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Aphorism 1-8: Principles of Cure, Causes of Diseas and Definition of Disease and
Cure
- Adapt the most appropriate medicine, according to its mode of action, to the case
before him (selection of the remedy, that which is indicated)
- prepare the medicine exactly as required
- give the medicine the exact amount required (the right dose)
- properly time the repetition of doses
- the physician must know the obstacles to recovery in each case and be aware of how
to clear them away
5. “If the physician has the insight, discernment, knowledge and awareness,
then he understands how to act expediently and thoroughly, and he is a
_______________”
16. What determines the most appropriate remedy in cases of diseases where
there is no obvious cause to be removed?
17. “It is ridiculous for physicians to seek causes of disease in the hidden interior
of the body while ingoring __________________”
True
1. “In the healthy human state, the spirit like ________________ (__________) that
enlivens the material organism as ________, governs w/out ______ and keeps all
parts of the organism in _________ vital operation as regards to both feelings
and functions
2. What is the material organism w/out life force not capable of?
3. From what does the material organism derive all its sensibility and function?
wesen
6. “In disease, the life force is first dynamically _______ and then manifests its
mistunements through _____” mistuned, symptoms
7. What is the only way for the life force to make its mistunements discernible?
By disease
11. How come? Disease isn’t to be considered as something separate from the living whole
12. How does everything curably diseased make itself known to the physician?
Signs and Sx
13. “The life force and the material organism form an _____ ______, as do the
mistunement of the life force and the perceptible symptoms” indivisible whole
14. Disease only occurs and can only be cured through what?
Dynamic impingement upon the life force
15. What is the only way the medical art practitioner can remove mistunements?
By spirit like tenement-alternating energies acting upon the life force
17. What is the only thing the physician has to do to remove the entire disease?
It lifts out all the mistunements and it comes back to normal (health is restored)
19. “The _______ __ ________ and circumstances in each individual case of disease
must be the sole indicator for choosing a remedy”
Totality of Symptoms
21. Diseases are nothing other than what? Alterations of condition in healthy ppl
22. How is cure only possible? Through an alteration of the px’s condition into the
healthy state
23. “Medicines would in no way be able to cure if they did not possess what? The
power to differently tune the human condition that resides in feelings and functions
24. The curative power of medicines rest solely on what? Their power to alter the
human condition
25. Is the hidden spirit like power in the inner wesen of medicines discernible
with mere intellectual exertion? NO
26. What is the only way to distinctly perceive the hidden spirit like power in the
inner wesen? Only through its manifestations while it is impinging on the human
condition (so only by experience)
28. “In Pure experiments conducted with medicines (in provings) the most sharp-
witted observer can perceive nothing about medicines that can constitute
them as medicines, or curative means, except their
___________________________________________” Their power to bring forth distinct
alterations in the condition of the human body especially their power to differently tune
the healthy person.
30. How does medicine cure? By engendering a disease state that removes the one to
be cured
31. What is the only thing exhibited in disease that must be taken away in order
to transform then into health? Signs and symptoms
32. How does a medicine become a remedy? Only by arousing certain befallments and
symptoms
34. T or F – In allopathic tx: medicines are given that produce sx which are
neither similar nor opposite to those of the disease? T
36. T or F – Therefore the only good medicine is the one that is similar to the
disease state? T
Aphorism 27-34
On their symptoms being similar to the disease but with power that outweighs it
39. By what is each single case of disease most surely, thoroughly, rapidly and
permanently annihilated and lifted?
Only by a medicine that can engender, in the human condition, a totality of symptoms
that is the most complete and most similar to the case of disease but that, at the same
time, exceeds the disease strength
41. Do scientific explanations for how it takes place matter? Not very much
42. “Any disease (which is not strictly a surgical case) consists solely of a specific
dynamic disease ____________ of our life force (life principle) in our __________
and ________” mistunement, feelings and functions
43. Why is the previous view the most probable? Because it’s based on empirical
premises
44. What does coffee do to the effects of excessive joy? Extinguishes them
45. “ The life principle, which has been dynamically mistuned by the natural
disease is seized during homeopathic cure by the similar yet somewhat
stronger which results from the ___________________________ application of the
medicinal potence, selected exactly according to symptom of similarity”
artificial disease-affection
a) The human body seems to allow itself to be more effectively altered with its tuning
by medicines than by natural disease irritants
b) The inimical potencies in life on earth don’t have an absolute power to morbidly
mistune the human condition
c) It is entirely different with the artificial disease potencies which we call medicines.
50. T or F – The power of natural disease to make us sick doesn’t depen on our
susceptibility and exposure to them? F
51. T or F, the power of medicines to affect the health of every human being is
absolute and unconditional? T
53. T or F, Every medicine works at all times, under all circumstances, on every
living being? T
54. What is the difference b/w medicinal energies and natural disease energies?
Medicinal energies affect health unconditionally while natural disease energies only
affect health under certain conditions
55. Is the greater strength of the medicinal energies the only requirement for it
to cure? No
57. T or F – Not even nature can lift a dissimilar disease that is already present
through a stronger, unhomeopathic disease? T
59. What happens if 2 dissimilar diseases meet together in the human being and
they are either of equal strength or the older one happens to be stronger?
Then the older disease will keep the new one away from the body
60. Is this also true for chronic diseases? Yes
62. Can ppl suffering from eczema get infected with the Levantine plague? No
67. What happens if the newer dissimilar disease is stronger? It will suspend the
older disease but never cure it. And sx of the uncure older disease will come back once
the new one is cured
68. Give an examples of this? Children with epilepsy were injected with ringworm and
their epileptic seizures went away. The seizures came back after being cured from
ringworm
74. T or F – measles suspended the formation of pox pustules following small pox
vaccination? T
Aphorism 40-49
1. What is a complicated disease? When a new disease joins an old one that is
dissimilar to it
2. Do the diseases take up the same regions of the body? No, they take up different
organs
3. Can the two diseases cure one another? No, but the sx of one disease might b/m
hidden
6. What often causes a doubly diseased case? The use of allopathic medicine to cure
one
8. What happens when 2 similar diseases appear? The stronger new disease cures
the older
9. Can 2 similar diseases suspend each other? No, one will cure the other
11. Give examples of this phenomenon? Smallpox vaccine have cured eye inflammation
and blindiness, deafness, dyspnea, testicular swelling, dysentery, cowpox (other
examples p.92-93)
12. Can a dissimilar disease cure another disease? No, it must be similar and stronger
2. T or F, The discovery of syphilis has permitted the medical art closer to the
nature of the majority of disease to be cured? False, it’s the discovery of psora
4. What’s the difference? In acute, much shorter time is needed to take the case
5. What are keynotes in case taking? Let the px talk, Obtain info from the px’s
relations, Observe the patient, Write the case accurately, Don’t interrupt
7. What do you do once the px is done talking? Go through the list of sx and ask for
precision
8. Why shouldn’t you interrupt the patient? b/c it disturbs the px’s train of thought
11. When do you ask more precise questions? Only after the patient has freely given
his account
12. What is more reliable, your observations or the px’s own account? The px’s own
account
13. What do you do if a px is already on medication? Make sure to ask him of his sx
before the medications since this will give you the real disease image
14. Can you ask a px to get off the meds for a couple of days? According to the
organon, yes (but probably not for us)
15. If worse comes to worse and the px can’t remember all his sx before the meds
and you can’t ask him to get off them what do you do? Just use the present sx,
it’s still good enough
16. What should you note about the px’s recovery? The possible obstacles to recovery
17. What should you pay attention to or consider in chronic diseases of women?
Pay special attention to whether they are pregnant or infertile, vaginal discharges…
18. T or F, you must pay attention to the smallest details in cases of chronic
diseases? True, they might hold the answer
19. T or F, in acute cases you won’t need to ask as many questions? True
20. In cases of epidemics, how do you get a disease image? You must interview more
than one patient
21. “Chronic miasmatic diseases are collective diseases with an extremely large
______________ ___ _____________”? Totality of symptoms
22. “The wesen of the many different forms of psoric disease is the ______”? Same
23. T or F, Different cases of disease in the same epidemic area are in essence the
same? True
READ APHORISM 104 (can’t really make question… actually, just not in the mood. Lol)
78. What is the second item of business for the medical art practitioner?
The investigation of the implements appointed for the cure of natural disease
All the disease sx and condition-alternating properties that the medicine is able to
engender in healthy ppl
Because the medicinal alterations are confounded with the sx of the disease
81. What is the only true method of curing dynamic diseases? Homeopathy
82. “Sx from ______ agree with those from provings” Poisonings
83. What are 3 things that the allopathic observers of poisoning did not suspect?
These sx contained reference to the power of the drugs to cure similar ailments in
natural disease
That these disease arousals were indications of their homeopathic curative actions
The only possible investigation of their medicinal powers rests upon the observation of
the condition-alterations brought forth by the medicines in healthy organisms
84. Through what are the pure, peculiar powers of medicines for curative
purposes not to be discerned with?
88. What do you call the sx that oppose the initial action upon the life force?
Counter actions/After actions
89. T or F – In provings with moderate doses upon healthy bodies, the after action
is seldom or never felt? T
Sx whereby the medicine alters the tuning of the px condition and generates a disease
state In and on the person’s condition
93. “ some medicines have an initial action with ________ ________.” Reciprocal States
94. What are idiosyncracies?
Cases in which a given individual bodily constitution, although otherwise healthy, has a
tendency to be displaced into a more or less diseased state by certain things which
seem to make absolutely no impression or alteration in many other ppl
To ascertain each medicine’s pwrs and true actions and to differentiate b/w medicines
99. One must one bear in mind concerning medicinal provings (3)?
a) even in small doses the strong substances tend to arouse condition-alterations even
in the robust
b) Substances of milder pwr must be administered in more considerable doses
c) for the action of the weakest medicine to be perceived, they can only be tested upon
pp who are free of disease and who are delicate, excitable and sensitive
Because the certainty of the entire medial art and the welfare of all future human
generations depends on these experiments
102.During provings, each of these medicines must be taken in what form? Simple
and unadulterated
103.How should medicines made from indigenous (local) plants be taken?
Should be made into a powder or extracted fresh and made into a tincture prepared
with alcohol. They should be mixed with several parts of water when administered.
106.What should you do if the plant is only to be had in its dry form and if its
powers are naturally weak?
An infusion should be made from it by pouring boiling water over the crushed herb. It
should be drunk immediately after being prepared, while still warm.
Because the lack of alcohol causes the rapid spoiling of the plant and loss of medicinal
power
108.T or F? Provers are aloud to take other medicinal substances during a proving
since it won’t affect the results. F
The prover should take, daily on an empty stomach, 4 to 6 of the finest globules of the
30C potency of such a substance, moistened with a little water or dissolved in a larger
or smaller amount of water and well succussed, for several days.
113.“Provers should start with a ______ dose and then ______ it if necessary” small,
increase
114.What do provings made only with one dose provide?
Information about the order in which sx appear and duration of the med’s action (by
repetition of one dose)
115.T or F? The action of medicine is less clear when a prover must take
increasing doses on successive days. T
Heightened
Place oneself in different situations to see if the sx lessens or increases in diff situations.
118.T or F? Diff sx of a medicine appear in diff provers and in diff tests with the
same prover. T
119.T or F? Even the sx that are only rarely brought forth in the proving of a
medicine can be cured by that medicine when sx appear in sick person. T
120.T or F? Moderate proving doses yield better info and are safer than larger
doses. T
121.The prover should keep journals of his/her experiences which should include
what?
128.T or F – the entire organism is pervaded by the miasm before its primary sx
appear? T
129.What do the primary sx serve to do? Serve to prevent the outbreak of internal
disease
132.How does the miasm express itself itself when its representative local
symptom is removed?
133.T or F – the homeopathic physician never uses local means to treat these
primary symptoms of chronic miasms? T
134.So how do they treat the underlying miasms? With internal homeopathic
remedies
135.Why does the homeopathic physician generally have to deal with the
secondary symptoms?
B/c the primary sx have already been outwardly annihilated by the old school physician
who previously treated the case
The most careful inquiry is required in order to determine whether or not the patient
has had a venereal infection, either syphilis or the rare figwart disease (gonorrhea)
The tx must be directed against this alone (such cases are very rare)
The veneral infx must be taken into consideration as it will have complicated the psora
b/c the internal itch diathesis (psora) is by far the most frequent fundamental cause of
chronic disease
141.Is it possible for the physician to have to combat both the psora and syphilis
miasm as well as the sycosis miasm? Yes
142. What is the most common case? Psora alone or complicated with allopathic
medicine
143.What must the physician do wants he/she knows what miasm is involved? Find
out what type of allopathic therapy the patient has had
144.What should the patient take into consideration in order to discover what
things in the px’s life might tend to increase his malady?
- age
- lifestyle
- diet
- occupations
- domestic situations
- civic relations
146.Once the physician has all that information, what can he start doing? Can start
to seek in several interviews, the sketch of the disease image as completely as
possible.
147.Based on the symptoms, what type of remedy will the physician start? The
medication that has the utmost possible similarity of signs to those of the disease (most
antimiasmatic medicine)