Hahnemann's Organon of Medicine - Aphorism 57
Posted: Sat Aug 17, 2002 2:27 pm
Hahnemann's Organon of Medicine
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Aphorism 57:
'In order to carry into practice this antipathic
method, the ordinary physician gives, for a single
troublesome symptom from among the many other symptoms
of the disease which he passes by unheeded, a medicine
concerning which it is known that it produces the
exact opposite of the morbid symptom sought to be
subdued, from which, agreeably to the fifteen -
centuries - old traditional rule of the antiquated
medical school (contraria contrariis) he can expect
the speediest (palliative) relief. He gives large
doses of opium for pains of all sorts, because this
drug soon benumbs the sensibility, and administers the
same remedy for diarrhoeas, because it speedily puts a
stop to the peristaltic motion of the intestinal canal
and makes it insensible; and also for sleeplessness,
because opium rapidly produces a stupefied, comatose
sleep; he gives purgatives when the patient has
suffered long from constipation and costiveness; he
causes the burnt hand to be plunged into cold water,
which, from its low degree of temperature, seems
instantaneously to remove the burning pain, as if by
magic; he puts the patient who complains of chilliness
and deficiency of vital heat into warm baths, which
warm him immediately; he makes him who is suffering
from prolonged debility drink wine, whereby he is
instantly enlivened and refreshed; and in like manner
he employs other opposite (antipathic) remedial means,
but he has very few besides those just mentioned, as
it is only of very few substances that some peculiar
(primary) action is known to the ordinary medical
school.'
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Aphorism 57:
'In order to carry into practice this antipathic
method, the ordinary physician gives, for a single
troublesome symptom from among the many other symptoms
of the disease which he passes by unheeded, a medicine
concerning which it is known that it produces the
exact opposite of the morbid symptom sought to be
subdued, from which, agreeably to the fifteen -
centuries - old traditional rule of the antiquated
medical school (contraria contrariis) he can expect
the speediest (palliative) relief. He gives large
doses of opium for pains of all sorts, because this
drug soon benumbs the sensibility, and administers the
same remedy for diarrhoeas, because it speedily puts a
stop to the peristaltic motion of the intestinal canal
and makes it insensible; and also for sleeplessness,
because opium rapidly produces a stupefied, comatose
sleep; he gives purgatives when the patient has
suffered long from constipation and costiveness; he
causes the burnt hand to be plunged into cold water,
which, from its low degree of temperature, seems
instantaneously to remove the burning pain, as if by
magic; he puts the patient who complains of chilliness
and deficiency of vital heat into warm baths, which
warm him immediately; he makes him who is suffering
from prolonged debility drink wine, whereby he is
instantly enlivened and refreshed; and in like manner
he employs other opposite (antipathic) remedial means,
but he has very few besides those just mentioned, as
it is only of very few substances that some peculiar
(primary) action is known to the ordinary medical
school.'
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Minutus appreciates your fruitful contribution!
=====
"Life is beautiful, if you look at it in a beautiful way."
Dr Ardavan Shahrdar, MD, DIHom
President of Iranian Homeopathic Association
Website: http://www.minutus.org
Email: ashahrdar@yahoo.com
Mailing list: http://www.yahoogroups.com/group/minutus
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