Organon Paragraph 24

[Dr. Jeff]

This week's aphorism sums up homeopathic treatment in 1 paragraph:

There remains, therefore, no other mode of employing medicines in diseases that promises to be of service besides the homoeopathic, by means of which we seek, for the totality of the symptoms of the case of disease, a medicine which among all medicines (whose pathogenetic effects are known from having been tested in healthy individuals) has the power and the tendency to produce an artificial morbid state most similar to that of the case of disease in question.

This long sentence wonderfully restates the importance of working with the body using symptoms to cure the underlying imbalance.

It also talks a bit more about how to do that using "pathogenetic effects" of medicines.

This is very important and helps emphasize part of the dis-connect inherent in the allopathic use of drugs.

@kingsgrlie, do you, or any of the other students of homeopathy here, know what he means her (hint- it's another "P" word)?

 

[ChristineL]

hmm...proving?

 

[Dr. Jeff]

Yes!

This sentence sums up what makes a homeopathic medicine a curative remedy:

whose pathogenetic effects are known from having been tested in healthy individuals

Where pathogenetic just refers to the symptoms it can cause (and cure).