Органон Врачебного Искусства

Consider the patient’s circumstances and his mode of thought and emotions. Ascertain any obstacles to cure.

Ascertain what treatments the patient has received to date.

How to treat chronic miasmatic diseases

Homeopathic physicians treat the underlying miasm with internal homeopathic remedies rather than treating the miasm’s primary or secondary symptoms with local means

The entire organism is pervaded by the miasm before its primary symptom appears. The primary symptom serves to prevent the outbreak of the internal disease. When its representative local symptom is removed, the miasm expresses itself through the development of characteristic chronic diseases.

Every external treatment for clearing away such local symptoms from the surface of the body, without having cured the internal miasmatic disease (e.g. , the…

Removal of local symptoms results in a heightening of the whole disease.

The life force makes and sustains symptoms on the exterior to silence chronic internal disease.

If the local symptom had still been present during the internal treatment, the homeopathic remedy for the total disease would have been discoverable.

If the local symptom has been annihilated by a caustic or dessicative external treatment or by surgery (because the remedy appropriate for the disease had…

Topical application alone of a medicine that would be curative if given internally is reprehensible for the same reason.

However, such treatment is thoroughly reprehensible for local symptoms which have the psoric miasm as a basis (and also for those having the syphilitic or…

External application of a homeopathic medicine directly on a local symptom of chronic disease is reprehensible. The local symptom will disappear before the annihilation of…

Treat cases involving acute flare-ups of psora with antipsorics after dispatching the acute state.

No external means should be directly applied to local symptoms.

The general disease state and its local symptoms will be lifted by the homeopathic medicine, taken only internally.

This alteration happens most expediently when, in articulating the disease case, one simultaneously unites [draws into coalescence] the exact constitution of the local suffering with…

This is confirmed unambiguously by experience which shows in all cases of a so-called local malady (even those on the most external parts of the…

All genuine medical treatment must be directed towards the whole disease, not just its local symptoms.

Little cogitation is needed for it to dawn on us that no external malady (except those that arise from particular external damages) can arise without…