LAW OF SIMILARS lecture XIII of JT Kent - HRU.pptx

Lecture XIII of JT Kent - Law of similia

1. LECTURE XIII Dr RAGUL S MD Part 1 Dept of Organon LAW OF SIMILARS

2. The antipathic and heteropathic methods have of permanent cure, instead the change the economy, change the symptoms and establishment of another disease which is worse than the first. E.g. Using morphine for relief of pain and Purgatives for bowel movements. So the method of applying medicines profitably in disease is homoeopathic method.

3. The cure in homoeopathy is depends on the LAW OF NATURE “ 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 manifestation. Hahnemann made number of provings , gathered number of reported cures and verified that cures had been made accidentally or based on principle of law of similars . Finally, Hahnemann declared that the phenomena of cure depend entirely on fixed law.

4. "A dynamic disease in the living economy of man is extinguished in a permanent manner by another that is more powerful when the latter (without being of the same species) bears a strong resemblance to it in its mode of manifesting itself.“ In homoeopathy the word "powerful' expresses a different thought. Hahnemann's expression leads to the idea of intensity, having qualities more internal, higher, prior; i.e., the more internal it is the more intense, the more it approaches the first substance, so that intensity as to cause means higher or more internal, higher in the sense of subtleness or fineness. Powerful is actually from within and hence we potentize, going higher and higher, in order that we may reach intensity, and it is in this sense that the remedy becomes more powerful by potentization.

5. One example of this is seen in the young girl who has lost her mother or lover and is ill as a consequence, is depressed with grief, is constantly sobbing, and has become melancholy. She sits in a corner, hears nobody, thinks no one can pity her because no one has had just such grief. Let us apply allopathic treatment to her. "Come, there is nothing the matter with you; why don't you brace yourself up, why don't you try to arouse yourself?" But this only throws her into a deeper state of melancholy. Scolding and harsh treatment do no good. But introduce the homeopathic treatment, employ a nurse if you will who is a good actress and who has gone through the same identical grief, and let her make a big fuss in the other corner. Pretty soon the patient will say, "You seem to have the same grief that I have." "Yes, I have lost a lover." "Well, you can sympathize with me," and the two fall to bellowing and weep it out together. There is a bond of sympathy. Sometimes a curable case of insanity can be reached in this way, and thus we have a mind cure. Hahnemann made use of this plan in curing insanity. When a patient would exert her will, but is unable on account of the physical encumbrances, then the homoeopathic remedy will restore order.

6. The curative power of medicines, therefore, depends on their symptoms, similar to the disease but superior to it in strength, so that each individual case of disease is most surely, radically, rapidly and permanently annihilated and removed only by a medicine capable of producing (in the human system) in the most similar and complete manner the totality of its symptoms, which at the same time are stronger than the disease. It is not sufficient to give drug regardless of form. It is not sufficient to give the crude drug, but the plane upon which it is to given is important. The attenuation also must be similar to the disease cause.

7. Dynamic alteration of vital energy manifested with symptoms Administration of medicine (artificial disease) according to symptoms similarity Disease ceases to exist according to natures law of cure The artificial disease leaves the patient after spent its force The vital force is freed and can continue to carry life on health

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