Hahnemann's Organon of Medicine - Aphorism 25

[Ardavan Shahrdar]

Hahnemann's Organon of Medicine
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Aphorism 25:

'Now, however, in all careful trials, pure
experience,1 the sole and infallible oracle of the
healing art, teaches us that actually that medicine
which, in its action on the healthy human body, has
demonstrated its power of producing the greatest
number of symptoms similar to those observable in the
case of disease under treatment, does also, in doses
of suitable potency and attenuation, rapidly,
radically and permanently remove the totality of the
symptoms of this morbid state, that is to say (Aph.
6-16), the whole disease present, and change it into
health; and that all medicines cure, without
exception, those diseases whose symptoms most nearly
resemble their own, and leave none of them uncured.
Footnote 1:

I do not mean that sort of experience of which the
ordinary practitioners of the old school boast, after
they have for years worked away with a lot of complex
prescriptions on a number of diseases which they never
carefully investigate, but which, faithful to their
school, they consider as already described in works of
systematic pathology, and dreamed that they could
detect in them some imaginary morbific matter, or
ascribe to them some other hypothetical internal
abnormality. They always saw something in them, but
knew not what it was they saw, and they got results,
from the complex forces acting on an unknown object,
that no human being but only a God could have
unravelled - results from which nothing can be
learned, no experience gained. Fifty years’ experience
of this sort is like fifty years of looking into a
kaleidoscope filled with unknown colored objects, and
perpetually turning round; thousands of ever changing
figures and no accounting for them!'
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