Aph 82 - Organon 6

[Soroush Ebrahimi]

§ 82
Although, by the discovery of that great source of chronic diseases, as also by the discovery of the
specific homœopathic remedies for the psora, medicine has advanced some steps nearer to a knowledge
of the nature of the majority of diseases it has to cure, yet, for settling the indication in each
case of chronic (psoric) disease he is called on to cure, the duty of a careful apprehension of its
ascertainable symptoms and characteristics is as indispensable for the homœopathic physician as it
was before that discovery, as no real cure of this or of other diseases can take place without a
strict particular treatment (individualization) of each case of disease - only that in this
investigation some difference is to be made when the affection is an acute and rapidly developed
disease, and when it is a chronic one; seeing that, in acute disease, the chief symptoms strike us
and become evident to the senses more quickly, and hence much less time is requisite for tracing the
picture of the disease and much fewer questions are required to be asked1, as almost everything is
self-evident, than in a chronic disease which has been gradually progressing for several years, in
which the symptoms are much more difficult to be ascertained.
1 Hence the following directions for investigating the symptoms are only partially applicable for
acute diseases.