Hahnemann's Organon of Medicine - Aphorism 11

[Ardavan Shahrdar]

Hahnemann's Organon of Medicine
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Aphorism 11:

'When a person falls ill, it is only this spiritual,
self acting (automatic) vital force, everywhere
present in his organism, that is primarily deranged by
the dynamic (Footnote 1) influence upon it of a
morbific agent inimical to life; it is only the vital
force, deranged to such an abnormal state, that can
furnish the organism with its disagreeable sensations,
and incline it to the irregular processes which we
call disease; for, as a power invisible in itself, and
only cognizable by its effects on the organism, its
morbid derangement only makes itself known by the
manifestation of disease in the sensations and
functions of those parts of the organism exposed to
the senses of the observer and physician, that is, by
morbid symptoms, and in no other way can it make
itself known. (Footnote 2)

Footnotes:

1 Materia peccans!

2 What is dynamic influence, - dynamic power? Our
earth, by virtue of a hidden invisible energy, carries
the moon around her in twenty-eight days and several
hours, and the moon alternately, in definite fixed
hours (deducting certain differences which occur with
the full and new moon) raises our northern seas to
flood tide and again correspondingly lowers them to
ebb. Apparently this takes place not through material
agencies, not through mechanical contrivances, as are
used for products of human labor; and so we see
numerous other events about us as results of the
action of one substance on another substance without
being able to recognize a sensible connection between
cause and effect. Only the cultured, practised in
comparison and deduction, can form for himself a kind
of supra-sensual idea sufficient to keep all that is
material or mechanical in his thoughts from such
concepts. He calls such effects dynamic, virtual, that
is, such as result from absolute, specific, pure
energy and action of he one substance upon the other
substance.

For instance, the dynamic effect of the sick-making
influences upon healthy man, as well as the dynamic
energy of the medicines upon the principle of life in
the restoration of health is nothing else than
infection and so not in any way material, not in any
way mechanical. Just as the energy of a magnet
attracting a piece of iron or steel is not material,
not mechanical. One sees that the piece of iron is
attracted by one pole of the magnet, but how it is
done is not seen. This invisible energy of the magnet
does not require mechanical (material) auxiliary
means, hook or lever, to attract the iron. The magnet
draws to itself and this acts upon the piece of iron
or upon a steel needle by means of a purely immaterial
invisible, conceptual, inherent energy, that is,
dynamically, and communicates to the steel needle the
magnetic energy equally invisibly (dynamically). The
steel needle becomes itself magnetic, even at a
distance when the magnet does not touch it, and
magnetises other steel needles with the same magnetic
property (dynamically) with which it had been
endowered previously by the magnetic rod, just as a
child with small-pox or measles communicates to a
near, untouched healthy child in an invisible manner
(dynamically) the small-pox or measles, that is,
infects it at a distance without anything material
from the infective child going or capable of going to
the one to be infected. A purely specific conceptual
influence communicated to the near child small-pox or
measles in the same way as the magnet communicated to
the near needle the magnetic property.

In a similar way, the effect of medicines upon living
man is to be judged. Substances, which are used as
medicines, are medicines only in so far as they
possess each its own specific energy to alter the
well-being of man through dynamic, conceptual
influence, by means of the living sensory fibre, upon
the conceptual controlling principle of life. The
medicinal property of those material substances which
we call medicines proper, relates only to their energy
to call out alterations in the well-being of animal
life. Only upon this conceptual principle of life,
depends their medicinal health-altering, conceptual
(dynamic) influence. Just as the nearness of a
magnetic pole can communicate only magnetic energy to
the steel (namely, by a kind of infection) but cannot
communicate other properties (for instance, more
hardness or ductility, etc.). And thus every special
medicinal substance alters through a kind of
infection, that well-being of man in a peculiar manner
exclusively its own and not in a manner peculiar to
another medicine, as certainly as the nearness of the
child ill with small-pox will communicate to a healthy
child only small-pox and not measles. These medicines
act upon our well-being wholly without communication
of material parts of the medicinal substances, thus
dynamically, as if through infection. Far more healing
energy is expressed in a case in point by the smallest
dose of the best dynamized medicines, in which there
can be, according to calculation, only so little of
material substance that its minuteness cannot be
thought and conceived by the best arithmetical mind,
than by large doses of the same medicine in substance.
That smallest dose can therefore contain almost
entirely only the pure, freely-developed, conceptual
medicinal energy, and bring about only dynamically
such great effects as can never be reached by the
crude medicinal substances itself taken in large
doses.

It is not in the corporal atoms of these highly
dynamized medicines, nor their physical or
mathematical surfaces (with which the higher energies
of the dynamized medicines are being interpreted but
vainly as still sufficiently material) that the
medicinal energy is found. More likely, there lies
invisible in the moistened globule or in its solution,
an unveiled, liberated, specific, medicinal force
contained in the medicinal substance which acts
dynamically by contact with the living animal fibre
upon the whole organism (without communicating to it
anything material however highly attenuated) and acts
more strongly the more free and more immaterial the
energy has become through the dynamization.

Is it then so utterly impossible for our age
celebrated for its wealth in clear thinkers to think
of dynamic energy as something non-corporeal, since we
see daily phenomena which cannot be explained in any
other manner? If one looks upon something nauseous and
becomes inclined to vomit, did a material emetic come
into his stomach which compels him to this
anti-peristaltic movement? Was it not solely the
dynamic effect of the nauseating aspect upon his
imagination? And if one raises his arm, does it occur
through a material visible instrument? a lever? Is it
not solely the conceptual dynamic energy of his will
which raises it?'

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