Hahnemann's Organon of Medicine - Aphorism 70

[Ardavan Shahrdar]

Hahnemann's Organon of Medicine
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Aphorism 70:

'From what has been already adduced we cannot fail to
draw the following inferences:

That everything of a really morbid character and which
ought to be cured that the physician can discover in
diseases consists solely of the sufferings of the
patient, and the sensible alterations in his health,
in a word, solely of the totality of the symptoms, by
means of which the disease demands the medicine
requisite for its relief; while, on the other hand,
every internal cause attributed to it, every occult
quality or imaginary material morbific principle, is
nothing but an idle dream;

That this derangement of the state of health, which we
term disease, can only be converted into health by
another revolution effected in the state of health by
means of medicines, whose sole curative power,
consequently, can only consist in altering man’s state
of health - that is to say, in a peculiar excitation
of morbid symptoms, and is learned with most
distinctness and purity by testing them on the healthy
body;

That, according to all experience, a natural disease
can never be cured by medicines that possess the power
of producing in the healthy individual an alien morbid
state (dissimilar morbid symptoms) differing from that
of the disease to be cured (never, therefore, by an
allopathic mode of treatment), and that even in nature
no cure ever takes place in which an inherent disease
is removed, annihilated and cured by the addition of
another disease dissimilar to it, be the new one ever
so strong;

That, moreover, all experience proves that, by means
of medicines which have a tendency to produce in the
healthy individual an artificial morbid symptom,
antagonistic to the single symptom of disease sought
to be cured, the cure of a long-standing affection
will never be effected, but merely a very transient
alleviation, always follows by its aggravation; and
that, in a word, this antipathic and merely palliative
treatment in long-standing diseases of a serious
character is absolutely inefficacious;

That, however, the third and only other possible mode
of treatment (the homœopathic), in which there is
employed for the totality of the symptoms of a natural
disease a medicine capable of producing the most
similar symptoms possible in the healthy individual,
given in suitable dose, is the only efficacious
remedial method whereby diseases, which are purely
dynamic deranging irritations of the vital force, are
overpowered, and being thus easily, perfectly and
permanently extinguished, must necessarily cease to
exist. This is brought about by means of the stronger
similar deranging irritation of the homœopathic
medicine in the sensation of the life principle. - and
for this mode of procedure we have the example of
unfettered Nature herself, when to an old disease
there is added a new one similar to the first, whereby
the new one is rapidly and forever annihilated and
cured.'
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Dr Ardavan Shahrdar, MD, DIHom
President of Iranian Homeopathic Association
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