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”
POTENTIZATION
Physical substance
(ATTENUATIONS +SUCCUSSIONS)
consecutively
Produces to
healthy
individuals
Homeopathic
Remedy
Cures
ill individuals
Symptoms,signs
Symptoms,
signs,
Laboratorychanges
changes
Laboratory
Technical disease
Similarity
Physical
disease
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
Mental
Emotional
C.N.S.
Immune
Direction of
suppression
Cardiovascular
Endocrine
Respiratory
Urine-Genital
Alimentary
Muscularsceletic
Skin
Direction of
cure
• 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 NeuroEndocrino-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, HOMEOPATHY
and avoid the third
phase (exhaustion).
• However We have strongest symptoms , at the
time that the organism is fighting strongly,
trying to achieve resistance.
• 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-neuroendocrino-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.
• The first study for
Παρηγορητική
Homeopathy
withinΟμοιοπαθητική Ιατρική στον καρκινοπαθή ασθενή
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.
Some common homeopathic remedies for sleep disorders
(according to the totality of the symptoms)
• 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.
A case of a boy with sleep disorder
with night terrors
Individualized homeopathic treatment
• Sleeplessness:
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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
6TH PANHELLENIC
INTERDISCIPLINARY CONGRESS
ON SLEEP RESEARCH
DRUGS AND SLEEP
HOMEOPATHIC MEDICATION
Τhank you for your kind attention
Spiros Kivellos M.D. G.P. Homeopath
www.classical-homeopathy.gr