarding cough prompts the movement to sit up, and that of the gas, which is emitted both upwards and downwards (“as if”: like a train travelling too fast).

In highly direct and concrete form, SANGUINARIA CANADENSIS, working from the starting point of the peculiar, functional symptoms to the less peculiar, shows that it “fulfils,” lives, and is a very clear function.

 

Things are no different with patients. When taking the same approach, patients also reveal a function that is contradictory and between which their symptoms “function.” Comparison is now possible in direct and concrete manner.

Yet the certainty of the comparison is dependent on how successfully the function was previously elaborated. That is why one can never be exact enough. For that, one needs definite and clear guidelines. These are provided by quantum logic.

In physics, contradictory, opposing functions that nonetheless form a whole are called a quantum. And we are now able to adopt the same structures that it discovered, “translating” them for use in medical practice.

 

Among the most essential points are the following.

  • All symptoms derive from a sole totality. Accordingly, each of them must display the quality of this totality. Totality must, in other words, be discovered by virtue of the fact that it is the quality and function that can be identified everywhere (non-locally).
  • Totality is the relationship between all and everything. It is relationships that make processes. As such, they must elicit the one relationship that manifests itself everywhere.
  • Relationships can be identified in processes, temporal events and occurrences.
  • Events occur between two mutually exclusive sets of extreme data (accelerated and decelerated), for they require space. The space between all occurrences forms the totality.
  • Such pairs of opposites united in a single entity are called complementary. They can best be visualized by placing them face-to-face like two matrices.
  • Exact abstraction is successful, while interpretation leads to dramatically erroneous results. That is probably the main reason why homeopathy has hitherto avoided this scientific path. Interpretation is thus quite definitely “verboten”!
  • All symptoms are treated equally, no matter what their origin. The quantum, as totality, demands everything which belongs to that totality - and that does, indeed, mean quite literally everything.
  • In the same way that no individual symptoms are now emphasized, each quite obviously carrying within it the information about the totality, the patient will not be artificially “layered.” That means the end of hierarchization. After all, this would once again be a virtual separation. A look at history reveals this to be something that already caused Boenninghausen to founder, he having retracted his own attempt to create a so-called principal symptom when confronted with peculiar symptoms. As we are now concerned with the peculiar patient, i.e. the patient as totality in his or her dissociation, that stands above any form of hierarchization.

Hahnemann himself considered the dynamis to be a force acting in a more physical manner. He compared it to the force acting on and exerted by the earth (cf. Note to § 11). And it is precisely here that he urged abstraction: “Only someone who is cultivated and therefore exercised in comparison and abstraction can form a kind of supersensible idea of this, keeping far from his thoughts all that is material or mechanical. He terms such actions dynamic, virtual, taking place by the absolute, specific, pure power and action of one [substance] upon another.“ (Samuel Hahnemann, Organon of the Medical Art, Edited and annotated by Wenda Brewster O’Reilly, based on a translation by Steven Decker, Birdcage Books, 1996). This description puts Hahnemann very close to Newton (cf. the talk I delivered at the Hahnemann-Gesellschaft Ingolstadt 2010). Here, as in the case of Boenninghausen’s Genius, a virtual abstractum is in play, similar to that encountered in TCM.

  • In quantum logic, symptoms from all phases of the patient’s life are considered. As such, the remedy chosen from this data covers the entire life. And this it has to do, for life is, quite incontrovertibly, a single entity. The remedy should then, the more precise the work conducted prior to that, have a sustained effect throughout the patient’s life. Obviously, there are today still clear limitations on account of the small number of available remedies. Efficacy over a period of many years is, however, not uncommon.
  • With contradictory pairs, negations are rendered meaningless. Negations must, following suspension of the negation, pass to the other side, the opposite matrix. They can then be better summarized. “Not fast” should pass to the acceleration side as “fast,” and not to the side of retardation as “not fast.”
  • Everything is a symptom. It has been shown that, even after healing, patients and their idiosyncrasies continue to fulfil their contradictory pair / quantum. Hahnemann did, after all, speak of a life force and not a disease force. This retains its own distinct nature in the same way that the patient retains his or her characteristics and traits. Quite clearly, it is not essential whether a statement is made concerning pathology or, for example, everyday life. Whatever the statement, it will reveal the patient’s dynamis. Otherwise, all would be the same after treatment. The distinction between pathological / physiological, a discussion in which homeopathy so often gets bogged down, is no longer necessary. And what a relief that is.
  • It is between and in the matrices that the real action occurs. In SANG, events proceed too hectically and fast, which is why they need to be held back, and vice versa. Both sides (matrices) are but extreme points, with actual life and pathology weaving their way in them and between them. That is why determination of the function between them is so important. Its name: Mathematical Form.
    In SANG, that would be the acceleration / deceleration, between which the patient “pleads for” the other side. In the case of BELL, there is always evidence of a sudden change; the Mathematical Form would correspond to a rectangular curve. PODO, for its part, is first delayed and then accelerated.
  • With it now being possible to define remedies precisely in functional terms, it is also far easier to assign them to other systems. It has, for example, already proven possible to fit the two hundred remedies elaborated by quantum logic into the meridians system. To facilitate this, a quantum logic review of this system was also conducted.

 

Results:

Methodological result

  • Quantum logic can be used to solve essential systemimmanent problems in homeopathy.
  • The totality is grasped directly, and not only indirectly through the peculiar symptom. The tiresome discussion as to what is actually peculiar is thus of no further significance.
  • Problems relating to the certainty of dividing between hierarchical classifications, most especially according to the Kentian method, cease to apply.
  • Von Boenninghausen’s Genius approach is supplemented and completed.
  • Drug pictures can be precisely defined.

The most essential thing, however: Elimination of the classical uncertainty problems produces a clearer and calm sense of certainty.

  • Anamnesis is already geared to identifying functions. These should be clearly conceivable in mechanistic terms to ensure that a contradiction (acceleration – deceleration) can be grasped
  • These are, clearly and neatly, set in relation to one another in terms of their contradictory aspects.
  • The function between the two is what really matters. Complementarities such as “too fast” or “too slow” are merely extreme points that facilitate improved understanding. In actual fact, they form a whole (“are one and the same” / “constitute a unity,” §15 Organon).
  • Proceeding with great clarity, the physician is subsequently able to define from this the quantum with the two matrices and the Mathematical Form. Repertorizing becomes a marginal factor.
  • He or she is able to compare this, clearly and distinctly, with the quanta of the remedies.
  • Physicians are very sure and confident of their actions, serving to make them highly successful.


Clinical result

When taking this approach, a far greater degree of success is achieved. What it promises in logical terms, i.e. to continue along the path of Hahnemann’s structure of action (logic), is something it is quite evidently already achieving today. Comments of fellow practitioners treating patients in exactly this fashion are surprisingly unambiguous: significantly more healing, significantly more certainty, and a significantly more relaxed application since one now knows what one is doing. This also applies to our veterinary colleagues.

Limits are imposed by, above all, the remedies hitherto elaborated under quantum logic. Currently numbering some 200 or so, these are as yet too few to cover the breadth of possibilities. Furthermore, one will be able to define them even more precisely in future. Similarly, functional thought is also something that first has to be practised and acquired. Once it has been understood, however, the physician will be amazed at the degree of certainty and success this facilitates. We call this approach Quantum Logic Medicine.

Discussion:
Understanding necessitates a clean break with classical logic, from the perspective of which homeopathy appears “illogical.” Under quantum logic, it is logical, homeopathy being a system that follows quantum logic and not classical logic!

Classical logic begins by breaking everything down into parts before proceeding, in a second step, to examine the relationship between the parts thus obtained. Yet the primary process of division deprives it of all knowledge of primary interconnections, which it subsequently seeks to discover in secondary fashion. And there is a high margin of error at the level of connections and relationships. Connections do, however, include, for example, homeopathic remedies (“interrelatedness of symptoms”).

Quantum logic, for its part, retains connections. Here, they are primary in nature. It is therefore able to recognize functions differently. And it is also able to allow functions to shape and change parts, because parts are but a consequence of this function. Yet it is precisely that which is demanded by homeopathy, with its dynamis and with remedies that are but connections yet which shape us humans.

Naturally, we are continuing our work in this field and hope to be able to present to you, in just a few years’ time, studies worthy of the heirs of Hahnemann. We feel confident that Hahnemann, who himself continued to develop and improve the Organon of the Medical Art throughout his life, would be delighted to see that we are now able not only to follow but actually to grasp and understand this. And he would also delight in the knowledge that, when armed with this understanding, his medicine will prove to be yet more successful.

This fascinating technique arose out of a paper I delivered in 1995 in New Delhi. It is something I myself have now been working on for 30 years. I would very much like to return to New Delhi another 16 years from now to report on the further progress we will have made by then in the application of this method.

P.S:
To facilitate comprehension of the points I have covered using what will probably be considered a rather unfamiliar approach to thought, I would like to cite a few illustrative examples if I am granted the time to do so. Only through understanding can this logic be applied successfully.

 

 

Prof. Dr. med. Walter Köster (corresponding author)
Facharzt für Allgemeinmedizin
Burnitzstraße 69
D - 60596 Frankfurt, Germany
Tel. 0049 69 13379 - 530, Fax - 450
koester@quantum-logic-medicine.com


Literatur:

  • Walter Köster, Die Logik der Ganzheit (“The Logic of Holism“), Quantum Logic Medicine Verlag, Frankfurt, ISBN 978-3-9813042-7-5
  • Walter Köster, Die Quantenlogische Medizin – light (“Quantum Logic Medicine - light“) Quantum Logic Medicine Verlag, Frankfurt, ISBN 978-3-9813042-2-0
  • Walter Köster, Die Technik der Quantenlogischen Medizin – light (“The Technique of Quantum Logic Medicine - light“), Quantum Logic Medicine Verlag, Frankfurt, ISBN 978-3-9813042-8-2

Former presented paper to the comission >, see leaf >