Organon of Medicine

APHORISM 2:

The highest ideal of cure is rapid, gentle and permanent restoration of the health, or removal and annihilation of the disease in its whole extent, in the shortest, most reliable, and most harmless way, on easily comprehensible principles.

Prasad Rasal:
In the first aphorism, Dr Samuel Hahnemann has explained the Mission, the Goal of the Homoeopathic Physician. Now, he defines it in the exact manner i.e. one should know exactly the details regarding the mission & that's why he defines it.
The way he defines it is also very much important to get understand. He says..The highest ideal of cure... means ideally speaking how it should be; it is one of the thought. He never say like the Cure should be but how one should think about the Cure. Dr Samuel Hahnemann also knows that it's not possible to achieve what he says regarding the cure but one should go for achieving in that way. This is one of the concept or fantasy regarding the highest ideal of cure.
So, he says that ...is rapid means as fast as possible; ...gentle means without causing the much suffering to the sick person when it is getting achieved; ...and permanent means there should not be any recurrence; ...restoration of health means again bringing back the harmony of mind, body & soul with the help of the Vital Force; means nothing but the removal & annihilation of the disease in its whole extent by removing the totality of the symptoms; ...in the shortest again means as early as possible; ...most reliable means with the known Homoeopathic medicines already proved on healthy human beings i.e. reliability; ...and most harmless way means without causing any damage to the vital organs as happens in the allopathic science; ...based on easily comprehensible principles means it follows the 7 cardinal principles of the Homoeopathy along with the Hering's Law of the direction of the cure.

Organon of Medicine

§ 1:

The physician’s high and only mission is to restore the sick to health, to cure, as it is termed.1

Foot Note 1:
His mission is not, however, to construct so-called systems, by interweaving empty speculations and hypotheses concerning the internal essential nature of the vital processes and the mode in which diseases originate in the interior of the organism, (whereon so many physicians have hitherto ambitiously wasted their talents and their time); nor is it to attempt to give countless explanations regarding the phenomena in diseases and their proximate cause (which must ever remain concealed), wrapped in unintelligible words and an inflated abstract mode of expression, which should sound very learned in order to astonish the ignorant – whilst sick humanity sighs in vain for aid. Of such learned reveries (to which the name of theoretic medicine is given, and for which special professorships are instituted) we have had quite enough, and it is now high time that all who call themselves physicians should at length cease to deceive suffering mankind with mere talk, and begin now, instead, for once to act, that is, really to help and to cure.

Prasad Rasal:
I made a request to Saloni to restart the aphorisms from 1-14 because if these are well discussed, everyone will be benefited from them. And Organon is the base of the Homoeopathy because it is a THOUGHT which has given birth to Homoeopathy as a medical science from the intellectual mind of our master Dr Samuel Hahnemann. If one is thorough with the concepts, he can do Homoeopathy very confidently. Organon of Medicine develops the thoughts & concepts in every ones mind.
If you perceive all the aphorisms right from 1 to 291 & look them retrospectively, then you will recognize the beauty & perfectionist mind of the Master. All the aphorisms are written haphazardly but are arranged in such a way that one must study them in sequence from 1 to 291.
He start them with Mission, the Goal of the Homoeopathic Physician in the first aphorism. Unless the mission is fixed, it is not possible to go ahead & that's why one should know his Aim, Goal, Mission.
He has used every word in the whole Organon very specifically. He start with THE PHYSICIAN"S. He has not used the word Doctor but very specifically Physician because Doctorate is given to any person who used to work in any specific part & even to them who are not from medical field. In allopathic science this terminology is used very commonly as they deal with the parts of the human being. The Physician is the person who deals with the Complete Human being including his Physical as well as Dynamic aspect. He is Holistic in his approach.
Then he uses HIGH & ONLY. If one has to achieve anything, he should concentrate on his Only Goal. Goal is always Single & not diversified. Homoeopathic Physician has to deal with the Live Human Being & at that time there should not be negligence from his part. He should focus his mind only on The Sick.
Later comes MISSION. The Homoeopathic Physician's work should be a devotion like Missionaries who work for their propagation of religion without expecting anything. There is no selfishness or expectation of gaining anything. HE expects the Homoeopathic Physician should work in the similar manner in order to achieve his goal i.e. Cure.
TO RESTORE are the next words indicates to bring back to original Healthy State from which an Individual became THE SICK.
The whole aphorism revolves around the two words i.e. THE SICK. Dr J.T.KENT has given the detailed explanation regarding why the master has used these words. It is The Man who is Sick & not his parts. It is something Prior invisible present inside which gets Sick at first followed by the manifestations of the disease. It is the invisible, dynamic Vital Force whose office is to preserve the Health gets diseased at first & i.e. Sickness. It's not just doing the nomenclature of the disease on the basis of some common symptoms & labeling it with Diagnosis. In fact it is understanding the Human Being from every aspect to find out the Individuality in order to match with the Similimum on the basis of Symptom Similarity which is necessary to bring The Sick to HEALTH, to CURE.
When a person's Mind, Body & Soul remains in perfect harmony for higher purpose of his existence with the the help of a governing Vital Force, he is called to be Healthy. It is the original state before the sickness which is necessary to achieve by bringing back the diseased Vital Force in to the harmony by perfect dynamic Homoeopathic Similimum is called as the CURE.
Last four words AS IT IS TERMED are also too important meaning the cure should be based on the Seven Cardinal Principles of Homoeopathy according to Master & also in the direction of Hering's Law as per Homoeopathic development after Dr Samuel Hahnemann.
Foot Note: Every foot is very important as it gives us exactly opposite aspect used in other medical systems prevalent during Hahnemannian time with detailed explanations & proper criticism against them. In this foot note, he criticized a lot on the allopathy on their Theoretic Aspect. Because, number of allopathic doctors waste their talent & time to find out the Material or Pathological cause of the disease which is difficult to achieve as it is dynamic in nature. Number of Professorships, Doctorates are given to them for finding out something material as a Prima Causa Morbi or finding out some pathological work to label a disease which is not at all useful practically for a suffering sick. He needs a help to come out of the diseased state but instead of helping him by giving some medicine, these people goes on discussing on the material or pathological causes. This attitude of the Allopaths is criticized by the Master. The things are same even today. Even today maximum chronic disease conditions are either labeled as Idiopathic or Psycho-somatic or Auto-immune & there are no medicines to cure them in allopathy except the Steroids, Immuno-suppressives.
That's why Dr Samuel Hahnemann at last says: it is now high time that all who call themselves physicians should at length cease to deceive suffering mankind with mere talk, and begin now, instead, for once to act, that is, really to help and to cure.
This explanation might look very easy or unnecessary for the Seniors or Homoeopathic Physicians but I feel that there are many new comers in this Homoeopathic Field who should know the Homoeopathic Philosophy thoroughly in order to remain stuck with the same medical science. If you feel there is repetition, I apologize all the senior colleagues.

Genetics & Homoeopathic Medicine

Chandran Nambiar K C:

DO YOU THINK POTENTIZED HOMEOPATHIC DRUGS CAN BY ANY WAY INDUCE HARMFUL CHANGES IN OUR GENETIC MATERIAL?

Dr Prasad Rasal:
Respected Sir,
If the potentized Homoeopathic Medicines are repeated continuously, they can produce hazardous effects because any long sustained trauma can injure dynamics of the human being.
Any long standing disturbed mental state during pregnancy can produce dynamic hazardous effects on the new born & can affect the genetics of the infant, similarly the long standing dynamic stimulus can affect the genetics of the human being.
That's why there is a Law of Minimum Dose.

Organon of Medicine

§ 26:

This depends on the following homoeopathic law of nature which was sometimes, indeed, vaguely surmised but not hitherto fully recognized, and to which is due every real cure that has ever taken place:

A weaker dynamic affection is permanently extinguished in the living organism by a stronger one, if the latter (whilst differing in kind) is very similar to the former in its manifestations.1


Prasad Rasal:
This is the beauty of Dr Samuel Hahnemann that gradually after explaining the details regarding the systems prevalent during his time & explaining their laws with merit & demerits, he now turn to explain the Natures Law of Cure discovered by him. Before, he explained that the Antipathic Principle & Allopathic Heteropathic aspect is not at all curative but either palliative or suppressive. Now, he says that, the Nature's Law is the only curative mode of treatment.
A law states that: A weaker dynamic affection is permanently extinguished in the living organism by a stronger one, if the latter (whilst differing in kind) is very similar to the former in its manifestations.
Now, let's discuss the law with the help of few examples.
1. A tube light & the Sun are two different entities(kind) but the dynamic manifestations of both are same i.e. Light. When Sun arises, the effect of the tube light gets extinguished completely.
2. When you are talking with someone & a loudspeaker starts. Immediately the effect of your voice sound disappears completely by the sound of the loudspeaker.
Everywhere this law is applicable & that's why it is called as Nature's Law of Cure. And the same is applicable, when you apply it therapeutically, using the Dynamic Medicines on the basis of symptom similarity.
Homoeopathic Medicines are dynamic in nature because we can find out the manifestations on healthy human being but we cannot detect the original medicine in material quantity in it. It produces the Symptoms as a manifestation when proved on healthy human. Any Natural disease can get expressed in the form of symptoms as the manifestations. When natural disease has to appear in a healthy human being, it has to fulfill the conditions like the Constitution, Miasm, Susceptibility etc etc i.e. it is conditional while when a medicine is given to healthy human, it acts unconditionally. It itself suggests, Medicine is Stronger than Natural Disease. When you use this Medicine on the basis of Symptom Similarity, it fulfills the Nature's Law & removes the Natural Disease permanently.
In the foot note to this aphorism, Dr Samuel Hahnemann has explained number of examples to explain the truth of this Nature's Law.

Organon of Medicine

§ 17 Sixth Edition:

Now, as in the cure effected by the removal of the whole of the perceptible signs and symptoms of the disease the internal alteration of the vital principle to which the disease is due – consequently the whole of the disease – is at the same time removed,1 it follows that the physician has only to remove the whole of the symptoms in order, at the same time, to abrogate and annihilate the internal change, that is to say, the morbid derangement of the vital force – consequently the totality of the disease, the disease itself.2 But when the disease is annihilated the health is restored, and this is the highest, the sole aim of the physician who knows the true object of his mission, which consists not in learned – sounding prating, but in giving aid to the sick.

Foot Note 1:
A warning dream, a superstitious fancy, or a solemn prediction that death would occur at a certain day or at a certain hour, has not unfrequently produced all the signs of commencing and increasing disease, of approaching death and death itself at the hour announced, which could not happen without the simultaneous production of the inward change (corresponding to the state observed internally); and hence in such cases all the morbid signs indicative of approaching death have frequently been dissipated by an identical cause, by some cunning deception or persuasion to a belief in the contrary, and health suddenly restored, which could not have happened without the removal, by means of this mortal remedy, of the internal and external morbid change that threatened death.

Foot Note 2:
It is only thus that God the preserver of mankind, could reveal His wisdom and goodness in reference to the cure of the disease to which man is liable here below, by showing to the physician what he had to remove in disease in order to annihilate them and thus re-establish health. But what would we think of His wisdom and goodness if He has shrouded in mysterious obscurity that which was to be cured in diseases (as is asserted by the dominant school of medicine, which affects to possess a supernatural insight into the nature of things), and shut it up in the hidden interior, and thus rendered it impossible for man to know the malady accurately, consequently impossible for him to cure it?

Prasad Rasal:
In this aphorism, Dr Samuel Hahnemann wants to explain the Importance of Totality of the Symptoms for prescription point of view. It is the Nature, which brings out the symptoms to show the disturbed internal derangement i.e. actual disease through which we understand the person is diseased & he needs your help. If we remove this totality of symptoms on toto, we achieve the Cure & bring back the Health of a Diseased Individual. It is so simple.
But the old practitioners instead of using this simple method& giving an aid to the Sick, tries to discuss on finding out the material cause of the disease or some pathological change in the body. Actually, it is impossible to find out the Dynamic Cause of the disease for which they waste their time & talent against which He criticized in this aphorism.
Foot Note 1:
In order to explain the Dynamic Cause of the Disease, he has given an beautiful example of the dream as the cause of disorder. A person getting a warning dream about his death might get all the signs & symptoms approaching the death. Here nothing material enters the body still he suffers. This is his question that where is that material cause of the disease which they are finding inside the human beings? So, this state of this diseased individual cannot be removed by any material medicine but only by dynamic entity. Anything which used to produce similar features either by cheating the patient & producing in him a frightened state by telling him something frightening will remove the whole diseased state in total or by giving him a dynamic Homoeopathic Medicine but not by any Material Medicine.
Foot Note 2:
As already mentioned in the explanation of this aphorism, the Nature or the God or the Preserver of Health i.e. Vital Principle, tries to throw away a disease on the exterior of the Human Being in order to save the internal vital organs. It is our duty to understand this language of the disease & need for help of the Vital Principle to get the right Similimum to get an Ideal Cure. But the old practitioners to find out cause of the disorder inside in the form of some material or in the form of some pathology & tries to remove the unknown cause by means of the hazardous measures as using Emetics, Purgatives, Blood Letting etc. Because of those measures, the vitality of the diseased person gets weak due to loss of Vital Juices & naturally the symptoms on the exterior diminishes & becomes vague without getting cured the internal disease (which they considers as cure). Due to which, a disease which was easy to cure on the basis of Symptom Similarity, now becomes difficult because of lack of symptoms. The Curable Disease can become Incurable due to this method.
What Dr Samuel Hahnemann have explained 200 years back is applicable even today. Only the methods are different in Allopathy. Now they are using Immuno-suppressive drugs or Antipathic drugs in their management to remove the symptoms without removing the internal dynamic cause & disease & making the disorders more incurable.

Organon of Medicine

Aphorism 25:

Now, however, in all careful trials, pure experience,1 the sole and infallible oracle of the healing art, teaches us that actually that medicine which, in its action on the healthy human body, has demonstrated its power of producing the greatest number of symptoms similar to those observable in the case of disease under treatment, does also, in doses of suitable potency and attenuation, rapidly, radically and permanently remove the totality of the symptoms of this morbid state, that is to say (? 6 – 16), the whole disease present, and change it into health; and that all medicines cure, without exception, those diseases whose symptoms most nearly resemble their own, and leave none of them uncured.

Foot Note:
I do not mean that sort of experience of which the ordinary practitioners of the old school boast, after they have for years worked away with a lot of complex prescriptions on a number of diseases which they never carefully investigate, but which, faithful to their school, they consider as already described in works of systematic pathology, and dreamed that they could detect in them some imaginary morbific matter, or ascribe to them some other hypothetical internal abnormality. They always saw something in them, but knew not what it was they saw, and they got results, from the complex forces acting on an unknown object, that no human being but only a God could have unraveled – results from which nothing can be learned, no experience gained. Fifty years of experience of this sort is like fifty years of looking into a kaleidoscope filled with unknown colored objects, and perpetually turning round; thousands of ever changing figures and no accounting for them!

Prasad Rasal:

Now, he is explaining the importance of Pure Experience.
This is his method to put forward both the views i.e. in the aphorisms regarding the Homoeopathic aspect & at the same time the opposite i.e. either Allopathic or Antipathic in the Foot Note so that a reader can understand the truth very easily.
Pure experience is nothing but the Homoeopathic Medicine Proving on Healthy Human Beings in dynamic potentized form. As it has been proved on Human being, we can get the real effect of it at the level of Physic as well as at Mind which is a very useful data for all of us to find out a medicine on symptom similarity. These medicines produces the functional alteration in the state of health of the human being & not the pathological effects as in material doses of Allopathic Proving on Animals. That's why our Materia Medicas are rich with the functional symptoms on Physical as well as the Mental levels. These are the useful tools to work on the patients with confidence & without any hesitation which is very common while using the Allopathic medicines because very less is known while using those medicines.
Here in the Foot Note, he criticized the Allopathic Proving as well as their method of finding out the material cause inside the human being in the form of some altered pathologies. Even today, the method of Allopathic Proving is the same i.e. using them in animals & then finding out the pathological alterations caused by the medicines & considering in mind that Human Being is also an Animal & the medicine will produce similar effect in him. Naturally, when one is using this medicine proved on animals, how can he be so sure regarding the action it produces in the patient. If it works in a different manner, it is considered as a Side Effect which is actually a Effect. And because of which in Allopathy, they have to withdraw their medicines from the market. For e.g. Thaliomide which was considered as a best drug for morning sickness found to be a drug producing maximum congenital anomalies.
At the same time he criticizes their aspect of finding out the cause of the disease. As he has very thoroughly explained that the cause of the disease is always the dynamic derangement of the Vital Force, then how can it be possible to find it out looking inside the Human being or thro' microscopes. If the things are dynamic, they are dynamic. That's why he says: Fifty years of experience of this sort is like fifty years of looking into a kaleidoscope filled with unknown colored objects, and perpetually turning round; thousands of ever changing figures and no accounting for them! It's nothing but waste of time. That's why in the first foot note only, he says: It is now high time that all who call themselves physicians should at least cease to deceive suffering mankind with mere talk, & begin now, instead, for once to act, that is, really to help & to cure.

Organon of Medicine

§ 23:

All pure experience, however, and all accurate research convince us that persistent symptoms of disease are far from being removed and annihilated by opposite symptoms of medicines (as in the antipathic, enantiopathic or palliative method), that, on the contrary, after transient, apparent alleviation, they break forth again, only with increased intensity, and become manifestly aggravated (see § 58 – 62 and 69).

Prasad Rasal:
In this aphorism, Dr Samuel Hahnemann explains regarding the palliative effect of the Antipathic medicines. He has given lot of proofs from different sources to explain this thought in Organon & that's why he says, all pure experiences...
Th...e last part of the aphorism is regarding the action of the Antipathic medicines. After the palliative action of the antipathic medicine is over, aggravation definitely follows. He has explained this in detail while explaining the Secondary Counter action in aphorism 58-69. In day today practice, we use to get its proof number of times. Patients on purgatives used to suffer a lot from severe constipation once they stop taking the purgatives etc.