Organon of homœopathic medicine. / by Samuel Hahnemann.

  • Hahnemann, Samuel, 1755-1843.
Date:
1836
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    bear the greatest resemblance to the totality of those which characterise any particular natural disease ought to be the most appropriate and certain hommopathic remedy that can be employed—it is the specific remedy in this case of disease. § 148. A remedy which has the power and tendency to produce an artificial disease closely resembling the natural one against which it is employed, and which is administered in proportionate doses, affects, in its action on the organism, pre- cisely those parts which had till then been a prey to the natural disease, and excites in them the artificial disease which it is naturally capable of producing. The latter, by reason of its similitude and greater intensity, now substitutes itself for the natural disease. From that moment it then results that the vital powers no longer sutfer from the last mentioned, which, in its quality of purely dynamic immaterial jx)wer, has already ceased to exist. The organism is no longer attacked but by the medicinal disease. But the dose of the remedy administered having been very small, the medicinal disease soon disappears of itself. Subdued by the energy of the vital power, like everj other mild medicinal affection, it leaves the body free from suffering—that is, in a perfect and permanent state of health. § 149. When a proper application of the homoeopathic remedy has been made,* the acute disease which is to be cured, however malignant and painful it may be, subsides in a few hours, if recent, and in a few days, if it is somewhat older. Every trace of indisposition vanishes; scarcely any thing is seen of the artificial disease produced by the remedy; and health is restored by a speedy and almost insensible transition. Diseases that are of long standing, especially those which are complicated, require a longer treatment. Particularly those chronic artificial maladies which the maltreatment of the alloDopathists so often produce, and which, along with the uncured natural disease, requires a far longer time for recovery; they are often nearly incurable, by reason of the shameless deprivation of the vital energies of the patient, the prevailing and principal measure adopted by the alloeopathists in their so called cures. 20