[H] Vital Force's Role in Healing

[Dr. Binoy.S.Vallabhassery]

Hello all,

"The opposite happens in homoeopathy. It proves
to all reasoning people that diseases do not depend on any acrimony or
any material principle, but on the dynamic alteration of the force that
virtually animates the human body. This force also tells us that healing
can only be achieved through a reaction of the vital force against the
appropriate medication and the more energy this force maintains, the
safer and faster the procedure will be.

The concept of Vital Force
"In the state of health the spirit-like vital force (dynamis ) animating
the material human organism reigns in supreme sovereignty. It maintains
the sensations and activities of all the parts of the living organism in
a harmony that obliges wonderment. The reasoning spirit who inhabits the
organism can thus freely use this healthy living instrument to reach the
lofty goal of human existence"

What is Vital Force?
Hahnemann's concept of Vital Force is connected to the following
concepts

He founds homoeopathy on the principle of similarity between a weaker
symptomatology which produces disease and a stronger symptomatology
produced by the medication.Clearly, Hahnemann thought that the Vital
Force is the same principle behind today's homoeosthasis and his medical
philosophy gives precedence to nature's reaction than to nurture's
action, thus placing his hopes in the individual's functional ability
and decreasing the power of the environment's factual
function.Paracelsus (1493-1541) with his "archeus", Hahnemann
(1755-1843) with his Vital Force, and Freud (1856-1939) with his
"libido", creatively shape a biological awareness which, based on
doubtless empirical observations, allow the unbiased researcher to see,
through doubtful theoretical speculations, a clear clinical methodology
that gives the most efficient results from the therapeutic action. The
goal of this action is the most virtuous and perfect relation between
the physician and his patient.It is the supreme expression of the
complexity of living beings emerging from the immense and obscure
loneliness and emptiness of the external forces.The concept of Vital
Force is a theoretical interpretation of the biology that has been
applied in medicine for centuries. In Hahnemann's work, the Vital Force
gives absolute coherence to his view of human pathology and is still in
force in the latest scientific research of the 20th century.

In the case of homeopathy the ancient wisdom of physis, the virtue of
harmony as a consequence of the symmetry of life's dynamism, underlies
the concept of vital force.Likewise, I believe that physicians should
not totally reject the procedures of Contraria Contraribus Curentur in
favor of his true function, which is not to give more or less brilliant
explanations of what is happening, happened or will happen. His true
function is to diligently help the vital force, regarding it as the
essential core of health.While translating Cullen, Hahnemann discovers
the law of similarities and restores the vital force rigorously studying
phenomena and disregarding theoretical and causalistic interpretations.

Sycosis (fig-wart disease) similarly ineradicable by the vital force
when untreated, has not been recognized as a particular chronic
miasmatic disease, which it most certainly is; it is thought to be cured
with the destruction of the outgrows on the skin, despite the lingering
decline that remains.

"In the state of health the spirit-like vital force (dynamis ) animating
the material human organism reigns in supreme sovereignty. It maintains
the sensations and activities of all the parts of the living organism in
a harmony that obliges wonderment. The reasoning spirit who inhabits the
organism can thus freely use this healthy living instrument to reach the
lofty goal of human existence"

"The physician can remove pathological diseases only by acting on our
spirit-like vital force with medicines having equally spirit-like,
dynamic effects that are perceived by the nervous sensitivity everywhere
present in the organism".

Hahnemann didn't invent the Vital Force nor the belief in the power of
small doses or dilutions. Hahnemann discovered the Law of Similarity.
When we give a remedy, we must ask for all the of signs and symptoms
possible, to be sure that that specific substance, given to that person,
will change his homeostasis. That is called a homeopathic cure.

Then comes the law of the vital force. We believe either in the soil or
in the environment. Or we believe in both, which is smarter. I'm a
better homeopath if I believe a living organism has a vital force
capable of activating the immune defense system to adapt to the world,
that is, if I look inside rather than outside. But if I believe that the
only thing that exists is the inside, I'm neither a homeopath or
anything else, I'm a stupid idealist.Once I know the subject's story, I
make a dynamic homeopathic history based on his symptoms and signs. Once
I know which remedy to use, I follow medical parameters, useful whether
we are homeopaths or not. We must know how much vital force we can count
on, because it isn't the same to give a remedy to an old person than to
a child, just as it isn't the same to talk with a child or with an old
person.The homeopath really learns to be a homeopath when he sees his
own defects. The point is to stimulate the healthy part of the patient,
whose function depends on the vital force, not to counteract the
negative reactions of the sick parts.

Best Wishes,
dr binoy vallabhassery

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