Aphorism 229
§ 229 On the other hand, contradiction, eager explanations, rude corrections and invectives, as also weak, timorous yielding, are quite…
§ 229 On the other hand, contradiction, eager explanations, rude corrections and invectives, as also weak, timorous yielding, are quite…
§ 228 In mental and emotional diseases resulting from corporeal maladies, which can only be cured by homoeopathic antipsoric medicine…
§ 227 But the fundamental cause in these cases also is a psoric miasm, which was only not yet quite…
§ 226 It is only such emotional diseases as these, which were first engendered and subsequently kept up by the…
§ 225 There are, however, as has just been stated, certainly a few emotional diseases which have not merely been…
§ 224 If the mental disease be not quite developed, and if it be still somewhat doubtful whether it really…
§ 223 But if the antipsoric treatment be omitted, then we may almost assuredly expect, from a much slighter cause…
§ 222 But such a patient, who has recovered from an acute mental or emotional disease by the use of…
§ 221 If, however, insanity or mania (caused by fright, vexation, the abuse of spirituous liquors, etc.) have suddenly broken…
§ 220 By adding to this the state of the mind and disposition accurately observed by the patient’s friends and…
§ 219 A comparison of these previous symptoms of the corporeal disease with the traces of them that still remain,…
§ 218 To this collection of symptoms belongs in the first place to accurate description of all the phenomena of…
§ 217 In these diseases we must be very careful to make ourselves acquainted with the whole of the phenomena,…
§ 216 The cases are not rare in which a so-called corporeal disease that threatens to be fatal – a…
§ 215 Almost all the so-called mental and emotional diseases are nothing more than corporeal diseases in which the symptom…
§ 214 The instructions I have to give relative to the cure of mental diseases may be confined to a…
§ 213 We shall, therefore, never be able to cure conformably to nature – that is to say, homoeopathically –…
§ 212 The Creator of therapeutic agents has also had particular regard to this main feature of all diseases, the…
§ 211 This holds good to such an extent, that the state of the disposition of the patient often chiefly…
§ 210 Of psoric origin are almost all those diseases that I have above termed one-sided, which appear to be…
§ 209 After this is done, the physician should endeavor in repeated conversations with the patient to trace the picture…
§ 208 The age of the patient, his mode of living and diet, his occupation, his domestic position, his social…
§ 207 When the above information has been gained, it still remains for the homoeopathic physician to ascertain what kinds…
Aphorism 206 § 206 § 206 Fifth Edition Before commencing the treatment of a chronic disease, it is necessary to…
§ 205 § 205 Fifth Edition The homoeopathic physician never treats one of these primary symptoms of chronic miasms, nor…
§ 204 § 204 Fifth Edition If we deduct all chronic affections, ailments and diseases that depend on a persistent…
§ 203 Every external treatment of such local symptoms, the object of which is to remove them from the surface…
§ 202 If the old-school physician should now destroy the local symptom by the topical application of external remedies, under…
§ 201 § 201 Fifth Edition It is evident that man’s vital force, when encumbered with a chronic disease which…
§ 200 § 200 Fifth Edition Had it still been present to guide the internal treatment, the homoeopathic remedy for…
§ 199 If the remedy perfectly homoeopathic to the disease had not yet been discovered 1 at the time when…
§ 198 The mere topical employment of medicines, that are powerful for cure when given internally, to the local symptoms…
§ 197 § 197 Fifth Edition This treatment, however, is quite inadmissible, not only for the local symptoms arising from…
§ 196 It might, indeed, seen as though the cure of such diseases would be hastened by employing the medicinal…
§ 195 In order to effect a radical cure in such cases, which are by no means rare, after the…
§ 194 It is not useful, either in acute local diseases of recent origin or in local affections that have…
§ 193 By means of this medicine, employed only internally (and, if the disease be but of recent origin, often…
§ 192 This is best effected when, in the investigation of the case of disease, along with the exact character…
§ 191 This is confirmed in the most unambiguous manner by experience, which shows in all cases that every powerful…
§ 190 All true medical treatment of a disease on the external parts of the body that has occurred from…
§ 189 And yet very little reflection will suffice to convince us that no external malady (not occasioned by some…
§ 188 These affections were considered to be merely topical, and were therefore called local diseases, as if they were…
§ 187 But those affections, alterations and ailments appearing on the external parts, that do not arise from any external…
§ 186 § 186 Fifth Edition Those so-called local maladies which have been produced a short time previously, solely by…
§ 185 Among the one-sided disease an important place is occupied by the so-called local maladies, by which term is…
§ 184 § 184 Fifth Edition In like manner, after each new dose of medicine has exhausted its action, the…
§ 183 Whenever, therefore, the dose of the first medicine ceases to have a beneficial effect (if the newly developed…
§ 182 Thus the imperfect selection of the medicament, which was in this case almost inevitable owing to the too…
§ 181 Let is not be objected that the accessory phenomena and new symptoms of this disease that now appear…
§ 180 In this case the medicine, which has been chosen as well as was possible, but which, for the…
§ 179 More frequently, however, the medicine first chosen in such a case will be only partially, that is to…
§ 178 It will, no doubt, sometimes happen that this medicine, selected in strict observance of the homoeopathic law, furnishes…
§ 177 In order to meet most successfully such a case as this, which is of very rare occurrence, we…
§ 176 There are, however, still a few diseases, which, after the most careful initial examination (§ 84 – §…
§ 175 In one-sided diseases of the first kind it is often to be attributed to the medical observer’s want…
§ 174 Their principal symptom may be either an internal complaint (e.g. a headache of many years’ duration, a diarrhoea…
§ 173 The only diseases that seem to have but few symptoms, and on that account to be less amenable…
§ 172 A similar difficulty in the way of the cure occurs from the symptoms of the disease being too…
§ 171 § 171 Fifth Edition In non-venereal chronic disease, those, therefore, that arise from psora, we often require, in…
§ 170 Hence in this as in every case where a change of the morbid state has occurred, the remaining…
§ 169 § 169 fifth Edition If, on the first examination of a disease and the first selection of a…
§ 168 We shall then be able much more readily to discover, among the known medicines, an analogue to the…
§ 167 Thus if there occur, during the use of this imperfectly homoeopathic remedy first employed, accessory symptoms of some…
§ 166 Such a case is, however, very rare, owing to the increased number of medicines whose pure effects are…
§ 165 If, however, among the symptoms of the remedy selected, there be none that accurately resemble the distinctive (characteristic),…
§ 164 The small number of homoeopathic symptoms present in the best selected medicine is no obstacle to the cure…
§ 163 In this case we cannot indeed expect from this medicine a complete, untroubled cure; for during its use…
§ 162 Sometimes happens, owing to the moderate number of medicines yet known with respect to their true, pure action,…
§ 161 § 161 Fifth Edition When I here limit the so-called homoeopathic aggravation, or rather the primary action of…
§ 160 But as the dose of a homoeopathic remedy can scarcely ever be made so small that it shall…
§ 159 § 159 Fifth Edition The smaller the dose of the homoeopathic remedy is, so much the slighter and…
§ 158 This slight homoeopathic aggravation during the first hours – a very good prognostic that the acute disease will…
§ 157 § 157 Fifth Edition But though it is certain that a homoeopathically selected remedy does, by reason of…
§ 156 There is, however, almost no homoeopathic medicine, be it ever so suitably chosen, that, especially if it should…
§ 155 § 155 Fifth Edition I say without any considerable disturbance. For in the employment of this most appropriate…
§ 154 If the antitype constructed from the list of symptoms of the most suitable medicine contain those peculiar, uncommon,…
§ 153 § 153 Fifth Edition In this search for a homoeopathic specific remedy, that is to say, in this…
§ 152 The worse of the acute disease is, of so much the more numerous and striking symptoms is it…
§ 151 But if the patient complain of a few violent sufferings, the physician will usually find, on investigation, several…
§ 150 If a patient complain of one or more trivial symptoms, that have been only observed a short time…
§ 149 § 149 Fifth Edition When the suitable homoeopathic remedy has been thus selected and rightly employed, the acute…
§ 148 § 148 Fifth Edition A medicine selected in this manner, which has the power and the tendency to…
§ 147 Whichever of these medicines that have been investigated as to their power of altering man’s health we find…
§ 146 The third point of the business of a true physician relates to the judicious employment of the artificial…
§ 145 § 145 Fifth Edition Of a truth, it is only by a very considerable store of medicines accurately…
§ 144 From such a materia medica everything that is conjectural, all that is mere assertion or imaginary should be…
§ 143 If we have thus tested on the healthy individual a considerable number of simple medicines and carefully and…
§ 142 But how some symptoms 1 of the simple medicine employed for a curative purpose can be distinguished amongst…
§ 141 But the best provings of the pure effects of simple medicines in altering the human health, and of…
§ 140 If the person cannot write, the physician must be informed by him every day of what has occurred…
§ 139 When the physician does not make the trial of the medicine on himself, but gives it to another…
§ 138 All the sufferings, accidents and changes of the health of the experimenter during the action of a medicine…
§ 137 The more moderate, within certain limits, the doses of the medicine used for such experiments are – provided…
§ 136 Although, as has been said, a medicine, on being proved on healthy subjects, cannot develop in one person…
§ 135 The whole of the elements of disease a medicine is capable of producing can only be brought to…
§ 134 All external influences, and more especially medicines, possess the property of producing in the health of the living…
§ 133 On experiencing any particular sensation from the medicine, it is useful, indeed necessary, in order to determine the…
§ 132 But when the object is, without reference to the sequential order of the phenomena and the duration of…
§ 131 If, however, in order to ascertain anything at all, the same medicine must be given to the same…
§ 130 If, at the very commencement, the first dose administered shall have been sufficiently strong, this advantage is gained,…