Volume 1

Organon of medicine ... / by Samuel Hahnemann.

  • Samuel Hahnemann
Date:
1922
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Credit: Organon of medicine ... / by Samuel Hahnemann. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    § 19. The alteration of the state of the health in diseases (the disease-symptoms) cannot be cured by the medicines otherwise than in so far as the latter have the power of also producing alterations in man’s health. 20. This power of medicines to alter the state of the health can only be ascertained by their effects on (healthy) persons. 21. The morbid symptoms that medicines produce in healthy individuals are the only thing wherefrom we can learn their disease-curing power. 22. If experience should show that by medicines that mani¬ fest similar symptoms to the disease the latter would be most certainly and permanently cured, we must select for the cure medicines with similar symptoms; but should it show that the disease is most certainly and permanently cured by opposite medicinal symptoms, we must choose for the cure medicines with opposite symp¬ toms. Note.—The employment of medicines whose symptoms have no actual (pathological) relation to the symptoms of the disease, but which act on the body in a different manner, characterise the allopathic method, which is to be rejected. 23. By opposite medicinal symptoms (antipathic treatment) persisting disease symptoms are not cured. 24. 25. The other remaining method of treatment, the homoeopathic, by means of medicines with similar symp¬ toms, is the only one that experience shows to be always salutary. 26. This is dependent on the therapeutic law of nature that a weaker dynamic affection in the living organism is per¬ manently extinguished by one that is very similar to and stronger than it, only differing from it in kind. Note.—This applies both to physical affections and moral maladies. 27. The curative power of medicines, therefore, depends on the symptoms they have similar to the disease.
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