Organon of Medicine — All 291 Aphorisms
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- §1The physician’s high and only mission is to restore the sick to health, to cure, as it is termed.
- §2The highest ideal of cure is rapid, gentle and permanent restoration of the health, or removal and annihilatio
- §3If the physician clearly perceives what is to be cured in diseases, that is to say, in every individual case o
- §4He is likewise a preserver of health if he knows the things that derange health and cause disease, and how to
Disease & the Vital Force
- §5Useful to the physician in assisting him to cure are the particulars of the most probable exciting cause of th
- §6The unprejudiced observer – well aware of the futility of transcendental speculations which can receive no con
- §7Now, as in a disease, from which no manifest exciting or maintaining cause (causa occasionalis) has to be remo
- §8It is not conceivable, not can it be proved by any experience in the world, that, after removal of all the sym
- §9In the healthy condition of man, the spiritual vital force (autocracy), the dynamis that animates the material
- §10The material organism, without the vital force, is capable of no sensation, no function, no self-preservation,
- §11When a person falls ill, it is only this spiritual, self acting (automatic) vital force, everywhere present in
- §12It is the morbidly affected vital energy alone that produces disease, so that the morbid phenomena perceptible
- §13Therefore disease (that does not come within the province of manual surgery) considered, as it is by the allop
- §14There is, in the interior of man, nothing morbid that is curable and no invisible morbid alteration that is cu
- §15The affection of the morbidly deranged, spirit-like dynamis (vital force) that animates our body in the invisi
- §16Our vital force, as a spirit-like dynamis, cannot be attacked and affected by injurious influences on the heal
- §17Now, as in the cure effected by the removal of the whole of the perceptible signs and symptoms of the disease
- §18From this indubitable truth, that besides the totality of the symptoms with consideration of the accompanying
The Law of Similars
- §19Now, as diseases are nothing more than alterations in the state of health of the healthy individual which expr
- §20This spirit-like power to alter man’s state of health (and hence to cure diseases) which lies hidden in the in
- §21Now, as it is undeniable that the curative principle in medicines is not in itself perceptible, and as in pure
- §22But as nothing is to be observed in diseases that must be removed in order to change them into health besides
- §23All pure experience, however, and all accurate research convince us that persistent symptoms of disease are fa
- §24There remains, therefore, no other mode of employing medicines in diseases that promises to be of service besi
- §25Now, however, in all careful trials, pure experience,1 the sole and infallible oracle of the healing art, teac
- §26This depends on the following homoeopathic law of nature which was sometimes, indeed, vaguely surmised but not
- §27The curative power of medicines, therefore, depends on their symptoms, similar to the disease but superior to
How Homeopathy Cures
- §28As this natural law of cure manifests itself in every pure experiment and every true observation in the world,
- §29As every disease (not entirely surgical) consists only in a special, morbid, dynamic alteration of our vital e
- §30The human body appears to admit of being much more powerfully affected in its health by medicines (partly beca
- §31The inimical forces, partly psychical, partly physical, to which our terrestrial existence is exposed, which a
- §32But it is quite otherwise with the artificial morbific agents which we term medicines. Every real medicine, na
- §33In accordance with this fact, it is undeniably shown by all experience that the living organism is much more d
- §34The greater strength of the artificial diseases producible by medicines is, however, not the sole cause of the
- §35In order to illustrate this, we shall consider in three different cases, as well what happens in nature when t
- §36I. If the two dissimilar diseases meeting together in the human being be of equal strength, or still more if t
- §37So, also under ordinary medical treatment, an old chronic disease remains uncured and unaltered if it is treat
- §38II. Or the new dissimilar disease is the stronger. In this case the disease under which the patient originally
- §39Now the adherents of the ordinary school of medicine saw all this for so many centuries; they saw that Nature
- §40III. Or the new disease, after having long acted on the organism, at length joins the old one that is dissimil
- §41Much more frequent than the natural diseases associating with and complicating one another in the same body ar
- §42Nature herself permits, as has been stated, in some cases, the simultaneous occurrence of two (indeed, of thre
- §43Totally different, however, is the result when two similar disease meet together in the organism, that is to s
- §44Similar diseases can neither (as is asserted of dissimilar disease in I) repel one another, nor (as has been s
- §45No! Two diseases, differing, it is true, in kind but very similar in their phenomena and effects and in the su
- §46Many examples might be adduced of disease which, in the course of nature, have been homoeopathically cured by
- §47Nothing could teach the physician in a plainer and more convincing manner than the above what kind of artifici
- §48Neither in the course of nature, as we see from all the above examples, nor by the physician’s art, can an exi
- §49We should have been able to meet with many more real, natural homoeopathic cures of this kind if, on the one h
- §50Mighty Nature herself has, as we see, at her command, as instruments for effecting homoeopathic cures, little
- §51This therapeutic law is rendered obvious to all intelligent minds by these instances, and they are amply suffi
- §52There are but two principle methods of cure: the one based only on accurate observation of nature, on careful
- §53The true mild cures take place only according to the homoeopathic method, which, as we have found (§§ 7-25) by
- §54The allopathic method of treatment utilized many things against disease, but usually only improper ones (alloe
- §55Soon, however, the public became convinced that the sufferings of the sick increased and heightened with the i
- §56By means of this palliative (antipathic, enantiopathic) method, introduced according to Galen’s teaching “Cont
- §57In order to carry into practice this antipathic method, the ordinary physician gives, for a single troublesome
- §58If, in estimating the value of this mode of employing medicines, we should even pass over the circumstance tha
- §59Important symptoms of persistent diseases have never yet been treated with such palliative, antagonistic remed
- §60If these ill-effects are produced, as may very naturally be expected from the antipathic employment of medicin
- §61Had physicians been capable of reflecting on the sad results of the antagonistic employment of medicines, they
- §62But on what this pernicious result of the palliative, antipathic treatment and the efficacy of the reverse, th
- §63Every agent that acts upon the vitality, every medicine, deranges more or less the vital force, and causes a c
- §64During the primary action of the artificial morbific agents (medicines) on our healthy body, as seen in the fo
- §65Examples of (A) are familiar to all. A hand bathed in hot water is at first much warmer than the other hand th
- §66An obvious antagonistic secondary action, however, is, as may readily be conceived, not to be noticed from the
- §67These incontrovertible truths, which spontaneously offer themselves to our notice and experience, explain to u
- §68In homoeopathic cures they show us that from the uncommonly small doses of medicine (§§ 275 – 287) required in
- §69In the antipathic (palliative) mode of treatment, however precisely the reverse of this takes place. The medic
- §70From what has been already adduced we cannot fail to draw the following inferences: That everything of a reall
Examination of the Patient
- §71As it is now no longer a matter of doubt that the diseases of mankind consist merely of groups of certain symp
- §72With respect to the first point, the following will serve as a general preliminary view. The disease to which
- §73As regards acute diseases, they are either of such a kind as attack human beings individually, the exciting ca
- §74Among chronic diseases we must still, alas!, reckon those so commonly met with, artificially produced in allop
- §75These inroads on human health effected by the allopathic non-healing art (more particularly in recent times) a
- §76Only for natural diseases has the beneficent Deity granted us, in Homoeopathy, the means of affording relief;
- §77Those diseases are inappropriately named chronic, which persons incur who expose themselves continually to avo
- §78The true natural chronic diseases are those that arise from a chronic miasm, which when left to themselves, an
- §79Hitherto syphilis alone has been to some extent known as such a chronic miasmatic disease, which when uncured
- §80Incalculably greater and more important than the two chronic miasms just named, however, is the chronic miasm
- §81The fact that this extremely ancient infecting agent has gradually passed, in some hundreds of generations, th
- §82Although, by the discovery of that great source of chronic diseases, as also by the discovery of the specific
- §83This individualizing examination of a case of disease, for which I shall only give in this place general direc
- §84The patient details the history of his sufferings; those about him tell what they heard him complain of, how h
- §85He begins a fresh line with every new circumstance mentioned by the patient or his friends, so that the sympto
- §86When the narrators have finished what they would say of their own accord, the physician then reverts to each p
- §87And thus the physician obtains more precise information respecting each particular detail, but without ever fr
- §88If in these voluntary details nothing has been mentioned respecting several parts or functions of the body or
- §89When the patient (for it is on him we have chiefly to rely for a description of his sensations, except in the
- §90When the physician has finished writing down these particulars, he then makes a note of what he himself observ
- §91The symptoms and feelings of the patient during a previous course of medicine do not furnish the pure picture
- §92But if it be a disease of a rapid course, and if its serious character admit of no delay, the physician must c
- §93If the disease has been brought on a short time or, in the case of a chronic affection, a considerable time pr
- §94While inquiring into the state of chronic disease, the particular circumstances of the patient with regard to
- §95In chronic disease the investigation of the signs of disease above mentioned, and of all others, must be pursu
- §96Besides this, patients themselves differ so much in their dispositions, that some, especially the so-called hy
- §97Other individuals of an opposite character, however, partly from indolence, partly from false modesty, partly
- §98Now, as certainly as we should listen particularly to the patient’s description of his sufferings and sensatio
- §99On the whole, the investigation of acute diseases, or of such as have existed but a short time, is much the ea
- §100In investigating the totality of the symptoms of epidemic and sporadic diseases it is quite immaterial whether
- §101It may easily happen that in the first case of an epidemic disease that presents itself to the physician’s not
- §102In the course of writing down the symptoms of several cases of this kind the sketch of the disease picture bec
- §103In the same manner as has here been taught relative to the epidemic disease, which are generally of an acute c
- §104When the totality of the symptoms that specially mark and distinguish the case of disease or, in other words,
Proving Medicines
- §105The second point of the business of a true physician related to acquiring a knowledge of the instruments inten
- §106The whole pathogenetic effect of the several medicines must be known; that is to say, all the morbid symptoms
- §107If, in order to ascertain this, medicines be given to sick persons only, even though they be administered sing
- §108There is, therefore, no other possible way in which the peculiar effects of medicines on the health of individ
- §109I was the first that opened up this path, which I have pursued with a perseverance that could only arise and b
- §110I saw, moreover, that the morbid lesions which previous authors had observed to result from medicinal substanc
- §111The agreement of my observations on the pure effects of medicines with these older ones – although they were r
- §112In those older prescriptions of the often dangerous effects of medicines ingested in excessively large doses w
- §113The only exceptions to this are the narcotic medicines. As they, in their primary action, take away sometimes
- §114With the exception of these narcotic substances, in experiments with moderate doses of medicine on healthy bod
- §115Among these symptoms, there occur in the case of some medicines not a few which are partially, or under certai
- §116Some symptoms are produced by the medicines more frequently – that is to say, in many individuals, others more
- §117To the latter category belong the so-called idiosyncrasies, by which are meant peculiar corporeal constitution
- §118Every medicine exhibits peculiar actions on the human frame, which are not produced in exactly the same manner
- §119As certainly as every species of plant differs in its external form, mode of life and growth, in its taste and
- §120Therefore medicines, on which depend man’s life and death, disease and health, must be thoroughly and most car
- §121In proving medicines to ascertain their effects on the healthy body, it must be borne in mind that the strong,
- §122In these experiments – on which depends the exactitude of the whole medical art, and the weal of all future ge
- §123Each of these medicines must be taken in a perfectly simple, unadulterated form; the indigenous plants in the
- §124For these experiments every medicinal substance must be employed quite alone and perfectly pure, without the a
- §125During all the time the experiment lasts the diet must be strictly regulated; it should be as much as possible
- §126The person who is proving the medicine must be pre-eminently trustworthy and conscientious and during the whol
- §127The medicines must be tested on both males and females, in order also to reveal the alterations of the health
- §128The most recent observations have shown that medicinal substances, when taken in their crude state by the expe
- §129If the effects that result from such a dose are but slight, a few more globules may be taken daily, until they
- §130If, at the very commencement, the first dose administered shall have been sufficiently strong, this advantage
- §131If, however, in order to ascertain anything at all, the same medicine must be given to the same person to test
- §132But when the object is, without reference to the sequential order of the phenomena and the duration of the act
- §133On experiencing any particular sensation from the medicine, it is useful, indeed necessary, in order to determ
- §134All external influences, and more especially medicines, possess the property of producing in the health of the
- §135The whole of the elements of disease a medicine is capable of producing can only be brought to anything like c
- §136Although, as has been said, a medicine, on being proved on healthy subjects, cannot develop in one person all
- §137The more moderate, within certain limits, the doses of the medicine used for such experiments are – provided w
- §138All the sufferings, accidents and changes of the health of the experimenter during the action of a medicine (p
- §139When the physician does not make the trial of the medicine on himself, but gives it to another person, the lat
- §140If the person cannot write, the physician must be informed by him every day of what has occurred to him, and h
- §141But the best provings of the pure effects of simple medicines in altering the human health, and of the artific
- §142But how some symptoms of the simple medicine employed for a curative purpose can be distinguished amongst the
- §143If we have thus tested on the healthy individual a considerable number of simple medicines and carefully and f
- §144From such a materia medica everything that is conjectural, all that is mere assertion or imaginary should be s
- §145Of a truth, it is only by a very considerable store of medicines accurately known in respect of these their pu
Choosing the Remedy
- §146The third point of the business of a true physician relates to the judicious employment of the artificial morb
- §147Whichever of these medicines that have been investigated as to their power of altering man’s health we find to
- §148The natural disease is never to be considered as a noxious material situated somewhere within the interior or
- §149Diseases of long standing (and especially such as are of a complicated character) require for their cure a pro
- §150If a patient complain of one or more trivial symptoms, that have been only observed a short time previously, t
- §151But if the patient complain of a few violent sufferings, the physician will usually find, on investigation, se
- §152The worse of the acute disease is, of so much the more numerous and striking symptoms is it generally composed
- §153In this search for a homoeopathic specific remedy, that is to say, in this comparison of the collective sympto
- §154If the antitype constructed from the list of symptoms of the most suitable medicine contain those peculiar, un
- §155I say without any considerable disturbance. For in the employment of this most appropriate homoeopathic remedy
- §156There is, however, almost no homoeopathic medicine, be it ever so suitably chosen, that, especially if it shou
- §157But though it is certain that a homoeopathically selected remedy does, by reason of its appropriateness and th
- §158This slight homoeopathic aggravation during the first hours – a very good prognostic that the acute disease wi
- §159The smaller the dose of the homoeopathic remedy is in the treatment of acute diseases so much the slighter and
- §160But as the dose of a homoeopathic remedy can scarcely ever be made so small that it shall not be able to relie
- §161When I here limit the so-called homoeopathic aggravation, or rather the primary action of the homoeopathic med
- §162Sometimes happens, owing to the moderate number of medicines yet known with respect to their true, pure action
- §163In this case we cannot indeed expect from this medicine a complete, untroubled cure; for during its use some s
- §164The small number of homoeopathic symptoms present in the best selected medicine is no obstacle to the cure in
- §165If, however, among the symptoms of the remedy selected, there be none that accurately resemble the distinctive
- §166Such a case is, however, very rare, owing to the increased number of medicines whose pure effects are now know
- §167Thus if there occur, during the use of this imperfectly homoeopathic remedy first employed, accessory symptoms
- §168We shall then be able much more readily to discover, among the known medicines, an analogue to the morbid stat
- §169If, on the first examination of a disease and the first selection of a medicine, we should find that the total
- §170Hence in this as in every case where a change of the morbid state has occurred, the remaining set of symptoms
- §171In non-venereal chronic disease, those, therefore, that arise from psora, we often require, in order to effect
One-Sided Diseases
- §172A similar difficulty in the way of the cure occurs from the symptoms of the disease being too few – a circumst
- §173The only diseases that seem to have but few symptoms, and on that account to be less amenable to cure, are tho
- §174Their principal symptom may be either an internal complaint (e.g. a headache of many years’ duration, a diarrh
- §175In one-sided diseases of the first kind it is often to be attributed to the medical observer’s want of discern
- §176There are, however, still a few diseases, which, after the most careful initial examination (§§ 84-98), presen
- §177In order to meet most successfully such a case as this, which is of very rare occurrence, we are in the first
- §178It will, no doubt, sometimes happen that this medicine, selected in strict observance of the homoeopathic law,
- §179More frequently, however, the medicine first chosen in such a case will be only partially, that is to say, not
- §180In this case the medicine, which has been chosen as well as was possible, but which, for the reason above stat
- §181Let is not be objected that the accessory phenomena and new symptoms of this disease that now appear should be
- §182Thus the imperfect selection of the medicament, which was in this case almost inevitable owing to the too limi
- §183Whenever, therefore, the dose of the first medicine ceases to have a beneficial effect (if the newly developed
- §184In like manner, after each new dose of medicine has exhausted its action, when it is no longer suitable and he
Local Maladies
- §185Among the one-sided disease an important place is occupied by the so-called local maladies, by which term is s
- §186Those so-called local maladies which have been produced a short time previously, solely by an external lesion,
- §187But those affections, alterations and ailments appearing on the external parts, that do not arise from any ext
- §188These affections were considered to be merely topical, and were therefore called local diseases, as if they we
- §189And yet very little reflection will suffice to convince us that no external malady (not occasioned by some imp
- §190All true medical treatment of a disease on the external parts of the body that has occurred from little or no
- §191This is confirmed in the most unambiguous manner by experience, which shows in all cases that every powerful i
- §192This is best effected when, in the investigation of the case of disease, along with the exact character of the
- §193By means of this medicine, employed only internally (and, if the disease be but of recent origin, often by the
- §194It is not useful, either in acute local diseases of recent origin or in local affections that have already exi
- §195In order to effect a radical cure in such cases, which are by no means rare, after the acute state has pretty
- §196It might, indeed, seen as though the cure of such diseases would be hastened by employing the medicinal substa
- §197This treatment, however, is quite inadmissible, not only for the local symptoms arising from the miasm of psor
- §198The mere topical employment of medicines, that are powerful for cure when given internally, to the local sympt
- §199If the remedy perfectly homoeopathic to the disease had not yet been discovered at the time when the local sym
- §200Had it still been present to guide the internal treatment, the homoeopathic remedy for the whole disease might
- §201It is evident that man’s vital force, when encumbered with a chronic disease which it is unable to overcome by
- §202If the old-school physician should now destroy the local symptom by the topical application of external remedi
- §203Every external treatment of such local symptoms, the object of which is to remove them from the surface of the
Chronic Diseases & Miasms
- §204If we deduct all chronic affections, ailments and diseases that depend on a persistent unhealthy mode of livin
- §205The homoeopathic physician never treats one of these primary symptoms of chronic miasms, nor yet one of their
- §206Before commencing the treatment of a chronic disease, it is necessary to make the most careful investigation a
- §207When the above information has been gained, it still remains for the homoeopathic physician to ascertain what
- §208The age of the patient, his mode of living and diet, his occupation, his domestic position, his social relatio
- §209After this is done, the physician should endeavor in repeated conversations with the patient to trace the pict
Mental & Emotional Diseases
- §210Of psoric origin are almost all those diseases that I have above termed one-sided, which appear to be more dif
- §211This holds good to such an extent, that the state of the disposition of the patient often chiefly determines t
- §212The Creator of therapeutic agents has also had particular regard to this main feature of all diseases, the alt
- §213We shall, therefore, never be able to cure conformably to nature – that is to say, homoeopathically – if we do
- §214The instructions I have to give relative to the cure of mental diseases may be confined to a very few remarks,
- §215Almost all the so-called mental and emotional diseases are nothing more than corporeal diseases in which the s
- §216The cases are not rare in which a so-called corporeal disease that threatens to be fatal – a suppuration of th
- §217In these diseases we must be very careful to make ourselves acquainted with the whole of the phenomena, both t
- §218To this collection of symptoms belongs in the first place to accurate description of all the phenomena of the
- §219A comparison of these previous symptoms of the corporeal disease with the traces of them that still remain, th
- §220By adding to this the state of the mind and disposition accurately observed by the patient’s friends and by th
- §221If, however, insanity or mania (caused by fright, vexation, the abuse of spirituous liquors, etc.) have sudden
- §222But such a patient, who has recovered from an acute mental or emotional disease by the use of these non-antips
- §223But if the antipsoric treatment be omitted, then we may almost assuredly expect, from a much slighter cause th
- §224If the mental disease be not quite developed, and if it be still somewhat doubtful whether it really arose fro
- §225There are, however, as has just been stated, certainly a few emotional diseases which have not merely been dev
- §226It is only such emotional diseases as these, which were first engendered and subsequently kept up by the mind
- §227But the fundamental cause in these cases also is a psoric miasm, which was only not yet quite near its full de
- §228In mental and emotional diseases resulting from corporeal maladies, which can only be cured by homoeopathic an
- §229On the other hand, contradiction, eager explanations, rude corrections and invectives, as also weak, timorous
- §230If the antipsoric remedies selected for each particular case of mental or emotional disease (there are incredi
Intermittent & Alternating Diseases
- §231The intermittent disease deserve a special consideration, as well those that recur at certain periods – like t
- §232These latter, alternating diseases, are also very numerous,1 but all belong to the class of chronic diseases;
- §233The typical intermittent disease are those where a morbid state of unvarying character returns at a tolerably
- §234Those apparently non-febrile, typical, periodically recurring morbid states just alluded to observed in one si
- §235With regard to the intermittent fevers,1 that prevail sporadically or epidemically (not those endemically loca
- §236The most appropriate and efficacious time for administering the medicine in these cases is immediately or very
- §237But if the stage of apyrexia be very short, as happens in some very bad fevers, or if it be disturbed by some
- §238Not infrequently, the suitable medicine has with a single dose destroyed several attacks and brought about the
- §239As almost every medicine causes in its pure action a special, peculiar fever and even a kind of intermittent f
- §240But if the remedy found to be the homoeopathic specific for a prevalent epidemic of intermittent fever do not
- §241Epidemics of intermittent fever, in situations where none are endemic, are of the nature of chronic diseases,
- §242If, however, in such an epidemic intermittent fever the first paroxysms have been left uncured, or if the pati
- §243In those often very pernicious intermittent fevers which attack a single person, not residing in a marshy dist
- §244The intermittent fevers endemic in marshy districts and tracts of country frequently exposed to inundations, g
Dose & Repetition of the Remedy
- §245Having thus seen what attention should, in the homoeopathic treatment, be paid to the chief varieties of disea
- §246Every perceptibly progressive and strikingly increasing amelioration during treatment is a condition which, as
- §247It is impractical to repeat the same unchanged dose of a remedy once, not to mention its frequent repetition (
- §248For this purpose, we potentize anew the medicinal solution (with perhaps 8, 10, 12 succussions) from which we
- §249Every medicine prescribed for a case of disease which, in the course of its action, produces new and troubleso
- §250When, to the observant practitioner who accurately investigates the state of the disease, it is evident, in ur
- §251There are some medicines (e.g., ignatia, also bryonia and rhus, and sometimes belladonna) whose power of alter
- §252But should we find, during the employment of the other medicines in chronic (psoric) diseases, that the best s
- §253Among the signs that, in all diseases, especially in such as are of an acute nature, inform us of a slight com
- §254The other new or increased symptoms or, on the contrary, the diminution of the original ones without any addit
- §255But even with such individuals we may convince ourselves on this point by going with them through all the symp
- §256On the other hand, if the patient mention the occurrence of some fresh accidents and symptoms of importance –
- §257The true physician will take care to avoid making favorite remedies of medicines, the employment of which he h
- §258The true practitioner, moreover, will not in his practice with mistrustful weakness neglect the employment of
- §259Considering the minuteness of the doses necessary and proper in homoeopathic treatment, we can easily understa
- §260Hence the careful investigation into such obstacles to cure is so much the more necessary in the case of patie
- §261The most appropriate regimen during the employment of medicine in chronic diseases consists in the removal of
- §262In acute diseases, on the other hand – except in cases of mental alienation – the subtle, unerring internal se
- §263The desire of the patient affected by an acute disease with regard to food and drink is certainly chiefly for
Preparation of Medicines
- §264The true physician must be provided with genuine medicines of unimpaired strength, so that he may be able to r
- §265It should be a matter of conscience with him to be thoroughly convinced in every case that the patient always
- §266Substances belonging to the animal and vegetable kingdoms possess their medicinal qualities most perfectly in
- §267We gain possession of the powers of indigenous plants and of such as may be had in a fresh state in the most c
- §268The other exotic plants, barks, seeds and roots that cannot be obtained in the fresh state the sensible practi
- §269The homoeopathic system of medicine develops for its special use, to a hitherto unheard-of degree, the inner m
- §270In order to best obtain this development of power, a small part of the substance to be dynamized, say one grai
- §271If the physician prepares his homoeopathic medicines himself, as he should reasonably do in order to save men
- §272Such a globule,1 placed dry upon the tongue, is one of the smallest doses for a moderate recent case of illnes
- §273In no case under treatment is it necessary and therefore not permissible to administer to a patient more than
- §274As the true physician finds in simple medicines, administered singly and uncombined, all that he can possibly
- §275The suitableness of a medicine for any given case of disease does not depend on its accurate homoeopathic sele
- §276For this reason, a medicine, even though it may be homoeopathically suited to the case of disease, does harm i
- §277For the same reason, and because a medicine, provided the dose of it was sufficiently small, is all the more s
- §278Here the question arises, what is this most suitable degree of minuteness for sure and gentle remedial effect;
- §279This pure experience shows UNIVERSALLY, that if the disease do not manifestly depend on a considerable deterio
- §280The dose of the medicine that continues serviceable without producing new troublesome symptoms is to be contin
- §281In order to be convinced of this, the patient is left without any medicine for eight, ten of fifteen days, mea
- §282It would be a certain sign that the doses were altogether too large, if during treatment, especially in chroni
- §283In order to work wholly according to nature, the true healing artist will prescribe the accurately chosen homo
- §284Besides the tongue, mouth and stomach, which are most commonly affected by the administration of medicine, the
- §285In this way, the cure of very old disease may be furthered by the physician applying externally, rubbing it in
Auxiliary Therapies
- §286The dynamic force of minerals magnets, electricity and galvanism act no less powerfully upon our life principl
- §287The powers of the magnet for healing purposes can be employed with more certainty according to the positive ef
- §288I find it yet necessary to allude here to animal magnetism, as it is termed, or rather Mesmerism (as it should
- §289All the above-mentioned methods of practicing mesmerism depend upon influx of more or less vital force into th
- §290Here belongs also the so-called massage of vigorous good-natured person given to a chronic invalid, who, thoug
- §291Baths of pure water prove themselves partly palliative, partly as homoeopathic serviceable aids in restoring h