Cellular Terrain
Pleomorphism asserts that the host organism or patient is an active
participant in infection and disease - in contrast to Koch and Pasteur and
the mono-morphists who held the microbe to be all-powerful, the host organism a
passive victim. Pleomorphism is downgrading the microbe, since the host, by
resisting the latter's onslaught, could alter its characteristics and make it
return to a normal form. The patient has control over the bacteria, not the
other way around. The microbes are the result, not the cause of disease.
Even the common "communicable" diseases, e.g. strep throat or
chickenpox, can not take hold, grow, if the internal milieu is not conducive
to their reproduction. This is what base powder does. As stated before, one third
of people in Europe did not get bubonic plague. In treating cancer with isopathic
medicine, for example, one does not attack the tumor at all, instead one changes
the environment, the internal milieu that caused the cancer in the first place.
What this all means then, this pleomorphism / monomorphism controversy, is that
at its most fundamental level it has socio-economic dimensions that still affect
us profoundly today.
"Accepting Pleomorphism means acknowledging the patient's capacity to
defend against, and dominate, the microbe.
Monomorphism, on the contrary, enhances the role of the microbe in
disease, and consequently that of the physician who combats the microbe.
This is the principal reason for the instinctive hostility of the majority of
physicians to Pleomorphism and Wholistic/Alternative Medicine in general."
from Divided Legacy by
Harris Coulter
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