Hahnemann's Organon of Medicine - Aphorism 80

[Ardavan Shahrdar]

Hahnemann's Organon of Medicine
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Aphorism 80:

'Incalculably greater and more important than the two
chronic miasms just named, however, is the chronic
miasm of psora, which, while those two reveal their
specific internal dyscrasia, the one by the venereal
chancre, the other by the cauliflower-like growths,
does also, after the completion of the internal
infection of the whole organism, announce by a
peculiar cutaneous eruption, sometimes consisting only
of a few vesicles accompanied by intolerable
voluptuous tickling itching (and a peculiar odor), the
monstrous internal chronic miasm - the psora, the only
real fundamental cause and producer of all the other
numerous, I may say innumerable, forms of disease1,
which, under the names of nervous debility, hysteria,
hypochondriasis, mania, melancholia, imbecility,
madness, epilepsy and convulsions of all sorts,
softening of the bones (rachitis), scoliosis and
cyphosis, caries, cancer, fungus nematodes, neoplasms,
gout, haemorrhoids, jaundice, cyanosis, dropsy,
amenorrhoea, haemorrhage from the stomach, nose,
lungs, bladder and womb, of asthma and ulceration of
the lungs, of impotence and barrenness, of megrim,
deafness, cataract, amaurosis, urinary calculus,
paralysis, defects of the senses and pains of
thousands of kinds, etc., figure in systematic works
on pathology as peculiar, independent diseases.
Footnote:

1 I spent twelve years in investigating the source of
this incredibly large number of chronic affections, in
ascertaining and collecting certain proofs of this
great truth, which had remained unknown to all former
or contemporary observers, and in discovering at the
same time the principal (antipsoric) remedies, which
collectively are nearly a match for this
thousand-headed monster of disease in all its
different developments and forms. I have published my
observations on this subject in the book entitled The
Chronic Diseases (4 vols., Dresden, Arnold. [2nd
edit., Dusseldorf, Schaub.]) before I had obtained
this knowledge I could only treat the whole number of
chronic diseases as isolated, individual maladies,
with those medicinal substances whose pure effects had
been tested on healthy persons up to that period, so
that every case of chronic disease was treated by my
disciples according to the group of symptoms it
presented, just like an idiopathic disease, and it was
often so for cured that sick mankind rejoiced at the
extensive remedial treasures already amassed by the
new healing art. How much greater cause is there now
for rejoicing that the desired goal has been so much
more nearly attained, inasmuch as the recently
discovered and far more specific homœopathic remedies
for chronic affections arising from psora (properly
termed antipsoric remedies) and the special
instructions for their preparation and employment have
been published; and from among them the true physician
can now select for his curative agents those whose
medicinal symptoms correspond in the most similar
(homœopathic) manner to the chronic disease he has to
cure; and thus, by the employment of (antipsoric)
medicines more suitable for this miasm, he is enabled
to render more essential service and almost invariably
to effect a perfect cure.'
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President of Iranian Homeopathic Association
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