A Homeopathic Perspective on Methylene Blue
From the above article:
"Used at a very low concentration – about the equivalent of a few raindrops in four Olympic-sized swimming pools of water."
Most interesting. This would be like a homeopathic dilution. So I went to my homeopathic remedy book and I did find Methylene Blue. Historically it has been used homeopathicaly in all potencies, in 3x potency. (this is how it is written in the book)
Here is a case from my book, although an allopahtic application not a homeopathic application:
A man, 50, suffered from cancer of the femur. Mosetig injected into the groin a a1 perent solution of "trichlorate of aniline" increasing the strength, until four grams were used at one injection. Almost an hour after the first injection the patient became dark blue, the next morning the discoloration was gone.
After the four-gram doses poisoning symptoms appeared unconsciousness, stertoruous breathing, feeble pulse, the whole body becoming dark blue. Artifical breathing and stimulants brought the patient around in four hours. Smaler doses ere used after that. In eight weeks he came home, cured to follow this ordinary work. Methyl-violet 1 to 500 and 1 to 1000 produced equally as good results (and I would guess without the crisis that followed the 4 gram injection)
The book goes on to say the homeopathic uses for:
In homeopathic potency Meth-b is a remedy for neuralgia, neurathenia, malaria, typhoid, here it diminishes the tympanites, delirium and fever, pus infection. Tendency to tremor, chorea, and eilepsy. Nephritis, (acute parenchymatous) scarlatinal nephritis. Urine acquires a green color. Bladder irritation from its use is antitoded by a little nutmeg. Used for surgical kidney with large amount of pus in urine. Gonorrheal rheumatism and cystitis. Bachace, sciatica, later states of stroke.
Cancerous ulcerations on the skin and mucous membranes and on internal organs such as uterus, lungs, and the gastrointestinal tract have been mitigated and cured by this remedy. the hemorrhages are mostly bright red with few clots, cough with blood-streaked expectorations and difficult breathing may be cure with Meth-b.
In a purely homeoapthic case:
The most homeopathic experiences is that of Halbert. Utilizing the affinity of Meth-b for nerve tissues and nerve cells, Halbert has given it in 3x tituraion with success in:
Neuralgias of neurathenia, tremor in neurasthenia, s pacticity of hysterical contraction, trophic disturbances, the resutl of nerve-exhaustion, spiral irritation.
Halbert confirms its anti-malarial powers and commends it in typhoid as an intestinal anti-septic. An apparently hopeless case of typhoid was signally benefited by it, the ty mpanites disappearing as if by magic. Wherever there is pus infection it is indicated and it has "made a record" with him in gonorrhea and cystitis.
So you can clearly see an affinity for this drugs action on nerve tissue, which of course is the site of Alzheimers disease. Pretty impressive on the infection front also. I wonder what dilution a few raindrops in 4 olympic pools would pan out to be in a homeopathic dilution? any homeopaths here want to venture a guess?