Hahnemann's Organon of Medicine - Aphorism 26

[Ardavan Shahrdar]

Hahnemann's Organon of Medicine
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Aphorism 26:

'This depends on the following homœopathic law of
nature which was sometimes, indeed, vaguely surmised
but not hitherto fully recognized, and to which is due
every real cure that has ever taken place:

A weaker dynamic affection is permanently extinguished
in the living organism by a stronger one, if the
latter (whilst differing in kind) is very similar to
the former in its manifestations.1
Footnote 1:

Thus are cured both physical affections and moral
maladies. How is it that in the early dawn the
brilliant Jupiter vanishes from the gaze of the
beholder? By a stronger very similar power acting on
his optic nerve, the brightness of approaching day! -
In situations replete with foetid odors, wherewith is
it usual to soothe effectually the offended olfactory
nerves? With snuff, that affects the sense of smell in
a similar but stronger manner! No music, no sugared
cake, which act on the nerves of other senses, can
cure this olfactory disgust. How does the soldier
cunningly stifle the piteous cries of him who runs the
gauntlet from the ears of the compassionate
bystanders? By the shrill notes of the fife commingled
with the roll of the noisy drum! And the distant roar
of the enemy’s cannon that inspires his army with
fear? By the loud boom of the big drum! For neither
the one nor the other would the distribution of a
brilliant piece of uniform nor a reprimand to the
regiment suffice. In like manner, mourning and sorrow
will be effaced from the mind by the account of
another and still greater cause for sorrow happening
to another, even though it be a mere fiction. The
injurious consequences of too great joy will be
removed by drinking coffee, which produces an
excessive joyous state of mind. Nations like the
Germans, who have for centuries been gradually sinking
deeper and deeper in soulless apathy and degrading
serfdom, must first be trodden still deeper in the
dust by the Western Conqueror, until their situation
became intolerable; their mean opinion of themselves
was thereby over-strained and removed; they again
became alive to their dignity as men, and then, for
the first time, they raised their heads as Germans.'
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Dr Ardavan Shahrdar, MD, DIHom
President of Iranian Homeopathic Association
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