Friday, March 25, 2011

Organon of Medicine

§19 – Now, as diseases are nothing more than alterations in the state of health of the healthy individual which express themselves by morbid signs, and the cure is also only possible by a change to the healthy condition of the state of health of the diseased individual, it is very evident that medicines could never cure disease if they did not possess the power of altering man’s state of health which depends on sensations and functions; indeed, that their curative power must be owing solely to this power they possess of altering man’s state of health.

Dr Prasad Rasal:
In this aphorism, Dr Samuel Hahnemann wants to explain regarding definitions of Disease, Cure & Medicine.
What is exactly mean by Disease?
Diseases are nothing but the alterations in the state of health of the healthy individual which are ex...pressed at the level of Sensations & Functions thro' morbid signs & symptoms
What is mean by Cure?
Cure is nothing but bringing back the former healthy state from a diseased one i.e. removing those signs & symptoms with the help of proper Medicine selected on the Law of Similars.
What is exactly mean by Medicine?
He says that substances which has the capacity to alter the state of health of the human being at the level of Sensations & Functions are called as the Medicines. The curative power of the Medicine solely depend up-on this specific characteristic.

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