Органон Врачебного Искусства

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.

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…