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[Gill Graham]
The Organon and Homeopathic Philosophy
The Organon of Medicine, written by S. Hahnemann, the founder of
homeopathy is the cornerstone of homeopathic principles and practice. The 1st
edition was written in 1810 in aphoristic style (paragraphs with numbers.) The
book lays out the doctrines of homeopathy in a logical sequence of thoughts,
philosophy and practice. In total there were 6 editions, 5 of which were
published in Hahnemann’s lifetime, the 6th completed in 1842, but he
sadly passed away in June of 1843 before it could be published. Thanks to the
efforts of William Boericke. the 6th edition was published in 1921.
In order to fully embrace homeopathy, it is helpful to understand basic
homeopathic philosophy. With patients, and those that wish to learn, I
repeatedly refer to the mind/body connection and how symptoms should be treated
in their totality as opposed to being seen as separate problems. The fundamental tenet of homeopathic medicine
is to treat the imbalances of ‘the vital force’ leading to ill health as a
whole, ideally with one remedy which matches the symptoms of the mind, body and
spirit (this remedy is known as the Simillimum.) The Vital Force is an
undefined energy, capable of fuelling an organism, it is inherent in all living
things, which if disrupted or disturbed can result in disease. “The material
organism without the vital force is capable of no sensation, no function, no
self preservation;
it derives all sensations, and performs all functions of life solely by
means of the immaterial being (the vital force) which animates the material
organism in health and disease.” (Aphorism 10, The Organon)
Hahnemann refers to it also as ‘dynamis’, ‘vital principle’ and ‘vital
energy’. James Tyler Kent refers to it as ‘The Simple Substance,’ which is the
dominating force in the organism; the absence of this force, is death. To help with an understanding of this, energy
parallels can be found in various cultures; the Ancient Chinese know The Vital
Force as ‘Chi, the Japanese and Koreans as ‘Ki’ and in the ancient Sanskrit
writings of India it is known as ‘Prana.’ Underlying this, there are 4 basic
principles which govern homeopathy; each of which will be discussed.
1st principle: the law of similars
The derivation of the word ‘Homeopathy’ (originally homoeopathie) comes
from the Greek homoeo, meaning ‘similar’, and pathos, meaning ‘suffering’. This
leads on to the first principle which is
‘Similia Similbus Curentur,’ translated from the Latin as: ‘like cures
like.’ This principle predates Hahnemann and in fact, goes back to ancient
ayurvedic scripts. The idea/concept of ‘The Law of Similars’ had first been
mentioned by Hippocrates (The Father of Medicine, 460-377 B.C.) then by P.A.
Paracelsus (1493-1541) although Hahnemann was responsible for creating
‘Homeopathy’ as we now know it, a complete system of medicine. Through much
research and hands on practice, Hahnemann proved that a substance that can
cause disease in a healthy person, can actively heal the same or similar
disease in another. For example, Belladonna, a well known homeopathic remedy is
used to treat high fevers, redness in the face and tongue. Were belladonna to
be ingested in its raw form, the symptoms of the poisoning would be exactly
this. Also, think of what happens when you are exposed to a raw onion. Your eyes water and nose burns. The homeopathic remedy allium cepa (made from
onion) can relieve these symptoms, once again, treating ‘like with like.’ The
task of the homeopath is to match the patients’ symptoms to the correct
homeopathic remedy, specifically those that are characteristic to the patient.
This is explained in aphorism 26 in the Organon, where Hahnemann states: ‘In
the living organism a weaker, dynamic affection is permanently extinguished by
a stronger one which although different in nature nevertheless, greatly
resembles it in its expression.’ The simillimum is just that, totality; not
partial, but a complete reflection of a state that is mentally, physically and
spiritually in alignment with its subject.
2nd principle: the single remedy
The Single Remedy. Hahnemann was forceful in his opinion in prescribing
with one remedy for the totality of symptoms, using words such as ‘it is
inadmissible’ to prescribe more than one remedy at
a time (Aphorism 273, The Organon.) The reasoning and thinking behind
this lies in the fact that if many remedies were prescribed at once, it would
be impossible to ascertain which remedy was actually working and could
massively confuse a case. It is simple common sense when we consider that each
remedy is ‘proved’ individually, the combined interaction of many remedies’ at
once has not been.
This obviously has many similarities to where a GP of conventional
medicine, prescribes single drugs for single complaints, the interaction of all
these drugs, collectively untested, at times, with devastating consequences.
Why should homeopathy be any different, given the powerful effects of so many
of the remedies?
It remains the case that there will always be one remedy that resonates
with a case more than another; wherever possible, the homeopath should go with
this. However, as ever in life, there will always be grey areas and flexibility
at times is necessary as long as a remedy is given sufficient time to act, and
if there is a definite change in the presenting symptoms and aspect of the
Vital Force. In this instance Hahnemann,
in the 4th edition of the Organon suggested that remedies could be alternated,
given in short succession, and condones the use of tissue salts, in specific
cases that demanded a different approach. Catherine Coulter, in ‘The unfolding
of Experience’ sums up the ideal situation in prescribing, by stating that:
‘the strongest, deepest current in classical homeopathy – the tug that pulls
the stream to the river and the river to the sea- is to address the multiple
manifestations of the single disordered life-force with a single remedy; in a
phrase, to shape unity from multiplicity.’ (Coulter, C: 2008:100) It remains
the case that if this pure, philosophically appropriate method of prescribing
can be attained and in whilst doing so, promotes healing without other remedies
being involved, we have demonstrated the dynamic power of pure, classical
homeopathy.
3rd principle: the minimum dose
Healing should be done ‘rapidly, gently and permanently; to remove and
destroy the whole disease in the shortest, surest, least harmful way, according
to clearly comprehensible principles.’ (Aphorism 2.) The minimum dose of a
remedy, (one of these principles) simply means the minutest amount of a
substance to nudge the vital force in the direction of healing. Too high a potency
of a remedy or unnecessary repetition can result in unwelcome
aggravations. In homeopathy, less is
more. The body has a way of signaling through the manifestation of symptoms,
when a higher potency is needed or more frequent repetition of a remedy.
If there was one ‘principle’ in homeopathy that people had a problem
with understanding, it would be the infinitesimal doses of a remedy given; in
other words, the perception is, there is nothing in a remedy. This has been
said to me on many occasions. However, it remains the case that empirically,
and in thousands of studies, both observational and through clinical outcome
and randomized controlled trials, homeopathy has been seen to heal many people
worldwide. For those who cannot come to terms with the fact that homeopathic
remedies do not contain any active material because of the molecular limits of
Avogrado’s number, the current scientific evidence suggests that homeopathic
remedies are nanoparticles and not ordinary conventional bulks of source material.
Given this, intense scientific consideration must be seriously focused now on
how nano particles can act in the body to stimulate a healing process. Much of
this research is headed by Dr Iris Bell (MD, Ph.D.) from the University of
Arizona College of Medicine, and for those who would like more detailed
information, please read and study the research: (Bell, I, Koithan, M, 2012.)
Research in this area is ongoing and is constantly being updated, by various
eminent scientists and homeopaths throughout the world.
4th principle: the potentized remedy.
Homeopathic remedies are made from natural substances such as plants,
minerals and animals but the process of their manufacture is unlike that of any
other medicine. A remedy made from a specific substance is put through a
process of serial dilution, the end result being a very dilute extract is
made. Each step of this dilution
involves the substance being shaken with force; homeopathically this is
referred to as ‘succussion.’ It has been found that by succusing in this way
the remedy becomes active and dynamic (generally latent in its crude form) and
the degree of the succussion produces a final potency of a remedy which will be
given in accordance with the presenting vital force. Fundamentally,
potentization means that a substance has been prepared according to homeopathic
philosophy and homeopathic pharmaceutical standards, through serial dilution
and succussion.
How Aphorism 27 Changed The World -by Grant Bentley reviewed by Vatsala
Sperling.
Grant Bentley takes a fresh look at the Organon to see which aspects
still ring true today, and which aspects were products of his own thinking that
are not necessarily “laws” we need to follow strictly.
Ever since H. wrote the Organon of the medical art, homeopaths have been
divided about whether to blindly follow every word written by Hahnemann or to
be a rebel, question him, and chart a new course while still following the
basic principles of homeopathy. This division continues to the present moment
and shows no indication of going away. Books on the Organon written by the
adherents of both the sides are usually commentaries that try to simplify the archaic language used by
Hahnemann.
An attempt at examining the Organon with a view to finding out which
aspects of the Organon are Hahnemann’s observations of the natural laws and
which are his thoughts and deductions is an exercise most scholars of the
Organon dread undertaking, yet this attempt is the basis of Grant Bentley’ book
“How aphorism 27 changed the world”.
Grant has set for himself the following agenda:
Examine every aphorism of the
Organon
See which aphorisms describe
the natural laws
See which aphorisms are the
constructs of Hahnemann’s thoughts
Once the wheat (the natural
laws as observed by Hahnemann) has been separated from the chaff (Hahnemann’s
personal thoughts), dig into cases from more than 20 years of clinical work,
incl. successes and failures, studying which aspects of the Organon are
applicable in the context of today’s clinical practice and which aspects do not
hold and
should hence be dropped.
So, this book is based on the agenda I have just mentioned. If you are a
homeopath, you will know the Organon and know aphorism 27, but perhaps you have
not realized its
importance to you as a professional; I would suggest that you read this
book. You may find yourself nodding your head in approval because Grant has
dealt with many of the
questions that you might have asked about the Organon, but have never
found an answer for.
The title of this book has a “hook”, a techno-speak amongst authors and
publishers. A hook is what reels the reader in. You ask, “What, how did
aphorism 27 change the world? Did it really?” Once you are bristling with these
questions, Grant gives you well-known statistics to chew on. These are based on
the success of homeopathy in reducing mortality in the epidemics and pandemics
of the late 1800s and early 1900s.
The mainstream is fond of negating these statistics, saying that
homeopathy succeeded because it did not do blood-letting, not because the
remedies did their job. Homeopathy was successful in the flu pandemic of the
early 20th century when blood-letting had become totally out of fashion, and
Grant assigns this success to the healing effect of the remedies. He argues
convincingly that homeopathy – functioning on the basis laid out in aphorism 27
– not only saves life, but also enhances the quality of life and increases the
energy of its users so that they operate from a platform of creativity,
benevolence, determination and selflessness; in other words, their higher
selves are able to manifest because their life energy is not robbed and
consumed by diseases.
A healing modality of such a vast potential was discovered by Hahnemann,
and in laying down its tenets, he was both an artist and a vigilant scientist.
In a quick stride, Hahnemann crossed the boundary between mysticism and science
when he mentioned the word “vital force”. Successive generations of homeopaths
have tried to be scientific, attempting to place homeopathy in an easily
definable square box, while some have tried to embrace the mystic, artistic
side. Leaving these two camps to conclude their battle, Grant has taken a
middle ground and described homeopathy as “energy medicine”. Energetic
stressors from various sources can influence the vital force. Homeopathic
remedies are energy medicines that help the vital force in coping with the
impingement on its energy.
Understanding homeopathy as energy medicine frees us from the obligation
to not repeat the dose till it exhausts its action. If the vital force can
succumb to a daily robbery
of energy, and a well chosen remedy can replenish the robbed energy,
then why not repeat the dose? Hahnemann’s edict about not repeating a dose
turns out not to be an observation of a sacrosanct and irrefutable natural law
but simply his thinking. Today the times have changed, so let us rethink this
question.
In this vein, Grant examines the origin of the sixth edition of Organon
and says that Hahnemann experimented relentlessly and came up with LM scale
because he saw the need for frequent repetition of the remedies.
Grant has analyzed the failures Hahnemann had with treating chronic
cases and concluded that Hahnemann’s failure originated from his assumption
that all chronic cases start from infections. Based on his work of homeopathic
facial analysis, HFA, Grant explains miasms not just as inherited diseases but
as the body’s defence for fighting of stressors; he suggests that the chronic
diseases also can have a non-infectious origin. The stressors commonly seen
today were virtually unknown in Hahnemann’s time and therefore his views on
chronic diseases and miasms need a re-examination.
A ‘healing crisis’ is another word that homeopaths, and even consumers
of homeopathy, take for granted, believing that in homeopathy you first get
worse before getting better. Based on his work with HFA, Grant says that a true
simillimum does not elicit a healing crisis.
‘Vital force’ is another word that is scrutinized closely. Hahnemann did
not consider vital force as anything more than an earthly, instinctive,
unreasoning energy which is quite limited in its ability to defend us.
Therefore there is the need for medicines to exist so they can support the otherwise
limited vital force and help it to overcome disease. Hahnemann did not see it
as a spark of the divine within us. Grant cuts ruthlessly through all new
developments in homeopathy and says that when homeopathy is considered as a
straight and simple energy medicine there is no need for homeo-psychoanalysis.
Grant takes a favorable stand for conventional medicine while pointing
out that Hahnemann began homeopathy as a revolt against conventional medicine.
The conventional medicine of today is not what it used to be in Hahnemann’s
time, Grant emphasizes, and he writes that if the clients want to take
allopathic medicines alongside homeopathy, it is acceptable. Homeopathic
remedies, being energy medicines, work and produce healing despite conventional
medicines. The conventional medicines of today are not centered around
bleeding, vomiting, sweating and salivation as they were in Hahnemann’s time
and if our clients take a course of antibiotics for an acute, or a few
antidepressants, they will still benefit from homeopathy. The war that
Hahnemann entered into with conventional medicine was based on his observations
in a bygone era. We have to examine this observation in today’s light and
circumstances and make room for co-existence of homeopathy alongside conventional
medicine. We can end the battle that Hahnemann started.
Along the same line and logic, Grant says that the long list of do’s and
don’ts attached to homeopathic prescriptions are ridiculous: homeopathic
remedies are not fragile China dolls and they can withstand handling. I did not
see any mention of homeopathic remedies not being able to survive X-Ray in the
airports! This issue has nagged me ever since I began traveling with a bunch of
remedies packed in my luggage.
The Law of similars is as true today as it was in H.’s time, and it is
the cornerstone, foundation and soul of homeopathy. When we choose remedies
based on the law of similars, we can produce excellent results with 70 or so
well proven remedies from Hahnemann’s time, and we do not have to engage in
homeo-psychoanalysis and go hunting for exotic and barely proven remedies.
Grant’s words must fall like sweet music on the ears of those homeopaths who
cringe at the modern path of homeo-psychoanalysis that has become very popular
all over the world.
In chapter eight, Grant dissects aphorisms 1, 2, 5, 9, 26, 38 and 158
word by word and ruthlessly examines Hahnemann’s word in the light of today. He
draws conclusions about Hahnemann’s failure in handling chronic diseases and
suggests that chronic diseases do not all have to have their origin in
infections. The modern lifestyle, that did not exist in Hahnemann’s time, is
quite capable of eliciting chronic disease of non-infectious origin. These
modern chronic diseases can be handled and managed quite successfully by
methodically replenishing the energy of the patients by repeating the energy
medicines (remedies) as and when the patient’s energy is depleted. We can
repeat the remedies daily if necessary, without worrying about spoiling the
healing work begun by a dose while waiting for six months or more for the dose
to exhaust its action. Grant has based this suggestion on his personal
experience in the clinic using HFA.
[Farokh Master]
Logical Views on Organon and Chronic Disease
Organon of medicine and chronic disease are two very difficult books to
understand easily.
I would in this essay try to make some points very clear for the reader.
Let’s me first give you introduction of Hahnemann’s theory of the nature
of chronic diseases.
Hahnemann after discovery of homoeopathy very soon realized that he had
noted little success in his patients’ long-term recovery from chronic diseases,
although he achieved
effective homeopathic treatment of patients with acute conditions. He
started looking for the hidden factor of the "maintaining cause” of
chronic diseases. He often asked himself whether it could be due to too small a
number of remedies being known.
However this explanation didn’t fully satisfy him, even though in
hindsight it was one of the major cause of the solution. H. tried to solve this
problem for almost ten years
by burning his night lamp.
Finally in 1827, he presented to the homoeopathic community his
discovery of the nature of chronic diseases.
Hahnemann reported that the cause of chronic diseases was an underlying
chronic infection which he later lad as miasm. At first glance, this makes a
lot of sense as most chronic diseases evolve in a similar fashion as infectious
diseases - relentlessly progressing each time the defences of the organism are
down.
Hahnemann concluded, from the evidence then available to him, that
almost all chronic diseases had their origin in three underlying miasmatic or
infectious diseases, namely syphilis, sycosis or what he called "the fig
wart disease" (genital warts), and psora (scabies). He writes, "In
Europe and even and rest of the world so far as it is known, according to all
investigations, only three chronic miasms are found, the diseases caused by
which manifest themselves through local symptoms, and from which most, if not
all, the chronic diseases originate; namely, first, syphilis, which I have also
called the venereal chancre disease; then sycosis, or the fig wart disease, and
finally the chronic disease which lies at the foundation of the eruption of itch;
i.e., the psora which I shall treat first as the most important." This
discovery led him to search for remedies addressing what he considered to be
the most important of these chronic diseases, psora or scabies. Thus, in 1828
he published the first volume of his materia medica of antipsoric remedies. (as
contrast to Materia Medica Pura) Hahnemann uses syphilis as the model disease
to illustrate the evolution of chronic diseases, which incidentally was also
recognized in his time as a chronic disease by the rest of the medical
fraternity.
Hahnemann described the different stages in the evolution of syphilis,
which he eventually extrapolates to the other two chronic miasms. First, he
said, there is the contagion that happens at the point of contact. This is
followed by a prodromal state where the entire organism is seized by the miasm.
Then after a lapse of time there is the appearance of local symptoms, the
chancre in the case of syphilis. Then, he says, as long the local skin
manifestation remains present, the disease will not manifest itself in the
interior of the organism. Therefore, it is the disappearance or suppression of
the chancre that precipitates secondary syphilis. "So it, the chancre,
when not expelled acts vicariously and soothingly for the syphilis within.
"This last point is so important that Hahnemann’s entire understanding of
the evolution of chronic diseases rests upon it.
Hahnemann then explored these steps in regards to scabies. He writes in
Chronic Diseases that "Psora (the itch disease), like syphilis, is a
miasmatic chronic disease, and its original development is similar" but it
is "the most contagious of all chronic miasms, "as it" needs
only a simple contact like a mild touch to the skin." He explained that in
scabies, as in syphilis, there is a prodromal state during which there is an
absence of symptoms while the miasm invades the rest of the organism
dynamically through the fine nerves of the body. Then, he says, "The
diseased vital force tries to soothe the internal malady through the
establishment of a suitable local symptom on the skin, the tiny vesicles that
has a pleasurable itching.
Hence as long as this eruption continues in its normal form, the
internal psora, with its secondary manifestation cannot break forth, but must
remain “covered or latent”.
Therefore, the danger of suppressing the external manifestation of a
chronic infection became the keystone of his "discovery" or
understanding of the nature of chronic diseases. This becomes so important that
this theory is the basic foundation of Hahnemann’s theory of suppression.
Unfortunately Hahnemann was not the first scientist to discover this
phenomena of the danger of suppressing itch like eruption, He himself quotes a great
number of physicians having made similar observations, and among them Dr.
Autenrieth who between 1806 - 1808 published a treatise on the danger of
suppressing the itch eruption. This name comes in the second edition of chronic
disease where Hahnemann confesses that he was not aware of the work of
Autenrieth. Hence the danger of suppressing
the itch eruption with the use of certain ointments like arsenic,
mercury and sulphur was a major cause of psora to go deeper and affect the
other important organ.
Hahnemann was very persistent in his view that disappearance of the
local skin lesions of the three chronic infectious diseases, scabies, syphilis,
and genital warts paves the way for the development of almost all natural
chronic diseases, to an extent this was true but what about drug included and
occupational diseases as well as diseases due
to wrong life style!!!!!
Finally Hahnemann concluded that the three chronic infectious diseases
like syphilis, fig wart disease and scabies share a common denominator and that
he called as "miasms" where, after incubation, a skin lesion develops
and acts vicariously to keep the internal miasm in check. But as soon as the
skin lesion disappears, the chronic miasmatic disease affects the interior of
the organism.
H. and Autenrieth were at a cross road regarding their belief as
Hahnemann believed serious internal malady appeared in patients who got their
eruption suppressed by applying zinc ointment whereas Autenrieth believed it
was the toxicity of the ointments used that caused these adverse health
conditions and not the fact that scabies disappeared because of an external
application!!!!!!
Here Hahnemann was totally correct in his belief because he also
observed that many times skin eruptions make their appearance toward the end of
treatment with antipsoric remedies, he felt that they were the old suppressed
scabies eruptions and saw this as another confirmatory element of his
discovery.
Let’s examine the same for the fig wart disease, or sycosis, a sexually
transmitted infection that has figwarts as its first symptom, and is
"usually (not always)" accompanied by a thick, purulent, Gonorrhoeal
discharge. When the figwarts would disappear or be removed by local ointments
or cautery, he felt there would be similar excrescences that would "then
break out in other parts of the body, in different parts of the body like
mouth, face, tongue, lips, neck etc., or there would arise other ailments of
the body like contraction of the tendons of the flexor muscles (fingers)."
Unfortunately when one examines the history of homoeopathy in detail one
will see that great stalwarts of homoeopathy like Lippe, Hering, Guernsey and
Dunham made almost no reference to Hahnemann’s concept of chronic diseases.
Most of the above stalwarts considered constitutional defects what we
call as dyscrasia and diathesis rather than Hahnemann’s concept of chronic
miasms as the
fundamental cause of disease.
One thing which I liked about Hahnemann was that he always protected his
theory by clinical success from his practice. What his theory lacks is that it
does not hold true in the light of modern micro biology, immunology and
genetics.
Hahnemann’s errors are too numerous to be listed here but we could look
at some of the major ones. First, Hahnemann based his theory on many
observations that have now been found to be incorrect.
For example, regarding the disappearance of the skin eruption which is
the keystone of his discovery, he assumed that if the chancre in syphilis is
not removed by local treatment or cured after internal treatment it will remain
"standing on the same place during man’s lifetime" and therefore
"the secondary symptoms of the venereal disease, syphilis, cannot break
out as long as it exists."
It is now known that the primary chancre disappears spontaneously in
most untreated people within two to six weeks of its appearance. It is also
known that the chancre can still be present in some cases of secondary
syphilis. Also, Hahnemann likely confused chancroid with syphilis, as he attributes
to syphilis the chancre and its buboes being painful which, in syphilis, they
are not.
Thus, Hahnemann was wrong when he said that no "trace of the
venereal disease breaks out, so long as the chancre remains untouched in its
place ... for it never passes away of itself"
An interesting fact is that Dr. Lippe reported that patients he thought
had been cured of syphilis would return many years later with manifestation of
secondary syphilis.
Also it is very interesting to understand that "almost all"
natural chronic diseases, with the exception of those issuing from the chronic
effect of syphilis and human papilloma virus infection, come originally from
scabies.
H. neglected to identify genetic, congenital, metabolic, nutritional,
auto immune and degenerative diseases.
H. also failed to differentiate or consider the dozens of diseases
issuing from chronic infection, other than those issuing from infection with
the spirochete Trepanoma pallidum or the human papilloma virus, such as
tuberculosis, gonorrhoea, genital herpes, leprosy, Lyme disease, malaria,
brucellosis, histoplasmosis, treponematoses (endemic syphilis, yaws, and
pinta), actinomycoses, etc. He also mistakenly considered most skin eruptions
to be manifestations of the internal itch infection, including eczema, leprosy,
erysipelas, psoriasis, warts, ringworm, tinea capitis, psoriasis, yaws, etc.,
depending, as he says, on different environmental factors. We know today that
scabies, or the itch, is the result of an infestation of the skin by the microscopic
Sarcoptes scabiei mite.
Hahnemann confused the skin infestation by the scabies mite with an
internal infection. There is no evidence whatsoever to support a systemic
infection beyond the skin infestation by the Sarcoptes scabiei or any other microorganism.
Also majority of people now living all over the world have no past history of
having contracted scabies, and have tons of chronic diseases!!!!
When I look at the time line during Hahnemann’s period I can see clearly
that Europe was under the grip of scabies.
Hahnemann in his chronic disease and organon attributed the chronic
diseases due to some kind of poison or a virus ("Gifte") the agent
transmitted in cases of infection.
The following references give validity of my statement.
This is noted in his treatise on venereal diseases of 1789
In his two articles on hydrophobia
(1792 and 1803)
Article on the Genius of the
Homeopathic Healing Art (1813 and 1833)
In his Reminiscence (1818 and 1825)
In a footnote to symptom 673
Materia Medica of Sulphur in the
Materia Medica Pura (1825)
Chronic Diseases (1828 and 1835).
Moreover, in a pamphlet published in 1831 on the propagation of cholera,
he writes "the contagious matter of cholera most probably consists"
of "those excessively minute, invisible, living creatures,"
or "millions of those miasmatic animated beings."
However, this contrasts with his later, but apparently incorrect,
understanding that the transmissible influence of an infection is
"invisible" and "nonmaterial." Indeed, in the sixth edition
of the Organon of 1843, Hahnemann defines in a long footnote to paragraph 11
the term "dynamic influence," which begins as follows: "
When man falls ill it is at first only the self-sustaining spirit-like
vital force (vital principle) everywhere present in the organism which is
untuned by the dynamic influence of the hostile disease agent."
He defines this "dynamic influence" as an
"invisible" and "nonmaterial spirit-like force" to which he
ascribes the transmission of miasms similar to the way "the magnet
communicates magnetic force to the needle."
Moreover when Hahnemann talks about return of skin symptoms after its
suppression by local ointment is actually the return of scabies.
Regarding sycosis, Hahnemann wrongly associated genital warts with
gonorrhea, leukoplakia, pigmented nevi, and Dupuytren’s contracture, which have
no demonstrable
pathological links between each other.
[Hahnemann]
Die Paragraphen über Heilungshindernisse in Hahnemanns Organon VI. Auflage Samuel Hahnemann
§ 252
Fände man aber beim Gebrauche der übrigen Arzneien, daß in der chronischen Krankheit die bestens homöopathisch gewählte Arznei, in der angemessenen (kleinsten) Gabe, die Besserung nicht förderte, so ist dieß ein gewisses Zeichen, daß die, die Krankheit unterhaltende Ursache noch fortwährt, und dass sich in der Lebensordnung des Kranken oder in seinen Umgebungen ein Umstand befindet,
welcher abgeschaltet werden muß, wenn die Heilung dauerhaft zu Stande kommen soll.
§ 255
Dennoch wird man auch bei diesen zur Ueberzeugung hierüber gelangen, wenn man jedes, im Krankheitsbilde aufgezeichnete Symptom einzeln mit ihnen durchgeht und sie außer diesen, über keine neuen, vorher ungewöhnlichen Beschwerden klagen können, auch keines der alten Zufälle sich verschlimmert hat. Dann muß, bei schon beobachteter Besserung des Gemüthes und Geistes, die Arznei auch durchaus wesentliche Minderung der Krankheit hervorgebracht haben, oder, wenn jetzt noch die Zeit dazu zu kurz gewesen wäre, bald hervorbringen. Zögert nun, im Fall der Angemessenheit des Heilmittels, die sichtbare Besserung doch zu lange, so liegt es entweder am unrechten Verhalten des Kranken oder an andern, die Besserung hindernden Umständen.
§ 260
Für chronisch Kranke ist daher die sorgfältige Aufsuchung solcher Hindernisse der Heilung um so nöthiger, da ihre Krankheit durch dergleichen Schädlichkeiten und andere krankhaft wirkende, oft unerkannte Fehler in der Lebensordnung gewöhnlich verschlimmert worden war.
Anm.: Kaffee, feiner chinesischer und anderer Kräuterthee; Biere mit arzneilichen, für den Zustand des Kranken unangemessenen Gewächssubstanzen angemacht, sogenannte feine, mit arzneilichen Gewürzen bereitete Liqueure, alle Arten Punsch, gewürzte Schokolade, Riechwasser und Parfümerien mancher Art, stark duftende Blumen im Zimmer, aus Arzneien zusammengesetzte Zahnpulver und Zahnspiritus, Riechkißchen, hochgewürzte Speisen und Saucen, gewürztes Backwerk und Gefrornes mit arzneilichen Stoffen, z.B. Kaffee, Vanille u.s.w. bereitet, rohe, arzneiliche Kräuter auf Suppen, Gemüße von Kräutern, Wurzeln und Keim-Stengeln (wie Spargel mit langen, grünen Spitzen), Hopfenkeime und alle Vegetabilien, welche Arzneikraft besitzen, Sellerie, Petersilie, Sauerampfer, Dragun, alle Zwiebel-Arten, u.s.w.; alter Käse und Thierspeisen, welche faulicht sind, (Fleisch und Fett von Schweinen, Enten und Gänsen oder allzu junges Kalbfleisch und saure Speisen; Salate aller Art), welche arzneiliche Nebenwirkungen haben, sind eben so sehr von Kranken dieser Art zu entfernen als jedes Uebermaß, selbst das des Zuckers und Kochsalzes, so wie geistige, nicht mit viel Wasser verdünnte Getränke; Stubenhitze, schafwollene Haut-Bekleidung, sitzende Lebensart in eingesperrter Stuben-Luft oder öfters, bloß negative Bewegung (durch Reiten, Fahren, Schaukeln), übermäßiges Kind-Säugen, langer Mittagsschlaf im Liegen (in Betten), Lesen in waagerechter Lage, Nachtleben, Unreinlichkeit, unnatürliche Wohllust, Entnervung durch Lesen schlüpfriger Schriften, Onanism oder, sei es aus Aberglauben, sei es um Kinder-Erzeugung in der Ehe zu verhüten, unvollkommner, oder ganz unterdrückter Beischlaf; Gegenstände des Zornes, des Grames, des Aergernisses, leidenschaftliches Spiel, übertriebene Anstrengung des Geistes und Körpers, vorzüglich gleich nach der Mahlzeit; sumpfige Wohngegend und dumpfige Zimmer; karges Darbenu.s.w. Alle diese Dinge müssen möglichst vermieden oder entfernt werden, wenn die Heilung nicht gehindert oder gar unmöglich gemacht werden soll. Einige meiner Nachahmer scheinen durch Verbieten noch weit mehrer, ziemlich gleichgültiger Dinge die Diät des Kranken unnöthig zu erschweren, was nicht zu billigen ist.
§ 261
Die, beim Arzneigebrauche in chronischen Krankheiten zweckmäßigste Lebensordnung, beruht auf Entfernung solcher Genesungs-Hindernisse und dem Zusatze des hie und da nöthigen Gegentheils: unschuldige Aufheiterung des Geistes und Gemüths, active Bewegung in freier Luft, fast bei jeder Art von Witterung (tägliches Spazierengehen, kleine Arbeiten mit den Armen), angemessene, nahrhafte, unarzneiliche Speisen und Getränke u.s.w.
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Some homeopaths attack vaccination unaware that in the 6th edition
of the Organon, Hahnemann has said that vaccination is a wonderful thing and it
has saved the lives of children. Do see the footnote under paragraph 43.
Hahnemann seems to have considered that the Jennerian method of
vaccination -scratching cowpox pus into the skin- was both preventative in
epidemics and curative when
it was used against similar disease states. Both homeopathy and Jenner’s
cow pox vaccine came around in late 1700s and Hahnemann saw the benefits of cow
pox vaccination.
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6th of the Organon, footnote 270f, Hahnemann states:
In this much higher ratio of the dilution medium to the medicine, many
succussions of the vial filled to 2/3 with the wine spirit can bring about a
far greater development
of power my new method engenders a medicine of the highest development
of power and the gentlest action which, if well chosen, curatively touches all
sick points
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