Dear Colleagues
In reviewing Organon 6th Edition and Chronic Diseases, you must appreciate
that CD pre-dates Org 6 by many years.
Please do not forget that printing was a difficult and expensive task, there
was shortage of paper and facilities and not all printers wanted to print
Hn's work. There were political pressures afoot too. That is why Org 6
remained unpublished until 1921.
But what is important is to realise that Org 6 is Hn's last msg to us. If he
says one thing in the Organon 6 and another in CD, then Org 6 has validity
and CD does not.
Even where he permits applying the remedy on the skin, it is on an area
seemingly unaffected by disease symptoms. So The external remedy is NEVER
applied to a patch of skins showing signs of eczema.
Rgds
Soroush
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Re: External Applications - Organon Ed 6 V. Chronic Diseases
Dear Soroush,
What you have said about local applications have the
sanction of Hn and other elders.
The most outstanding of those , Roberts, says this on
local applications-----
Local applications -what visions these words
being to mind! Mustard plasters, onion poultices,
boneset and brine-in fact, anything in common usage
that could be applied by the home nurse or procured by
the most skillful physician. From time immemorial
local applications have been the rule among the laity
as domestic remedies and among physicians from
Æsculapius down to the present day. This method of
treatment was based on the teaching and general belief
that if the outward manifestations were removed, the
disease was cured; that the outward manifestation was
the disease itself, and that the individual would be
cured were the manifestation removed.
This doctrine was taught from the earliest times
until Hahnemann proclaimed to the world a new
doctrine, that the local manifestations were but on
outward expression of the inward and spiritual force,
which when disturbed expressed itself in external
signs; that if these external manifestations were
removed by local treatment, the disease was not cured,
but driven in to some more centrally located organ,
there to express itself in some graver form.
It was the custom of the older physician to use
first the local applications; then if the
manifestation showed itself in the internal organs,
the ever-present purge was used to drive it out. It
has been said that the use of the purge was the last
remnant of pagan medicine, and was based on the theory
that all disease was caused by a very active evil
spirit.
Hahnemann's teaching in regard to local
applications is very clear and distinct, and in
practice has thoroughly proven its value. Organon,
Par. 194:
It is neither beneficial in acute local disease
of rapid growth, nor in those of long standing, to use
a remedy externally as a local application to the
diseased part, even if the medicines were specific and
curative in that form. Acute local diseases, such as
inflammations of single parts, like erysipelas, for
instance, which are not produced by violent external
injuries, but by dynamic or internal causes, will
usually yield rapidly to internal homœopathic remedies
selected from our stock of well-tested medicines.
In a recent homœopathic journal one of our
distinguished English confreres advocated the use of
the potency as a local applications. This method of
treatment received censorious consideration from
Hahnemann, in Paragraphs 196, 197 and 198 of the
Organon.
It may seem as if the cure of a local disease
could be accelerated, not only by internal
administration, but also by external application of
the correct homœopathic remedy adapted to the totally
of symptoms, since the effect of a medicine, applied
locally to the disease itself, might possibly produce
a more rapid improvement.
But this kind of treatment is entirely
objectionable, not only in local affections dependent
on psora, but also in local symptoms arising from
syphilis and from sycosis, because the local
application of a medicine, simultaneously with its
internal use, results in great disadvantages. For in
disease characterized by a main symptom in the form of
a permanent local affection, the latter is generally
dispelled by topical applications more rapidly than
the internal disease. This often leads to the
deceptive impression that we have accomplished a
perfect cure. At all events the premature
disappearance of this local symptom renders it very
difficult, and in some cases impossible to determine
whether the total disease has also been exterminated
by the internal remedy.
For the same reason, a medicine having the power
of curing internally, should not be employed
exclusively as a topical application to the local
symptoms of chronic miasmatic diseases. For, if these
are only topically suppressed, this partial effect
will leave us in doubt regarding the action of the
internal remedies, which are absolutely indispensable
to the restoration of general health...
What, then, should be the attitude of the
Hahnemannian in regard to local applications? Is it
necessary that we leave the patient in all his
discomfort in a chronic case like psoriasis and depend
entirely upon the potentized remedy? Does the intense
itching necessarily prove the deciding symptom in
selecting the remedy? Just what is the meaning of
local applications? If by local applications we mean
something that will thwart the expression of the
disease, this certainly should not be considered
beneficial according to Hahnemann's teaching; but if
we base our use of local applications upon physical
principles, we may consider it. For instance, in cases
of psoriasis and like disease, the scale that is
thrown off by the cuticle tears the corium. This the
cause of the intense itching and is purely a
mechanical disturbance. This can be removed very
easily and properly by olive oil, followed by a
bathing of the part, for cleansing purposes. Such
conditions as appear in erysipelas, where there is
great tension and dryness, may be temporarily relieved
without violating Hahnemannian principles by laying on
for a few minutes a soft cloth which has been dipped
in a normal salt solution. Such treatments are not
local applications in the sense that Hahnemann
referred to in his derogation of the practice.
There is another phase of local applications to
be considered, those which have to do with the thermic
reactions of this body. For instance, it would be very
objectionable to put cold applications on a patient
whose symptomatology calls for Rhus tox. It would be
equally inconsistent and aggravating to put a local
hot application on a Pulsatilla patient, and one
should guard against using a hot water bottle at the
feet of Sulphur patients. When using any adjuvants,
the thermic reactions of the patient should be
considered. This brings out the necessity of having a
keen observation and a very thorough knowledge of the
aggravations and ameliorations of our remedies, so as
to avoid doing anything locally that would aggravate
the general discomfort of the patient.
There is only one condition where local
application of the indicated potentized remedy may be
used to advantage, and that is in cases where it is
impossible to administer it by mouth. This statement
is based on Hahnemann's observations that mucous
surfaces and denuded surfaces are receptive to the
indicated remedy, but in a more limited degree than
through the alimentary canal. Paragraphs 290, 291,
292:
Besides the stomach, the tongue and mouth are the
parts most susceptible of medicinal impressions; but
the lining membrane of the nose possesses this
susceptibility in a high degree. Also the rectum,
genitals, and all sensitive organs of our body are
almost equally susceptible of medicinal effects. For
this reason, parts denuded of cuticle, wounded and
ulcerated surfaces, will allow the effects of
medicines to penetrate quite as readily as if they had
been administered by the mouth, and therefore
olfaction or inhalation must be still more
efficacious.
Parts of the body deprived of their natural
sense, e. g. in the absence of the sense of taste or
smell, the tongue, palate, and nose will impart
impressions made primarily on these organs, with a
considerable degree of perfection to all other organs
of the body.
Also the external surface of the body, covered by
the cutis and cuticle,, is capable of receiving the
action particularly of liquid medicines; and the most
sensitive parts of the surface are, at the same time,
the most susceptible.
This is a subject which has not been made clear
to many homœopathic physicians, and many well-meaning
practitioners have resorted to external measures; but
there is no wavering in Hahnemann's own teaching.
There are many things in common use by physician
in general whose ultimate results need to be carefully
considered by the careful physician. These methods are
not confined to physicians of the regular school, but
are also used by many physicians who are devoting
themselves to specialities. First among these methods
which are objectionable from the Hahnemannian point of
view and which cause trouble for a large number of
patients is the indiscriminate and persistent use of
astringent sprays, which are usually permeated with
medicinal ingredients. This is particularly true of
nasal sprays and douches, and their action is
suppressive of the natural discharges of the body
whenever such treatment is used, and so clogs and
shuts off the natural outlets of the sinuses in the
nose and face. When the natural discharges are once
suppressed and shut in, we have the ideal
circumstances for abscess formation, for we have heat,
moisture and bacilli. No better field can be devised,
not even the incubating ovens of the laboratories.
All unnatural nose and throat discharges should
be met by the simillimum for each individual case, and
it is never safe to resort to, or permit the patients
to use, local means to stay the flood of discharges
from the nose and throat. It is much better to let
them run their course without medicine than to use the
slightest means to lock the natural outlets. The
satisfaction and reward that the Hahnemannian
homœopath has in abiding by this rule, and staying
with his patients in these aggravating conditions, and
seeing them recover rapidly and painlessly in the
natural order of sequence, is worth all the pains and
care that are expended.
I have been in practice for nearly forty years,
all of the time in New England where sinus trouble is
rampant, and I have never yet had a case of sinus
infection develop in my own practice. I have received
many from other physicians, but have never seen one
develop in a patient who has been treated with the
indicated remedy.
Another field where much harm is done is in
gynecological work. Leucorrhœal discharges are
exceedingly troublesome to many patient, and
astringent douches are frequently ordered by
specialists in this field. Lotions and astringent
douches can and do suppress the quantity of these
secretions, often times changing their character
entirely. This treatment appeals to the patient
because it speedily reduces the offensiveness of the
symptoms. The temptation would be to do this very
thing, if we did not know the fundamental law that
vital energy will express itself, and in the kindliest
way to the future health of the patient; when we
attempt to alter by physiological means, we are bound
to disturb that vital force and cause it to express
itself in some other channel than that which nature
chooses.
Among this same line is the promiscuous use of
local applications, deodorants to suppress or change
the character of perspiration. This is exceedingly
objectionable, because it leaves pent up in the system
that which is poisonous and injurious to the health of
the individual. This condition is not often observed
by the doctor unless he by chance runs across it, or
is on the alter for such suppression.
In the indiscriminate use of surgery, the habit
of painting the patient with iodine is objectionable
from two points-that of the absorption of the drug,
and from the local irritation that this drug so
frequently creates. Many patients are exceedingly
susceptible to drugs in such form, and it is not
uncommon for involuntary provings to be made by the
local use of iodine or other applications on such a
patient. One patient was particularly sensitive to
zinc in any form, and felt constitutional symptoms
after the use of adhesive tape or talcum powders.
I want to urge strongly the use of asepsis in our
obstetrical work instead of antisepsis, because at
this particular period the whole female genital tract
is particularly susceptible to the use of antiseptic
drugs; whereas it asepsis is strictly carried out, the
patient's recovery is uneventful.
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What you have said about local applications have the
sanction of Hn and other elders.
The most outstanding of those , Roberts, says this on
local applications-----
Local applications -what visions these words
being to mind! Mustard plasters, onion poultices,
boneset and brine-in fact, anything in common usage
that could be applied by the home nurse or procured by
the most skillful physician. From time immemorial
local applications have been the rule among the laity
as domestic remedies and among physicians from
Æsculapius down to the present day. This method of
treatment was based on the teaching and general belief
that if the outward manifestations were removed, the
disease was cured; that the outward manifestation was
the disease itself, and that the individual would be
cured were the manifestation removed.
This doctrine was taught from the earliest times
until Hahnemann proclaimed to the world a new
doctrine, that the local manifestations were but on
outward expression of the inward and spiritual force,
which when disturbed expressed itself in external
signs; that if these external manifestations were
removed by local treatment, the disease was not cured,
but driven in to some more centrally located organ,
there to express itself in some graver form.
It was the custom of the older physician to use
first the local applications; then if the
manifestation showed itself in the internal organs,
the ever-present purge was used to drive it out. It
has been said that the use of the purge was the last
remnant of pagan medicine, and was based on the theory
that all disease was caused by a very active evil
spirit.
Hahnemann's teaching in regard to local
applications is very clear and distinct, and in
practice has thoroughly proven its value. Organon,
Par. 194:
It is neither beneficial in acute local disease
of rapid growth, nor in those of long standing, to use
a remedy externally as a local application to the
diseased part, even if the medicines were specific and
curative in that form. Acute local diseases, such as
inflammations of single parts, like erysipelas, for
instance, which are not produced by violent external
injuries, but by dynamic or internal causes, will
usually yield rapidly to internal homœopathic remedies
selected from our stock of well-tested medicines.
In a recent homœopathic journal one of our
distinguished English confreres advocated the use of
the potency as a local applications. This method of
treatment received censorious consideration from
Hahnemann, in Paragraphs 196, 197 and 198 of the
Organon.
It may seem as if the cure of a local disease
could be accelerated, not only by internal
administration, but also by external application of
the correct homœopathic remedy adapted to the totally
of symptoms, since the effect of a medicine, applied
locally to the disease itself, might possibly produce
a more rapid improvement.
But this kind of treatment is entirely
objectionable, not only in local affections dependent
on psora, but also in local symptoms arising from
syphilis and from sycosis, because the local
application of a medicine, simultaneously with its
internal use, results in great disadvantages. For in
disease characterized by a main symptom in the form of
a permanent local affection, the latter is generally
dispelled by topical applications more rapidly than
the internal disease. This often leads to the
deceptive impression that we have accomplished a
perfect cure. At all events the premature
disappearance of this local symptom renders it very
difficult, and in some cases impossible to determine
whether the total disease has also been exterminated
by the internal remedy.
For the same reason, a medicine having the power
of curing internally, should not be employed
exclusively as a topical application to the local
symptoms of chronic miasmatic diseases. For, if these
are only topically suppressed, this partial effect
will leave us in doubt regarding the action of the
internal remedies, which are absolutely indispensable
to the restoration of general health...
What, then, should be the attitude of the
Hahnemannian in regard to local applications? Is it
necessary that we leave the patient in all his
discomfort in a chronic case like psoriasis and depend
entirely upon the potentized remedy? Does the intense
itching necessarily prove the deciding symptom in
selecting the remedy? Just what is the meaning of
local applications? If by local applications we mean
something that will thwart the expression of the
disease, this certainly should not be considered
beneficial according to Hahnemann's teaching; but if
we base our use of local applications upon physical
principles, we may consider it. For instance, in cases
of psoriasis and like disease, the scale that is
thrown off by the cuticle tears the corium. This the
cause of the intense itching and is purely a
mechanical disturbance. This can be removed very
easily and properly by olive oil, followed by a
bathing of the part, for cleansing purposes. Such
conditions as appear in erysipelas, where there is
great tension and dryness, may be temporarily relieved
without violating Hahnemannian principles by laying on
for a few minutes a soft cloth which has been dipped
in a normal salt solution. Such treatments are not
local applications in the sense that Hahnemann
referred to in his derogation of the practice.
There is another phase of local applications to
be considered, those which have to do with the thermic
reactions of this body. For instance, it would be very
objectionable to put cold applications on a patient
whose symptomatology calls for Rhus tox. It would be
equally inconsistent and aggravating to put a local
hot application on a Pulsatilla patient, and one
should guard against using a hot water bottle at the
feet of Sulphur patients. When using any adjuvants,
the thermic reactions of the patient should be
considered. This brings out the necessity of having a
keen observation and a very thorough knowledge of the
aggravations and ameliorations of our remedies, so as
to avoid doing anything locally that would aggravate
the general discomfort of the patient.
There is only one condition where local
application of the indicated potentized remedy may be
used to advantage, and that is in cases where it is
impossible to administer it by mouth. This statement
is based on Hahnemann's observations that mucous
surfaces and denuded surfaces are receptive to the
indicated remedy, but in a more limited degree than
through the alimentary canal. Paragraphs 290, 291,
292:
Besides the stomach, the tongue and mouth are the
parts most susceptible of medicinal impressions; but
the lining membrane of the nose possesses this
susceptibility in a high degree. Also the rectum,
genitals, and all sensitive organs of our body are
almost equally susceptible of medicinal effects. For
this reason, parts denuded of cuticle, wounded and
ulcerated surfaces, will allow the effects of
medicines to penetrate quite as readily as if they had
been administered by the mouth, and therefore
olfaction or inhalation must be still more
efficacious.
Parts of the body deprived of their natural
sense, e. g. in the absence of the sense of taste or
smell, the tongue, palate, and nose will impart
impressions made primarily on these organs, with a
considerable degree of perfection to all other organs
of the body.
Also the external surface of the body, covered by
the cutis and cuticle,, is capable of receiving the
action particularly of liquid medicines; and the most
sensitive parts of the surface are, at the same time,
the most susceptible.
This is a subject which has not been made clear
to many homœopathic physicians, and many well-meaning
practitioners have resorted to external measures; but
there is no wavering in Hahnemann's own teaching.
There are many things in common use by physician
in general whose ultimate results need to be carefully
considered by the careful physician. These methods are
not confined to physicians of the regular school, but
are also used by many physicians who are devoting
themselves to specialities. First among these methods
which are objectionable from the Hahnemannian point of
view and which cause trouble for a large number of
patients is the indiscriminate and persistent use of
astringent sprays, which are usually permeated with
medicinal ingredients. This is particularly true of
nasal sprays and douches, and their action is
suppressive of the natural discharges of the body
whenever such treatment is used, and so clogs and
shuts off the natural outlets of the sinuses in the
nose and face. When the natural discharges are once
suppressed and shut in, we have the ideal
circumstances for abscess formation, for we have heat,
moisture and bacilli. No better field can be devised,
not even the incubating ovens of the laboratories.
All unnatural nose and throat discharges should
be met by the simillimum for each individual case, and
it is never safe to resort to, or permit the patients
to use, local means to stay the flood of discharges
from the nose and throat. It is much better to let
them run their course without medicine than to use the
slightest means to lock the natural outlets. The
satisfaction and reward that the Hahnemannian
homœopath has in abiding by this rule, and staying
with his patients in these aggravating conditions, and
seeing them recover rapidly and painlessly in the
natural order of sequence, is worth all the pains and
care that are expended.
I have been in practice for nearly forty years,
all of the time in New England where sinus trouble is
rampant, and I have never yet had a case of sinus
infection develop in my own practice. I have received
many from other physicians, but have never seen one
develop in a patient who has been treated with the
indicated remedy.
Another field where much harm is done is in
gynecological work. Leucorrhœal discharges are
exceedingly troublesome to many patient, and
astringent douches are frequently ordered by
specialists in this field. Lotions and astringent
douches can and do suppress the quantity of these
secretions, often times changing their character
entirely. This treatment appeals to the patient
because it speedily reduces the offensiveness of the
symptoms. The temptation would be to do this very
thing, if we did not know the fundamental law that
vital energy will express itself, and in the kindliest
way to the future health of the patient; when we
attempt to alter by physiological means, we are bound
to disturb that vital force and cause it to express
itself in some other channel than that which nature
chooses.
Among this same line is the promiscuous use of
local applications, deodorants to suppress or change
the character of perspiration. This is exceedingly
objectionable, because it leaves pent up in the system
that which is poisonous and injurious to the health of
the individual. This condition is not often observed
by the doctor unless he by chance runs across it, or
is on the alter for such suppression.
In the indiscriminate use of surgery, the habit
of painting the patient with iodine is objectionable
from two points-that of the absorption of the drug,
and from the local irritation that this drug so
frequently creates. Many patients are exceedingly
susceptible to drugs in such form, and it is not
uncommon for involuntary provings to be made by the
local use of iodine or other applications on such a
patient. One patient was particularly sensitive to
zinc in any form, and felt constitutional symptoms
after the use of adhesive tape or talcum powders.
I want to urge strongly the use of asepsis in our
obstetrical work instead of antisepsis, because at
this particular period the whole female genital tract
is particularly susceptible to the use of antiseptic
drugs; whereas it asepsis is strictly carried out, the
patient's recovery is uneventful.
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Re: External Applications - Organon Ed 6 V. Chronic Diseases
Hi all,
I have been reading emails from various people on this subject and notice
two concepts that are being confused.
1. The external use of the simillimum to treat the dynamic disease of the
patient. Hahnemann used this and cautions not to apply the remedy to an
affected surface. The remedy is based on the totality and not a local
symptom or pathology. Its just a different route of administration, but the
effect of the remedy is on the total vital force.
2. The external use of a remedy, crude or potentized, to treat a local
lesion such as a rash or a local symptom such as an inflammation. This is
based only on the local symptom only and is applied directly to the affected
site. hahnemann frowned on this. The only exception was in the case of
really bad condylamata, where he mentions that in such cases some thuja
tincture can be applied directly to the condylamata along with internal
treatment. In this case it is almost like a surgical procedure where the
thick tissue of the condylamata need to be removed by chemical means, but
you still treat the whole disorder dynamically. Also frowned on by
Hahnemann was the external applications such as mustard plasters and the use
of setons to "draw the illness to the surface" as an allopathic method..
Regards,
Paul Booyse
I have been reading emails from various people on this subject and notice
two concepts that are being confused.
1. The external use of the simillimum to treat the dynamic disease of the
patient. Hahnemann used this and cautions not to apply the remedy to an
affected surface. The remedy is based on the totality and not a local
symptom or pathology. Its just a different route of administration, but the
effect of the remedy is on the total vital force.
2. The external use of a remedy, crude or potentized, to treat a local
lesion such as a rash or a local symptom such as an inflammation. This is
based only on the local symptom only and is applied directly to the affected
site. hahnemann frowned on this. The only exception was in the case of
really bad condylamata, where he mentions that in such cases some thuja
tincture can be applied directly to the condylamata along with internal
treatment. In this case it is almost like a surgical procedure where the
thick tissue of the condylamata need to be removed by chemical means, but
you still treat the whole disorder dynamically. Also frowned on by
Hahnemann was the external applications such as mustard plasters and the use
of setons to "draw the illness to the surface" as an allopathic method..
Regards,
Paul Booyse