Elia Kim - Organon Outline
Elia Kim - Organon Outline
Elia Kim - Organon Outline
Homeopathy. It was printed in the USA in Homeopathy Today. It was taken from the 5th
edition, translated by Dudgeon (1893), with additions (where needed) by Boericke (1922)
from the 6th edition, and cross referenced with the Kunzli translation of the 6th.
When substantial changes were made between the 5th edition of 1833 and the 6th edition
of 1842, the 5th will be in italic type and the 6th will be in plain type. An asterisk ( *)
indicates a footnote well worth reading.
1. The physician's only mission is to cure the sick; it is not to speculate on the nature of disease.*
2. The ideal cure is rapid, gentle, permanent and removes the whole disease in the shortest, least
harmful way, according to easily comprehensible principles.
3. If the physician understands what is curable in disease, and understands what is curative in
medicines, and understands how to apply the medicines (according to well defined principles) to
the disease, and knows how to remove conditions which prevent the patient from getting well, he
is a true physician.
4. The need to recognise and remove the maintaining causes.
5. Pay attention to the exciting cause AND the fundamental cause (which is usually a chronic
disease) including the patient's character, activities, way of life, habits, etc.
6. There is no need for metaphysical speculation. Diseases are the totality of the perceptible
symptoms *
7. To cure, you only need to treat the totality [NOT symptomatic palliation; a single symptom is
not the disease] *
8. If the symptoms are removed, the disease is eradicated.
9. The physician want to make people healthy so they can use their body to get on with the higher
purposes of their existence.
22. The curative powers of medicines exist only because they can produce symptoms in the
healthy and remove them from the sick. Medicines can be similar or opposite to the disease.
Which to use is revealed by experience. [description of allopathic medicine]
23. But experience shows that anti-pathic drugs don't cure; the symptoms return with renewed
intensity.
24. Therefore homoeopathy is the system of choice.
25. This can be learned by pure experiment [not the kind of experiment which is conducted by the
regular physician, which is like looking into a kaleidoscope] *
26. A weaker dynamic affliction is extinguished by a stronger IF it is similar in nature.
27. Curative powers depend upon the symptoms they produce being similar to the symptoms of
the disease, but stronger.
28. Scientific explanations of how it works are of little importance, there is no value in attempting
one. Nevertheless...
29. The artificial disease of the remedy overpowers the weaker natural disease. When the force
of the artificial disease is spent, the body returns to normal health. This is a most probable
explanation.
30. The human body is more disposed to let it's state of health be altered by drugs than by
nature.
31. Disease agents do not affect everyone. We fall ill only when susceptible. [SUSCEPTIBILITY]
32. Medicinal agents can affect all people.
33. The body is, therefore, more susceptible to medicinal forces.
34. The artificial disease does not only have to be stronger, but it has to be most similar. [the vital
principle is instinctive, unreasoning, and without memory]. Nature cannot cure an old disease by
adding a new dissimilar one.
35. Consider when two dissimilar diseases meet in the same person [examples are given in
paragraphs 36-40].
36. Old diseases keep away new dissimilar diseases.
37. Chronic diseases are not affected by non-homoeopathic treatment.
38. New, stronger diseases can suppress old disease but will never remove it.
39. Allopathic treatment surpresses the disease, then the chronic disease returns when the
medication is withdrawn.
40. New diseases can join older diseases and become complex. Neither removes the other.
41. Heavy drugging with allopathic medicines leads to an artificial drug disease and makes it into
a chronic problem.
42. Two dissimilar diseases can exist in the body at the same time.
43. But when two similar diseases meet we can observe how cure takes place.
44. Two similar diseases cannot suspend, ward off, or exist at the same time.
45. Two similar diseases will destroy each other in the organism.
46. Examples of the above.
47. It should be convincingly clear that this is how to cure according to natural law.
48. Dissimilar diseases don't cure.
49. Nature is poor in remedial homoeopathic diseases, so we do not notice them often.
50. And those that can cure, bring other problems, often because the dose cannot be controlled.
51. But the physician has many medicines available.
52. By looking at nature, the physician will learn to treat only by homoeopathy.
52. there are two methods: allopathic and homoeopathic. Each opposes the other. To practice
both at the whim of the patient, is criminal.
53. Mild cures can happen ONLY through homoeopathy. It should be the first mode of
employing medicines.
53. True, gentle cures, can only be homoeopathic.
54. The homoeopathic way is the only one.
54. Allopathic practice is based on conjecture. 55. The 2nd mode is allopathic
55. The only reason people stuck by allopathy is that it afforded palliative relief. 56. The 3rd
mode is anti-pathic or palliative.
56. Patients were deceived by quick improvement, but this method is fundamentally harmful.
Epidemic diseases
(100 - 102)
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Chronic diseases
(103 - 104)
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103. Chronic disease must be carefully investigated. You must see the totality of the patient.
104. Once the totality is sketched, the most difficult part is done. The physician has a picture of
the disease. To see the effect of the medicine, just ask how the patient is, and cross out the
symptoms that have been cured.
Conducting provings
(121 - 142)
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121. Strong substances produce effects in small doses, weak substances produce effects in
larger doses, and the mildest must be tested on very sensitive people.
122. The medicines used in provings must be pure and well known.
123. They must be taken in a pure form.
124. They should not be mixed with other substances.
125. The diet of the provers should be strictly regulated and simple. No stimulating drinks.
[footnote giving specific restrictions]
126. The prover must be trustworthy and devote himself to observation. He must be in good
health and intelligent enough to be able to describe sensations accurately.
127. The provings should be done by both sexes.
128. Provers should take 4-6 globules of the 30th daily for several days.
129. If effects are slight, then take a few more globules. Start with a small dose and increase
daily.
130. If the first dose produces symptoms, then the experimenter can learn the order of
succession of the symptoms-- which is useful to learn the primary and alternating actions. The
duration of action can be found only after a comparison of several experiments.
131. If you have to give the medicine for several days, you can't learn about the order of
symptoms. One dose might act curatively of symptoms caused by the previous dose. Record
these symptoms in brackets until further experiments show if they are secondary action or
alternating action.
132. But if you are just interested in symptoms and not in the order, give it every day.
133. You must learn the exact character of the symptoms--the modalities are most important
134. Not all symptoms will be seen in one person.
135. The whole picture of the remedy can be understood through a study of all the provings. The
substance is thoroughly proved when no new symptoms are seen.
136. Although only certain people are susceptible to remedies when healthy, ALL people are
susceptible to the simillimum when sick.
137. With mild doses in sensitive people, the primary effects can be observed. But excessively
large doses will lead to a mixture of primary and secondary effects in "hurried confusion."
138. All symptoms during a proving are symptoms of the medicine even though the prover may
have experienced them before.
139. The prover must note all details and the physician should question the exact circumstances.
140. If the person can't write, he should talk to the physician every day.
141. The best provings are done by the physician upon himself. Experience shows that continued
provings lead to robust health.
142. In practice, judgement is always needed to separate the symptoms of the remedy from the
symptoms of the malady.
143. If we collect all the symptoms produced, we have a true materia medica.
144. Nothing conjectural, imaginary, or mere assertion should be included in the book.
145. If the symptoms are accurately stated, we now have a curative substance for every disease.
146. The third point concerns the use of the medicines. The physician must be judicious in his
use of these agents.
147. The most similar must be used.
[the following two paragraphs were re-written in the 6th edition; although the explanation
changes, the content is the same]
148. An explanation of how homoeopathy probably works.
149. Acute diseases can respond quickly, but chronic diseases take longer to treat.
150. Trivial symptoms of short duration are indispositions and can be cured by diet and regimen.
151. More violent sufferings will provide, upon investigation, a complete picture of the disease.
152. The numerous striking symptoms will lead to a homoeopathic remedy.
153. The striking, singular, uncommon, and peculiar signs and symptoms are the most important.
The general symptoms are observed in every disease and from almost every drug.
154. If the striking symptoms of the medicine match those of the disease, and the disease is not
one of long standing, it will be removed by the first dose, without "considerable disturbance."
155. The other symptoms of the disease ("which are very numerous") are not part of the case and
are not "called into play."
156. If the patients are very sensitive they MIGHT produce a "trifling" new symptom. (it is
impossible that the disease and the remedy cover each other like identical triangles) but this
symptom is not perceptible in patients not "excessively delicate."
157. But in certain cases [6th ed. when the dose is not sufficiently small .], there might be an
aggravation for the first hour or so. This is nothing but the medicinal disease exceeding the
strength of the original disease.
158. This "aggravation" is a sign that the remedy was correctly chosen.
159. The smaller the dose [6th ed. in the treatment of acute diseases ] the less the aggravation
160. The dose can't ever be made small enough to not relieve, so any dose, if not the smallest
possible, will produce an aggravation.
161. During chronic treatment, there may also be an aggravation, but not as immediate [6th ed. in
chronic diseases where the smallest dose is dynamized between doses (LM) aggravations
appear at the end when the cure is almost quite finished]
162. Since we don't know ALL medicines, we often have to give the one which is closest.
163. If we do, we can't expect a complete cure. We might see new symptoms which are not part
of the disease, but of the medicine.
164. A small number of symptoms is no obstacle to cure IF the symptoms are peculiarly
distinctive (characteristic).
165. If you prescribe on non-characteristic symptoms, and can find no remedy more appropriate,
the physician cannot "promise himself any immediately favourable result."
166. These cases are rare, since we know more and more remedies. When they do happen, the
selection of a subsequent, more accurate remedy is needed.
167. So in acute diseases, if the wrong remedy is given, and you see new symptoms in the case,
give the correct (new) remedy now seen.
168. Give the best remedy, re-study the case, give the best remedy. [zig-zag] (because we don't
know all the remedies)
169. If two remedies are close, give the closest one. Do not give the other without re-examining
the case-- because the case may change and there might be a more appropriate selection. [6th
ed. never give two remedies together]
170. When re-examining a case, if the next best remedy is clearly indicated, give it.
171. In non-venereal diseases (psora) we often need several remedies to cure-- each chosen
[after the completion of the action of the previous remedy] and selected on the symptoms
remaining.
172. A similar difficulty occurs when there are too few symptoms. These cases deserve our
careful attention.
173. There are certain chronic diseases that have few symptoms. These are "one sided" cases.
174. The complaint may be internal or external (local maladies).
175. In the first kind it might just be the lack of discernment on the part of the practitioner.
176. Still, there might be just one or two symptoms after a well taken case.
177. In these VERY RARE cases, we should give the remedy that is homoeopathically indicated.
178. Sometimes, this will cure the case-- especially if the symptoms are characteristic
179. More frequently, the medicine will cover the case only partially.
180. This leads to a new array of symptoms, some of the disease itself, which have never before
been noticed.
181. These new symptoms, while they might owe their origin to the remedy, are the symptoms of
the disease - and we should direct further treatments accordingly.
182. The imperfect selection of the remedy, in these cases, opens the case to the discovery of
the more accurate remedy.
183. When the first dose ceases action, the second remedy can be selected.
184. Keep taking the case after each new remedy until recovery is complete.
Local diseases
(185 - 203)
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185. Local maladies appear on external parts of the body. That they stand alone is absurd.
186. Problems which are "local" and have been produced from without have great effect on the
whole living organism. When mechanical aid is needed, then surgery is required (setting bones,
bringing skin together, extracting foreign objects, etc.) but the whole living organism requires
dynamic aid to accomplish the work of healing.
187. But "local" manifestations that are not produced by external injury have their source within
the body. To see them and treat them as external is as absurd as it is pernicious.
188. It is absurd to think that living organisms know nothing of these external problems.
189. All external maladies (except injuries) come about as a result of an internal diseased state.
190. All treatments, therefore, must be directed against the whole.
191. This is confirmed through experience.
192. All changes, not just the local affliction, must be taken into account when determining the
remedy.
193. When the dose is taken, the general morbid state of the body is cured, and with it, the local
affliction-- which was an inseparable part of the whole disease.
194. In local diseases it is of no use to apply remedies locally for the topical affliction, even if it is
the same remedy that is used internally. If the vital force was not competent to restore full health,
then the acute disease was a manifestation of latent psora which has now burst forth.
195. To cure such cases (which are not rare), give the anti-psoric remedy after the acute stage
has subsided. This is all that is required in non-venereal cases.
196. It might seem that cure would be hastened by the application of the remedy locally as well
as internally.
197. This should not be done. In diseases where there is a local affliction, the application of the
remedy to the surface may annihilate the local symptoms before the internal disease, and this
may seem to be a cure but isn't.
198. The use of topical applications alone is inadmissible. If you only remove the local symptoms,
it is often hard to see the more obscure inner symptoms (which may be slightly characteristic and
difficult to see.)
199. If the external symptoms have been removed (by surgery, etc.) the remaining internal
symptoms might be too vague to discover the remedy because the external symptoms can no
longer be seen.
200. If it hadn't been removed, the remedy of the whole disease would have been found and
would have resulted in a perfect cure.
201. The vital force, when expressing a chronic disease keeps the disease on the surface, and
therefore not threaten life itself. But since the external manifestation is a part of the general
disease, as the disease gets worse the external manifestation gets worse-- so it can still be a
substitute.
202. If the external disease is now destroyed, nature will make up the loss by increasing the
internal disease. This is incorrectly referred to as being "driven back into the system."
203. Removing the external without treating the internal is a criminal procedure.
204. If we exclude all chronic diseases that are caused by unhealthy living (Para. 77) and all
medicinal diseases (Para. 74), most of the remainder of chronic diseases, WITHOUT
EXCEPTION, are caused by the three miasms, sycosis, syphilis, and a greater proportion, psora.
205. The homoeopath will never treat the primary symptoms, but only cures the underlying
miasm. Refer to Chronic Diseases.
206. When taking the chronic case, make a careful investigation if the patient ever had venereal
disease. Two miasms might be present, but, frequently, psora is the sole fundamental cause of all
chronic disease.
207. Find out what kind of allopathic treatment had been had, to understand how the disease has
changed.
208. The patients age, mode of living and diet, occupation, domestic position, social relation, etc.
must be taken into consideration, as well as the state of the mind and the disposition.
209. Trace the picture of the disease, and get the patient to tell the most striking and peculiar
symptoms.
Mental diseases
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210. All one-sided diseases are psoric. Mental diseases are not a separate class, since in all
diseases the mind is altered.
211. The disposition of the patient often determines the selection of the remedy-- because they
are often characteristic symptoms which "can least of all remain concealed from the accurately
observing physician."
212. The Creator of healing forces also thinks highly of this as all medicines (which he created)
affect the mind.
213. We can't cure diseases if we do not observe the disposition and the state of mind.
214. Mental diseases are to be cured the same was as all other diseases.
215. All mental diseases are physical ones, where the physical symptoms are so slight as to
make the disease seem to be one-sided.
216. Many physical ailments of an acute character, transform into insanity whereupon the
physical symptoms cease.
217. In such cases we must look to the whole phenomenon-- the physical and mental.
218. The symptoms include previous physical symptoms-- which may be learned from friends or
relations.
219. Those symptoms will be found to be still present, though obscured.
220. The complete picture of the disease can then be prescribed upon-- usually an anti-psoric
remedy.
221. When insanity comes on acutely after a fright, etc., it should not be treated with anti-psorics
(although it arises from an inner psoric state bursting forth), but with the other class of proved
remedies (Aconite, Belladonna, Stramonium, etc.) until the patient returns to his latent state.
222. But such patients are not cured. They should be "freed completely" by anti-psoric treatment.
223. If this is not done, the patient will have recurring attacks, each brought on by a slighter
cause.
224. If it is not certain that the mental disease arose from physical illness rather than from "faults
in education, bad practices, corrupt morals, superstition or ignorance", see if it can be improved
by "friendly exhortations, consolatory arguments, serious representations, and sensible advice."
Real disease will be speedily aggravated by such a course.
225. There are some emotional illnesses that will, if left alone, destroy the physical health.
226. These may be treated, in an early stage, by "displays of confidence, friendly exhortations,
sensible advice, and often by well-disguised deception."
227. But the underlying cause is a psoric miasm (which is not fully developed) and must be
treated.
228. With mental diseases that come from physical maladies, we must also treat the patient well
and "not reproach him for his acts" or use punishment or torture. The only reason coercion is
justified is the giving of the remedy-- but it could be given in a drink without the patient's
knowledge.
229. The physician and the keeper must always pretend to believe them to be possessed of
reason
230. If anti-psorics are used than the case can be cured [confidently assert]
Intermittent diseases
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231. Intermittent diseases are those that recur at certain periods and states which alternate at
intervals.
232. Alternating diseases are numerous and belong to the class of chronic disease. They are,
generally, a manifestation of chronic psora. Read Chronic Diseases.
233. In the typical intermittent disease, the same state returns at fixed periods.
234. The non-febrile intermittent diseases are, mostly, purely psoric and seldom complicated with
syphilis, but sometimes they need a small dose of Cinchona to completely extinguish them.
235. In intermittent fevers, when the symptoms alternate, the remedy should produce similar
alterations.
236. The best time to give the medicine is soon after the paroxysm.
237. But if the state of no fever is short, give the remedy when perspiration begins to abate.
238. The remedy can be repeated if the symptoms return and have the same picture. If the fever
is brought on by marshy districts, then permanent restoration can only be had by getting away
from the causative factors.
239. All fevers may be cured with homoeopathic remedies
240. If cure is not possible, it must always be because of the psoric miasm, which must be
treated.
241. Epidemics of intermittent fevers are of the nature of chronic diseases. Each epidemic is of a
uniform character which will reveal the common totality-- which will lead to the (specific) remedy
for all cases.
242. If the person is very weakened, then an anti-psoric remedy would be needed, generally a
minute and rarely repeated dose of Sulphur or Hepar sulphuricum in a high potency
243. If a single person is attacked, find the totality and give the remedy. If cure is not complete,
give an anti-psoric.
244. Persons who can't be cured by a few doses of cinchona, have psora at the root of the
malady, which needs to be treated.
245. We will now talk about how to use remedies and the diet and regimen during their use.
The medicines
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272. In no case is it needed to give more than one remedy at a time (6th ed: one globule is OK,
but dissolved in water and stirred well will touch many more nerves.)
273. How can one not understand that one remedy at a time is the only way (6th ed: It is
absolutely not allowed in homoeopathy to give the patient at one time two different remedies.)
274. Single remedies are proven and have totalities. If you give two you can't evaluate the
results.
275. You must control the size of the dose as well.
276. Even if the remedy is homoeopathic it can do harm in too large a dose and more harm the
higher the potency. "Too large doses too frequently repeated bring trouble."
277. If the dose is sufficiently small it will have salutary and gentle remedial effect.
278. How small must it be? Theories and speculation are not the answer. Careful observation and
accurate experience alone determines this.
279. Experience shows that a selected and highly potentized dose of the homoeopathic remedy
can never be too small to overpower a natural disease.
PARAGRAPHS 280 -294 HAVE BEEN TOTALLY RE-WRITTEN FOR THE 6th EDITION.