§ 10 Sixth Edition:
The material organism, without the vital force, is capable of no sensation, no function, no self-preservation1, it derives all sensation and performs all the functions of life solely by means of the immaterial being (the vital principle) which animates the material organism in health and in disease.
1 It is dead, and only subject to the power of the external physical world; it decays, and is again resolved into its chemical constituents.
Dr Prasad Rasal:
In this aphorism, Dr Samuel Hahnemann tries to explain the details regarding the Vital Force & the Vital Principle. He explains that the material organism, without the vital force, is capable of no sensation, no function, no self-preservation. The material body derives all sensation and performs all the functions of life solely by means of the immaterial being (the vital principle) which animates the material organism in health and in disease.
So, the animation to the immaterial being is because of the Vital Principle i.e. nothing but the Soul. If, it is lost, the human being is called as a dead. What remains after the death is nothing but the material body which decays & again becomes part & parcel of this universe.
