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Samuel Hahnemann's Organon Chapter Summaries

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Chapter 1

Samuel Hahnemann founded the Organon. In his first two aphorisms he discusses how modern medicine does not treat or cure choric disease, it is all systematic treatment. Modern medicine has side effects and high cost of medicines, thus more medicine is needed to fix the problems caused by the first one. Neither doctors nor patients end up satisfied using modern medicine.

Homeopathy has the best answers to crisis’ facing modern medicine. Homepatic remedies improve the patient’s life on all levels. Homoeopathy has a deeper action thus the patients feel better even before cure is achieved. Homoeopathy works on mental and emotional levels, and not just physical ones.

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Miasms are used for genetic therapy.

Chapter 2

The concept of health and healing in homoeopathy is based on the vital force. Vital force animates the body and maintains harmony thus without it they body would be an inert corpse. When the body is attacked by disease causing agents the vital force resists it thus restoring order and harmony. The vital force is energetic rather than physical. It repels morbific agents if it is healthy enough and the morbific agent is not too strong. The vital force can be weakened in the elderly, the malnourished, chronically ill and those suffering from trauma.

The vital is strongest in children, Hahnemann says we should strengthen the vital force through healthy food, pure fresh air, water, exercise, meditation and energy based practices. By increasing the vital force homoeopathically we decrease the overall susceptibility to disease.

Homoeopathy looks at mental and emotional triggers not the microbe causing chronic illness. Suppression of a fever prolongs the course of illness. Hahnemann used artificial disease pictures to stimulate the healing action of the vital force. Artificial disease does no harm because it doesn’t exist on a physical

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