Chapter 1
Aphorism 1 and 2 says: The physician is aim is to restore the sick to health. Therefore to cure them. The ideal of cure is the rapid, gentle and permanent restoration of health. This is somehow impossible in allopathic medicine, because they cannot cure some chronic disease. All they do is control the symptoms by giving the patient so many medications that causes life threatening side effects. Therefore homeopathy has to be considered as the best treatment to these kind of diseases.
A true cure
Cure is defined has the disappearance of the patient’s symptoms. However, homeopathy aims higher than this, it works from the very inner deep level (mental symptoms) to the outer level (physical symptoms). And in this way a generalised wellbeing
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It is the concept of health and healing in homeopathy. The vital force maintains all parts and functions of the body in harmony. The vital force overwhelms the disease in acute cases. And in chronic cases, the vital force cannot overcome the disease unaided. If it is strong, the morbific agent cannot do harm. If it is weak and susceptible to the morbific agent, the vital force and disease force manifest in the form of disease. The vital force is stronger in children.
Healing action of the vital force
In case of diseases, the homeopathic remedy (the simillimum) strengthens the vital force in its effort to throw the disease out of the body. It does this by creating an artificial disease picture, to further stimulate the healing action of the vital force.
Historical background
• Hippocrates introduced the law of similar. He formulated:illnesses arise by similar things and by similar things can the sick be made well.
• Then Claudius Galen in the second century introduced “treatment by the opposite”, the law of contraries.
• Parcelus called for a return to Hippocratic principles and termed it like cure
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Allopathy does not see the interactions of all part of the body as homeopathy does.
Homeopathy acknowledge the connection of mind and emotions, body and spirit. Therefore the right remedy stimulates the vital force to throw off any disease.
The microbe and the terrain
Diseases occurs when the microbe gain entry in the body. The patient is body then becomes a battleground between the germs and the toxic chemicals used to attack them.
Allopathic medicine sees the microbe as the enemy. It believes that the microbe is cause of disease. However Hahnemann said, we need some bacteria for our wellbeing. For examples, we need some bacteria in our gut to assist with digestion. Therefore he said, a microbe can cause a disease only when the body is susceptible to it.
Strengthening the vital force
Health is the balanced state of body, mind and spirit. Normal health and the harmonious vital force depends on a healthy lifestyle and the absence of a