How Homeopathy Works - (was Fungus what would you do homeopathic)
Posted: Mon Sep 24, 2007 5:34 pm
vital
Excellent Fran
Here is some from David Little
http://homepage.ntlworld.com/homeopathy ... vitalforce_
davidlittle.html
ARCHIVE
THREE POINTS OF VIEW ON THE VITAL FORCE
First comments On the Vital Force, Primary and Secondary Actions by David
Little
Hello all,
Just thought I would add a few words to some threads that have been going
on. During Hahnemann's time the allopathic physicians based their medical
philosophy on the teaching of Galen combined with contemporary mechanistic
concepts. They constantly talked imitating Nature (Physis) while indulging
in radical intervention and invasive treatments. They taught that to heal
one should imitate the activities Physis during crisis and use medicines by
the rule "Opposite to cure Opposites". For example, if plethoric high blood
pressure causes bleeding during crisis the physician should imitate nature
by bleeding patients in such conditions. If a person suffers from heat they
often seek cold so they figured if the organism suffers from cold symptoms,
they should be given hot medicines. Such actions were suppose to be
following how Nature cured.
Like Paracelsus, Hahnemann rejected the teachings of Galen and the Roman
school and preferred the teachings of Hippocrates and the Greeks. Hahnemann
pointed out that Hippocrates used similars as well as the single remedy and
was a true student of Nature. Samuel was deeply critical of the allopathic
so-called ministers of Nature as they were following the instinctive
struggle of the vital force during crisis rather than developing a medical
system that was truly based on how Nature cures disease. The Founder taught
that healers should develop a healing art that followed awareness and
reason not blind instinct. This was one of the reason why Hahnemann was
critical of the self aid of the vital force in one place, while pointing
out in another, the important role of the vital force in homeopathic healing.
Hahnemann wrote that susceptibly is condition (Organon, aph. 31). One will
only suffer those diseases to which one is susceptible. Once a disease
establishes itself it has overcome one's susceptibility. Now the disease
process begins. Hahnemann wrote that the vital force could help in
"neutralizing" moderate acute diseases and quietly conclude them when their
natural course comes to the end. In more serious acute diseases the vital
force responds by producing a crisis involving the destruction of tissues
and sacrifice of humours but it may save the organism. This instinctual
response will sacrifice a part to save the whole in order to survive. After
such a crisis, however, the organism only recovers slowly and imperfectly
over time.
In true chronic diseases (which Hahnemann defined as caused by the affects
of infectious miasms) the vital force cannot cure the disorder through
crisis and its associated sacrifices and diversionary methods. The idea of
not being curable without medicine is ingrained in Samuel's definition of
"chronic disease". At the same time, Hahnemann wrote that "Homoeopathy is
aware that the cure can only succeed through the counter-action of the
vital force against the correctly taken medicine. There stronger the life
force that still prevails in the patient, the more certain and faster the
cure that takes place (Preface, 6th Organon, 184-)". Some have trouble
reconciling these two facets of Hahnemann's vitalist philosophy.
In this statement Hahnemann reminds us that even though the vital force can
not cure serious acute disorders and chronic diseases - the vital force
plays an essential role during homeopathic treatment through the curative
action. He even equates the amount of vitality that remains in the patient
directly to the time of cure. When Hahnemann spoke of primary and secondary
actions in relationship to healing he was speaking of the primary effect of
the a homoeopathic remedy and the secondary curative action of the vital
force. He also spoke of the primary and secondary actions of certain
remedies (Ignatia, etc) which have strong alternating actions within their
symptoms. This is a different subject that deals with the primary and
secondary actions within a medicinal substance.
Hahnemann mentions seven aspects of healing in the introduction to the
Organon. Below is my recapitulation of those areas with added information
from other sections of Samuel's writings.
1. The vital force can only act through instinct and crisis, which is only
relatively effective in moderate acute diseases. In severe acute and
chronic disorders these attempts at self healing are ineffectual and come
with a price. The development of a true healing art takes awareness, reason
and the higher human spirit so that medicines that are safe and gentle can
be discovered. This takes the knowledge of disease, knowledge of remedies,
and knowledge of how to apply the remedies to diseases. This requires a
philosophy that is harmonious with Nature and the proving of medicines as
well as the development of the repertory and materia medica, etc..
2. In order to cure the healing artist must develop a safe way to alter the
"automatic and energetic life force when it has been mistuned through
disease". As disease is dynamic mistuning of the vital force - cure must
also be dynamic and retune the vital force to the state of health.
3. To do this the healer administers a homoeopathic remedy that tunes the
life force to a similar affection. This is the basis of the principle
"Similars cure Similars". The vital force is hypersensitive and susceptible
to a similar remedy in a small dose of a potency. This is why the
Simillimum has great powers!
4. The primary action of the homoeopathic remedy replaces the natural
disease with a stronger but temporary medicinal disorder. A homoeopathic
potency is subtle yet so powerful it can delusively replace the sensation
of the natural disease with its own similar medicine power. At the same
time, a homeopathic "disease" is dependant of the duration of the remedy
actions, which unlike chronic disease, is only temporary. In this way a
temporary medicinal disease can remove a permanent chronic disease.
5. At this time, Hahnemann wrote that the secondary curative action of the
vital force "directs its whole energy" against the remedy-disease "which it
soon overcomes". The combination of the secondary action of the vital force
to the medicinal disease and the transient nature of homeopathic remedy
lead to cessation of remedy induced illness. The vital force only uses as
much action as necessary remove the remedy-disease from without while
returning to the state of health within without any noticeable crisis or
over-reactions
6. When the vital force gains ascendency over the medical disease, and the
remedy duration ceases, the organism becomes completely free of the
medicinal disorder and returns to the sate of full health with renewed
vitality. This then completes the cure.
7. The vital force can do this without any painful sacrifices if the case
is manage properly. If the size of the dose, the potency and the
administration of the remedy are correct - this entire process can take
place without any over reactions of the organism. If the size of the dose
is too large, the potency is too high or the remedy is given too many times
- there may be aggravations that delay the cure. If the over medication is
serous there may be antagonistic secondary actions by the vital force. For
this reason, the case management and posology must be carefully applied.
The counter actions of the life force to allopathic stimulation is quite
different than the counter actions to a homoeopathic remedy. If one has
diarrhea and takes an opiate the primary action of the opium produces
constipation, and as soon as the duration of the remedy ceases, the
secondary action of the vital force will try to produce more diarrhea. If
the opium is given in larger and larger doses the counter action may be
suppressed so the negative derangement is diverted to a new channel causing
new more serious symptoms like the irritable bowel syndrome or ulcer, etc.
Hahnemann defined disease as a derangement of the vital force by a negative
influence, which means the life force itself does most of the damage. This
has been confirmed by modern science which shows that the organism's own
pro and anti-inflammatory hormones and deranged immune proteins are chief
pathogenic factors in disease. The confused vital force can not tell "self
from other" and will attack its own tissues with stress chemicals and
auto-immune factors as well as fall into immuno-deficiency. In this sense
disease most certainly is a derangement of the vital force.
In homeopathic cures a temporarily stronger remedy-disease replaces the
weaker natural disease and the vital force seeks to remove the
remedy-disease from without while re-establishing homeostasis within with
restored vitality. In the Preface to the fourth edition of the Chronic
Diseases Hahnemann wrote that if the image of the disease foe could be
"magnified to the apprehension of the vital force by a homeopathic remedy"
that delusively simulates the original illness, it could cause the vital
force "to increase its energies by degrees" until it was more powerful than
the original disorder.
Is the homoeopathic remedy an information package that replaces the
confused impression of the natural disease with a clear image of the
homoeopathic remedy-disease? Does the secondary curative action of the
vital force then seek to differentiate itself from the former confusion
caused by the natural disease and remove the remedy-disease moving the
organism in the direction of health? During this process one does witnesses
an increase in vitality and strength with added vigor. How does this all
take place? What do you think?
During the homeopathic healing process the vital force only produces as
much curative secondary action as necessary to bring on the state of health
and complete the cure. If the posology and case management has been correct
the entire process can be carried out without any noticeable over reactions
of the vital force. It is really quite amazing how gentle the process of
cure is under the influence of a correctly applied homoeopathic remedy. If
the remedy is applied incorrectly the process can produce much discomfort
through aggravations, accessory symptoms and antagonistic secondary actions
of the vital force. Hahnemann alludes to something like this in aphorism 64
part 2 and 68 which deals with primary and secondary actions to homeopathic
remedies as well as other places in his writings. Homeopathic cure takes
place through the interplay of the remedy and vital force in a manner that
is most amazing,
Sincerely, David Little.
---------------
"It is the life-force which cures diseases because a dead man needs no more
medicines."
Samuel Hahnemann
Visit our website on Hahnemannian Homoeopathy and Cyberspace Homoeopathic
Academy at
http://www.simillimum.com
David Little © 2000
-------------------
----------------------------------------------------------------------
Sheri Nakken, former R.N., MA, Hahnemannian Homeopath
Well Within & Earth Mysteries & Sacred Site Tours (worldwide)
Vaccination Information & Choice Network (new website)
http://www.wellwithin1.com/vaccine.htm
http://www.wellwithin1.com/homeo.htm
homeopathycures@tesco.net
ONLINE Introduction to Homeopathy Classes - next one September 5, 2007
ONLINE Introduction to Vaccine Dangers Classes - September 6, 2007
ONLINE Intro to Diseases - Risk, Reality & Alternative Treatment September
5, 2007
Voicemail US 530-740-0561 UK phone from US 011-44-1874-624-936
Excellent Fran
Here is some from David Little
http://homepage.ntlworld.com/homeopathy ... vitalforce_
davidlittle.html
ARCHIVE
THREE POINTS OF VIEW ON THE VITAL FORCE
First comments On the Vital Force, Primary and Secondary Actions by David
Little
Hello all,
Just thought I would add a few words to some threads that have been going
on. During Hahnemann's time the allopathic physicians based their medical
philosophy on the teaching of Galen combined with contemporary mechanistic
concepts. They constantly talked imitating Nature (Physis) while indulging
in radical intervention and invasive treatments. They taught that to heal
one should imitate the activities Physis during crisis and use medicines by
the rule "Opposite to cure Opposites". For example, if plethoric high blood
pressure causes bleeding during crisis the physician should imitate nature
by bleeding patients in such conditions. If a person suffers from heat they
often seek cold so they figured if the organism suffers from cold symptoms,
they should be given hot medicines. Such actions were suppose to be
following how Nature cured.
Like Paracelsus, Hahnemann rejected the teachings of Galen and the Roman
school and preferred the teachings of Hippocrates and the Greeks. Hahnemann
pointed out that Hippocrates used similars as well as the single remedy and
was a true student of Nature. Samuel was deeply critical of the allopathic
so-called ministers of Nature as they were following the instinctive
struggle of the vital force during crisis rather than developing a medical
system that was truly based on how Nature cures disease. The Founder taught
that healers should develop a healing art that followed awareness and
reason not blind instinct. This was one of the reason why Hahnemann was
critical of the self aid of the vital force in one place, while pointing
out in another, the important role of the vital force in homeopathic healing.
Hahnemann wrote that susceptibly is condition (Organon, aph. 31). One will
only suffer those diseases to which one is susceptible. Once a disease
establishes itself it has overcome one's susceptibility. Now the disease
process begins. Hahnemann wrote that the vital force could help in
"neutralizing" moderate acute diseases and quietly conclude them when their
natural course comes to the end. In more serious acute diseases the vital
force responds by producing a crisis involving the destruction of tissues
and sacrifice of humours but it may save the organism. This instinctual
response will sacrifice a part to save the whole in order to survive. After
such a crisis, however, the organism only recovers slowly and imperfectly
over time.
In true chronic diseases (which Hahnemann defined as caused by the affects
of infectious miasms) the vital force cannot cure the disorder through
crisis and its associated sacrifices and diversionary methods. The idea of
not being curable without medicine is ingrained in Samuel's definition of
"chronic disease". At the same time, Hahnemann wrote that "Homoeopathy is
aware that the cure can only succeed through the counter-action of the
vital force against the correctly taken medicine. There stronger the life
force that still prevails in the patient, the more certain and faster the
cure that takes place (Preface, 6th Organon, 184-)". Some have trouble
reconciling these two facets of Hahnemann's vitalist philosophy.
In this statement Hahnemann reminds us that even though the vital force can
not cure serious acute disorders and chronic diseases - the vital force
plays an essential role during homeopathic treatment through the curative
action. He even equates the amount of vitality that remains in the patient
directly to the time of cure. When Hahnemann spoke of primary and secondary
actions in relationship to healing he was speaking of the primary effect of
the a homoeopathic remedy and the secondary curative action of the vital
force. He also spoke of the primary and secondary actions of certain
remedies (Ignatia, etc) which have strong alternating actions within their
symptoms. This is a different subject that deals with the primary and
secondary actions within a medicinal substance.
Hahnemann mentions seven aspects of healing in the introduction to the
Organon. Below is my recapitulation of those areas with added information
from other sections of Samuel's writings.
1. The vital force can only act through instinct and crisis, which is only
relatively effective in moderate acute diseases. In severe acute and
chronic disorders these attempts at self healing are ineffectual and come
with a price. The development of a true healing art takes awareness, reason
and the higher human spirit so that medicines that are safe and gentle can
be discovered. This takes the knowledge of disease, knowledge of remedies,
and knowledge of how to apply the remedies to diseases. This requires a
philosophy that is harmonious with Nature and the proving of medicines as
well as the development of the repertory and materia medica, etc..
2. In order to cure the healing artist must develop a safe way to alter the
"automatic and energetic life force when it has been mistuned through
disease". As disease is dynamic mistuning of the vital force - cure must
also be dynamic and retune the vital force to the state of health.
3. To do this the healer administers a homoeopathic remedy that tunes the
life force to a similar affection. This is the basis of the principle
"Similars cure Similars". The vital force is hypersensitive and susceptible
to a similar remedy in a small dose of a potency. This is why the
Simillimum has great powers!
4. The primary action of the homoeopathic remedy replaces the natural
disease with a stronger but temporary medicinal disorder. A homoeopathic
potency is subtle yet so powerful it can delusively replace the sensation
of the natural disease with its own similar medicine power. At the same
time, a homeopathic "disease" is dependant of the duration of the remedy
actions, which unlike chronic disease, is only temporary. In this way a
temporary medicinal disease can remove a permanent chronic disease.
5. At this time, Hahnemann wrote that the secondary curative action of the
vital force "directs its whole energy" against the remedy-disease "which it
soon overcomes". The combination of the secondary action of the vital force
to the medicinal disease and the transient nature of homeopathic remedy
lead to cessation of remedy induced illness. The vital force only uses as
much action as necessary remove the remedy-disease from without while
returning to the state of health within without any noticeable crisis or
over-reactions
6. When the vital force gains ascendency over the medical disease, and the
remedy duration ceases, the organism becomes completely free of the
medicinal disorder and returns to the sate of full health with renewed
vitality. This then completes the cure.
7. The vital force can do this without any painful sacrifices if the case
is manage properly. If the size of the dose, the potency and the
administration of the remedy are correct - this entire process can take
place without any over reactions of the organism. If the size of the dose
is too large, the potency is too high or the remedy is given too many times
- there may be aggravations that delay the cure. If the over medication is
serous there may be antagonistic secondary actions by the vital force. For
this reason, the case management and posology must be carefully applied.
The counter actions of the life force to allopathic stimulation is quite
different than the counter actions to a homoeopathic remedy. If one has
diarrhea and takes an opiate the primary action of the opium produces
constipation, and as soon as the duration of the remedy ceases, the
secondary action of the vital force will try to produce more diarrhea. If
the opium is given in larger and larger doses the counter action may be
suppressed so the negative derangement is diverted to a new channel causing
new more serious symptoms like the irritable bowel syndrome or ulcer, etc.
Hahnemann defined disease as a derangement of the vital force by a negative
influence, which means the life force itself does most of the damage. This
has been confirmed by modern science which shows that the organism's own
pro and anti-inflammatory hormones and deranged immune proteins are chief
pathogenic factors in disease. The confused vital force can not tell "self
from other" and will attack its own tissues with stress chemicals and
auto-immune factors as well as fall into immuno-deficiency. In this sense
disease most certainly is a derangement of the vital force.
In homeopathic cures a temporarily stronger remedy-disease replaces the
weaker natural disease and the vital force seeks to remove the
remedy-disease from without while re-establishing homeostasis within with
restored vitality. In the Preface to the fourth edition of the Chronic
Diseases Hahnemann wrote that if the image of the disease foe could be
"magnified to the apprehension of the vital force by a homeopathic remedy"
that delusively simulates the original illness, it could cause the vital
force "to increase its energies by degrees" until it was more powerful than
the original disorder.
Is the homoeopathic remedy an information package that replaces the
confused impression of the natural disease with a clear image of the
homoeopathic remedy-disease? Does the secondary curative action of the
vital force then seek to differentiate itself from the former confusion
caused by the natural disease and remove the remedy-disease moving the
organism in the direction of health? During this process one does witnesses
an increase in vitality and strength with added vigor. How does this all
take place? What do you think?
During the homeopathic healing process the vital force only produces as
much curative secondary action as necessary to bring on the state of health
and complete the cure. If the posology and case management has been correct
the entire process can be carried out without any noticeable over reactions
of the vital force. It is really quite amazing how gentle the process of
cure is under the influence of a correctly applied homoeopathic remedy. If
the remedy is applied incorrectly the process can produce much discomfort
through aggravations, accessory symptoms and antagonistic secondary actions
of the vital force. Hahnemann alludes to something like this in aphorism 64
part 2 and 68 which deals with primary and secondary actions to homeopathic
remedies as well as other places in his writings. Homeopathic cure takes
place through the interplay of the remedy and vital force in a manner that
is most amazing,
Sincerely, David Little.
---------------
"It is the life-force which cures diseases because a dead man needs no more
medicines."
Samuel Hahnemann
Visit our website on Hahnemannian Homoeopathy and Cyberspace Homoeopathic
Academy at
http://www.simillimum.com
David Little © 2000
-------------------
----------------------------------------------------------------------
Sheri Nakken, former R.N., MA, Hahnemannian Homeopath
Well Within & Earth Mysteries & Sacred Site Tours (worldwide)
Vaccination Information & Choice Network (new website)
http://www.wellwithin1.com/vaccine.htm
http://www.wellwithin1.com/homeo.htm
homeopathycures@tesco.net
ONLINE Introduction to Homeopathy Classes - next one September 5, 2007
ONLINE Introduction to Vaccine Dangers Classes - September 6, 2007
ONLINE Intro to Diseases - Risk, Reality & Alternative Treatment September
5, 2007
Voicemail US 530-740-0561 UK phone from US 011-44-1874-624-936