Episode Details

In this episode, Sue Meyer interviews Dr. Andreas Tilch, a German physician, homeopath, author, and educator who has spent more than 30 years caring for individuals and families—some now spanning three generations.  Dr. Tilch first discovered homeopathy as a medical student in 1984. A central focus of his work is the homeopathic remedy Streptococcinum.

Streptococcinum Tilch is a strep nosode made with five hand-done lactose triturations (a “C5” trituration) before liquid potentization.  Dr. Andreas Tilch developed it with John Morgan of Helios Homeopathy in the UK. In this episode of Homeopathy for Mommies, Sue Meyer talks with Dr. Tilch about how the remedy came to be, why he gives it to the whole family at once, and what to expect when old, swallowed-down emotions start to surface.

If you’ve followed the conversation in Members Corner, you know our moms have been talking about this remedy for months. Now you can hear it from the doctor whose name is on the label.

What is Streptococcinum Tilch?

Streptococcinum is a nosode, a homeopathic remedy prepared from a disease product, in this case streptococcus bacteria. Dr. Tilch learned about it from Dr. Jayesh Shah of Mumbai about eleven years ago. Over the next three years he gave the original Streptococcinum to more than a thousand people. He saw real changes, but felt something was missing, especially on the physical level.

So he asked John Morgan, head of Helios Homeopathy, how the remedy was made. Morgan checked his records and found it had never been triturated at all. It had been liquid-potentized from the start, as many pharmacies do now. At Dr. Tilch’s request, Morgan made it again by hand over several weekends: five lactose triturations, then liquid potentization. That is the version that now carries Dr. Tilch’s name.

“This new remedy works a lot better than the old one,” Dr. Tilch says. “Because of these triturations, it makes it very, very powerful.”

Download a special handout from Dr. Tilch here

Why C5 trituration?

Hahnemann triturated remedies in lactose up to the 3C, then switched to liquid potentization. Dr. Tilch’s longtime teacher, Jürgen Becker, worked with pharmacist Witold Ehrler, who came to believe that remedies today need a fourth trituration (C4), and that remedies with a strong collective meaning need a fifth (C5).

Dr. Tilch describes the C5 trituration as what “grows our roots into Mother Earth.” Streptococcus is an ancient organism, and in his view it helps us feel rooted, safe and at home in our own bodies.

The potency ladder: 10C to 46.66M

The potencies follow a formula Ehrler worked out: powers of six, plus four.