Introduction, Section 30

In order to cure gently, rapidly, certainly, and permanently in each case of disease, choose a medicine which can, of itself, arouse a similar suffering to the one it is supposed to cure.

Introduction, Section 31

Throughout history, patients who were truly, rapidly, permanently, and visibly cured by a medicine were cured solely (although without the knowledge of the physician) by means of a homeopathic remedy, that is, by a medicine capable of generating a similar disease state. This is different from those cases where patients recovered through some fortuitous event, because an acute disease had run its course, or because their bodily powers gradually overcame allopathic and antagonistic treatments.

Introduction, footnote to Section 31

Humanity can leave truth long unnoticed until the time ordained by Providence when its rays shall irresistibly break through the fog of prejudice, as rosy dawn at the break of day, to shine brightly and inextinguishably for the well-being of humanity.

§1

The physician’s highest and only calling is to restore the sick to health – to cure.

§2

The highest ideal of cure is the rapid, gentle, and permanent restoration of health; that is, the removal and eradication of a disease in its entire extent in the shortest, least harmful, and most reliable manner, according to clearly comprehensible principles.

§4

Physicians are likewise sustainers of health if they know what disrupts health, what produces and maintains disease, and how to remove these from people in health.

Footnote to §7

From time immemorial, adherents of the old school of medicine… have attempted to combat and, if possible, suppress a single symptom among several symptoms of a disease.

A single symptom of disease is no more the disease itself than a single foot is the whole person.

§9

When a person is healthy, the immaterial vital force (autocracy) – the dynamis that animates the material body (organism) – rules with unbounded sway and retains all parts of the organism in admirable, harmonious, vital operation, as regards both sensations and functions, so that our indwelling, reason-gifted spirit can freely employ this living, healthy instrument for the higher purpose of our existence.

§11

When a person falls ill, it is initially only this immaterial, autonomous vital force (life principle), everywhere present in the organism, that is mistuned through the dynamic influence of a pathogenic agent inimical to life. Only the life principle, mistuned to such abnormality, can impart to the organism the adverse sensations and induce the irregular functions that we call disease.

The life principle is a force invisible in itself, only perceptible by its effects on the organism. Therefore, its morbid mistunement only reveals itself by manifestations of disease in sensations and functions…

The morbid mistunement of the life principle makes itself perceptible by disease symptoms. In no other way can it make itself known.

§12

The morbidly tuned vital force alone brings forth diseases, so that the disease manifestations detectable to our senses express the entire internal change, that is, the entire morbid mistunement of the inner dynamis. In other words, the disease manifestations reveal the entire disease.

§16

Remedies can restore health and the harmony of life only through dynamic action upon the life principle [vital force]. They restore health after the alterations in the patient’s condition that are noticeable to our senses (the complex of symptoms) have revealed the disease to the attentively observing and investigating practitioner of the medical art as fully as is necessary for its cure.

§18

The entire complex of symptoms and circumstances detected in each individual case of disease must be the only indication, the only guide in selecting a remedy.

§23

Every pure experience and all well-conducted research convince us that persistent disease symptoms are not removed and eradicated by medicinal symptoms that oppose them (in the antipathic, enantiopathic, or palliative method). Instead, after brief, apparent relief, the disease symptoms recur, more intensified, and they obviously worsen.

§25

A medicine (in properly potentized and minimal doses) which, in its action upon a healthy individual, has proven it can produce the greatest number of symptoms similar to those found in a case of disease, also rapidly, thoroughly, and permanently removes all the symptoms of the disease state…It removes the entire disease and transforms it into health.

Every medicine, without exception, cures those diseases whose symptoms most nearly resemble its own, and leaves none of them uncured.

§29

Any disease, which is not strictly a surgical case, consists solely of a specific dynamic morbid mistunement of our vital force (life principle) that manifests in our sensations and functions.

§58

This antipathic approach is an entirely faulty, merely symptomatic treatment that focuses only on a single symptom in a one-sided way and addresses only a small part of the whole.

§68

From experience we know that homeopathic cures require very small medicinal doses, just sufficient to overcome the natural disease by matching its symptoms, thereby overpowering and eliminating them from the sensation of the life principle.

§70

This mistunement of a patient’s condition – which we call disease – can only be brought to health by altering the tuning of the vital force through medicines.

A natural disease can never be cured by medicines that produce in healthy people a state of disease different from the one to be cured (i.e., one with dissimilar symptoms). Thus, allopathic treatment cannot cure diseases.

Antipathic medicines only produce quick temporary relief. These medicines, which stimulate in healthy people artificial disease symptoms that are opposite to corresponding symptoms of the natural disease, never cure a long-standing complaint. Instead, they tend to worsen it.

Diseases, which are nothing but dynamic mistunements, are removed from the sensation of the vital force by the stronger, similar stimulus of a homeopathic remedy. Diseases are thereby easily, completely, and permanently cured.

§83

This individualizing examination of a case of disease… demands nothing more of the homeopathic practitioner than impartiality, healthy senses, attentiveness in observing, and fidelity in recording the picture of the disease.

§84

Everything should be recorded with the very same expressions used by the patient and family. The physician should let them speak without interruption.

§102

Knowledge of the epidemic’s entire set of symptoms is essential for comprehending the complete disease picture.

§153

It is essential to focus primarily, and almost exclusively, on the more striking, notable, unusual, and distinguishing (characterizing) signs and symptoms of the case. These, above all, must correspond to very similar ones in the chosen remedy’s set of symptoms.

§154

If a remedy’s set of symptoms contains the greatest number of characteristic signs (i.e., those that are exceptional, uncommon, and distinctive) and they are the most similar to those of the disease, then this remedy is the most suitable, homeopathic, specific remedy for this disease state.

§155

When a suitable homeopathic remedy is used, only those remedy symptoms corresponding to the disease symptoms become active… The numerous other symptoms of the remedy, which have no application in the current case, remain completely silent. Almost nothing of these symptoms will be noticeable in the patient’s condition.

§158

A small homeopathic aggravation in the first hours is a good sign that the acute disease will probably be resolved with the first dose… Such an aggravation is not uncommon since the medicinal disease must be somewhat stronger than the malady in order to override and extinguish it.

§160

It is hardly possible to prepare a dose of a homeopathic remedy so small that it could not improve or even fully cure a corresponding recent, unmuddled, natural disease.

§211

…the patient’s emotional state frequently becomes the most decisive factor in the selection of a homeopathic remedy. It is a definite distinguishing sign which, among all the signs of disease, can least elude the closely observing physician.

§230

…the sublime advantage of homeopathy over all other treatment methods shines most triumphantly in long-standing mental and emotional illnesses that arise from physical ailments or accompany them.

§240

In an epidemic of intermittent fever, if a patient is not perfectly cured by the homeopathic remedy found to be specific to that epidemic, the psoric miasm is always in the background…

§245

Significant progress during treatment absolutely precludes any repetition of a remedy for as long as progress continues.

§253

In all diseases, especially acute, rapidly arising ones, the patient’s emotional state and demeanor are the clearest and most reliable signs of a small beginning of amelioration or aggravation.

§256

A genuine practitioner of homeopathy knows how to avoid favoring certain remedies that happen to have been frequently used with success… By the same token, a genuine homeopathic practitioner will not avoid remedies simply because they had previously been used with detrimental results because the practitioner had incorrectly selected them.

Footnote 259

The softest tones of a distant flute in the still of the night, which would elevate a tender heart to otherworldly feelings and melt it into religious rapture, become inaudible and insignificant amidst the clamor and noise of the day.

§273

Without doubt, it is more reasonable and natural to prescribe only a single, simple, well-known medicine at a time in a disease than a mixture of several different drugs.

§274

If it is homeopathically selected, a simple medicinal substance, whose complex of symptoms is exactly known, provides complete help in diseases when used by itself.

§275

The suitability of a medicine for a given case depends not only on its precise homeopathic selection, but also on the correct size, or rather, smallness of its dose.

Administering too large a dose, even if it is perfectly homeopathically selected for the current condition, will be harmful due to the overly strong impression it makes on the vital force.