Hahnemann's Organon of Medicine - Aphorism 148

[Ardavan Shahrdar]

Hahnemann's Organon of Medicine
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Aphorism 148:

'The natural disease is never to be considered as a
noxious material situated somewhere within the
interior or exterior of man (§ 11-13) but as one
produced by an inimical spirit-like (conceptual)
agency which, like a kind of infection (note to § 11)
disturbs in its instinctive existence of the
spirit-like (conceptual) principle of life within the
organism torturing it as an evil spirit and compelling
it to produce certain ailments and disorders in the
regular course of its life. These are known as
symptoms (disease). If, now, the influence of this
inimical agency that not only caused but strives to
continue this disorder, be taken away as is done when
the physician administers an artificial potency,
capable of altering the life principle in the most
similar manner (a homoeopathic medicine) which exceeds
in energy even in the smallest dose the similar
natural disease (§§ 33, 279), then the influence of
the original noxious morbid agent on the life
principle is lost during the action of this stronger
similar artificial disease. Thence the evil no longer
exists for the life principle - it is destroyed. If,
as has been said, the selected homoeopathic remedy is
administered properly, then the acute natural disease
which is to be overruled if recently developed, will
disappear imperceptibly in a few hours.

An older, more chronic disease will yield somewhat
later together with all traces of discomfort, by the
use of several doses of the same more highly
potentized remedy or after careful selection1 of one
or another more similar homoeopathic medicine. Health,
recovery, follow in imperceptible, often rapid
transitions. The life principle is freed again and
capable of resuming the life of the organism in health
as before and strength returns.
Footnote:

1 But this laborious, sometimes very laborious, search
for and selection of the homoeopathic remedy most
suitable in every respect to each morbid state, is an
operation which, notwithstanding all the admirable
books for facilitating it, still demands the study of
the original sources themselves, and at the same time
a great amount of circumspection and serious
deliberation, which have their best rewards in the
consciousness of having faithfully discharged our
duty. How could his laborious, care-demanding task, by
which alone the best way of curing diseases is
rendered possible, please the gentlemen of the new
mongrel sect, who assume the honorable name of
homoeopathists, and even seem to employ medicines in
form and appearance homoeopathic, but determined upon
by them anyhow (quidquid in buccam venit), and who,
when the unsuitable remedy does not immediately give
relief, in place of laying the blame on their
unpardonable ignorance and laxity in performing the
most and important and serious of all human affairs,
ascribe it to homoeopathy, which they accuse of great
imperfection (if the truth be told, its imperfection
consists in this, that the most suitable homoeopathic
remedy for each morbid condition does not
spontaneously fly into their mouths like roasted
pigeons, without any trouble on their own part). They
know, however, from frequent practice, how to make up
for the inefficiency of the scarcely half homoeopathic
remedy by the employment of allopathic means, that
come much more handy to them, among which one or more
dozens of leeches applied to the affected part, or
little harmless venesections to the extent of eight
ounces, and so forth, play an important part; and
should the patient, in spite of all this, recover,
they extol their venesections, leeches, etc., alleging
that, had it not been for these, the patient would not
have been pulled through, and they give us to
understand, in no doubtful language, that these
operations, derived without much exercise of genius
from the pernicious routine of the old school, in
reality contributed the best share towards the cure.
But if the patient die under the treatment, as not
unfrequently happens, they seek to console the friends
by saying that they themselves were witnesses that
everything conceivable had been done for the lamented
deceased. Who would do this frivolous and pernicious
tribe the honour to call them, after the name of the
very laborious but salutary art, homoeopathic
physicians? May the just recompense await them, that,
when taken ill, they may be treated in the same
manner!'

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Dr Ardavan Shahrdar, MD, DIHom
President of Iranian Homeopathic Association
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