The Law of Similars

Organon Aphorism §23

All pure experience, however, and all accurate research convince us that persistent symptoms of disease are far from being removed and annihilated by opposite symptoms of medicines (as in the antipathic, enantiopathic or palliative method), that, on the contrary, after transient, apparent alleviation, they break forth again, only with increased intensity, and become manifestly aggravated (see § 58 – 62 and 69).

Samuel Hahnemann, Organon of Medicine, 6th edition (Boericke translation, public domain).

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