Hahnemann's Organon of Medicine - Aphorism 56

[Ardavan Shahrdar]

Hahnemann's Organon of Medicine
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Aphorism 56:

'By means of this palliative (antipathic,
enantiopathic) method, introduced according to Galen’s
teaching "Contraria contrariis" for seventeen
centuries, the physicians hitherto could hope to win
confidence while they deluded with almost
instantaneous amelioration. But how fundamentally
unhelpful and hurtful this method of treatment is (in
diseases not running a rapid course) we shall see in
what follows. It is certainly the only one of the
modes of treatment adopted by the allopaths that had
any manifest relation to a portion of the sufferings
caused by the natural disease; but what kind of
relation? Of a truth the very one (the exact contrary
of the right one) that ought carefully to be avoided
if we would not delude and make a mockery of the
patient affected with a chronic disease 1.

Footnote:

1 A third mode of employing medicines in diseases has
been attempted to be created by means of Isopathy, as
it is called - that is to say, a method of curing a
given disease by the same contagious principle that
produces it. But even granting this could be done,
yet, after all, seeing that the virus is given to the
patient highly potentized, and consequently, in an
altered condition, the cure is effected only by
opposing a simillimum to a simillimum.

To attempt to cure by means of the very same morbific
potency (per Idem) contradicts all normal human
understanding and hence all experience. Those who
first brought Isopathy to notice, probably thought of
the benefit which mankind received from cowpox
vaccination by which the vaccinated individual is
protected against future cowpox infection and as it
were cured in advance. But both, cowpox and smallpox
are only similar, in no way the same disease. In many
respects they differ, namely in the more rapid course
and mildness of cowpox and especially in this, that is
never contagious to man by more nearness. Universal
vaccination put an end to all epidemics of that deadly
fearful smallpox to such an extent that the present
generation does no longer possess a clear conception
of the former frightful smallpox plague.

Moreover, in this way, undoubtedly, certain diseases
peculiar to animals may give us remedies and thus
happily enlarge our stock of homœopathic remedies.

But to use a human morbific matter (a Psorin taken
from the itch in man) as a remedy for the same itch or
for evils arisen therefrom is ---- ?

Nothing can result from this but trouble and
aggravation of the disease.'
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Dr Ardavan Shahrdar, MD, DIHom
President of Iranian Homeopathic Association
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