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    ISSN : 2693 6356 

2021 | Vol 4 | Issue 2 

 

           Tautopathy: A Remedy for Drug-Related Illnesses 
Dr. Alkesh Bishandchand Agrawal 

Associate Professor  

Homoeopathic Medical College & Hospital, Jalgaon 

 

Abstract:  

The practice of using a medicine that is made in homoeopathic potency to treat an illness or syndrome that is induced by a crude 

form of the same substance is called tautopathy. Tautopathy has been shown to be effective in reducing the drug's toxicological 

effects, according to several research investigations. One of the main reasons why people get chronic illnesses is because, as 

science and biology have progressed, our bodies have been exposed to more and more toxins and radiations. A medical system is 

necessary to fight them. An example of a system that offers a similar approach to treating the toxicological effects of medicat ions 

is tautopathy. It was known even in Hahnemann's day that many medications had adverse effects, and the remedy Nux vomica 

was recommended to alleviate them. These once-recommended homoeopathic antidotes are now less effective as a result of 

human genome evolution and the subsequent discoveries of contemporary medications. The rule of similars states that the same 

medications, in a stronger version, that caused an allergic reaction should be used to treat antibiotic-related allergies. On top of 

that, cortisone and corticosterone not only symptom suppressants; they also cause patients to develop resistance to them. 

Iatrogenic illness management might benefit greatly from further research into the topic. We learn more about the effectiveness 

of Tautopathy from cases treated with homoeopathy and associated studies. In addition, they are useful for learning how to deal 

with patients who have developed an allergy to or resistance to current medications that were formerly prescribed to them. This 

article discusses a number of such references and the clinical evidence that backs them up. 

Keywords: Tautopathy, Homoeopathy, Similimum, Iatrogenic Diseases, Toxicological Effects, Health Hazards 

 

 

 

Introduction 

1. There is a third word that is consistent with 
homoeopathy, isopathy, and equalopathy; it is 

"homopathy" (homos- same). But the term 

"tautopathy," meaning "same" in Greek, is 

chosen instead so that no one gets confused. 

The late director of London's Nelsons 

Homoeopathic Pharmacy, Mr. Dudley 

Wooton Everitt, invented the word 

"tautopathy" [1]. Hydrophys cyanocinta and 

Atrax robustus were both aided by his 

contributions to the provings. [2] Therapeutic 

drug-induced disorders, or iatrogenic diseases, 

have a huge window of opportunity in the 

tautopathic system for treatment. The 

toxicological activity of medications and 

allied therapies is covered in many 

homoeopathic repertories' rubrics. For 

instance, the chapter addresses topics such as 

the negative impacts of chlorine, sulphurized 

hydrogen, formaldehyde, and more.  

 

 

 

2. poisoning, as stated in Robin Murphy's 
Homoeopathic Medical Repertory. the third 

The breadth of repertorising such situations 

would be enhanced by include tautopathic 

medications in such rubrics. The efficacy of 

Tautopathy has been the subject of prior 

studies. An comprehensive inventory of 

medications used in the Tautopathic therapy 

modality is presented here, along with a 

discussion of a thorough evaluation of prior 

clinical experiences by stalwarts.  

 

Tautopathy - The Insight and Scope 

It is a method of curing or removing bad effects of 

drugs by giving isotoxication, just similar to isopathy. 

Isopathy is a system of medicine in which a disease can 

be cured by giving its very own product. Tautopathy has 

two advantages. First it can be proven like homoeopathic 

drugs and included in Materia medica. Second it can 

be given to antidote bad 

 

 



effects of crude or harmful identical agents. [3] The 

indication of Tautopathy is based on causative factor and 

symptoms produced as side effects of the abused drug. 

Tautopathy is strictly homoeopathic, though including 

drugs that are used by allopathic system of medicine. The 

reason is because they are used on the basis of symptoms 

produced by crude drug on diseased persons. They are 

prepared strictly according to homeopathic principles and 

used in potencies. [4] The need to study about 

Tautopathy lies in the ever increasing incidences of drug 

hazards and chronic health conditions caused by the toxic 

effects of drugs. A study [5] showed that iatrogenic and 

pharmacogenic effects are among the most frequent causes 

of death and disability, and not the heart diseases and 

cancer. 

The practice of administering nonspecific therapy to 

control and check infections was a fad in medical science, 

even before the discoveries of antibiotics and 

sulphonamides. This gradually led to the development of 

resistance in the body, further increasing the risk of 

developing iatrogenic diseases. 

[4] Antibiotics also do not cause complete destruction of 

microorganisms as they are mainly bacteriostatic. In 

addition to that, they destroy normal flora of the gut and 

respiratory tract, causing more harm. Side effects of 

antibiotics have been known with a great certainty so far. 

[6] Along with this antibiotics era, there existed a vitamin 

era also, in which multiple vitamins were prescribed for 

general wellbeing of the patients and also to those suffering 

from avitaminosis. Though, it was observed that patients 

still had persisting common cold in spite of treating with 

Vitamin D. [7] 

According to Hahnemann in 6
th
 edition of Organon of 

Medicine, ―The botched health condition brought above 

by the allopathic non healing art are the most tragic and 

the least curable of all the chronic disorders. I regret to say 

that when they have been driven to an extreme, it will 

probably be impossible to invent or think up means to 

remedy them.‖ [8] Hahnemann called drug induced 

diseases as the ones that are most difficult to treat, and 

thus should be left alone to be cured by the vital force 

itself. Tautopathy holds a cognizable purview for these 

‗difficult to cure‘ diseases and helps in unfolding the 

layers of miasm produced by such drugs. 

The forthcoming review of different research studies 

will unveil the indications of various Tautopathic drugs. 

Some of the known physiological action of drugs are as 

follows: [4] 

1) Streptomycin- causes neurological

disturbances, specially of eighth cranial nerve 

2) Penicillin- causes decrease in leucocyte count 

3) Chlorpromazine- causes hepatic disorders 

4) Theouracil, methimazole,

asphenamine, methylestasterone- liver disorders 

5) Phenylbutazone, phenycerylurea- causes toxic 

hepatits, inflammatory infiltration and liver cell 

damage, sulfapyridine- causes kidney stone and 

urinary tract stone 

6) Sulpha drugs- cause enlargement of thyroid gland 

7) ACTH and cortisone- cause peptic ulcer 

8) Therapeutic hormones- like estrogen is a risk factor 

for breast cancer and Gynaecomastia 

Antihypertensive like Hexamenthorium-known to 

cause acute interstitial pulmonary fibrosis and 

progressive dyspnea. 

These drugs when prepared in potencies by trituration 

and succussions and when prescribed according to 

homoeopathic principles, may remove these side effects, 

which have no known treatment so far. In chronic 

diseases, Hahnemann suggested that the causative 

organism of an infectious disease would naturally 

produce the disease itself. Thus the potentised microbe 

would have to be the similimum to a case of that self-

same disease (Tauto-same). [9] 

A Glasgow mustard trial [10] was conducted to study 

the Tautopathic treatment as preventive, by the British 

Homoeopathic society and the Ministry of Home security 

during world War- II. It was a double blinded placebo 

controlled trial, in which mustard gas 30C or placebo 

was given to volunteers before real mustard gas was 

applied to their forearm. The observations were as 

follows: 
 

Table 1. Observations in two groups of mustard trial. 
 

 

The result of the study showed that statistically 

significant improvement or prevention was observed 

during these trials from the Tautopathic mustard gas 

30C. 

Another study [11] was conducted by the researcher 

Khuda Baksh in Nadia district of West Bengal, to know 

the effects of Arsenicum album 30C on the chronic 

effects of arsenic poisoning contaminated from drinking 

water. It was observed that there was reduction in the 

level of arsenic in blood and urine in the subjects 

consuming the contaminated water. 

The Tautopathic immunotherapy is another term 

applied for potentised allergens in homoeopathic 

potencies. This is used when an allergen displays a clear 

group of symptoms and that allergen when given in 

potency also produces the same group of symptoms. For 

example, in allergic rhinitis syndrome, hay fever 

produces symptoms that are similar to those produced by 

individuals, who are sensitive to Galphimia glauca. A 

Randomized Controlled Trial was conducted between 

two groups of Galphimia glauci 6x and placebo, on 

patients suffering from these symptoms. It was found 

that the homoeopathic preparation improved symptoms to 

a greater extent. [12] 

In a case report [13], sulphothiazole cured fever in a 6 

months old child with symptoms of cough, stomatitis and 

constipation, who was given cibazol tablets for 10 days. 

A female aged 45 years with typhoid was initially under 

the treatment of allopathy using chloromycetin, which 

caused stomatitis, burning in mouth and throat, vertigo 

while getting up from bed, headache and aggravation 

from movement. All these indications pointed towards 

Bryonia, which gave no relief. Chloromycetin 6, lowered 

the temperature and alleviated the other symptoms as 

well. [13] Other drugs that add on to the list of 

Tautopathic medicines include ambistrin 

 

 
that cured a case of tuberculosis of the lungs which was 

worsened by ambistrin injection producing symptoms of 

giddniness, headache and deafness. A patient of prostatic 

complaint was given zephrol drug by an allopathic doctor, 

1. 12 cases- had deep lesions 

2. 2 cases- got no lesions 

1. 2 cases- got deep lesions 

2. 12 cases- had no lesions 

Placebo Group Mustard Group 



which failed to relieve the retention of urine. Ephedrine 6 

(a content of zephrol) was prescribed with an effective 

outcome. 

[13] A female child aged 2 years, got her urticarial 

eruptions on forehead, suppressed by tetramycine 

injections. The eruptions flooded the face all over, with 

puffiness and pus discharge. Intolerable pain and profuse 

salivation were other marked symptoms. After a failed 

attempt with Rhus tox 0/3, tetramycine 30 relieved the 

symptoms, followed by Mezerium 0/3 and Calcarea carb 

0/3, to complete the cure. 

In a case report, a 16 year old youth diagnosed with 

attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), 

Asperger's syndrome and dyslexia received homoeopathic 

dilutions of the same drug to which the child was exposed 

to in intrauterine life. There was significant relief in 

symptoms as well as improvement in MYMOP (Measure 

Yourself Medical Outcome Profile) score and DSM-1V 

(Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders–

Fourth Edition) score was observed. [14] 

Similar such studies have proved the efficiency of 

Tautopathy, in improving immunodeficiency disorders and 

iatrogenic drug hazards. The sole indication lies in the 

treatment history of the patient. Therefore, every case, 

which is resistant to the indicated homoeopathic 

medicine, should be inquired into any previous drug 

administered. If the totality of the symptoms is similar to 

the known adverse reactions of the drug, then the same 

drug in potentised form will be the next best indicated 

medicine. 

Most of the patients approach homoeopathic system of 

medicine after prolonged treatment with allopathic drugs 

that leave them in dire straits. The indicated homoeopathic 

medicine fails to improve such artificial chronic diseases 

that are suppressed by several conventional drugs. 

Tautopathy is a leap forward for such cases and should be 

considered and accepted in the domain of homoeopathy. 

 

3. Conclusion 
When we deplete our bodies' natural systems with synthetic 

pharmaceuticals, the body responds by repairing itself 

utilizing the same resources that caused the damage. 

Homoeopathic medicine, or tautopathy, is an alternative to 

traditional medicine. A large number of iatrogenic illnesses 

may be traced back to these medications and their negative 

side effects. There is now no solution for these diseases, 

however tautopathy opens up a lot of possibilities for 

studying these responses and administering a stronger 

version of the same medication. Immunodeficiencies, 

allergies, and drug-induced diseases—the ones Master 

Hahnemann called the "most difficult to cure"—can now be 

treated with more precision with only a thorough 

examination of the patient's medical history and extensive 

study in the area of tautopathy. What makes a doctor smart 

is keeping up with the latest research but yet relying on the 

insights of the past.A species' chances of survival depend 

less on its intelligence and strength and more on how well it 

adapts to new circumstances. Darwin, Charles. 

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