Examining still further into laws governing the production of artificial disease states, we find there are laws governing the various states or types of substances which we desire to prove. As yet we may find these laws crudely phrased, but they follow closely the law of mutual action, the law of least action, and the laws of quantity and quality.
I. ***ANY DRUG WHICH IN ITS NATURAL STATE AFFECTS THE VITAL ENERGY BUT LITTLE WILL DEVELOP A PROVING only IN A HIGH POTENCY.
2. *** ANY DRUG WHICH IN ITS NATURAL STATE DISTURBS THE VITAL ENERGY TO functional MANIFESTATIONS ONLY may BE PROVEN IN A CRUDE FORM.
3. ***ANY DRUG WHICH IN ITS NATURAL STATE DISTURBS THE VITAL ENERGY TO DESTRUCTIVE MANIFESTATIONS SHOULD BE PROVEN *only IN A POTENTIATED FORM.
It has been demonstrated that planetary movements have a definite relationship to life. The power of the moon over the tides is an ancient and constant observation. The relationship of the earth and the sun offers an irrefutable argument in favour of the correlation of the planetary influences. The influence of the phases of the moon on some mental conditions and nervous complaints has been noted from the earliest times. For instance, the appellation *lunacy designated a mental disturbance definitely related to moon phases; epileptic conditions also have shown some response to the cycles of the moon. In other words, through these abnormal conditions of mental and nervous disturbance we have perceived dimly from time to time the outlines of a great truth.
That cyclic manifestations have been demonstrated in other fields than medicine in easily seen from the most cursory glance at the science of astronomy. In its earlier stages astronomy suffered from the same blind groping, ignorance and superstition that has hampered the intelligent observation of all natural phenomena; nevertheless, it has emerged as a true science of mathematical exactness. It is still true that the deductions from the most careful measurements and computations vary between different schools, yet it is the most closely measurable of all the sciences to-day.
Let us quote from *The Concise Knowledge of Astronomy: History, by Agnes M. Clerke, pages 12, 13 :
The subjection of the moon to know law was completed by the dispersal of the mystery surrounding a slight, continuous acceleration of her orbital velocity detected by Halley in 1693. It had been in progress since the earliest recorded eclipse in 721 B. C., if not longer; there was no sign of its cessation or reversal, and the grave question arose: Was the principle of universal attraction elsewhere unreservedly obeyed, here fatally complicated by the action of a resisting medium involving the eventual collapse of the earth-moon system? Laplace gave the answer in 1787 by proving the observed quickening of pace to be a necessary and simple consequence of a secular diminution in the ellipticity of the earth’s orbit. This, however, will not go on forever in the same direction; after many ages the tide of change will turn, and a complete restoration to *status quo ante will ensue…. Ruinous disturbances were shown to be excluded by he overwhelming disparity of mass between the central body and its attendants, no less than by the regularity and harmony of their movements and distribution. Thus only slight oscillatory changes can occur. Millions of years will elapse without producing any fundamental alteration. The machine is so beautifully adjusted as to right itself automatically through the mutual action of its various parts. And it is the force which perturbs that eventually restores.
Let us repeat the last lines of this quotation in the light of our observation into the relation of homoeopathy and the fundamental laws : *The machine is so beautifully adjusted as to right itself automatically through the mutual action of its various parts. ***AND IT IS THE FORCE WHICH PERTURBS THAT EVENTUALLY RESTORES.
This last observation, acknowledged by the most exact of all sciences and a deduction from observation of the most observable of all cyclic phenomena, is equally pertinent to homoeopathy and our belief in the lawful flow of vital energy. This deduction, so fundamental that it might well be called a law, is closely allied to that law of mathematics: *The quantity of action necessary to effect any change in nature is the least possible.
These are but a few of the laws which we, in our ignorance, have assembled from the vast resources at our command to demonstrate that homoeopathy is governed by laws that are universal, and that homoeopathy, therefore, is a part of the fundamental lawfulness and orderliness of the universe. If we can apply a known law of biology, a known law of mathematics, and a known and accepted deduction of astronomy, we can as surely apply the tested laws of any other sphere of universal activity.
At some future time we will be able to formulate definitely those laws which govern the vital force and its action in the human economy. This vital energy, which is the sun of our individual human economy, has a distinct relationship to universal vital energy. It is vital energy in the individual which offers homoeopathy its scientific demonstration of healing. Of this mystery we now comprehend but this : The state of the disordered vital energy is that state in which homoeopathy offers the greatest hope of regaining the lost balance of power in in each individual, and that not by coercion of the vital force, but by so stimulating it that the equilibrium is restored by the same force that disturbed it; that the vital energy in itself is capable of disturbance and of self-restoration under the proper circumstances. We have used the laws of homoeopathy half blindly, as it were, yet we recognize their tremendous significance and their possibilities; we have observed their action in countless cases of human misery.
Let us be alert to observe and accurate to correlate the plain facts before us, that we may recognize, formulate and work in accord with the fundamental laws that govern homoeopathy and all nature.
***HOMOEOPATHIC LAWS
***OF CURE :
*Similia similibus curentur.
Cure takes place from above downward, from within outward, from the more important to the less important organ, and in the reverse order of the onset of the symptoms.
***OF ACTION :
Action and reaction are equal and opposite.
***OF QUANTITY AND DOSE:
The quantity of the drug required is in inverse ratio to the similarity.
***OF QUANTITY:
The quantity of action necessary to effect any change in Nature is the least possible. The decisive amount is always a minimum, as infinitesimal.
***OF QUALITY:
The quality of the action of a homoeopathic remedy is determined by its quantity, in inverse ratio.
***OF USE:
The dose and quantity that will thoroughly permeate the organism and make its essential impress upon the vital force is that which will affect the functional sphere of the individual.
***OF BIOLOGICAL DEVELOPMENT:
Function creates and develops the organ
***OF DISEASE DEVELOPMENT:
Functional symptoms are produced by the vital force in exact proportion to the profundity of the disturbance.
Functional symptoms precede structural changes.
***OF PROVING:
1. Any drug which in its natural state affects the vital energy but little will develop a proving only in a high potency.
2. Any drug which in its natural state disturbs the vital energy to functional manifestation only *may be proven in a crude form.
3. Any drug which in its natural state disturbs the vital energy to destructive manifestations should be proven only in a potentiated form.
***OF REPETITION (for Provings) :
Never repeat the dose while symptoms are manifest from the dose already taken.
***OF REPETITION (for Cure) :
Never repeat your remedy so long as it continues to act.
