A treasure trove of prime BS by a prominent German homeopathic physician

Recently, I was trying to find out more about the “HUFELAND MEDAILLE” – not the one once created by the GDR, but the award given yearly since the mid-1950s by the German “Zentralverband der Ärzte für Naturheilverfahren und Regulationsmedizin e.V.” (ZAEN, Association for Doctors of Natural and Regulatory Medicine). This is when I came across Dr. Michael M. Hadulla who describes himself as follows:

– Specialist in pediatrics and adolescent medicine
– Doctor of homeopathy
– Acupuncture
– Depth psychology
– Authorized continuing education provider for homeopathy in Baden-Württemberg
– Former vice president of the ZAEN
– Author of numerous books

On Hadulla’s website I also found an article about me (!) which is too good to be missed:

Letter to the editor on a highly polemical interview by Edzard Ernst (Spiegel 2022)

Edzard Ernst’s interview, “Enemies of the Enlightenment,” was not good: It reveals a mood of disappointment, malice, and downright hostility toward homeopathy and the entire English royal family, especially King Charles III. This disappointment may be rooted in E. Ernst’s biography, which had already suffered a shipwreck at the Munich Naturheilklinik Wien (Natural Healing Clinic in Vienna), as well as in his academic failure in England, when Prince Charles forced him into early retirement.

E. Ernst now presents himself as a victim of an esoteric-spiritual homeopathic conspiracy. But the opposite is true: the pharmacological-chemical industry is powerful, even overwhelmingly powerful. As a pediatrician, also with experience in intensive care medicine, I can truly draw up a list of victims myself: from thalidomide (a highly praised sleeping pill at the time) in the 1950s with its horrific deformities, to X-ray contrast agents as the cause of numerous cancers, to the increasing antibiotic resistance (approximately 50,000 sepsis deaths each year in Germany), to the long-term side effects of cortisone, to the serious side effects of psychotropic drugs, some of which create “zombie” creatures.

‘I am sick of the constant, tedious repetition of evidence and statistics: For 200 years now, we homeopaths have had well-documented case studies with names and diagnoses, doctor’s letters, and laboratory results that clearly demonstrate that well-chosen homeopathic remedies heal. This is evidence in the Latin sense: evidere = immediately evident. E. Ernst’s definition of science is also extremely poor: Science is more than just linear-causal reasoning; it’s more comprehensive: “We explain nature; we understand humanity.” Not only did the renowned philosopher Gadamer receive homeopathic treatment throughout his life; an atomic physicist also finds his way to my practice.

E. Ernst is being crude when he claims that Samuel Hahnemann invented homeopathy. No, no, and no again. Samuel Hahnemann discovered it in the millennia-old knowledge of the Greeks, Romans, Hebrews, and Arabs. He knew all these languages, compiled this knowledge, and compiled it into the first pharmacist’s lexicon, entirely in the spirit of the Enlightenment. Speaking of the Enlightenment: Kant’s “Sapere aude” stood above the St. Afra Gymnasium as a motto for Samuel Hahnemann, too. The fact that Samuel Hahnemann, with his homeopathy, made the leap from the crudely material to the spiritually informative has been debated for over 200 years.

Bibliography

• Hadulla, MM; Pfeil, TA: Children’s drawings in homeopathy. The house-tree-human test and the animal family as valuable tools for identifying the entirety of symptoms. ZKH, 2009.
• Hadulla, MM; Richter, O.: Anamnesis, a highly important but forgotten art. Zaenmagazin, 2023.
• Hadulla, MM; Richter, O.: Parents, Child, Neurosis: Conflict Resolution in the Family – Homeopathy and Psychotherapy. Physicians’ Journal for Natural Healing, 2004.
• Hadulla, MM; Richter, O.: Tobacco and Vertigo (=Dizziness) of the Most Severe Form. An Odyssey to “Aeolus,” the Lord of the Winds. ZKH, 2018.
• Hadulla, MM: Mandragora. Gallbladder colic and headaches. AHZ, 2021.
• Hadulla, MM: Stramonium in its Ambivalence. Between Violence and Religious Longing. AHZ, 2022.
• Hadulla, M. M: Homeopathic treatment of Covid-19 supported by naturopathic measures. Zaenmagazin, 2023.
• Hadulla, MM: Carcinosinum and Medorrhinum in the treatment of sleep disorders – Two case studies. AHZ, 2008.
• Meyer, CB: A Case in Case Study Methodology. Field Methods, Sage Publications, 2001.
• Hadulla, MM; Richter, O.; Fattahi, N.: 101 Case Histories from Practice for Practice. ML Verlag, Uelzen 1999.
• Kiene, H.; Hamre, HJ; Martin, D.: Homeopathy also has a legitimate place in science-based medicine. Ärzte Zeitung, 2024.

As far as I know, DER SPIEGEL never did publish this ‘letter’.

What a pity!

I love everything about it; I adore Hadulla’s ability to re-invent history, to freely fabricate my CV, to produce nonsense on stilts, etc. (in case you waant to compare this ‘homeopathic truth’ to reality, I recommend looking at this, this or this). The Hadulla letter is unintended humor allopathic doses!

Perhaps the most adorable detail of them all is the appended bibliography. Evidently, Hadulla has published heaps of similar nonsense in journals that are even more irrelevant than his texts!