Органон Врачебного Искусства

Mentally and emotionally ill patients should be treated with calm and firmness and without reproach. 

These diseases are also based upon a psoric miasm.

This is the only kind of disease which can be rapidly transformed by psychotherapeutic means into well-being of the soul.

Some emotional diseases develop outward from the emotional mind.

The patient’s reaction to psychological approaches will help the physician differentiate between a mental disease that stems from a somatic disease and one that stems…

But if the antipsoric (and possibly antisyphilitic) treatment is not given, then we can almost assuredly expect a new, more prolonged and bigger attack, from…

However, a patient who recovers from an acute mental and emotional disease by means of apsoric medicines should never be regarded as cured.

Acute flare-ups of insanity or frenzy almost always arise from internal psora. They should first be treated with apsoric medicines, followed by continued antipsoric (and…

Seek an antimiasmatic remedy capable of arousing similar symptoms to those of the disease, especially its mental symptoms.

A comparison of these former somatic disease symptoms with the more indistinct vestiges that still remain will serve as a confirmation of the continuing concealed…

Find out about the patient’s somatic disease before it degenerated into a mental and emotional disease.

The cases are not rare in which a so-called somatic disease that threatens to be fatal-suppuration of the lungs, corruption of some other noble organ,…

Almost all mental and emotional diseases are one-sided diseases in which the somatic symptoms have diminished and the mental and emotional symptoms have heightened.

189 In §215-§227, three kinds of mental and emotional disease are discussed:

Treat mental and emotional diseases in the same way as other diseases. 

A remedy must be able to engender mental and emotional symptoms similar to those of the disease in order to cure it.

All medicines alter the mental and emotional state, each in a different way.

The patient’s emotional state often decides the choice of remedy.

Mental and emotional diseases are not sharply separated from other classes of disease because in every disease, the mental and emotional state is altered.

Over the course of several interviews, sketch a complete image of the disease, tracing out the characteristic symptoms. Start treatment with the most homeopatic antimiasmatic medicine.