homeopathy or isopathy
Posted: Wed Nov 12, 2003 6:50 pm
Dear Feras
you wrote:
capable to stimulate vital force"?
I beleive : No it wont.
Yes it means. But we do not need %100 similar, we need simillimum.
And for the first item: we can use our knowledg and reasoning as a source.
Not always we need a written text. Fortunately there is a source: Organon of
medicine. Here is the fotenote to ยง 56 both in fifth and sixth edition.
*Fifth Edition
"1 A fourth mode of employing medicines in diseases has been attempted to be
created by means of Isopathy, as it is called - that is to say, a method of
curing a given disease by the same contagious particle that produces it. But
even granting this could be done, which would certainly be a valuable
discovery, yet, after all, seeing that the virus is given to the patient
highly potentized, and thereby, consequently, to a certain degree in an
altered condition, the cure is effected only by opposing a simillimum to a
simillimum."
*Sixth Edition
"1 A third mode of employing medicines in diseases has been attempted to be
created by means of Isopathy, as it is called - that is to say, a method of
curing a given disease by the same contagious principle that produces it.
But even granting this could be done, yet, after all, seeing that the virus
is given to the patient highly potentized, and consequently, in an altered
condition, the cure is effected only by opposing a simillimum to a
simillimum.
To attempt to cure by means of the very same morbific potency (per Idem)
contradicts all normal human understanding and hence all experience. Those
who first brought Isopathy to notice, probably thought of the benefit which
mankind received from cowpox vaccination by which the vaccinated individual
is protected against future cowpox infection and as it were cured in
advance. But both, cowpox and smallpox are only similar, in no way the same
disease. In many respects they differ, namely in the more rapid course and
mildness of cowpox and especially in this, that is never contagious to man
by more nearness. Universal vaccination put an end to all epidemics of that
deadly fearful smallpox to such an extent that the present generation does
no longer possess a clear conception of the former frightful smallpox
plague.
Moreover, in this way, undoubtedly, certain diseases peculiar to animals may
give us remedies and thus happily enlarge our stock of homoeopathic
remedies.
But to use a human morbific matter (a Psorin taken from the itch in man) as
a remedy for the same itch or for evils arisen therefrom is - ?
Nothing can result from this but trouble and aggravation of the disease."
Regards
Farbod
you wrote:
capable to stimulate vital force"?
I beleive : No it wont.
Yes it means. But we do not need %100 similar, we need simillimum.
And for the first item: we can use our knowledg and reasoning as a source.
Not always we need a written text. Fortunately there is a source: Organon of
medicine. Here is the fotenote to ยง 56 both in fifth and sixth edition.
*Fifth Edition
"1 A fourth mode of employing medicines in diseases has been attempted to be
created by means of Isopathy, as it is called - that is to say, a method of
curing a given disease by the same contagious particle that produces it. But
even granting this could be done, which would certainly be a valuable
discovery, yet, after all, seeing that the virus is given to the patient
highly potentized, and thereby, consequently, to a certain degree in an
altered condition, the cure is effected only by opposing a simillimum to a
simillimum."
*Sixth Edition
"1 A third mode of employing medicines in diseases has been attempted to be
created by means of Isopathy, as it is called - that is to say, a method of
curing a given disease by the same contagious principle that produces it.
But even granting this could be done, yet, after all, seeing that the virus
is given to the patient highly potentized, and consequently, in an altered
condition, the cure is effected only by opposing a simillimum to a
simillimum.
To attempt to cure by means of the very same morbific potency (per Idem)
contradicts all normal human understanding and hence all experience. Those
who first brought Isopathy to notice, probably thought of the benefit which
mankind received from cowpox vaccination by which the vaccinated individual
is protected against future cowpox infection and as it were cured in
advance. But both, cowpox and smallpox are only similar, in no way the same
disease. In many respects they differ, namely in the more rapid course and
mildness of cowpox and especially in this, that is never contagious to man
by more nearness. Universal vaccination put an end to all epidemics of that
deadly fearful smallpox to such an extent that the present generation does
no longer possess a clear conception of the former frightful smallpox
plague.
Moreover, in this way, undoubtedly, certain diseases peculiar to animals may
give us remedies and thus happily enlarge our stock of homoeopathic
remedies.
But to use a human morbific matter (a Psorin taken from the itch in man) as
a remedy for the same itch or for evils arisen therefrom is - ?
Nothing can result from this but trouble and aggravation of the disease."
Regards
Farbod