Minutus

On Tue, 4 Sep 2007, Michael wrote:
Hahnemann definitely thought so and taught so.

Whether he was right is a different question:-)

Regards

Luise
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So definitely know what's true:
2 and 2 is 22 -
and 2 times 2 is 2:-)
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What is "cause"... And, how do we know whether we've "removed" a
miasm, or simply caused it to go latent? As Sheri pointed out, there
are levels of causation whose understanding just isn't available to us.
What *is* a miasm, and what's the "cause" of *that*? Hahnemann said
that a miasm is a result of an incompletely healed infectious disease.
But what was the cause of the incomplete healing? Physical,
genetic, spiritual, or ??

Can Chinese medicine remove miasms (read: "lingering energetic effects
presumably of infectious diseases")? I don't know, but from a
theoretical standpoint I don't see why not... If it can--as I gather
it *can*--take a chronically ill person and deliver them to a state of
good health, wouldn't that fill the bill? (And if not, then why?)
Shannnon

--- In minutus@yahoogroups.com, Michael wrote:

Paragraph 72 - Organon 6th edition:

" With respect to the first point, the following will serve as a
general preliminary view. The diseases to which man is liable are
either rapid morbid processes of the abnormally deranged vital force,
which have a tendency to finish their course more or less quickly,
but always in a moderate time - these are termed acute diseases; - or
they are diseases of such a character that, with small, often
imperceptible beginnings, dynamically derange the living organism,
each in its own peculiar manner, and cause it gradually to deviate
from the healthy condition, in such a way that the automatic life
energy, called vital force, whose office is to preserve the health,
only opposes to them at the commencement and during their progress
imperfect, unsuitable, useless resistance, but is unable of itself to
extinguish them, but must helplessly suffer (them to spread and)
itself to be ever more and more abnormally deranged, until at length
the organism is destroyed; these are termed chronic diseases. They
are caused by infection with a chronic miasm"

Hope this is helping.

Liana