Organon 6 - 67
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ยง 67 Sixth Edition
These incontrovertible truths, which spontaneously offer themselves to our
notice and experience, explain to us the beneficial action that takes place
under homoeopathic treatment; while, on the other hand, they demonstrate the
perversity of the antipathic and palliative treatment of diseases with
antagonistically acting medicines.1
1 Only in the most urgent cases, where danger to life and imminent death
allow no time for the action of a homoeopathic remedy - not hours, sometimes
not even quarter-hours, and scarcely minutes - in sudden accidents occurring
to previously healthy individuals - for example, in asphyxia and suspended
animation from lightning, from suffocation, freezing, drowning, etc. - is it
admissible and judicious, at all events as a preliminary measure to
stimulate the irritability and sensibility (the physical life) with a
palliative, as for instance, with gentle electrical shocks, with clysters of
strong coffee, with a stimulating odor, gradual application of heat, etc.
When this stimulation is effected, the play of the vital organs again goes
on in its former healthy manner, for there is here no disease* to be
removed, but merely an obstruction and suppression of the healthy vital
force. To this category belong various antidotes to sudden poisoning:
alkalies from mineral acids, hepar sulphuris for metallic poisons, coffee
and camphora (and ipecacuanha) for poisoning by opium, etc.
It does not follow that a homoeopathic medicine has been ill selected for a
case of disease because some of the medicinal symptoms are only antipathic
to some of the less important and minor symptoms of the disease; if only the
others, the stronger well-marked (characteristic), and peculiar symptoms of
the disease are covered and matched by the same medicine with similarity of
symptoms - that is to say, overpowered, destroyed and extinguished; the few
opposite symptoms also disappear of themselves after the expiry of the term
of action of the medicament, without retarding the cure in the least.
* And yet the new sect that mixes the two systems appeals (though in vain)
to this observation, in order that they may have an excuse for encountering
everywhere such exceptions to the general rule in diseases, and to justify
their convenient employment of allopathic palliatives, and of other
injurious allopathic trash besides, solely for the sake of sparing
themselves the trouble of seeking for the suitable homoeopathic remedy for
each case of disease - and thus conveniently appear as homoeopathic
physicians, without being such. But their performances are on a par with the
system they pursue; they are corrupting.
These incontrovertible truths, which spontaneously offer themselves to our
notice and experience, explain to us the beneficial action that takes place
under homoeopathic treatment; while, on the other hand, they demonstrate the
perversity of the antipathic and palliative treatment of diseases with
antagonistically acting medicines.1
1 Only in the most urgent cases, where danger to life and imminent death
allow no time for the action of a homoeopathic remedy - not hours, sometimes
not even quarter-hours, and scarcely minutes - in sudden accidents occurring
to previously healthy individuals - for example, in asphyxia and suspended
animation from lightning, from suffocation, freezing, drowning, etc. - is it
admissible and judicious, at all events as a preliminary measure to
stimulate the irritability and sensibility (the physical life) with a
palliative, as for instance, with gentle electrical shocks, with clysters of
strong coffee, with a stimulating odor, gradual application of heat, etc.
When this stimulation is effected, the play of the vital organs again goes
on in its former healthy manner, for there is here no disease* to be
removed, but merely an obstruction and suppression of the healthy vital
force. To this category belong various antidotes to sudden poisoning:
alkalies from mineral acids, hepar sulphuris for metallic poisons, coffee
and camphora (and ipecacuanha) for poisoning by opium, etc.
It does not follow that a homoeopathic medicine has been ill selected for a
case of disease because some of the medicinal symptoms are only antipathic
to some of the less important and minor symptoms of the disease; if only the
others, the stronger well-marked (characteristic), and peculiar symptoms of
the disease are covered and matched by the same medicine with similarity of
symptoms - that is to say, overpowered, destroyed and extinguished; the few
opposite symptoms also disappear of themselves after the expiry of the term
of action of the medicament, without retarding the cure in the least.
* And yet the new sect that mixes the two systems appeals (though in vain)
to this observation, in order that they may have an excuse for encountering
everywhere such exceptions to the general rule in diseases, and to justify
their convenient employment of allopathic palliatives, and of other
injurious allopathic trash besides, solely for the sake of sparing
themselves the trouble of seeking for the suitable homoeopathic remedy for
each case of disease - and thus conveniently appear as homoeopathic
physicians, without being such. But their performances are on a par with the
system they pursue; they are corrupting.