Sunday, July 27, 2008

2.3 - Primary and after or counter eject of drugs

10. Instructions are then given in regard to the mode of administering drugs for proving, the conditions which should be observed by the provers, viz., about diet, dosage, record of their symptoms, etc.

Thus a collection of genuine, pure and unreceptive effects of simple drugs should be accumulated and a materia medica of that kind should contain and represent in similitude the elements of numerous natural diseases hereafter to be cured by these means, and should exclude every supposition, every mere assertion or fiction.

A drug fully tested with regard to its power of altering human health, and whose symptoms represent the greatest degree of similitude with the totality of symptoms of a given natural disease, will be the most suitable and reliable homoeopathic remedy for that particular disease, its specific curative agent.

A medicine possessing the power to produce an artificial disease most similar to the natural disease to be cured, exerts its dynamic influence upon the morbidly disturbed vital force and in the right dose will affect those parts of the organism where the natural disease is located and will excite in them an artificial disease.

A well-selected homoeopathic drug will remove a natural acute disease of recent origin, even if severe and painful; au older affection will disappear in a few days, and recovery progress to full restoration of health. Old, complicated diseases demand longer time for their removal. Chronic drug diseases, complicating an uncured natural disease, yield only after great length of time, if they have not become quite incurable.

11. For a few insignificant symptoms of recent origin, no medical treatment is needed; a slight change of diet and habits of living suffice for their removal.

In searching for the homoeopathic specific remedy, the more prominent, uncommon and peculiar (characteristic) symptoms of the case should bear the closest possible similitude to the symptoms of the drug. The more general symptoms deserve less notice, as generalities are common to every disease and almost to every drug.

12. Although a well-selected remedy quietly extinguishes all analogous disease without exciting additional sensations, it may produce a slight aggravation resembling the original disease, so closely that the patient considers it as such. Aggravations caused by larger doses may last for several hours, but in reality these are only drug effects somewhat superior in intensity and very similar to the original disease. The smaller the dose of the drug, so much smaller and shorter is the apparent aggravation of the disease during the first hours. Even in chronic cases, after the days of aggravation have passed, the convalescence will progress almost uninterruptedly for days.

13. If in acute cases the remedy was not properly selected we must examine the case more thoroughly for the purpose of constructing a new picture of the disease. Cases may occur where the first examination of the disease and the first selection of the remedy prove that the totality of the symptoms of the disease is not sufficiently covered by the symptoms of a single remedy; and when we are obliged to choose between two medicines which seem to be equally well-suited to the case, we must prescribe one of these medicines, and it is not advisable to administer the remedy of our second choice without a renewed examination of the patient, because it may no longer correspond to the symptoms which remain after the case has undergone a change and often a different remedy will be indicated. If the medicine of our second choice were still suited to the remnant of the morbid condition, it would now deserve much more confidence and should be employed in preference to others.

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