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[Luise Kunkle]

Hi Paul and others,

The argument that plants and animals (like apis, ternetula etc) are
"one" in Hahnemann's view holds true only as long as they are alive.

Look at aphor 10, footnote

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§10
The material organism, considered without life force, is not capable
of any sensation, any action, any preservation (footnote1); only the
immatrial entity (the life principle, the life force), giving life to
the material organism in healthy and ill states, confers upon it all
sensation and effects all its life functions.

footnote1) It is dead and, now solely subjected the the power of the
physical external world, * it decays and decomposes again into its
chemical components. *

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When the plant or animal (matter) is triturated it is no longer alive
and - according to Hahnemann - just a mixture of its chemical
components.

Regards

Luise
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[Paul Booyse]

Luise,
Hahnemann is talking about the patient. This has nothing to do with the remedy. He is making the point that disease happens when this vital force is disturbed (aph 11). This is one of the big mistakes in homeopathic philosophy - taking one thing Hahnemann says out of context and then it becomes gospel.
regards,
Paul