Hahnemann's Organon of Medicine - Aphorism 123

[Ardavan Shahrdar]

Hahnemann's Organon of Medicine
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Aphorism 123:

'Each of these medicines must be taken in a perfectly
simple, unadulterated form; the indigenous plants in
the form of freshly expressed juice, mixed with a
little alcohol to prevent it spoiling; exotic
vegetable substances, however, in the form of powder,
or tincture prepared with alcohol when they were in
the fresh state and afterwards mingled with a certain
proportion of water; salts and gums, however, should
be dissolved in water just before being taken. If the
plant can only be procured in its dry state, and if
its powers are naturally weak, in that case there may
be used for the experiment an infusion of it, made by
cutting the herb into small pieces and pouring boiling
water on it, so as to extract its medicinal parts;
immediately after its preparation it must be swallowed
while still warm, as all expressed vegetable juices
and all aqueous infusions of herbs, without the
addition of spirit, pass rapidly into fermentation and
decomposition, whereby all their medicinal properties
are lost.'

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