Hahnemann's Organon of Medicine - Aphorism 153

[Ardavan Shahrdar]

Hahnemann's Organon of Medicine
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Aphorism 153:

'In this search for a homoeopathic specific remedy,
that is to say, in this comparison of the collective
symptoms of the natural disease with the list of
symptoms of known medicines, in order to find among
these an artificial morbific agent corresponding by
similarity to the disease to be cured, the more
striking, singular, uncommon and peculiar
(characteristic) signs and symptoms1 of the case of
disease are chiefly and most solely to be kept in
view; for it is more particularly these that very
similar ones in the list of symptoms of the selected
medicine must correspond to, in order to constitute it
the most suitable for effecting the cure. The more
general and undefined symptoms: loss of appetite,
headache, debility, restless sleep, discomfort, and so
forth, demand but little attention when of that vague
and indefinite character, if they cannot be more
accurately described, as symptoms of such a general
nature are observed in almost every disease and from
almost every drug.
Footnote:

1 Dr. von Bonninghausen, by the publication of the
characteristic symptoms of homoeopathic medicines and
his repertory has rendered a great service to
Homoeopathy as well as Dr. J.H.G. Jahr in his handbook
of principal symptoms.'

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