Hahnemann's Organon of Medicine - Aphorism 29

[Ardavan Shahrdar]

Hahnemann's Organon of Medicine
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Aphorism 29:

'As every disease (not strictly belonging to the
domain of surgery) depends only on a peculiar morbid
derangement of our vital force in sensations and
functions, when a homoeopathic cure of the vital force
deranged by natural disease is accomplished by the
administration of a medicinal agent selected on
account of an accurate similarity of symptoms, a
somewhat stronger, similar, artificial morbid
affection is brought into contact with and, as it
were, pushed into the place of the weaker, similar,
natural morbid irritation, against which the
instinctive vital force, now merely (though in a
stronger degree) medicinally diseased, is then
compelled to direct an increased amount of energy,
but, on account of the shorter duration of the action1
of the medicinal agent that now morbidly affects it,
the vital force soon overcomes this, and as it was in
the first instance relieved from the natural morbid
affection, so it is now at last freed from the
substituted artificial (medicinal) one, and hence is
enable again to carry on healthily the vital
operations of the organism. This highly probable
explanation of the process rests on the following
axioms.
Footnote 1:

The short duration of the action of the artificial
morbific forces, which we term medicines, makes it
possible that, although they are stronger than the
natural diseases, they can yet be much more easily
overcome by the vital force than can the weaker
natural diseases, which solely in consequence of the
longer, generally lifelong, duration of their action
(psora, syphilis, sycosis), can never be vanquished
and extinguished by it alone, until the physician
affects the vital force in a stronger manner by an
agent that produces a disease very similar, but
stronger to wit a homœopathic medicine, which, when
taken (or smelt), is as it were, forced upon the
unintelligent, instinctive vital force, and
substituted in the place of the former natural morbid
affection, by which means the vital force, and
substituted in the place of the former natural morbid
affection, by which means the vital force then remains
merely medicinally ill, but only for a short time,
because the action of the medicine (the time in which
the medicinal disease excited by it run its course)
does not last long. The cures of diseases of many
years’ duration (§ 46), by the occurrence of smallpox
and measles (both of which run a course of only a few
weeks), are processes of a similar character.'
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