Hahnemann's Organon of Medicine - Aphorism 143

[Ardavan Shahrdar]

Hahnemann's Organon of Medicine
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Aphorism 143:

'If we have thus tested on the healthy individual a
considerable number of simple medicines and carefully
and faithfully registered all the disease elements and
symptoms they are capable of developing as artificial
disease-producers, then only have we a true materia
medica - a collection of real, pure, reliable1 modes
of action of simple medicinal substances, a volume of
the book of nature, wherein is recorded a considerable
array of the peculiar changes of the health and
symptoms ascertained to belong to each of the powerful
medicines, as they were revealed to the attention of
the observer, in which the likeness of the
(homoeopathic) disease elements of many natural
diseases to be hereafter cured by them are present,
which, in a word, contain artificial morbid states,
that furnish for the similar natural morbid states the
only true, homoeopathic, that is to say, specific,
therapeutic instruments for effecting their certain
and permanent cure.
Footnote:

1 Latterly it has been the habit to entrust the
proving of medicines to unknown persons at a distance,
who were paid for their work, and the formation so
obtained was printed. But by so doing, the work which
is of all others the most important, which is to form
the basis of the only true healing art, and which
demands the greatest moral certainty and
trustworthiness seems to me, I regret to say, to
become doubtful and uncertain in its results and to
lose all value.'

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Dr Ardavan Shahrdar, MD, DIHom
President of Iranian Homeopathic Association
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