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Dr. Habib Khan.

deficiency of Iodine only responsible for goiter?

* Posted by Dr. Habib Khan. on May 9, 2010 at 10:26am in Homeopathy and Thyroid
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Stop and think a moment, only deficiency of Iodine is responsible for the goiter?

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Saurav Arora Permalink Reply by Saurav Arora on May 9, 2010 at 10:51am

Hello Dr Habib!
first of all welcome to this group.
Regarding the queries u raised---
Iodine deficiency is not the only reason for goiter, but yes it used to be a cause for big goiters couple of years back especially in endemic areas, but still the prevalence of goiter is there (not extinct yet) after around 2 decades of iodization. the goiter still persists (the latest data is around 17% in Delhi) and majority of these goiters are goiter grade 1, 1a and occasionally grade 2.
Goiter is also seen associated with stressful conditions like Puberty and Pregnancy. in these cases one may develope physiological enlargement of thyroid gland known as physiological goiter.
Secondly goiter can be associated Graves' disease ie the classical example of hyperfunctioning of thyroid gland in iodine excess areas or ?because of excess iodine.

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Saurav Arora Permalink Reply by Saurav Arora on May 9, 2010 at 11:36am
one more thing i forgot to add.. some time big nodules and cystic swelling in neck can be confused with goiter, even hashimoto thyroiditis causes firm feeling glands.

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Dr. Habib Khan. Permalink Reply by Dr. Habib Khan. on May 9, 2010 at 12:15pm
Dear Saurav Arora I am agree with you, that Iodine deficiency is not only cause of goiter,data provided by you satisfied my mind, Almost in every city Iodized salt used by every person, but the problem of goiter is still persisting. Indication is clear cause is something else.

now another mistery is, the cause of simple goiter and toxic goiter is same?

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Saurav Arora Permalink Reply by Saurav Arora on May 9, 2010 at 12:24pm
well to be precise in Homoeopathic terms, the cause lies beneath the layer, deep inside. it's the predisposition a man is born with, intermingled with the complexity of our environment, this interplay of man's constitution, his environment and thinking is the major cause of disease. Goiter is seen in people who have strong history of stress, familial predisposition, psoric, pseudo psoric or sycotic traits.

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Dr. Habib Khan. Permalink Reply by Dr. Habib Khan. on May 10, 2010 at 7:03am
I am very much impressed to see your knowledge in the field of miasm which is the basic element in the etiology of any disease. Now tell me which miasm or susceptibility make the background for goiter. Accept my friendship add me on google talk my gmail ID is kkhan.habib@gmail.com

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In February 2010, the World Health Organization (WHO) published a report on the ‘Safety issues in the preparation of homeopathic medicines’. Since then I have received many messages about parts of it being against homeopathic fundamentals. I decided to give it a thorough reading and explore the philosophical and scientific problems in the document.

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3. Recommended source of animal remedies.

Potential Safety Hazard

The bias about the potential harmfulness of homeopathic remedies sourced from biological materials is stated in the preface of the report itself. Dr. Xiaorui Zhang, Coordinator, Traditional medicines, W.H.O., writes in the preface:

Sometimes, a homeopathic medicine made from source material, such as a mother tincture, is administered in the most concentrated form. Secondly, homeopathic medicines are made from a wide range of natural or synthetic sources: minerals and chemicals, but also plant materials, including roots, stems, leaves, flowers, bark, pollen, lichen, moss, ferns and algae; microorganisms, including fungi, bacteria, viruses and plant parasites; animal organs, tissues, secretions and cell lines. Human materials may include tissues, secretions, hormones, and cell lines. Some of these source materials constitute potential safety hazards, even at high dilutions.

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First Safe Preparation

To minimize the possible safety hazards of homeopathic remedies, the report proposes to identify the first safe preparation of each homeopathic remedy and only the potencies above that first safe preparation should be available in the market.

This sounds like a decent idea but has many hidden implications to it. Mercury, Arsenic, Stramonium, Lachesis, Vipera etc are all toxic in crude form. The document does not specify how the first-safe preparation should be ascertained. Are the remedies deemed safe once there is not even a trace of the original substance detectable? If that be the case, we will lose most of our remedies in lower potencies (below 12C)!

One should remember that the toxicity not only depends upon the level of dilution but also upon the amount/volume of the substance consumed. So, while Lachesis or Arsenic-album 3C might have some traces of the original toxin, their toxicity actually depends upon the dose consumed.

One should also remember that most conventional drugs are ‘toxic’ in large doses. So it is not the toxicity of the original substance but the ‘dose’ that ultimately matters. Homeopathic remedies are usually given in very small quantities and as such do not have any potential toxic effect. Still, if control is required by health authorities, then two things can be done:

1. Low potencies of highly toxic substances can be made available only on prescription of a qualified and registered homeopath.
2. The packaging volume of such potencies can be restricted to a relatively safe level, say 10 ml to 30ml.

Section 3.2 deals with the animal or human derived source material. It states:

Adequate and validated procedures such as filtering, pasteurization, sterilization or precipitation have to be used depending on the individual raw material, contamination or pathogenic load, especially to establish the first safe preparation. The dilution process alone is not sufficient to establish microbial, viral or TSE safety.

This again looks reasonable but ignores the spirit of homeopathic provings. Will the Lac humanum, Lac def, Lac can be the same if prepared from pasteurized milk? Will your Bacillinum, Medorrhinum, Syphilinum, Tuberculinum etc. be the same if prepared after sterilizing the tissue or using deactivated microorganisms cultured in laboratories? (see section 4.1.5 and 5.3 of annexure 3)

I think instead of sterilizing and pasteurizing the source material, the right thing would be to test samples of the recommended first-safe preparations for any active pathogens.

Recommended source of animal remedies

Section 4.1.1 of Annexure 3 gives guidelines about the source of homeopathic remedies of animal origin. It states:

Healthy animals should be used for the production of homeopathic medicinal products unless properly justified. Whenever possible, donor animals should be held in closed breeding and production herds. Wild animals should be avoided as far as possible.

If all remedies prepared from animal source are derived from captive animals, the remedy picture of the medicine thus derived is unlikely to match the remedy picture that came up during the original proving. The diet, life-style, experiences and behavior of animals kept in captivity vary significantly from their wild counterparts. Most homeopaths believe that it is not merely the material substance, the quantifiable tissue that matters. The totality of the source also reflects in the remedy picture. If the totality of the source varies considerably from the one used in our initial provings, how can the remedy picture remain the same?

The same applies to the plant remedies too. The mineral content and the quantity and quality of the biologically active substances in a cultured plant may vary a lot from the one taken from the wild.

I think it is necessary that homeopathic bodies reflect further on these suggestions and work together to modify such recommendations coming from W.H.O.

In general there is a lot of good information in this report and every homeopath should go through it once. You can get a copy of this report here:

http://www.who.int/medicines/areas/traditional/Homeopathy.pdf

or

http://www.who.int/medicines/areas/traditional/prephomeopathic/en/index.html

It is a good initiative towards standardization and acceptance of homeopathic remedies. Some points do need further clarification, deliberation and modification, to conform to homeopathic principles and practices.

If you find the issues raised above a valid concern, please take out five minutes from your busy schedule and write to your national homeopathy organizations to take up these issues with W.H.O.

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