Re: External & Internal
Posted: Tue Oct 28, 2003 11:19 am
Dear Rosemary
What part of Aph 194 leads you to believe that Hahnemann is advocating both
Internal and external remedy applications?
He starts clearly - It is NOT USEFUL ...
Please also see 196 and 197.
The point is, by removing external symptoms, it then becomes difficult to
know if a real (internal) cure has taken place. I would have concerns on
whether the disease has been suppressed.
Rgds
Soroush
Aphorism 194 of Organon :
'It is not useful, either in acute local diseases of recent origin or in
local affections that have already existed a long time, to rub in or apply
externally to the spot an external remedy, even though it be the specific
and, when used internally, salutary by reason of its homoeopathicity, even
although it should be at the same time administered internally; for the
acute topical affections (e.g., inflammations of the individual parts,
erysipelas, etc.), which have not been caused by external injury of
proportionate violence, but by dynamic or internal causes, yield most surely
to internal remedies homoeopathically adapted to the perceptible state of
the health present in the exterior and interior, selected from the
general store of proved medicines,1 and generally without any other aid; but
if these diseases do not yield to them completely, and if there still remain
in the affected spot and in the whole state, notwithstanding good regimen, a
relic of disease which the vital force is not competent to restore to the
normal state, then the acute disease was (as not
infrequently happens) a product of psora which had hitherto remained latent
in the interior, but has now burst forth and is on the point of developing
into a palpable chronic disease.'
Message: 18
Date: Mon, 27 Oct 2003 13:10:20 -0800
From: "Rosemary C. Hyde, Ph.D."
Subject: Re: The Two Pronged Approach
It's interesting to note that Hahnemann advocated using just such an
approach (combining internal administration with topical application of the
same potentized remedy for systemic (chronic) conditions), in Chronic
Disease. I was surprised to read that, as it had never been brought to my
attention through my homeopathic education.
Rosemary
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What part of Aph 194 leads you to believe that Hahnemann is advocating both
Internal and external remedy applications?
He starts clearly - It is NOT USEFUL ...
Please also see 196 and 197.
The point is, by removing external symptoms, it then becomes difficult to
know if a real (internal) cure has taken place. I would have concerns on
whether the disease has been suppressed.
Rgds
Soroush
Aphorism 194 of Organon :
'It is not useful, either in acute local diseases of recent origin or in
local affections that have already existed a long time, to rub in or apply
externally to the spot an external remedy, even though it be the specific
and, when used internally, salutary by reason of its homoeopathicity, even
although it should be at the same time administered internally; for the
acute topical affections (e.g., inflammations of the individual parts,
erysipelas, etc.), which have not been caused by external injury of
proportionate violence, but by dynamic or internal causes, yield most surely
to internal remedies homoeopathically adapted to the perceptible state of
the health present in the exterior and interior, selected from the
general store of proved medicines,1 and generally without any other aid; but
if these diseases do not yield to them completely, and if there still remain
in the affected spot and in the whole state, notwithstanding good regimen, a
relic of disease which the vital force is not competent to restore to the
normal state, then the acute disease was (as not
infrequently happens) a product of psora which had hitherto remained latent
in the interior, but has now burst forth and is on the point of developing
into a palpable chronic disease.'
Message: 18
Date: Mon, 27 Oct 2003 13:10:20 -0800
From: "Rosemary C. Hyde, Ph.D."
Subject: Re: The Two Pronged Approach
It's interesting to note that Hahnemann advocated using just such an
approach (combining internal administration with topical application of the
same potentized remedy for systemic (chronic) conditions), in Chronic
Disease. I was surprised to read that, as it had never been brought to my
attention through my homeopathic education.
Rosemary
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