A Genus Epidemicus Approach to AIDS in Africa
by Harry van der Zee, MD
For over a decade now homeopathy is being used for the treatment of HIV/AIDS in Africa. Homeopaths from Europe, South Africa and other continents have set up projects in various sub-Saharan countries. Some of these projects are for HIV/AIDS only while other projects concern a general homeopathic clinic that includes the treatment of AIDS within a total package.
All projects I know of report positive results. The treatment protocols used for HIV-positive patients vary. Some will individualise each and every case, others use a combination of remedies, and again others have selected a group of AIDS-specific remedies and select for a patient the best fitting one from that group.
This latter approach is based on the Genus Epidemic approach for epidemic diseases already described by Hahnemann. Homeopaths in the 19th and early 20th century have used this as-if-one-person approach with great success in treating epidemics like cholera, yellow fever and also the Spanish flu.
The Genus Epidemicus approach is clearly the most rational way to treat AIDS as it is for any epidemic disease. AIDS in Africa is not an individual disease but a collective disease affecting everyone including those that are not infected. Every sub-Saharan Africa has HIV-positive relatives, has already lost relatives or is suffering from AIDS himself. Looking for a constitutional remedy in each and every case is not needed as the disease is not based on the constitution, or on a derangement of the individual vital force, but on a derangement of the collective vital force. Taking the cases of many AIDS-sufferers together as-if-one-person and so determine the Genus Epidemicus for AIDS in Africa is the way to go. Translating the Genus Epidemicus then into a group of homeopathic remedies from the materia medica is the next step to take, and as it appears not an easy one. Jeremy Sherr is working on it for several years now with good results and has narrowed the group to some 15 to 16 remedies. That actually still is quite a large group and it takes high skills to be able to determine which remedy fits each and every individual case. For a continent like Africa with perhaps one skilled enough homeopath for every one million HIV-positive cases this means that on a practical level we are decades away from changing the course of the AIDS-epidemic with homeopathy in any significant way.
It is important to realise that it is not based on theory that a Genus Epidemicus consists often of a group of remedies. This situation for almost all epidemic diseases is based on the practical reality that hardly ever does one remedy cover the totality of the disease. Gelsemium may have been close to being such a remedy during the Spanish flu that took millions of lives in a short period of time by the end of the First World War.
Looking for the Solution to AIDS in Africa
When Peter Chappell went to Ethiopia as early as 2001, he was one of the first homeopaths that undertook the mission to investigate the possibilities homeopathy has to offer for AIDS. He started individualising for each and every case and saw good but not consistent results. He realised that with a rough estimate of 25 million infected people, his classical approach would hardly scratch the surface of this immense epidemic. Besides that he wanted to come as close to 100% results as possible. He tried the AIDS-nosode but the aggravations he saw in some cases made him abort that option. He then analysed the Genus Epidemicus by taking some 70 cases together as-if-one-person and looked for a remedy that would cover the totality of the signs and symptoms of AIDS. Although having up-to-date homeopathic software with him he did not find what he was looking for in the then current materia medica. He emailed many colleagues, shared his experiences and analysis, had it published in Homoeopathic Links, but also with the help of the international homeopathic community no remedy came forward as a serious candidate.
What to do next?
The massive numbers of people suffering and dying and the very limited amount of available homeopaths in Africa demanded a simple and consistently reliable approach. How to find one single homeopathic remedy for AIDS in Africa that would require little homeopathic skills, and that therefore could be safely and with confidence used all over the continent? Clearly, if there would be a substance – from the mineral, plant or animal kingdom – that could cover the symptom totality of AIDS, finding it, proving it and testing it in practice could take many years and time was the one thing Peter’s patients did not have.
A Different Source
Peter had been involved in spiritual work and shamanism already decades before. In this period he at some point contacted an intelligence that he decided to seek contact with again in Ethiopia. I’m using the term ‘intelligence’ as I don’t know whether terms like entity or identity are still valid in the spiritual realm. Asked to describe the nature of this contact Peter says that the true nature of the connection is more like a knowing awareness. A sort of awareness of a benign nature with infinite patience and kindness, a love that is likewise infinite and unfathomable. Peter knew how to contact this level of intelligence in his mind, placed a bottle of water in front of him and requested this intelligence to imprint the water with a resonance for the Genus Epidemicus of AIDS in Africa. I’d love to explain it better but I’m afraid I’m lacking the words to do so. Peter has introduced a few people to this intelligence so the remedy making process no longer depends on him alone.
Understandably, Peter had great doubts whether this would work at all. When AIDS patients returned from the realm of the ‘almost dead’ and very consistently recovered within two or three weeks he knew this resonance, which he later called PC1 is really effective. The results with PC1 as with many of the PC Resonances that were created later for other indications clearly show that what we could call ‘intelligent resonance’ from a non-material source is possible and effective. Like all homeopathic remedies it is observed to be completely safe and free of side effects.
The experience with PC1 is now more than 10 years, my own experience being 8 years. I’ve visited Africa many times now, have been in many countries, interviewed and treated lots of patients, and I can say with full confidence that PC1 is a highly effective and safe resonance for AIDS in Africa in all stages of the disease.
The rights of PC1 have been donated to the Amma Resonance Healing Foundation (ARHF), which promotes the treatment of epidemics and trauma in Africa. Three pharmacies produce PC1 and also other PC Resonances – Helios Pharmacy (UK), Hahnemann Apotheek (Netherlands) and Apotheke zum heiligen Florian (Austria).
A Recent Example from Kenya
In a governmental clinic in Kenya PC1 has been prescribed to 160 patients that are not on ARVs yet. In Kenya ARVs are being prescribed when the CD4 count (an indication of state of the immune system) falls below 350. Without ARVs the CD4 count drops by 50-100 points per year on average, resulting in full-blown AIDS some 10 years after the infection. The CD4 count then drops below 200 and all sorts of opportunistic infections have a feast in the body, as the immune system is no longer able to control them – tuberculosis being a very important one.
Before starting with PC1 the CD4 was measured in all 160 patients. After three months the CD4 is being repeated, which has now been done for about 85% of them. The data show that in none of these patients has the CD4 level gone down any further. Instead of dropping with the usual average of 12-25 points their CD4 levels have gone up an average of 41 points. These stunning results show that all patients followed up so far have responded well on PC1, not only clinically, but also in terms of a raised CD4. In some the increase was only very little, in others the CD4 even doubled or tripled back to a completely normal level, but not one single patient showed a decrease!
As none of these patients were on ARVs the raise of CD4 cannot be accounted to ARVs, and as nothing else was changed in the treatment policy and counselling of these patients only PC1 explains this complete turn around for all patients that have been followed-up so far. In total the group treated in the region is now 850, including patients that are already on ARVs. Also these patients respond very well. Not only do they improve clinically, also their ARVs rise and the side-effects of ARVs are being reduced. This is a big advantage for them, as the side-effects of ARVs at times can be very serious and literally paralyse patients.
To be able to meet the rapidly growing demand in Kenya we recently trained 30 new assistants which not only will make PC1 available to thousands more, but also allow us to follow-up a larger number of patients as to the state of their immunity.
The Bigger Picture
Based on a decade of experience with PC1, involving the treatment of thousands of patients in at least a dozen African countries, the conclusion can be drawn that:
It is possible to create homeopathic resonances using an intelligent source, which is different from the usual sources of minerals, plants, animals, nosodes, sarcodes, and imponderables.
Resonances thus created can cover the disease totality to the extent that – at least in the case of HIV/AIDS in Africa – all properly diagnosed patients respond.
How to prescribe PC1 can be taught to non-homeopaths in only a few hours, which means that it is a realistic possibility to make it available all over Africa without first having to train thousands of homeopaths.
If PC1 is prescribed before patients are on ARVs, and provided they don’t reïnfect themselves and get proper nutrition, they may never need ARVs.
Patients that are on ARVs benefit greatly from adding PC1 to their treatment. As no therapy resistance has been reported regarding PC1 until now, they can stay well, whereas the usual course with ARVs alone is that at some point they may no longer respond and move back towards full-blown AIDS.
The Bigger Challenge
The potential of homeopathy for HIV/AIDS in Africa is enormous and all forms of homeopathic treatment, ranging from complex remedies to individualised prescribing either or not based on a Genus Epidemicus analysis can contribute. PC1 is seen as controversial by some and as a huge advance by others, mainly because of the way it has been made. Judging the tree by the fruits it produces, I do not have a single doubt as to its efficacy. Having said that, a lot of research, data collection, publications, networking, PR etc, is still needed to indeed realise the goal of the ARHF – to make PC1 available all over Africa so this epidemic can truly be resolved.
Where You Come In
There are many ways in which you can help support the work of ARHF in Africa:
Go to Africa, join or even better start a project, experience the effects of PC1 with AIDS-patients yourself and thus help expand the number of patients treated
Organise research into the effects of PC1
Create documentaries on the work or spread the news in other ways
Raise funds for ARHF and its projects in Africa
Donate yourself to ARHF (see www.ARHF.nl)
We are a small team that needs to be expanded. Nobody receives a salary; all money goes to our projects. With little we can do a lot, so any amount or other form of support helps. To scale up from treating thousands of people to making treatment available to millions is a process involving many steps, many more people and the small amounts needed locally mount up to vaster sums if we succeed to expand. With your help I know we can. It’s very gratifying work so feel welcome to join.
Want to Know More
Order the book ‘Homeopathy for Diseases’ by Peter Chappell and Harry van der Zee at Amazon or www.homeolinks.nl – this book discusses the theory and practice of treatment with disease specific remedies for epidemic/infectious diseases, various forms of trauma as also chronic diseases.
Watch the videos on AIDS, malaria, trauma etc at www.ARHF.nl or search on YouTube for Amma Resonance Healing.
Send an email to info@ARHF.nl and ask to be placed on the mailing list for receiving newsletters.
Remedy Kits
Amma4Africa Kit, Helios Pharmacy, www.helios.co.uk
Amma Rescue Kit, Helios Pharmacy, www.helios.co.uk
References
Peter Chappell, The Second Simillimum, Homeolinks Publishers, Haren (Netherlands) 2005
Harry van der Zee, Amma4Africa Manual, Homeolinks Publishers, Haren (Netherlands) 2008
Peter Chappell & Harry van der Zee, Homeopathy for Diseases, Homeolinks Publishers, Haren (Netherlands) 2012
Harry van der Zee, MD
Amma Resonance Healing Foundation
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