Organon Paragraph 30

[Dr. Jeff]

Hi everyone-

In the next few paragraphs Hahnemann starts to describe how the body responds to true acute infections like measles and smallpox (or a coronavirus).

The human body appears to admit of being much more powerfully affected in its health by medicines (partly because we have the regulation of the dose in our own power) than by natural morbid stimuli - for natural diseases are cured and overcome by suitable medicines.1

1 The short duration of the action of the artificial morbific forces, which we term medicines, makes it possible that, although they are stronger than the natural diseases, they can yet be much more easily overcome by the vital force than can the weaker natural diseases, which solely in consequence of the longer, generally lifelong, duration of their action (psora, syphilis, sycosis), can never be vanquished and extinguished by it alone, until the physician affects the vital force in a stronger manner by an agent that produces a disease very similar, but stronger to wit a homoeopathic medicine. The cures of diseases of many years' duration (§ 46), by the occurrence of smallpox and measles (both of which run a course of only a few weeks), are processes of a similar character.​

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In this aphorism Hahnemann explains more about why a medicine that is homeopathic (and similar) to the underlying dis-ease is able to activate the defenses of the body to eliminate it.

He says, and experience has shown, that the effect of homeopathic medicines are both stronger as well as shorter-lived than the original dis-ease imbalances that they displace.

There will be much more about the miasms of psora, syphilis and sycosis in upcoming aphorisms and posts.

 

[Dr. Jeff]

Here's an audio recording from the Wenda Brewster O'Reilly Organon from Dr. Christina:

https://organonaudio.s3.amazonaws.com/organon+30.m4a