6TH PANHELLENIC

INTERDISCIPLINARY CONGRESS

ON SLEEP RESEARCH

DRUGS AND SLEEP

HOMEOPATHIC MEDICATION

Spiros Kivellos M.D. Secretary of Research Ι.A.C.H

12 years Scientific Colab. for Homeopathy

Headache Clinic

“G.Gennimatas” Athens General Hospital

www.classical-homeopathy.gr

Hippocrates 480 B.C.

• “Similar Cures

Similar”

• “It is difficult to cure

chronic diseases…

one has to turn them

into acute again…”

HOMEOPATHY AS A SCIENTIFIC MEDICAL

THERAPEUTIC SYSTEM • Samuel Hahnemman

1755-1843 • Observation that physical

substances can create to healthy individuals, symptoms which are similar to those that they can cure to ill individuals.

• Observation that the therapeutic result of physical substances are highly increased with dilution and shaking

• Experiment to many physical substances for the whole range of human Pathology.

HOMEOPATHIC LAW OF CURE

“Similar Cures Similar”

Physical substance

Produces to

healthy

individuals

POTENTIZATION

(ATTENUATIONS +SUCCUSSIONS)

consecutively

Homeopathic

Remedy

Cures

ill individuals

Technical disease

Physical

disease

S i m i l a r i t y

Symptoms, signs,

Laboratory changes

Symptoms,signs

Laboratory changes

The Homeopathic Model Symbolic model of the functional levels of the organism

Mental

Emotional

Physical

Direction of cure

Hering’s Law

Symbolic model of the organism

and Homeopathic treatment

Direction of

cure

Direction of

suppression

Skin

Muscularsceletic

Alimentary

Urine-Genital

Respiratory

Endocrine

Cardiovascular

Immune C.N.S.

Emotional Mental

• General Adaptation Syndrome

• Hans Seyle (1907-1982) Endocrinologist

• Hans Selye described a profile of how organisms respond

to stress; the general adaptation syndrome is characterized

by three phases:

• 1. a nonspecific mobilization alarm phase, which

promotes sympathetic nervous system activity;

• 2. a resistance phase, during which the organism makes

efforts to cope with the threat; and

• 3. an exhaustion phase, which occurs if

the organism fails to overcome the

threat and depletes its physiological resources.

Every phase has a different neuro-endocrino-immuno profile

• It seems that symptoms are not expressing the

disease, itself but the fight of the organism against

the disease. They are expressing the new Neuro-

Endocrino-Immuno status of the organism under the

stress factor , they are expressing the new

biochemical personality , that has been aroused by the

organism , in order to “fight or flight” to go on with

the first two phases of General Adaptation Syndrom

(Hans Seyle) alarm, resistance, and avoid the third

phase (exhaustion).

• However We have strongest symptoms , at the

time that the organism is fighting strongly,

trying to achieve resistance.

HOMEOPATHY

• In Classical Homeopathy (Hahnemannian) the choice of

the appropriate remedy for each patient, is individualized

according to the totality of the symptoms on physical,

mental and even emotional level (total psycho-neuro-

endocrino-immuno new profile of the organism fighting

the disease as stress factor).

• Very important for the successful prescription are the

strange and peculiar symptoms (strong individualization)

(e.g sleeplessness from joy plus restless legs). The same

symptoms have been aroused from healthy volunteers

during Homeopathic Pathogenetic Trials (provings), when

healthy organisms took the plant or mineral on a sub-toxic

dose, before this has been a homeopathic remedy with

dilution and vibration.

• In Homeopathy also, the general sympotms of

each patient (tastes desires and aversions, thirst,

warmth or coldness, perspiration etc) are taking

under serious consideration for the choice of the

exact appropriate remedy.

• Those symptoms reflect the new metabolic profile

that the organism has aroused in order to enforce

its fight against the disease

• The new Metabolic, Neuro-Endocrino-Immuno

profile of the patient during its fight against the

disease must have the same profile with this,

that has been aroused during the “proving trial” to

healthy individuals after the administration of the

natural source of the homeopathic remedy.

Παρηγορητική Ομοιοπαθητική Ιατρική στον καρκινοπαθή ασθενή • The first study for

Homeopathy within

the Greek National

Health System

• Headache Clinic

• “G.Gennimatas”

• Athens General

Hospital

Conclusions—Homeopathic medicines Coffea cruda and Nux vomica in 30c potencies

alter short-term nonlinear dynamic parameters of slow wave sleep EEG in healthy young

adults. MSE may provide a more sensitive NDS analytic method for evaluating

homeopathic remedy effects on human sleep EEG patterns.

Some common homeopathic remedies for sleep disorders

(according to the totality of the symptoms)

• Nux vomica

• The patient goes to sleep late because of a feeling of thoughts crowding in on him. He or she wakes at 3 am and lies awake until daybreak, when he falls into a dull sleep full of dreams, from which it is hard to rouse. He wakes late, feeling tired.

• He or she feels drowsy after meals and in the early evening. His dreams are full of bustle and hurry. He feels better after a short sleep, unless aroused.

• He has a great flow of ideas in bed in the evening, which often drive away sleep until morning.

• Experiences sleeplessness and excitement after overwork or over-stimulation. Very tidy and workaholic person.

• Dreams of quarrels.

• Coffea Cruda

• The patient experiences complete sleeplessness and is constantly moving and excited. Sleeps until 3 am, after which he or she is only able to doze. Wakes with a start and feels excited. His sleep is disturbed by dreams.

• Experiences sleeplessness because of mental activity; has a flow of ideas, accompanied by nervous excitability.

• This remedy is good for hyperactive or hypersensitive children.

Some common homeopathic remedies for sleep disorders

(according to the totality of the symptoms)

• Belladonna • There is pulsation of the blood-vessels, and the patient may hear

this so loudly when trying to sleep as to be kept awake by it.

• He or she experiences comatose sleep at night, with frequent waking and convulsive movements.

• The patient’s sleep may be accompanied by moaning and tossing about.

• There may be nocturnal sleeplessness, sometimes with the desire to sleep and useless efforts to go to sleep, mostly because of feelings of great anguish or agitation.

• Dreams may be described as anxious, terrible, frightful and vivid. They may be about fires, robbers and assassins, or may be meditative dreams. On closing the eyes in order to go to sleep, the patient sees frightful visions and experiences jerking in the limbs.

• This remedy is often used during childhood fevers.

Some common homeopathic remedies for sleep disorders

(according to the totality of the symptoms)

• Aconite The patient has nightmares and anxious dreams. He or she experiences sleeplessness, and is restless and tosses about (use 30th potency). The patient starts up in sleep, has long dreams, with feelings of anxiety centred on the chest. Insomnia of the aged.

• The patient experiences drowsiness, with anxious thoughts and rapid respiration. This is especially associated with fear of dying.

• The patient is sleepless because of anxiety, constantly agitated and tosses about

Some common homeopathic remedies for sleep disorders

(according to the totality of the symptoms)

• Stramonium

• These patients experience night terrors. They suffer from agitated sleep with vivid dreams. They can be very frightened. A child clings to the parents. They have frightful visions during sleep.

• They lie on the back with open, staring eyes. They have a tremendous fear of the dark or fear of violence.

Some common homeopathic remedies for sleep disorders

(according to the totality of the symptoms)

A case of a boy with sleep disorder

with night terrors

Individualized homeopathic treatment • Sleeplessness:

Anger, after: Acon., Coloc., Nux-v., Bry., Cham., Coff.

• Anxiety, from: Acon., Ars., Cocc., Bry., Caust., Cham, Kali-c. Lach

• Excitement, from: Coff., Hyos., Nux-v., Arg-n., Aur-m.

• Fear, fright, from: Acon., Bry., Cham., Cimic., Cocc., Ign.

• Grief, from: Nat-m., Ign., Kali-br., Sulph.,

• Mental exertion, after: Ars., Nux-v., Calc.

• Old people: Acon, Bar-c., Phos., Ars. Restlessness, from: Acon., Apis, Ars., Merc-c., Alum., Bry.

• Thoughts, from: Ars., Calc., Coff., Hep., Nux-v., Op. Wine, after abuse of: Nux-v., Coff. Coffee; abuse of, after: Coff., Cham., Nux-v.

Biochemical ethics of “Cell”

• Human health is: the balance between

attribute

and enjoy

• The biochemical translation is the balance

between different neurotransmitters

(serotonin, oxytocin , noradrenaline,

dopamine, cortisol).

Stress is the experiencing

of the distance between

natural and acquired

personality. (natural and acquired PNI profile)

Spiros Kivellos MD

Τhank you for your kind attention Spiros Kivellos M.D. G.P. Homeopath

www.classical-homeopathy.gr

6TH PANHELLENIC

INTERDISCIPLINARY CONGRESS

ON SLEEP RESEARCH

DRUGS AND SLEEP

HOMEOPATHIC MEDICATION