Hahnemann's Organon of Medicine - Aphorism 22

[Ardavan Shahrdar]

Hahnemann's Organon of Medicine
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Aphorism 22:

'But as nothing is to be observed in diseases that
must be removed in order to change them into health
besides the totality of their signs and symptoms, and
likewise medicines can show nothing curative besides
their tendency to produce morbid symptoms in healthy
persons and to remove them in diseased persons; it
follows, on the one hand, that medicines only become
remedies and capable of annihilating disease, because
the medicinal substance, by exciting certain effects
and symptoms, that is to say, by producing a certain
artificial morbid state, removes and abrogates the
symptoms already present, to wit, the natural morbid
state we wish to cure. On the other hand, it follows
that, for the totality of the symptoms of the disease
to be cured, a medicine must be sought which
(according as experience shall prove whether the
morbid symptoms are most readily, certainly, and
permanently removed and changed into health by similar
or opposite medicinal symptoms1) have the greatest
tendency to produce similar or opposite symptoms.

Footnote:

1 The other possible mode of employing medicines for
diseases besides these two is the allopathic method,
in which medicines are given, whose symptoms have no
direct pathological relation to the morbid state,
neither similar nor opposite, but quite heterogeneous
to the symptoms of the disease. This procedure plays,
as I have shown elsewhere, an irresponsible murderous
game with the life of the patient by means of
dangerous, violent medicines, whose action is unknown
and which are chosen on mere conjectures and given in
large and frequent doses. Again, by means of painful
operations, intended to lead the disease to other
regions and taking the strength and vital juices of
the patient, through evacuations above and below,
sweat or salivation, but especially through
squandering the irreplaceable blood, as is done by the
reigning routine practice, used blindly and
relentlessly, usually with the pretext that the
physician should imitate and further the sick nature
in its efforts to help itself, without considering how
irrational it is, to imitate and further these very
imperfect, mostly inappropriate efforts of the
instinctive unintelligent vital energy which is
implanted in our organism, so long as it is healthy to
carry on life in harmonious development, but not to
heal itself in disease. For, were it possessed of such
a model ability, it would never have allowed the
organism to get sick. When made ill by noxious agents,
our life principle cannot do anything else than
express its depression caused by disturbance of the
regularity of its life, by symptoms, by means of which
the intelligent physician is ask for aid. If this is
not given, it strives to save by increasing the
ailment, especially through violent evacuations, no
matter what this entails, often with the largest
sacrifices or destruction of life itself.

For the purpose of cure, the morbidly depressed vital
energy possesses so little ability worthy of imitation
since all changes and symptoms produced by it in the
organism are the disease itself. What intelligent
physician would want to imitate it with the intention
to heal if he did not thereby sacrifice his patient?'
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Dr Ardavan Shahrdar, MD, DIHom
President of Iranian Homeopathic Association
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