2.7 - Primary and after or counter effect of drugs.

In reality most mental alienations are bodily diseases only. These mental and emotional symptoms develop in some cases more or less rapidly; assume a state of most conspicuous one-sidedness, is finally transferred like a local disease, into the invisibly fine organs of the mind, where they seem to obscure the bodily symptoms. In short, the disorder of the coarser bodily organs is transferred, as it were, to the almost spiritual organs of the mind, where the physician will search in vain for their cause.

In recording the totality of symptoms of such a case, we must obtain an accurate description of all physical symptoms, which prevailed before the disease degenerated into a one-sided mental disorder. We compare then, these early symptoms with their present indistinct remnants, which occasionally appear during lucid intervals, and add the symptoms of the mental state as observed by the physician and attendants of the patient.

Though a patient may be relieved of an acute mental disorder by non-anti-psoric medicine, no time must be lost in perfecting the cure by continued anti-psoric treatment, so that the disease may not break out anew, which will be prevented by strict adherence to well-regulated diet and habits. If neglected, psora will be usually developed during the second attack, and may assume a form, periodical or continuous, and much more difficult to cure.

Mental diseases, not the result of physical or bodily affections, and which have not yet undermined the physical health too seriously, admit of the speedy cure by psychical treatment, while careful regulations of habits’ will re-establish the health of the body, but as a measure of precaution a course of anti-psoric treatment is advisable, in order to prevent a recurrence of the attack of mental aberration. The physician and attendants must strictly enforce proper hygiene and physical regiment of the mind. The treatment of insane persons should be conducted with a view to the absolute avoidance of corporal punishment or torture. Physicians and attendants should always treat such patients as if they regarded them as rational beings.

Intermittent diseases also claim our attention. Some return at a certain period. There are others, apparently non-febrile affections, resembling intermittents by their peculiar recurrences. There are also affections characterized by the appearance of certain morbid conditions, alternating at uncertain periods with morbid conditions of a different kind. Such alternating diseases are mostly chronic and a product of developed psora. In rare instances they are complicated with syphilitic miasma. The first needs purely anti-psoric treatment, the latter an alternation of anti-psoric with anti-syphilitics.

Typical intermittents recur after a certain period of apparent health, and vanish after an equally definite period. Apparently non-febrile morbid conditions, recurring at certain periods are not of sporadic or epidemic nature, they belong to a class of chronic, mostly genuine psoric diseases. Sometimes an intercurrent dose of highly potentized Peruvian bark extinguishes the intermitted type of the disease.

In sporadic or epidemic intermittents, not prevalent endemically in marshy districts, each attack is mostly composed of two distinct stages, chill and heat, or heat and then chill; still more frequently they consist of three stages, chill, heat and finally sweat. The remedy, usually a non-anti-psoric, must have the power to produce in healthy persons the several successive stages similar to the natural disease, and should correspond as closely as possible with the most prominent and peculiar stage of the disease; but the symptoms which mark the condition of the patient during the pyrexia, should chiefly be taken for guides, in selecting the most striking remedy. The best time to administer the remedy is a short time after the termination of the paroxysm, when the medicine has time to develop its curative effect without violent action or disturbance and the vital force is then in the most favourable condition to be gently modified by the medicine and restored to healthy action. If the apyrexia is very brief, or if the after effects of the preceding paroxysm disturb it, the dose of the medicine should be administered when the sweating stage diminishes or when the subsequent stages of the paroxysm decline.

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.

2.2 - Primary and after or counter eject of drugs.

7. During the primary effect of a drug, the vital force receives the impression made upon it by the drug and allows the state of health to be altered by it. The vital force then rallies and either calls forth the exact opposite state of feeling or neutralizes the impression made upon it by the drug, thereby establishing the normal state of health. The former is a counter effect and the latter a curative effect.

8. Diseases peculiar to mankind are of two classes:

(1) Rapid, morbid processes caused by abnormal states and derangements of the vital force, acute diseases;

(2) Chronic diseases, originating by infection with a chronic miasma, acting deleteriously upon the living organism and undermining health to such a degree that the vital force can only make imperfect and ineffectual resistance, which may result in the final destruction of the organism.

Acute diseases may be sporadic, endemic or epidemic. Allopathic is responsible for many an incurable disease; owing to the use of several drugs the organism becomes gradually and abnormally deranged according to the character of the drug used.

True chronic diseases arise mostly from syphilis, psychosis and Psora. The latter (Psora) is often the fundamental cause and source of countless forms of diseases, figuring as peculiar and definite diseases in our text books on Pathology.

9. Individualization in the investigation of a case of disease, demands unbiased judgment, sound common sense, attentive observation and carefulness and accuracy in noting down the image of the disease.


The physician is then required to select the corresponding drug, which in its effects on healthy persons produces symptoms strikingly similar to those of the disease. Upon subsequent enquiry regarding the effects of the remedy, the physician should then take into account the remaining symptoms, or new symptoms, which may have appeared, for selecting another remedy.

The physician should be acquainted with the full range of disease-producing power of each drug, that is, all morbid symptoms and changes of the state of health which each drug is capable of producing by itself in healthy persons, in order to discover what elements of disease each is able to produce and inclined to excite by itself in the condition of mind and body. Thus, the disease-producing power of drugs can be made available homeopathically in the case of all diseases.

2.1 - THE ORGANON

2.1 - THE ORGANON (A Synopsis)

1. The physician's highest and only duty is to restore health to the sick, which is called healing. Healing ought to be accompanied in the most speedy, most gentle and most reliable manner. To do this he must know the ailment of the patient, select the remedy, the dose and its repetition according to each individual case. Sanitation and hygiene Art studies in which every physician must be well versed.

2. Constitution of the patient, his mind and temperament, occupation, mode of living and habits, social and domestic relations, age and sexual functions, etc. give us the individuality of the patient.

3. Deviations from the normal state show themselves by morbid signs or symptoms. The totality of these symptoms, this outwardly rejected image of the inner nature of the diseased state i.e., of suffering dynamic, or living force, is the principal and only condition to be recognized in order that they may be removed and health restored.

4. Life, a dynamic principle animates the material body and this material body passes away as soon as it is bereft of this life force. In health, harmonious vital force becomes deranged by the dynamic influence of some morbific agency inimical to life, hence abnormal functional activity, manifesting itself by morbid sensations and functions, by morbid symptoms.

This morbidly changed life force can only be restored to its normal state by a similarly acting dynamic power of the appropriate remedy, acting on the omnipresent susceptibility of the nerves of the organism. The total removal of all symptoms is health restored, and therefore the totality of symptoms observed in each individual case can be the only indication to guide us in the selection of a remedy. These aberrations from the state of health can only be removed by the curative power inherent in medicine to turn the sensorial condition of the body again into its normal state.

5. Experiments on animals, vivisection (scientific dissection or experiment) and autopsy (post-mortem examination) can never reveal the inherent power of medicine: the healthy human body alone is the fit subject for such experiments, where they excite numerous definite morbid symptoms, and it follows that if drugs act as curative remedies, they exercise this curative power only by virtue of altering bodily feelings through the production of peculiar symptoms, which then they are able to remove from the sick; in other words the remedy must be able to produce an artificial morbid condition similar to that of the natural disease.

6. Experience teaches that all drugs will, without exception, cure diseases the symptoms of which are as similar as possible to those of the drugs, and leave none uncured.

Natural diseases are removed by proper medicines, because the normal state is more readily affected by the right dose of a drug than by natural morbific agencies.

Physical and partly physical terrestrial forces show their greatest power where this life-power is below par, hence they do not affect everybody nor do they do so at all times. We may, therefore, assert that extraneous, noxious agencies possess only a subordinate and conditional power, while drug potencies possess an absolute unconditional power.

Drug disease is substituted for the natural disease, when the drug causes symptoms most similar to that which is to be cured, and it is hardly possible to perform a cure by means of drugs incapable of producing in the organism a diseased condition similar to that which is to be cured.

Palliation of prominent symptoms should be ignored, as it provides only in part for a single symptom, it may bring partial relief but this is soon followed by a perceptible aggravation of the entire disease.