Familiar illustrations of the law of similars, in the expressions of every day life, are not hard to find. How often have we heard this, “What he needs is a dose of his own medicine”- homoeopathic treatment, in other words; “Misery loves company”-someone in like misery or woe-again homoeopathic, and it helps.
When greatly over-heated, a drink of ice water has often proven most disastrous. A hot drink of ice water has often proven most disastrous. A hot drink of ice water has often proven most disastrous. A hot drink under such circumstances, is not only safer but more lastingly cooling in its effect.
It is much easier to row a boat down-stream than up-stream- smaller and less frequent doses of energy are required. Rowing down-stream is working homoeopathically, or in harmony with the law of gravitation. Working with nature is always easier and smoother than working contrary to the drift. When one is in health, he is approximately in a condition of balance or equilibrium. As soon as he is sick that poise is lost to a greater or less degree.
Symptoms are manifestations of natures effort to restore equilibrium. The similar remedy, harmonizing as it does with the symptom picture, may temporarily magnify the symptoms. This is what is known as a homoeopathic aggravation, and when not too severe is favorable and helps to prove the homoeopathicity of the remedy. Furthermore, the remedy, harmonizing with natures own effort, more quickly restores equilibrium where such restoration is still possible of accomplishment.
Correct homoeopathic medication cuts short many cases of illness, cures many that nature, unaided, could never restore to health, and finally, it palliates where the pathological condition has gone too far to be overcome.
Homoeopathic philosophy, correctly understood thoroughly perceived and appreciated, will lead one unerringly to a firm belief in the power of the potentized drug, and finally, to the efficacy of the remedy in initiating a cycle of curative action when truly homoeopathic to the case in hand.
THE SINGLE REMEDY.
THE POTENTIZED DRUG.
THE CYCLIC ACTION OF THE REMEDY.
Let these burn into your consciousness!.
The unfaithful alternate remedies and mix drugs. The careless jump around from the tincture to the CM potency and back again. The ignorant give a new remedy every time the patient is seen. Such are unworthy and false followers of Hahnemann and homoeopathy.
Homoeopathic philosophy includes all essential points in case management. The removal of obstacles to cure is a most important subject for consideration.
Of what ultimate avail is it to give Nux vomica to a patient and allow him to continue the habits and routine of life that have so largely been responsible for producing a Nux vomica state?.
If sex excesses and sex vices have been largely responsible for bringing a patient into a Natrum phos. condition to be sure Natrum. phos. will do wonders. It will quiet the nerves and pep and energy are wasted in more and more sex vice, why blame homoeopathy because the remedy will not hold?.
If coffee drinking to excess has been largely responsible for bringing about a Chamomilla, an Ignatia or a Nux state, it is surely as important, perhaps more important, to stop the coffee than to give the remedy.
Homoeopathic philosophy is inextricably bound up with common sense. Blessed is the physician who has his share of common sense. He has, indeed, the makings of a philosopher.
Correct first the routine of life. Correct the diet when faulty. Remove the obstacles to cure, and then give the remedy. You will seldom be disappointed, provided, of course, your remedy selection has been correct. To give the correct remedy and to allow obvious obstacles to remain in the way of cure is to fulfil only half of ones duty.
Homoeopathy will often work wonders when given scarcely half a chance. Give it all the chance there is! Give it a square deal! Then watch results.
The law of similars, the single remedy, the potentized drug the question of repetition, the suitable potency to employ, the removal of obstacles to cure, all essential details of case management, the proving of drugs, the building of the materia medica, the building of the repertory, the classification and evaluation of symptoms, the principles and methods to be employed in case taking-all these are proper studies, are in fact, part and parcel of homoeopathic philosophy.
Give me a man well grounded in homoeopathic philosophy, even if he has still much to learn of the materia medica. The best have yet much to learn.
A materia medica expert, if not well grounded in the philosophy, is a dangerous man to have around. He is a menace to his patients and to the cause of homoeopathy. he probably does more harm than good.
Study The Organon and The Chronic Diseases. Study Kents Homoeopathic Philosophy. Study Closes The Genius of Homoeopathy. Study Kent s Lesser Writings and his Materia Medica, both of which contain many gold nuggets of sound philosophy.
Learn all you can about the philosophy and rationale of homoeopathic prescribing, and when you think you have mastered these, study them all over again.
Begin at once to put your knowledge into active practice. Begin with your first case. Your knowledge of philosophy and materia medica must ever increase as your work grows. Successful practice is an almost inevitable result of sound knowledge correctly and honestly applied. PHILADELPHIA,.
Calcarea is one of the most frequently indicated remedies to prevent phthisis, and in the earliest stages of that trouble its tendency is to cause the tubercular deposit to become calcareous. The tubercular deposits will shrivel and becomes cramped and remain in that state to the end of his life. In the many thousands of post-mortem made by Rokitansky, one of the old pathologists, he describes a very large number of encysted tubercles, which had gone through a process of development somewhat resembling the Calcarea condition.
This shows that the process was one of natural progression under favorable circumstances, that this calcareous deposit is one of the methods of cure, instituted by Nature; and it is highly probable that they who go to climates favorable to recovery, recover somewhat after this fashion. It is the very highest aim of the physician to bring about this state of affairs rather than to introduce such remedies as will cause suppuration about every little nidus and deposit that take place. Just so sure as you live, if you should use Calcarea and cause one of these deposits to take place in your patient, and then turn about and give a dose of Sulphur, you will kill your patient. Silicea will do the same thing.-KENT, 1895.
Eugene passed away at his country home on Spring Hill, Tuscarora Township, Bradford County, PA. He had been in ill health for several months. His wife, the former Caroline Davis, whom he had married in Philadelphia in 1910, had passed away in 1961. They spent most of their marriage lives in Swarthmore, PA.
Dr. Underhill was a member of the United Lodge of Theosophy, a member of the Philadelphia County Medical Society, and the Pennsylvania Medical Society. He was also the editor of the Homœopathic Recorder.