Hering, was Hering's Law - question
Posted: Wed May 27, 2009 9:17 pm
Hi Leilanae. Susan, Tanya, list,
A slight correction on Yagur:-)
With this information I found the preface, and here is what Hering said:
********
Every hom#opathic physician must have observed that the improvement in **pain**
takes place from above downward ; and in ** diseases**, from within outward.
....
The thorough cure for a widely ramified chronic disease in the organism is
indicated by the most important organs being first relieved, the affection
passes off in the order in which the organs had been effected, the more
important being relieved first, the less important next, and, the, skin last.
*********
I found some more, in an article by Adler:
http://209.85.129.132/search?q=cache:Q- ... clnk&gl=de
It seems, Hering had wirtten an article about it:article originally published
in 1865 in a periodic called The Hahnemannian Monthly: "The
three hahnemannian rules regarding the hierarchy of the symptoms",
************
In the treatment
of chronic diseases the medication selected should remove the symptoms:
"from within outward",
"from upward downward";
"from the most essential organs to the less essential";
"from the brain and the nerves outward and downward, to the most external
and the lowest of all organs: the skin",
"in the reverse order of its appearance"
***************+
Perhaps Hering himself came to the conclusion that the items above partly
contradict each other, when they are applied to specific cases.
Anyway, 10 years laterin his "Analytical Repertory of the symptoms of the
mind", which he wrote 1875, he says in the chapter on "how to use this book":
*********
In all chronic and lingering cases, the symptoms appearing last, even though
they may appear insignificant, are always the most important in regard to the
selection of a drug; the oldest are the least important; all symtpoms between
have to be arranged according to the order of their appearance. **Only such
patients remain well and are really cured, whho have been rid of their symptoms
in the reverse order of their development**
**********
(The part I marked with **....** aboe are printed in italics in the book)
So it seems Hering fully returned to what Hahnemann had said about it and
disregarded the rest of his "law".
Another interesting point in this "how to" part of the repertory; it seems
that, just as Nash, Hering considered 3 symptoms of similarity between a case
and a drug, sufficient - provided they are *leading* symptoms.
However, this is referring to this book - which is quite different than most of
our MMs and reps. He in this statement then refers to his lectures in
Allentown, 1835.
Does anyone know whether they were published? I should like to know more about
that, in a more general way.
Ever since I read the latest edition of his "Domestic Physician" this author
has intrigued me. He is always presented as the staunchest of "purist
classical" prescribers, and this book is explained in a way that it was meant
for the missionaries somewhere in the jungles.
This, however, is only partly true. Hering kept adding to this book and kept
publishing fresh editions in German up to shortly before his death. They no
longer were for those missionaries but, by his own words, for lay people and
homeopathic doctors.
So, up to the end of his life, Hering also wrote homeopathic
cookbooks - full of recipes:-) It seems that some of the great
homeopaths of old were quite broad-minded.
Regards
Luise
--
One thought to all who, free of doubt,
So definitely know what's true:
2 and 2 is 22 -
and 2 times 2 is 2:-)
==========> ICQ yinyang 96391801 <==========
A slight correction on Yagur:-)
With this information I found the preface, and here is what Hering said:
********
Every hom#opathic physician must have observed that the improvement in **pain**
takes place from above downward ; and in ** diseases**, from within outward.
....
The thorough cure for a widely ramified chronic disease in the organism is
indicated by the most important organs being first relieved, the affection
passes off in the order in which the organs had been effected, the more
important being relieved first, the less important next, and, the, skin last.
*********
I found some more, in an article by Adler:
http://209.85.129.132/search?q=cache:Q- ... clnk&gl=de
It seems, Hering had wirtten an article about it:article originally published
in 1865 in a periodic called The Hahnemannian Monthly: "The
three hahnemannian rules regarding the hierarchy of the symptoms",
************
In the treatment
of chronic diseases the medication selected should remove the symptoms:
"from within outward",
"from upward downward";
"from the most essential organs to the less essential";
"from the brain and the nerves outward and downward, to the most external
and the lowest of all organs: the skin",
"in the reverse order of its appearance"
***************+
Perhaps Hering himself came to the conclusion that the items above partly
contradict each other, when they are applied to specific cases.
Anyway, 10 years laterin his "Analytical Repertory of the symptoms of the
mind", which he wrote 1875, he says in the chapter on "how to use this book":
*********
In all chronic and lingering cases, the symptoms appearing last, even though
they may appear insignificant, are always the most important in regard to the
selection of a drug; the oldest are the least important; all symtpoms between
have to be arranged according to the order of their appearance. **Only such
patients remain well and are really cured, whho have been rid of their symptoms
in the reverse order of their development**
**********
(The part I marked with **....** aboe are printed in italics in the book)
So it seems Hering fully returned to what Hahnemann had said about it and
disregarded the rest of his "law".
Another interesting point in this "how to" part of the repertory; it seems
that, just as Nash, Hering considered 3 symptoms of similarity between a case
and a drug, sufficient - provided they are *leading* symptoms.
However, this is referring to this book - which is quite different than most of
our MMs and reps. He in this statement then refers to his lectures in
Allentown, 1835.
Does anyone know whether they were published? I should like to know more about
that, in a more general way.
Ever since I read the latest edition of his "Domestic Physician" this author
has intrigued me. He is always presented as the staunchest of "purist
classical" prescribers, and this book is explained in a way that it was meant
for the missionaries somewhere in the jungles.
This, however, is only partly true. Hering kept adding to this book and kept
publishing fresh editions in German up to shortly before his death. They no
longer were for those missionaries but, by his own words, for lay people and
homeopathic doctors.
So, up to the end of his life, Hering also wrote homeopathic
cookbooks - full of recipes:-) It seems that some of the great
homeopaths of old were quite broad-minded.
Regards
Luise
--
One thought to all who, free of doubt,
So definitely know what's true:
2 and 2 is 22 -
and 2 times 2 is 2:-)
==========> ICQ yinyang 96391801 <==========