Comment 133 Of the different kinds of protracted diseases, those caused by prolonged allopathic treatment and by chronic miasms are truly chronic. Other diseases linger…

Most individual acute febrile diseases are passing flare-ups of latent psora which then becomes dormant again.

Comment 130 Acute diseases may be individual, sporadic or epidemic. A few of the epidemic diseases are acute miasms.

With respect to the first item [§71], the following serves first of all as a general overview.

It is now no longer a matter of doubt that human diseases consist merely of groups of certain symptoms which are only annihilated and transformed…

From what has already been submitted to the reader, the following can be stated unmistakably: 

Initial and counter-actions in antipathic treatments

In homeopathic cures-following the uncommonly small medicinal doses (§275-§287) which are necessary in this curative mode and which were just sufficient,

Initial and counter-actions in homeopathic treatments

A minute homeopathic dose produces a perceptible initial action, but the life force’s counter-action is inconspicuous.

Examples of initial and counter-actions:

Initial action

Each potence that impinges upon the life force produces an initial action which elicits an automatic reaction from the life force, termed an after-action or…

Initial and counter-actions in homeopathic treatments

The homeopathic mode of cure, based on symptom similarity and minimal doses, is the exact opposite of the antipathic treatment of disease symptoms. Instead of…

When these ill effects are countered with stronger and stronger doses of the antipathic medicine, a more serious disease, or death, results.

Aggravation of symptoms by antipathic treatments

Faults in the antipathic approach: Only a small part of the whole disease is treated.

Antipathic treatment focuses on a single disease symptom, bringing forth a medicinal symptom which is opposite to the disease symptom.

This palliative (antipathic, enantiopathic) method was introduced seventeen centuries ago, following Galen’s teaching of contraria contrariis. By this method, physicians could still most certainly hope…