Final conclusions of the investigation into the PC CFS remedy

Since our last meeting in August 2005 an intense discussion has been going on about the action of the PC CFS remedy. Inevitable and fundamental issues about health and disease had to be dealt with, as we were forced to question our implicit beliefs on a philosophical level. This lead indirectly to a first "'Workshop on Life in General and Homeopathy in Particular" in November of 2005 in Leuven, where a select group of homeopaths explored the borders of scientifically defined reality, what quantumphysics have to say in this matter and how to bring all of this into perspective and homeopathic practice.

This discussion has also contributed to formulating more clearly the statements that Anne Vervarcke has made in her latest book "The Charm of Homeopathy".
More precisely, the model used by Anne Vervarcke in her daily practice which she explains in this book proves fundamental in understanding CFS. According to this model each human being consists of five 'bodies' that hold each other and interact with each other. The most solid body is the physical, the one closest to it is the energetic body, followed by the emotional, mental and vital bodies. Anne Vervarcke: "I understand homeopathy to be the healing system that eradicates the vital disturbance, and in this way, brings harmony to the subsequent bodies."

In case of CFS pathology, patients often react only very briefly if at all to seemingly well indicated remedies. With the help of Peter Chappell, who developed a remedy for AIDS based on a new application of the Organon aphorisms about epidemics, a CFS remedy was designed. The procedure is registered but PC remedies are electronic translations of a formula that is an equation of the disease. These electronic signals are consequently transferred to liquid or granules but can nowadays be downloaded for free directly from the Internet.

This CFS remedy was given to a test group of CFS patients that were followed closely by the homeopaths involved. Reactions were stronger than expected and the remedy was administered more sparingly, and later on on a more individualized basis. A year later results looked promising: no damaging effects and in more than half of the test group (of which most were suffering for a long time) remarkable improvements. For some of the patients, these continued to the level that they might be called 'cured': they were able to go back to their jobs and take up a normal life. For other patients the initial aggravations were so intense they cancelled the treatment, although some improvement soon followed. A few of the patients did not show any reactions at all or went through aggravations without subsequent improvements.
It was especially this last observation that worried a number of the homeopaths involved. They were dealing with gravely ill patients, upon whom one would not want to impose aggravations without confidence that improvement will follow.

CFS is a ‘leak’ located at the level of the energetic body caused by toxins, an exhausting life style and electromagnetical pollution, though there could be a genetic predisposition. Since this is a so-called "civilization" disease, it also strongly reflects the spirit of the time we live in. A person with CVS exhibits one thought: “I can’t go on”.
Once the energetic body is completely depleted, like a flat tire, no energy is retained that could be generated by taking rest and supplements or being submitted to therapy. No therapy, valuable though it may be, can have any permanent effect: the results are not "retained", they leak away. In fact the same applies to homeopathic remedies: as far as they have any effect at all, it is of short duration: for a few days, a week at the most, patients feel reborn and subsequently fall down into their 'empty' state.

From the recent reports of the homeopaths involved we can conclude :

Various reasons must be at the basis of CFS. That is why it is called a 'syndrome': it is not a clearly defined disease. If the cause is mostly situated on the vital level the patient can be helped with homeopathy, at least if the energetic level is not yet completely exhausted.
It could be that CFS results from physical exhaustion, but this seems rarely the case. We do remarkably often find a trauma to the head or backbone in the anamnesis of the patient.
It is more likely that the problem is situated mainly on the energetic and mental level. On the energetic level, as said before, it is caused by a shortage in energetic supplies such as healthy exercise, breathing in clean air, qualitative food, not being energetically emptied by industrial interventions, taking up the necessary "radiation" of heaven and earth or in short: contact with the four elements. On the mental level unspoken convictions drain the energetic body: ambition, sense of duty, exaggerated need to work and perform, drawing no boundaries, always 'having to', perfectionism, too much to 'do' and too little to 'be'. Possibly a lack of spiritual or religious foundation of the actions contributes to the exhaustion because they do not fulfill a higher cause and are therefore not nourishing.

Anne Vervarcke claims that PC remedies essentially affect the physical and emotional level. This could explain why PC CFS has such a wide range of results: for some an almost miraculous cure, for others only disadvantages or nothing at all.

Peter Chappell's 'new invention' (cfr. his book The Second Simillimum) and the 'new disease' CFS are compelling us to investigate more the essence of health and disease.

In conclusion :

PC CFS can help treat CFS patients in combination with homeopathic remedies or other therapies.
It is imperative to administer the first dose with the utmost caution: if no aggravations follow after the first week, the dose can be repeated. At the first signs of aggravation immediately have the patient stop taking the remedy.

For the moment we can conclude, from a limited group of patients that have been treated with PC CFS, that some 50% has had good effects from it. Most of them have had in a later stage the classical homeopathic remedy, because it appeared clearer in the case. This remedy then had a better and longer result than before the PC CFS remedy.

Taking into account that the investigations started from the observation that a large number of CFS patients did not react on constitutional homeopathic remedies, PC CFS could offer a solution in many cases. If it could bridge the state of 'no reaction' to 'reaction' on homeopathic remedies and fill the gap in our therapeutical approach. In this sense PC CFS remedy is a solution and a success.

In the future we want to discuss further with Peter Chappell the more precise definition of the characteristics of the disease. In the meantime we advise great caution with the dosage of the remedies and we keep working with them on an individual basis.