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Baths of pure water have been found useful both as palliatives and as homeopathically serviceable auxiliary means in the restoration of health.

Mesmerism in massage

All of the above-mentioned modes of practicing mesmerism are based on a dynamic influx into the sufferer of more or less life force, and are therefore called positive mesmerism. 236

Positive mesmerism

Homeopathic use of magnets

Magnets, electricity and galvanism have curative powers, but only the mineral magnets have been sufficiently proven as to their homeopathic usefulness.

Correct external application of the homeopathic medicine which is being given internally with success.

Medicines may be administered by olfaction, inhalation and through the skin.

Start with small doses so that no harm will be done if the medicine given proves to be an unfitting one.

Homeopathic aggravation produced by the first LM doses indicates that these doses were too large.

Discontinuing treatment with fifty-millesimal potency medicines

Give gradually heightened doses of the most serviceable medicine which produces no new troublesome symptoms until the patient, with general improvement, begins to suffer a homeopathic aggravation.

As a rule, even the smallest homeopathic doses will be strong enough to begin a cure, except in cases in which vital organs are already seriously damaged, or in which other medicinal substances interfere with treatment.

The only guides for determining the most appropriate dose in each case are pure experiment, accurate experience and careful observation of each individual patient.

The more homeopathic a remedy is to the disease, the more curative it will be when given in appropriately small doses which act gently

A too-strong dose of a homeopathic medicine does more injury than the same dose of an unhomeopathic medicine.

The most appropriate medicine for a given case of disease is the one which is the most homeopathically selected and which is administered in the correct dose.

Do not use complex means when simple ones will suffice.

Administer only one single, simple medicine at a time.

The power of a potentized medicine varies according to how it is administered.

If the physician prepares his homeopathic medicines himself, as he should always do to rescue humanity from diseases, 227 he may use the fresh plant itself since only a little of the crude material is required.

Trituration of crude substances

For its own special purpose, the homeopathic medical art develops to a formerly unheard of degree the internal, spirit-like medicinal powers of crude substances.

Use of dry powders in the preparation of medicines

Preparation of medicinal liquid from fresh plants

The substances of the animal and vegetable kingdoms are the most medicinal when they are in their raw state. 212

Physicians should prepare their own medicines and personally give them to their patients.

Physicians must be certain of the quality of their medicines. 

1. The cravings of the acutely ill patient with regard to edible delectables and drinks is, for the most part, for things that give palliative relief.

The best regimen for acute illness involves satisfying the patient’s cravings, within moderate bounds, along with avoidance of mental exertion and emotional shocks.

The best regimen for chronic disease includes innocent diversions, exercise in the fresh air and a good diet, in addition to removing obstacles to cure. 

Remove any obstacles to cure, especially in cases of chronic disease. 

Remove any substances that may interfere with a remedy’s action. 

By the same token, the medical-art practitioner will not (out of mistrustful weakness) avoid medicines, in his further medical pursuit, that he previously employed with disadvantage because he had incorrectly selected them (therefore, his own fault) or for other (ungenuine) reasons.

The genuine medical-art practitioner will know how to avoid making favorites of certain medicines that he has happened to find indicated rather often and has used with success. Otherwise, he will often overlook more rarely used medicines that would be more homeopathically fitting and therefore more helpful. 

Aggravation

Even with such patients, a physician will come to closure on the question of amelioration or aggravation by going through the disease image recorded in his case notes, symptom by symptom with the patient, as well as inquiring about any new, unusual ailments. Amelioration If a. the patient complains of no new, unusual ailments, b. none of the old befallments has worsened, and c. one has already observed a mental and emotional improvement, then the medicine must also have brought forth an altogether essential decrease of the disease or, if little time has elapsed, it will do so soon. Assuming that the remedy is appropriate, if the visible improvement of the patient is delayed too long, this indicates either some error of conduct on the part of the patient or it indicates that some other circumstances [obstacles to cure] are hindering improvement.

Changes in the symptom picture will soon confirm whether the patient’s condition is aggravated or ameliorated.

The patient’s mental and emotional state and whole behavior give the first indications of aggravation or amelioration.

In chronic cases that do not improve with homeopathic treatment, look for an obstacle to cure. 

When a medicine that has reciprocal states is not effective on first being administered, a second dose will usually be effective. 

A poorly selected medicine should be replaced by the most appropriate homeopathic remedy for the present disease state.

Any medicine that brings forth new and troublesome symptoms was not homeopathically selected.

Directions for the use of fifty-millesimal potencies:

The life force resists repeated, unchanged doses, which aggravate the patient’s condition. When each new dose is slightly heightened in potency, the life force is brought closer to cure without ill effect.

While it is generally the case that a medicine should not be repeated as long as the patient’s state is improving, fifty-millesimal potencies can be repeated, with a heightening of each dose. 

We have seen what consideration should be given, in homeopathic cures, to the main varieties of disease and to the particular circumstances connected with them. We now move on to the subject of remedies, the manner of employing them, and the regimen to be observed. 

Intermittent fevers endemic to marshy and frequently flooded regions are effectively treated with small doses of cinchona and a faultless regimen, unless psora lies at the base of the disease.

Isolated cases of intermittent fever are often due to psora on the point of development. 

Psoric intermittent fevers may develop in untreated or poorly treated cases of epidemic fever. 

To find the remedy that is best for almost all patients in an epidemic who are not suffering from developed psora, discover the symptom complex common to all.

Persistent intermittent fevers may be due to psora.

Since almost every medicine arouses its own specific fever, there are many medicines that can be homeopathically used against the numerous intermittent fevers. 

Recommended medicine and number of doses for intermittent fevers.

If the fever-free time is very short, as happens with some very bad fevers, or if it is distorted by the after-throes of the previous paroxysm, then the homeopathic medicinal dose should be administered when the sweating begins to abate or when the later befallments of the elapsing attack begin to ease.  

Administer a remedy after or at the end of a paroxysm to avoid the action of the medicine coinciding with the natural recurrence of symptoms.

Sporadic and epidemic intermittent fevers: symptom pattern and recommended treatment.

Comment

The apparently non-febrile intermittent diseases are always chronic and usually purely psoric.

Intermittent diseases in which constant disease states recur at fairly definite intervals may be either febrile or apparently non-febrile.

Intermittent diseases in which two or three reciprocal states alternate at indefinite intervals are always chronic and usually purely psoric.

The intermittent diseases deserve their own consideration, both:

Homeopathic treatment can produce rapid and striking results in cases of mental and emotional disease. 

  On the other hand, the following behaviors are entirely out of place: contradiction, eager agreements, violent reprimands and vituperations, as well as weak, timid compliance.

Mentally and emotionally ill patients should be treated with calm and firmness and without reproach. 

These diseases are also based upon a psoric miasm.

This is the only kind of disease which can be rapidly transformed by psychotherapeutic means into well-being of the soul.

Some emotional diseases develop outward from the emotional mind.

The patient’s reaction to psychological approaches will help the physician differentiate between a mental disease that stems from a somatic disease and one that stems from bad practices, etc.

But if the antipsoric (and possibly antisyphilitic) treatment is not given, then we can almost assuredly expect a new, more prolonged and bigger attack, from a much slighter occasion than with the first appearance of the insanity.

However, a patient who recovers from an acute mental and emotional disease by means of apsoric medicines should never be regarded as cured.

Acute flare-ups of insanity or frenzy almost always arise from internal psora. They should first be treated with apsoric medicines, followed by continued antipsoric (and possibly antisyphilitic) treatment.

Seek an antimiasmatic remedy capable of arousing similar symptoms to those of the disease, especially its mental symptoms.

A comparison of these former somatic disease symptoms with the more indistinct vestiges that still remain will serve as a confirmation of the continuing concealed presence of these somatic symptoms. Even now, these somatic symptoms will put themselves forth if a lucid interval occurs and there is a temporary abatement of the mental disease.  

Find out about the patient’s somatic disease before it degenerated into a mental and emotional disease.

The cases are not rare in which a so-called somatic disease that threatens to be fatal-suppuration of the lungs, corruption of some other noble organ, or some other heated (acute) disease (e.g. , during childbirth, etc.)-degenerates, by rapid ascent of the hitherto emotional symptom, into an insanity, a kind of melancholia or a frenzy, thereby making all deadly peril of the somatic symptoms vanish.

Almost all mental and emotional diseases are one-sided diseases in which the somatic symptoms have diminished and the mental and emotional symptoms have heightened.

189 In §215-§227, three kinds of mental and emotional disease are discussed:

Treat mental and emotional diseases in the same way as other diseases. 

A remedy must be able to engender mental and emotional symptoms similar to those of the disease in order to cure it.

All medicines alter the mental and emotional state, each in a different way.

The patient’s emotional state often decides the choice of remedy.

Mental and emotional diseases are not sharply separated from other classes of disease because in every disease, the mental and emotional state is altered.

Over the course of several interviews, sketch a complete image of the disease, tracing out the characteristic symptoms. Start treatment with the most homeopatic antimiasmatic medicine.
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Consider the patient’s circumstances and his mode of thought and emotions. Ascertain any obstacles to cure.
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Ascertain what treatments the patient has received to date.
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How to treat chronic miasmatic diseases
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Homeopathic physicians treat the underlying miasm with internal homeopathic remedies rather than treating the miasm’s primary or secondary symptoms with local means
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The entire organism is pervaded by the miasm before its primary symptom appears. The primary symptom serves to prevent the outbreak of the internal disease. When its representative local symptom is removed, the miasm expresses itself through the development of characteristic chronic diseases.
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Every external treatment for clearing away such local symptoms from the surface of the body, without having cured the internal miasmatic disease (e.g. , the eradication of the itch diathesis from the skin by all kinds of salves, the cauterization of chancres, and the annihilation of figwarts just by cutting, tying or burning them off)-these hitherto universal, external, ruinous treatments (which have been all too common) have become the most prevalent source of all the countless named and unnamed chronic sufferings under which humanity so generally sighs.

Removal of local symptoms results in a heightening of the whole disease.

The life force makes and sustains symptoms on the exterior to silence chronic internal disease.

If the local symptom had still been present during the internal treatment, the homeopathic remedy for the total disease would have been discoverable.

If the local symptom has been annihilated by a caustic or dessicative external treatment or by surgery (because the remedy appropriate for the disease had not yet been found) 180 then the case becomes far more difficult.

Topical application alone of a medicine that would be curative if given internally is reprehensible for the same reason.

However, such treatment is thoroughly reprehensible for local symptoms which have the psoric miasm as a basis (and also for those having the syphilitic or sycotic miasm as a basis) because, in diseases whose chief symptom is a constant local malady, the topical application of the remedy simultaneous to its internal use will give rise to the following great disadvantage:

External application of a homeopathic medicine directly on a local symptom of chronic disease is reprehensible. The local symptom will disappear before the annihilation of the general disease, thus eliminating an important guide to cure.

Treat cases involving acute flare-ups of psora with antipsorics after dispatching the acute state.

No external means should be directly applied to local symptoms.

The general disease state and its local symptoms will be lifted by the homeopathic medicine, taken only internally.

This alteration happens most expediently when, in articulating the disease case, one simultaneously unites [draws into coalescence] the exact constitution of the local suffering with all the noticeable alterations, ailments and symptoms in the rest of the condition (including those noticed previously, while no medicine was being taken).

This is confirmed unambiguously by experience which shows in all cases of a so-called local malady (even those on the most external parts of the body) that every efficacious internal medicine, immediately after its ingestion, causes significant alterations in the rest of the patient’s condition, especially in the external suffering parts (which appear to the ordinary medicinal art to be isolated). To be sure, if one selects an internal medicine, directed at the whole, which is fittingly homeopathic, it will cause the most salutary alteration, the recovery of the whole human being, along with the disappearance of the external malady, without the assistance of an external means. 

All genuine medical treatment must be directed towards the whole disease, not just its local symptoms.

Little cogitation is needed for it to dawn on us that no external malady (except those that arise from particular external damages) can arise without internal causes, can persist in its place or even grow worse, without the cooperation of the entire (consequently, sick) organism.

These maladies were considered to be merely local, and therefore were called local maladies.

External maladies not caused by injuries of proportionate violence arise from internal causes and involve the entire organism.

The only local maladies to merit the name are very minor ones caused by an external injury of proportionate violence.

Among the one-sided diseases, an important place is occupied by the so-called local maladies.

And so it goes: After the action of each medicine is completed-when it is no longer found to be fitting and helpful-the state of the still remaining disease is surveyed anew as to its remaining symptoms, and a homeopathic medicine that is as fitting as possible is singled out according to the group of befallments that is found, and so on up to recovery.

A second prescription should be made based on the new, more complete group of symptoms.

The imperfect selection of the medication, which was here almost inevitable on account of the all-too-small number of symptoms present, nevertheless thus renders the service of completing the symptom content of the disease and, in this way, it facilitates the finding of a second, more apt, fitting homeopathic medicine. 

Imperfectly prescribed medicines complete the symptom content of one-sided diseases, thus facilitating the finding of a second, more apt medicine.

Imperfectly homeopathic medicines may bring forth new or previously unnoticed befallments. These are a part of the disease even though they were brought forth by the medicine.

More frequently, however, the medicine first selected will be able to only partially, that is, not exactly fit the case since there was not a majority of the symptoms to guide one to an apt choice.

It will no doubt occasionally happen that this medicine, chosen with careful observation of the homeopathic law, offers the apt similar artificial disease for the annihilation of the malady. This is all the more likely when these few disease symptoms are very striking, definite and of a rare kind, that is, when they are especially characteristic.  

Making the first prescription for a one-sided disease.

In rare cases, a disease will be truly one-sided.

Cases of apparently one-sided disease with an internal main symptom usually reflect incomplete case-taking. 

A one-sided disease may have either an internal or an external main symptom.

One-sided diseases chiefly belong to the chronic diseases.

A similar difficulty [to that of too-few proven medicines] arises when the disease to be cured has all-too-few symptoms.

Chronic non-venereal diseases may require several antipsoric remedies in succession. 

In every case where an alteration of the disease state has proceeded, the stock of symptoms that still remain must be ascertained anew

Do not make a second prescription without re-examining the case.

In this way, one will more easily find an analogue, from among the known medicines, that corresponds to this new disease image.

If significant new symptoms arise from the first imperfect medicine, do not wait for the medicine to finish its work. Select a second medicine based on the new disease image formed by the remaining original symptoms and the newly arisen ones.

Such a case, however, is very rare due to the recent increase in the number of medicines known according to their pure actions. If such a case should appear, its disadvantages diminish as soon as a subsequent medicine of apt similarity can be selected. 

A medicine that shares common but not characteristic symptoms with a disease is not homeopathic to the disease.

Even a few symptoms shared by a medicine and a disease can lead directly to a cure if the symptoms are characteristic.

Accessory symptoms emerge when an imperfect medicine is used.

Making the first prescription with an imperfect medicine.

Chronic diseases treated with fifty-millesimal potencies should only have a homeopathic aggravation towards the end of treatment.

Since the dose of a homeopathic remedy can hardly ever be prepared so small that it could not improve,

Smaller doses produce smaller homeopathic aggravations.

A small homeopathic aggravation is a good indication in an acute disease.

A homeopathic aggravation is the medicinal disease, not a worsening of the original disease.

Homeopathic remedies usually produce at least one small new symptom in people who are fine-feeling and easily stimulated. 

Medicines capable of producing many symptoms cure without significant ailment because the minute doses used are too weak to produce significant symptoms in disease-free parts of the body.

The most fitting medicine for a disease is the one that has in its symptom set, the greatest number of characteristic symptoms with the greatest similarity to the disease symptoms.

Strange, rare and peculiar symptoms are the most important in the search for a homeopathic remedy. 

Remedies are more easily found for acute diseases with numerous and striking symptoms.

Diseases requiring medicinal aid

Indispositions requiring modifications of regimen

Complicated chronic wasting sicknesses take far longer for recovery. Those complicated by prolonged, violent, allopathic treatments may be incurable.

Natural diseases are dynamically engendered by potences that mistune the life force. Medicines cure by dynamically over-tuning the life force with a similar but stronger artificial disease.

Among those medicines whose human condition-altering power has been investigated, the medicine whose observed symptoms are most similar to the totality of symptoms of a given natural disease will and must be the most fitting, the most certain homeopathic remedy. In this medicine is found the specificum for this case of disease. 

The third item of business for the genuine medical-art practitioner concerns the most expedient employment of the artificial disease potences (medicines) which have been proven for their pure action in healthy humans for the homeopathic cure of natural diseases. 

Only a very considerable supply of known medicines will enable us to find the most fitting remedy for each case of disease. So far, a fairly fitting remedy can be found for almost every disease.

Let all that is supposition, merely asserted or even fabricated, be entirely excluded from such a materia medica. Let everything be the pure language of nature, carefully and sincerely interrogated. 

A true materia medica is a collection of the genuine, pure, unmistakable modes of action of simple medicinal substances.

Clinical data: The investigation of medicines by studying their actions in sick people should be left to masters of observation.

The best provings are those that the physician employs upon himself. 

If the prover cannot write, the physician should interview him daily as to what may have happened to him and how.

Provers should keep detailed proving journals.

During a proving, all ailments, befallments and alterations in the prover’s condition should be attributed to the medicine.

Moderate proving doses yield better information, and are safer, than large doses.

Even those symptoms that are only rarely brought forth in the proving of a medicine can be cured by that medicine when the symptoms appear in a sick person. 

To fully prove a substance multiple tests, with provers of both genders and various constitutions, are needed.

Different symptoms of a medicine appear in different provers and in different tests with the same prover.

Determine the exact character of each symptom and its modalities.

However, when one wants to investigate only the symptoms themselves (especially of a weak-powered medicinal substance) without regard for the sequentiality of the befallments or the duration of the medicine’s action, the preferred arrangement is to administer a dose that is heightened [i.e. , given in greater quantity] every day for several days in a row.

The action of a medicine is less clear when a prover must take increasing doses on successive days.

Provings made with only one dose provide information about the order in which symptoms appear. The duration of a medicine’s action can only be ascertained from several experiments using only one dose.

Provers should start with a small dose and then increase it if necessary.

Medicinal substances should be proven in potentized form in order to reveal their full hidden powers.

Provers must be both male and female. 

Requirements of a prover

A prover’s diet during the proving must be simple, nutritious, non-stimulating and non-medicinal. 

Provers should take nothing medicinal during a proving except the substance being tested.

How to prepare unpotentized medicines for provings.

Medicinal substances used in provings should be perfectly well-known.

In provings with unpotentized medicines, substances of different strengths should be proven in different quantities.*

Medicines must be thoroughly tested on the healthy to ascertain each medicine’s powers and true actions and to differentiate the medicines from one another. 

As certainly as each kind of plant is different in its outer form, in its own way of life and growth, in its taste and smell from every other plant species and genus;

Each medicine acts in a unique way. 

Belonging to this latter category are the so-called idiosyncracies.

Idiosyncratic provers reveal a medicine’s power to cure all sick people with similar symptoms.

Some medicines have an initial action with  reciprocal states.

With the exception of these narcotic substances, in provings with moderate doses of medicine in healthy bodies, one only perceives the initial action of the medicine, that is, those symptoms whereby the medicine alters the tuning of the person’s condition and, for a longer or shorter time, generates a disease state in and on the person’s condition. 

Narcotics may have a perceptible counter-action even in moderate doses.

While the counter-action of the life principle is perceptible in poisonings, it is rarely perceptible in provings or in the treatment of diseases. 

Each medicinal substance engenders a certain, unique set of symptoms.

Symptoms from poisonings agree with those from provings.

I was the first to blaze this trail with a perseverance that could only arise and be maintained by the great truth speeding humanity that the certain cure of human diseases is only possible 152 through the homeopathic use of medicines. 153

Medicinal actions must be studied by observing what alterations of condition are brought forth in healthy persons by moderate amounts of single medicines.

A medicine’s actions cannot be distinctly perceived in a sick person because the the medicinal alterations are confounded with the symptoms of disease.

The symptoms that are engendered by each medicine must be observed by giving the the medicine to healthy people.

The second item of business for the genuine medical-art practitioner concerns the investigation of the implements appointed for the cure of natural diseases, the investigation of the disease-making power of medicines, in order (where there is something to be cured) to be able to single out one medicine from whose set of symptoms an artificial disease can be composed that is as similar as possible to the totality of main symptoms of the natural disease to be cured. 

Once the totality of the symptoms that principally determine and distinguish the disease case-in other words, the image of any kind of disease-has been exactly recorded, 150 the most difficult work is done.

Chronic miasmatic diseases are collective diseases with an extremely large totality of symptoms. The wesen of the many different forms of psoric disease is the same, just as different cases of disease in the same epidemic are, in essence, the same disease. 

Upon recording the symptoms of several cases of this kind, the sketch of the disease image becomes more and more complete-not larger and more verbose, but more characteristic, more encompassing of the peculiarity of this collective disease.

The symptom complex of an epidemic disease only comes to light through the observation of several cases involving different bodily constitutions. 

Take a thorough case when investigating an epidemic or sporadic disease. With few exceptions, each reigning epidemic differs from all previous ones. 

In acute cases, the physician needs to ask fewer questions.

Give the most credence to the patient’s own words, but also investigate the case with circumspection, scrupulousness, knowledge of human nature, cautious inquiry and patience.

Patients of an opposing stamp hold back a host of ailments, characterize them in vague terms, or declare several of them to be insignificant. (They do so partly from languor, partly from false modesty, and partly from a kind of genteel mentality or bashfulness.) 

Patients differ in how they describe their complaints.
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Pay special attention to the smallest details in cases of chronic disease.

Carefully consider circumstances that may act as obstacles to recovery. 

Ask general questions about any areas not mentioned.

Investigate events that caused or occasioned the disease.

If, however, the disease is one that runs its course rapidly and whose urgent state admits of no delay,

Treatment of patients on medication.

Observe the patient and note which indications were present during health.

Ask more precise questions only after the patient has freely given his account.

Ask only open-ended questions.

Ask for more precise information about each symptom.

Start a fresh line for each symptom or circumstance mentioned.

Let the patient talk. Obtain information from the patient’s relations. Observe the patient. Write the case accurately. Do not interrupt.

This individualizing examination of a disease case, for which I am giving only general instructions here (and from which the disease examiner should retain only what is applicable to each single case) demands nothing of the medical-art practitioner except freedom from bias and healthy senses, attention while observing and fidelity in recording the image of the disease.  

Careful investigation of the case is needed for individualized treatment of disease.

How psora came to manifest itself in such a wide variety of forms.

Psora is by far the most important of the chronic miasms. It is the fundamental cause of countless forms of chronic disease.

Syphilis Until now, only syphilis has been known, to some extent, as a chronic miasmatic disease which, left uncured, only expires with the end of life.

True, natural chronic diseases arise from a chronic miasm. 

Diseases caused by continual exposure to avoidable noxious factors are not true chronic diseases. Health returns spontaneously when the obstacle to cure is removed, provided there is no chronic miasm in the body. 

No human medical art can reverse the harm done by calamitous allopathic treatments.

Of all the chronic diseases, these botchings of the human condition brought forth by the allopathic calamitous art (at its worst in recent times) are the saddest and the most incurable. I regret to say that when they have been driven to some height, it seems to be impossible to invent or devise any curative means for them.  

Chronic diseases caused by prolonged, violent allopathic treatment are the most incurable.

Comment 133 Of the different kinds of protracted diseases, those caused by prolonged allopathic treatment and by chronic miasms are truly chronic. Other diseases linger due to obstacles to recovery.

Most individual acute febrile diseases are passing flare-ups of latent psora which then becomes dormant again.

Comment 130 Acute diseases may be individual, sporadic or epidemic. A few of the epidemic diseases are acute miasms.

With respect to the first item [§71], the following serves first of all as a general overview.

It is now no longer a matter of doubt that human diseases consist merely of groups of certain symptoms which are only annihilated and transformed into health by means of medicinal substances capable of artificially engendering similar disease symptoms.

From what has already been submitted to the reader, the following can be stated unmistakably: 

Initial and counter-actions in antipathic treatments

In homeopathic cures-following the uncommonly small medicinal doses (§275-§287) which are necessary in this curative mode and which were just sufficient,

Initial and counter-actions in homeopathic treatments

A minute homeopathic dose produces a perceptible initial action, but the life force’s counter-action is inconspicuous.

Examples of initial and counter-actions:

Initial action

Each potence that impinges upon the life force produces an initial action which elicits an automatic reaction from the life force, termed an after-action or counter-action.

Initial and counter-actions in homeopathic treatments

The homeopathic mode of cure, based on symptom similarity and minimal doses, is the exact opposite of the antipathic treatment of disease symptoms. Instead of transient relief followed by aggravation, there is permanent and perfect cure.

When these ill effects are countered with stronger and stronger doses of the antipathic medicine, a more serious disease, or death, results.

Aggravation of symptoms by antipathic treatments

Faults in the antipathic approach: Only a small part of the whole disease is treated.

Antipathic treatment focuses on a single disease symptom, bringing forth a medicinal symptom which is opposite to the disease symptom.

This palliative (antipathic, enantiopathic) method was introduced seventeen centuries ago, following Galen’s teaching of contraria contrariis. By this method, physicians could still most certainly hope to win the trust of patients by deceiving them with almost instantaneous improvement.

Antipathic treatments deceive patients with rapid palliative relief.

The allopathic mode of treatment

The homeopathic curative mode

Homeopathy is based on observation, experiment and experience while allopathy is based on assumptions and suppositions.

Advantages of medicines as instruments of cure:

Disadvantages of diseases as instruments of cure:

We would have been able to find many more natural, genuine homeopathic cures of this kind if the attention of observers had been more directed to them, and if nature were not so lacking in helpful homeopathic diseases. 

Neither in the course of nature, as we see from all the above examples, nor by the physician’s art, can an existing suffering or ill-being be lifted and cured by a dissimilar disease potence, be it ever so strong, but solely by one that is similar in symptoms and is somewhat stronger, according to eternal, irrevocable natural laws, which have hitherto been misconstrued.

It is impossible for there to be a more distinct and persuasive instruction for the physician than this, as to what manner of artificial disease potence (medicine) has to be selected in order to cure certainly, rapidly and permanently according to the process of nature. 

Examples of cure by similar diseases:

No! Two diseases, differing as to mode 98 but very similar in their manifestations and actions, in the sufferings and symptoms they cause, always and everywhere annihilate one another as soon as they meet in the organism; that is, the stronger disease annihilates the weaker one.

Two similar diseases can neither fend off one another (as was said about dissimilar diseases in point i, §36-§37) nor suspend one another so that the older disease comes again after the new one has run its course (as was shown about dissimilar diseases in point ii, §38-§39).

When two similar diseases meet, the stronger new disease cures the older, weaker one.

In some cases, as has been stated [§40], nature itself allows two (or even three) natural diseases to meet in one and the same body.

Complicated diseases occur in nature, however they result much more frequently from protracted allopathic treatment. The natural disease and the artificial medicinal disease pair up and render the patient doubly diseased. 

Sometimes two diseases of equal strength form a complicated disease in which each of the two occupies a different part of the body. 

Aggressive allopathic medical treatments merely suppress and suspend a chronic disease for as long as treatment is kept up, after which the disease always comes to light again, as bad as before or worse. 

If the new dissimilar disease is stronger, it will suspend the older disease, but never cure it.

Moderate allopathic treatments do not alter or cure stronger chronic diseases, even if the treatments go on for years. 

If the older disease is the same strength or stronger, it will fend off the new one.

To make this clear, we will consider the following:

To cure, a medicine must not only be stronger than the disease to be cured, it must be able to produce an artificial disease as similar as possible to the natural one. 

Experience shows that medicinal energies affect health unconditionally while natural disease energies only affect health under certain conditions.

The power of medicines to affect the health of every human being is absolute and unconditional. A medicine’s effects will be perceptible if the dose is large enough. 

The power of natural diseases to make us sick depends on our susceptibility and on our exposure to them. 

Medicines cure diseases by acting more effectively on the human body. This is due, in part, to our ability to regulate their dose. 

1. Any disease (which is not strictly a surgical case)consists solely of a specific dynamic disease mistunement of our life force (life principle) in our feelings and functions.

How homeopathic medicines cure.

A disease is most surely, thoroughly, rapidly and permanently removed by a medicine that can engender a totality of symptoms most similar to the disease, but stronger.

When two very similar dynamic affections meet in a living organism, the stronger extinguishes the weaker. This is the law of similars upon which every real cure is based.

Medicines, in appropriate doses, cure those diseases whose symptoms most nearly resemble their own.
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Homeopathic treatment: A medicine is given that can produce an artificial disease state most similar to that of the natural disease.
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Antipathic treatment: Persistent disease symptoms are made worse by the opposite medicinal symptoms of antipathic medicines.
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Similar, dissimilar and opposite symptoms produced by medicines and diseases.
Medicines cure by engendering a disease state that removes the one to be cured.
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A medicine’s power to cure is revealed in the symptoms it engenders in healthy people. These symptoms reveal the medicine’s particular disease-engendering power which is the same as its disease-curing power.
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A medicine’s curative power can only be known through the experience of its effects on human health.
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Medicines cure by differently tuning a person’s condition.
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The totality of symptoms and circumstances in each individual case of disease must be the sole indicator in choosing a remedy.
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The only thing the physician has to do to remove the entire disease is take away the entire symptom complex.
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Disease only occurs and can only be cured through dynamic impingement upon the life force.
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The life force and the material organism form an indivisible whole, as do the mistunement of the life force and the complex of perceptible symptoms.
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Everything curably diseased makes itself known to the physician by signs and symptoms.
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It is absurd to view disease as separate from the living whole.
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The manifestations of a disease reveal the whole disease, and their disappearance indicates complete recovery.
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In disease, the life force is first dynamically mistuned and then manifests its mistunement through symptoms.
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The material organism functions solely by means of the immaterial wesen, the life force.
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In health, the life force keeps all parts of the organism in harmony.
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When all the symptoms of disease have been lifted, the disease is also cured in the interior.

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The totality of symptoms (along with the patient’s circumstances and any contingent miasm) determines the most appropriate remedy in cases of disease where there is no obvious cause to be removed.
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All the perceptible signs, befallments and symptoms of disease represent the disease in its entirety.
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The physician should ascertain the occasion and the fundamental cause of disease.
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Requirements of a sustainer of health
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Requirements of a medical-art practitioner
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The highest ideal of cure
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The physician’s highest and only calling is to make the sick healthy, to cure, as it is called.
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