AGARICUS MUSCARIUS

Synonym: Toadstool, Fly agaric, Bug Agaric

Source: Tincture is prepared from fresh fungus.

Habitat: Parts of Europe, America and Asia.

Proved by: Dr. Stapf, a disciple of Hahnemann and two years later by Hahnemann himself

Description:

Agaricus mascarius is very much suited to nervous affection of old people, drunkards who often become delirious and get epileptiform fit. Agaricus finds a respectable place in material medica as an excellent remedy for nervous affection.

• Agaricus acts as an intoxicant to the brain, producing more vertigo and delirium than alcohol, followed by profound sopor with lowered reflexes.
• Neurological  remedy with twitching spasm and even convulsions
• Various forms of neuralgia and spasmodic affections, and neurotic skin troubles are pictured in the symptomatology of this remedy.
• It corresponds to various forms of cerebral excitement rather than congestion.
• Jerking, twitching, trembling, and itching are strong indications.
• Painfulness and violent burning, shooting pains in spinal column. 
• Spinal column sensitive to touch. Sensation as if ants were creeping along the spine. 
• Violent muscular twitching and jumping, as if caused by a galvanic current. 
• Burning, Itching and redness of various parts as if frostbitten. 
• Sensation in various parts as if ice touched or as if ice-cold needles were piercing the skin.
• Symptoms appear diagonally as right arm and left leg.
• Pains are accompanied by sensation of cold, numbness and tingling.

Mind

• Sings talks incoherently changes rapidly from subject to subject but does not answer.
• Loquacity
• Aversion to work.
• Fearlessness.
• Delirium characterized by singing, shouting, and muttering; rhymes and prophesies. Begins with paroxysm of yawning.

• Indisposed to perform any kind of work especially mental.
• Makes verses.
• Hilarious, Embraces and kisses hands, Selfish, Indifferent.
• Dull and dizzy as if drunk.
• Morose self willed stubborn; slow in learning to walk and talk.
• Awkward clumsy.
• Knows no one; throws things.
• Pressure on spine causes in voluntary laughter.
• Can not do anything new can not do his routine work or does the opposite.

Head

• Vertigo from sunlight, and on walking.
• Head in constant motion.
• Falling backward, as if a weight in occiput. Lateral headache, as if from a nail (Coff; Ignat).
• Dull headache from prolonged desk-work. Icy coldness, like icy needles, or splinters.
• Neuralgia with icy cold head.
• Desire to cover head warmly (Silica). Headache with nose-bleed or thick mucous discharge.
• Causation of headache: Headache may be caused by defective circulation, alcohol or sexual cases.

Eyes

• Reading difficult, as type seems to move, to swim.
• Vibrating specters.
• Double vision (Gels), dim and flickering.
• Asthenopia from prolonged strain, spasm of accommodation.
• Twitching of lids and eyeballs (Codein).
• Margins of lids red; itch and burn and agglutinate.
• Inner angles very red.

Ears

• Burn and itch, as if frozen.
• Twitching of muscles about the ear and noises.

Nose

• Nervous nasal disturbances.
• Itching internally and externally.
• Spasmodic sneezing after coughing; sensitiveness; watery non-inflammatory discharge.
• Inner angles very red. Fetid, dark, bloody discharge.
• Nosebleed in old people. Sensation of soreness in nose and mouth.

Face

• Facial muscles feel stiff; twitch; face itches and burns.
• Lancinating, tearing pain in cheeks, as of splinters.
• Neuralgia, as if cold needles ran through nerves or sharp ice touched them.

Mouth

• Burning and smarting on lips.
• Herpes on lips. Twitching. Taste sweet.
• Aphthæ on roof of mouth. Splinter like pains in tongue.
• Thirsty all the time. Tremulous tongue (Lach). Tongue white.

Throat

• Stitches along eustachian tube to ear.
• Feels contracted. Small solid balls of phlegm thrown up.
• Dryness of pharynx, swallowing difficult.
• Scratching in throat; cannot sing a note.

Stomach

• Empty eructations, tasting of apples.
• Nervous disturbances, with spasmodic contractions, hiccough.
• Unnatural hunger.
• Flatulent distention of stomach and abdomen.
• Profuse inodorous flatus.
• Burning in stomach about three hours after a meal, changing into a dull pressure. Gastric disturbance with sharp pains in liver region.

Abdomen

• Stitching pains in liver, spleen (Ceanothus) and abdomen.
• Stitches under short ribs, left side. Diarrhœa with much fetid flatus.
• Fetid stools.

Urinary

• Stitches in urethra.
• Sudden and violent urging to urinate.
• Frequent urination.

Female

• Menses, increased, earlier. Itching and tearing, pressive pains of genitals and back. Spasmodic dysmenorrhœa. Severe bearing-down pains, especially after menopause. Sexual excitement. Nipples itch, burn. Complaints following parturition and coitus. Leucorrhœa, with much itching.

Respiratory Organs

• Violent attacks of coughing that can be suppressed by effort of will, worse eating, pain in head while cough lasts.
• Spasmodic cough at night after falling asleep, with expectoration of little balls of mucus.
• Labored, oppressed breathing.
• Cough ends in a sneeze.

Heart

• Irregular, tumultuous palpitation, after tobacco.
• Pulse intermittent and irregular. Cardiac region oppressed, as if thorax were narrowed. Palpitation with redness of face.

Back

• Pain, with sensitiveness of spine to touch; worse in dorsal region.
• Lumbago; worse in open air.
• Crick in back.
• Twitching of cervical muscles.

Extremities

• Stiff all over. Pain over hips.
• Rheumatism better motion.
• Weakness in loins. Uncertain gait.
• Trembling. Itching of toes and feet as if frozen.
• Cramp in soles of feet. Pain in shin-bone.
• Neuralgia in locomotor ataxia.
• Paralysis of lower limbs, with spasmodic condition of arms.
• Numbness of legs on crossing them. Paralytic pain in left arm followed by palpitation.
• Tearing painful contractions in the calves.

Skin

• Burning, itching, redness, and swelling, as from frostbites.
• Pimples, hard, like flea-bites.
• Miliary eruption, with intolerable itching and burning.
• Chilblains.
• Angioneurotic œdema; rosacea.
• Swollen veins with cold skin.
• Circumscribed erythematous, papular and pustular and œdematous lesions.

Sleep

• Paroxysms of yawning. Restless from violent itching and burning.
• On falling asleep, starts, twitches, and awakes often.
• Vivid dreams.
• Drowsy in daytime.
• Yawning, followed by involuntary laughter.

Fever

• Very sensitive to cool air. Violent attacks of heat in evening. Copious sweat. Burning spots.

Modalities

• Worse, open cold air, after eating, after coitus. In cold weather, before a thunder-storm. Worse, pressure on dorsal spine, which causes involuntary laughter.
• Better, moving about slowly.

Relationship

• Phys; Tub.

Antidotes:

• Calcarea carbonica
• Pulsatilla nigricans
• Rhus toxicodendron
• Wine.

Dose

• Third to thirtieth and two hundredth potency.
• In skin affections and brain exhaustions give the lower attenuations.

ACONITUM NAPELLUS

Synonym: Aconite, Monkshood


Source: a plant belonging to the natural order of Ranunculacae.


Habitat: The plant grows in the mountain districts all over Europe.


Proved by: Hahnemann

Description:

Aconitum is useful in the early stages of an inflammation or a fever. It is indicated when there is a sudden onset of violent symptoms, especially after exposure to a dry, cold wind. The patient to whom Aconitum is indicated is fearful, restless and thirsty for cold drinks.

• Its symptoms are acute violent and painful.
• They appears suddenly remain for a short while as of a big storm which Soon blows over.
• Mind is affected by such emotional factors as FRIGHT; SHOCK  Vexation.
• Nerves are excited and the patient remains under emotional and nervous
• Physical and mental restlessness, fright, is the most characteristic manifestation of Aconite.
• Disorders from fright and of sudden onset with acute symptoms.
• Anxiety and restlessness in any disorder. Life is rendered miserable by fear. Intolerance of pain, great fear and severe anxiety; unreasonable fear that the patient will die.
• Numbness and tingling in all parts.
• Cannot bear the pain, or to be touched, or to be uncovered.
• Skin dry, burning hot, intense thirst for cold water, red face sometimes changing to pale.
• Feels faint, dizziness on rising.
• After a fright with vexation during menses to prevent suppression.
• Heat with thirst, hard full frequent pulse, anxious impatience, inappeasable, beside himself tossing about with agony.
• Predicts the day she is to die, especially in pregnancy or child-bed.
• Initial stages of the common cold.
• Fevers of sudden onset; hot, dry skin; often one cheek is red and the other is pale.
• Unquenchable thirst for large quantities of cold water.
• Painful, red, hot, scanty urination, with profound anxiety.
• Respiratory disorders: Wakes up child frightened from sleep with dry, hoarse cough; this is usually the only remedy needed.
• Eyes: Relieves pain and aids healing in injuries such as an injury of the conjunctiva or pain due to irritation by inflammation or pain due to a foreign body in the eye.
• Bursting, throbbing headache; sensation as if there is a tight band around the head.

Mind

• Great fear, anxiety, and worry accompany every ailment, however trivial.
• Delirium is characterized by unhappiness worry, fear, raving, rarely
• unconsciousness.
• Forebodings and fears.
• Fears death but believes that he will soon die; predicts the day.
• Fears the future, a crowd, crossing the street.
• Restlessness, tossing about.
• Tendency to start.
• Imagination acute, clairvoyance.
• Pains are intolerable; they drive him crazy.
• Music is unbearable; makes her sad. [Ambra.]
• Thinks his thoughts come from the stomach-that parts of his body are abnormally thick.
• Feels as if what had just been done was a dream.

Fiver

• Cold stage most marked.
• Cold sweat and icy coldness of face.
• Coldness and heat alternate.
• Evening chilliness soon after going to bed.
• Cold waves pass through him.
• Thirst and restlessness always present.
• Chilly if uncovered or touched.
• Dry heat, red face.
• Most valuable febrifuge with mental anguish, restlessness, etc.
• Sweat drenching, on parts lain on; relieving all symptoms.

Head

• Fullness; heavy, pulsating, hot, bursting, burning undulating sensation.
• Intercranial pressure (Hedera Helix).
• Burning headache, as if brain were moved by boiling water (Indigo).
• Vertigo; worse on rising (Nux. Opium) and shaking head.
• Sensation on vertex as if hair were pulled or stood on end.
• Nocturnal furious delirium.
• Headache with increased secretion of urine.
• Crackling in head.
• Pulsation in forehead.
• Knocks the head.

Eyes.

·        Red, inflamed.

·        Feel dry and hot, as if sand in them.

·        Lids swollen, hard and red.

·        Shooting pain in eyeballs.

·        Can not bear the reflection of Sun from the snow.

·        Conjunctivitis from cinders or other foreign bodies.

·        Eyes glitter stare bleared.

·        Aversion or desire for light.

·        Profuse watering after exposure to dry, cold winds, reflection from snow, after extraction of cinders and other foreign bodies.

Ears.

·        Very sensitive to noises; music is unbearable.

·        External ear hot, red, painful, swollen.

·        Earache (Cham). Sensation as of drop of water in left ear.

Nose

·        Smell acutely sensitive.

·        Numb with epistaxis.

·        Pain at root of nose.

·        Coryza much sneezing; throbbing in nostrils.

·        Hæmorrhage of bright red blood.

·        Mucous membrane dry, nose stopped up; dry or with but scanty watery coryza.

Face.

• ANXIOUS expression; becomes pale and red alternately.
• Hot red cheeks.
• Red face becomes deathly pale on rising or he becomes dizzy.

• One cheek red, the other pale (Cham, Ipec).

• Neuralgia with restlessness tingling and numbness.
• Lips black.
• Dry peeling off.
• Heavy feeling of the whole face.
• Red, hot, flushed, swollen.
• Tingling in cheeks and numbness.
• Neuralgia, especially of left side, with restlessness, tingling, and numbness. Pain in jaws.

Mouth

·        Tongue swollen; tip tingles.

·        Teeth sensitive to cold.

·         Constantly moves lower jaw as if chewing.

·        Gums hot and inflamed. Tongue coated white (Antim crud).

• Toothache in sound teeth.
• Throbbing in teeth and head.
• Grinding of the teeth.
• Everything tastes bitter except water which has bad taste.
• Trembling and temporary stammering.
• Mouth and tongue numb; dry burning heat in mouth.
• Tingling on coughing and swallowing.

Throat

·        Red, dry, constricted, numb, prickling, burning, stinging.

·        Tonsils swollen and dry.

Stomach

·        Vomiting, with fear, heat, profuse sweat and increased urination.

·        Thirst for cold water. Bitter taste of everything except water. Intense thirst. Drinks, vomits, and declares he will die.

·        Vomiting, bilious mucous and bloody, greenish.

·        Pressure in stomach with dyspnœa. Hæmatemesis. Burning from stomach to œsophagus.

Abdomen

·        Hot, tense, tympanitic.

·        Sensitive to touch. Colic, no position relieves.

·        Abdominal symptoms better after warm soup.

·        Burning in umbilical region.

Rectum

·        Pain with nightly itching and stitching in anus.

·        Frequent, small stool with tenesmus; green, like chopped herbs.

·        White with red urine. Choleraic discharge with collapse, anxiety, and restlessness.

·        Bleeding hæmorrhoids (Hamam).

·        Watery diarrhœa in children. They cry and complain much, are sleepless and restless.

Urine

·        Scanty, red, hot, painful.

·        Tenesmus and burning at neck of bladder.

·        Burning in urethra. Urine suppressed, bloody.

·        Anxiety always on beginning to urinate.

·        Retention, with screaming and restlessness, and handling of genitals.

·        Renal region sensitive.

·        Profuse urination, with profuse perspiration and diarrhœa.

Male

·        Crawling and stinging in glans.

·        Bruised pain in testicles, swollen, hard.

·        Frequent erections and emissions.

·        Painful erections.

Female

·        Vagina dry, hot, sensitive.

·        Menses too profuse, with nosebleed, too protracted, late.

·        Frenzy on appearance of menses.

·        Suppressed from fright, cold, in plethoric subjects.

·        Ovaries congested and painful. Sharp shooting pains in womb.

·         After-pains, with fear and restlessness.

Respiratory

·        Constant pressure in left chest; oppressed breathing on least motion.

·        Hoarse, dry, croupy cough; loud, labored breathing.

·        Child grasps at throat every time he coughs.

·        Very sensitive to inspired air.

·        Shortness of breath.

·        Larynx sensitive.

·        Stitches through chest.

·        Cough, dry, short, hacking; worse at night and after midnight.

·        Hot feeling in lungs. Blood comes up with hawking.

·        Tingling in chest after cough.

Heart

·        Tachycardia. Affections of the heart with pain in left shoulder.

·        Stitching pain in chest.

·        Palpitation, with anxiety, fainting, and tingling in fingers.

·        Pulse full, hard; tense and bounding; sometimes intermits.

·        Temporal and carotid arteries felt when sitting.

Back.

·        Numb, stiff, painful.

·         Crawling and tingling, as if bruised.

·        Stiffness in nape of neck.

·        Bruised pain between scapulæ.

Extremities.

·        Numbness and tingling; shooting pains; icy coldness and insensibility of hands and feet.

·        Arms feel lame, bruised, heavy, numb.

·        Pain down left arm (Cact, Crotal, Kalmia, Tabac).

·        Hot hands and cold feet.

·        Rheumatic inflammation of joints; worse at night; red shining swelling, very sensitive.

·        Hip-joint and thigh feel lame, especially after lying down.

·        Knees unsteady; disposition of foot to turn (Aescul).

·        Weak and lax ligaments of all joints.

·        Painless cracking of all joints.

·        Bright red hypothenar eminences on both hands.

·        Sensation as if drops of water trickled down the thigh.

Sleep

·        Nightmare. Nightly ravings.

·        Anxious dreams. Sleeplessness, with restless and tossing about (Use thirtieth potency).

·        Starts up in sleep. Long dreams, with anxiety in chest. Insomnia of the aged.

Skin

·        Red, hot, swollen, dry, burning.

·        Purpura miliaris. Rash like measles.

·        Gooseflesh. Formication and numbness.

·        Chilliness and formication down back.

·        Pruritus relieved by stimulants.

Fever

·        Cold stage most marked.

·        Cold sweat and icy coldness of face.

·        Coldness and heat alternate.

·        Evening chilliness soon after going to bed.

·        Cold waves pass through him.

·        Thirst and restlessness always present.

·        Chilly if uncovered or touched.

·        Dry heat, red face.

·        Most valuable febrifuge with mental anguish, restlessness, etc.

·        Sweat drenching, on parts lain on; relieving all symptoms.

Modalities

·        Better in open air; worse in warm room, in evening and night; worse lying on affected side, from music, from tobacco-smoke, dry, cold winds.

·        Vinegar in large doses is antidotal to poisonous effects.

Dose

·        Sixth potency for sensory affections; first to third for congestive conditions. Must be repeated frequently in acute diseases. Acon is a rapid worker. In Neuralgias tincture of the root often preferable, one drop doses (poisonous), or again, the 30th according to susceptibility of patient.

Relations:
Complementary to Arnica montana in trauma; to Coffea cruda in fevers and to Sulphur in ail cases. Sulphur is the chronic remedy which very well complements Arnica montana.


Summary of Indications:
Fear of death - acute inflammations - pain - fever - pre-operative medication before surgery (to allay anxiety).


Antidotes:
Aceticum acidum, Belladonna atropa, Nux vomica, Sulphur (also complementary)


Note:
Trio of Restless Remedies: Aconitum napeilus, Arsenicum album, Rhus toxicodendron.

Organon of medicine

§ 1

The physician's high and only mission is to restore the sick to health, to cure, as it is termed. ^1
1 His mission is not, however, to construct so-called systems, by interweaving empty speculations and hypotheses concerning the internal essential nature of the vital processes and the mode in which diseases originate in the interior of the organism, (whereon so many physicians have hitherto ambitiously wasted their talents and their time); nor is it to attempt to give countless explanations regarding the phenomena in diseases and their proximate cause (which must ever remain concealed), wrapped in unintelligible words and an inflated abstract mode of expression, which should sound very learned in order to astonish the ignorant - whilst sick humanity sighs in vain for aid. Of such learned reveries (to which the name of theoretic medicine is given, and for which special professorships are instituted) we have had quite enough, and it is now high time that all who call themselves physicians should at length cease to deceive suffering mankind with mere talk, and begin now, instead, for once to act, that is, really to help and to cure.

§ 2

The highest ideal of cure is rapid, gentle and permanent restoration of the health, or removal and annihilation of the disease in its whole extent, in the shortest, most reliable, and most harmless way, on easily comprehensible principles.

§ 3

If the physician clearly perceives what is to be cured in diseases, that is to say, in every individual case of disease (knowledge of disease, indication), if he clearly perceives what is curative in medicines, that is to say, in each individual medicine (knowledge of medical powers), and if he knows how to adapt, according to clearly defined principles, what is curative in medicines to what he has discovered to be undoubtedly morbid in the patient, so that the recovery must ensue - to adapt it, as well in respect to the suitability of the medicine most appropriate according to its mode of action to the case before him (choice of the remedy, the medicine indicated), as also in respect to the exact mode of preparation and quantity of it required (proper dose), and the proper period for repeating the dose; - if, finally, he knows the obstacles to recovery in each case and is aware how to remove them, so that the restoration may be permanent, then he understands how to treat judiciously and rationally, and he is a true practitioner of the healing art .

§ 4

He is likewise a preserver of health if he knows the things that derange health and cause disease, and how to remove them from persons in health.

§ 5

Useful to the physician in assisting him to cure are the particulars of the most probable exciting cause of the acute disease, as also the most significant points in the whole history of the chronic disease, to enable him to discover its fundamental cause, which is generally due to a chronic miasm. In these investigations, the ascertainable physical constitution of the patient (especially when the disease is chronic), his moral and intellectual character, his occupation, mode of living and habits, his social and domestic relations, his age, sexual function, etc., are to be taken into consideration.

§ 6 Fifth Edition

The unprejudiced observer - well aware of the futility of transcendental speculations which can receive no confirmation from experience - be his powers of penetration ever so great, takes note of nothing in every individual disease, except the changes in the health of the body and of the mind (morbid phenomena, accidents, symptoms) which can be perceived externally by means of the senses; that is to say, he notices only the deviations from the former healthy state of the now diseased individual, which are felt by the patient himself, remarked by those around him and observed by the physician. All these perceptible signs represent the disease in its whole extent, that is, together they form the true and only conceivable portrait of the disease.^1
1 I know not, therefore, how it was possible for physicians at the sick-bed to allow themselves to suppose that, without most carefully attending to the symptoms and being guided by them in the treatment, they ought to seek and could discover, only in the hidden and unknown interior, what there was to be cured in the disease, arrogantly and ludicrously pretending that they could, without paying much attention to the symptoms, discover the alteration that had occurred in the invisible interior, and set it to rights with (unknown!) medicines, and that such a procedure as this could alone be called radical and rational treatment.
Is not, then, that which is cognizable by the senses in diseases through the phenomena it displays, the disease itself in the eyes of the physician, since he never can see the spiritual being that produces the disease, the vital force? nor is it necessary that he should see it, but only that he should ascertain its morbid actions, in order that he may thereby be enabled to cure the disease. What else will the old school search for in the hidden interior of the organism, as a prima causa morbi, whilst they reject as an object of cure and contemptuously despise the sensible and manifest representation of the disease, the symptoms, that so plainly address themselves to us? What else do they wish to cure in disease but these?*
^* The physician whose researches are directed towards the hidden relations in the interior of the organism, may daily err; but the homœopathist who grasps with requisite carefulness the whole group of symptoms, possesses a sure guide; and if he succeed in removing the whole group of symptoms he has likewise most assuredly destroyed the internal, hidden cause of the disease.

§ 6 Sixth Edition

The unprejudiced observer - well aware of the futility of transcendental speculations which can receive no confirmation from experience - be his powers of penetration ever so great, takes note of nothing in every individual disease, except the changes in the health of the body and of the mind (morbid phenomena, accidents, symptoms) which can be perceived externally by means of the senses; that is to say, he notices only the deviations from the former healthy state of the now diseased individual, which are felt by the patient himself, remarked by those around him and observed by the physician. All these perceptible signs represent the disease in its whole extent, that is, together they form the true and only conceivable portrait of the disease.^1
1 I know not, therefore, how it was possible for physicians at the sick-bed to allow themselves to suppose that, without most carefully attending to the symptoms and being guided by them in the treatment, they ought to seek and could discover, only in the hidden and unknown interior, what there was to be cured in the disease, arrogantly and ludicrously pretending that they could, without paying much attention to the symptoms, discover the alteration that had occurred in the invisible interior, and set it to rights with (unknown!) medicines, and that such a procedure as this could alone be called radical and rational treatment.
Is not, then, that which is cognizable by the senses in diseases through the phenomena it displays, the disease itself in the eyes of the physician, since he never can see the spiritual being that produces the disease, the vital force? nor is it necessary that he should see it, but only that he should ascertain its morbid actions, in order that he may thereby be enabled to cure the disease. What else will the old school search for in the hidden interior of the organism, as a prima causa morbi, whilst they reject as an object of cure and contemptuously despise the sensible and manifest representation of the disease, the symptoms, that so plainly address themselves to us? What else do they wish to cure in disease but these?

§ 7

Now, as in a disease, from which no manifest exciting or maintaining cause (causa occasionalis) has to be removed ¹, we can perceive nothing but the morbid symptoms, it must (regard being had to the possibility of a miasm, and attention paid to the accessory circumstances, § 5) be the symptoms alone by which the disease demands and points to the remedy suited to relieve it - and, moreover, the totality of these its symptoms, of this outwardly reflected picture of the internal essence of the disease, that is, of the affection of the vital force, must be the principal, or the sole means, whereby the disease can make known what remedy it requires - the only thing that can determine the choice of the most appropriate remedy - and thus, in a word, the totality ² of the symptoms must be the principal, indeed the only thing the physician has to take note of in every case of disease and to remove by means of his art, in order that it shall be cured and transformed into health.
¹ It is not necessary to say that every intelligent physician would first remove this where it exists; the indisposition thereupon generally ceases spontaneously. He will remove from the room strong-smelling flowers, which have a tendency to cause syncope and hysterical sufferings; extract from the cornea the foreign body that excites inflammation of the eye; loosen the over-tight bandage on a wounded limb that threatens to cause mortification, and apply a more suitable one; lay bare and put ligature on the wounded artery that produces fainting; endeavour to promote the expulsion by vomiting of belladonna berries etc., that may have been swallowed; extract foreign substances that may have got into the orifices of the body (the nose, gullet, ears, urethra, rectum, vagina); crush the vesical calculus; open the imperforate anus of the newborn infant, etc.
² In all times, the old school physicians, not knowing how else to give relief, have sought to combat and if possible to suppress by medicines, here and there, a single symptom from among a number in diseases - a one-sided procedure, which, under the name of symptomatic treatment, has justly excited universal contempt, because by it, not only was nothing gained, but much harm was inflicted. A single one of the symptoms present is no more the disease itself than a foot is the man himself. This procedure was so much the more reprehensible, that such a single symptom was only treated by an antagonistic remedy (therefore only in an enantiopathic and palliative manner), whereby, after a slight alleviation, it was subsequently only rendered all the worse.

§ 8

It is not conceivable, not can it be proved by any experience in the world, that, after removal of all the symptoms of the disease and of the entire collection of the perceptible phenomena, there should or could remain anything else besides health, or that the morbid alteration in the interior could remain uneradicated.^1
1 When a patient has been cured of his disease by a true physician, in such a manner that no trace of the disease, no morbid symptom, remains, and all the signs of health have permanently returned, how can anyone, without offering an insult to common sense, affirm in such an individual the whole bodily disease still remains interior? And yet the chief of the old school, Hufeland, asserts this in the following words: "homœopathy can remove symptoms, but the disease remains." (Vide Homoopathie, p.27, 1, 19.) This he maintains partly from mortification at the progress made by homœopathy to the benefits of mankind, partly because he still holds thoroughly material notions respecting disease, which he is still unable to regard as a state of being of the organism wherein it is dynamically altered by the morbidly deranged vital force, as an altered state of health, but he views the disease as a something material, which after the cure is completed, may still remain lurking in some corner in the interior of the body, in order, some day during the most vigorous health, to burst forth at its pleasure with its material presence! So dreadful is still the blindness of the old pathology! No wonder that it could only produce a system of therapeutics which is solely occupied with scouring out the poor patient.

§ 9

In the healthy condition of man, the spiritual vital force (autocracy), the dynamis that animates the material body (organism), rules with unbounded sway, and retains all the parts of the organism in admirable, harmonious, vital operation, as regards both sensations and functions, so that our indwelling, reason-gifted mind can freely employ this living, healthy instrument for the higher purpose of our existence.

§ 10 Fifth Edition

The material organism, without the vital force, is capable of no sensation, no function, no self-preservation ¹, it derives all sensation and performs all the functions of life solely by means of the immaterial being (the vital force) which animates the material organism in health and in disease.
¹ It is dead, and only subject to the power of the external physical world; it decays, and is again resolved into its chemical constituents.

§ 10 Sixth Edition

The material organism, without the vital force, is capable of no sensation, no function, no self-preservation ¹, it derives all sensation and performs all the functions of life solely by means of the immaterial being (the vital principle) which animates the material organism in health and in disease.
¹ It is dead, and only subject to the power of the external physical world; it decays, and is again resolved into its chemical constituents.

§ 11 Fifth Edition

When a person falls ill, it is only this spiritual, self acting (automatic) vital force, everywhere present in his organism, that is primarily deranged by the dynamic ¹ influence upon it of a morbific agent inimical to life; it is only the vital force, deranged to such an abnormal state, that can furnish the organism with its disagreeable sensations, and incline it to the irregular processes which we call disease; for, as a power invisible in itself, and only cognizable by its effects on the organism, its morbid derangement only makes itself known by the manifestation of disease in the sensations and functions of those parts of the organism exposed to the senses of the observer and physician, that is, by morbid symptoms, and in no other way can it make itself known.
¹ Materia peccans!

§ 11 Sixth Edition

When a person falls ill, it is only this spiritual, self acting (automatic) vital force, everywhere present in his organism, that is primarily deranged by the dynamic ¹ influence upon it of a morbific agent inimical to life; it is only the vital force, deranged to such an abnormal state, that can furnish the organism with its disagreeable sensations, and incline it to the irregular processes which we call disease; for, as a power invisible in itself, and only cognizable by its effects on the organism, its morbid derangement only makes itself known by the manifestation of disease in the sensations and functions of those parts of the organism exposed to the senses of the observer and physician, that is, by morbid symptoms, and in no other way can it make itself known. ^2
1 Materia peccans!
²  What is dynamic influence, - dynamic power? Our earth, by virtue of a hidden invisible energy, carries the moon around her in twenty-eight days and several hours, and the moon alternately, in definite fixed hours (deducting certain differences which occur with the full and new moon) raises our northern seas to flood tide and again correspondingly lowers them to ebb. Apparently this takes place not through material agencies, not through mechanical contrivances, as are used for products of human labor; and so we see numerous other events about us as results of the action of one substance on another substance without being able to recognize a sensible connection between cause and effect. Only the cultured, practised in comparison and deduction, can form for himself a kind of supra-sensual idea sufficient to keep all that is material or mechanical in his thoughts from such concepts. He calls such effects dynamic, virtual, that is, such as result from absolute, specific, pure energy and action of he one substance upon the other substance.
For instance, the dynamic effect of the sick-making influences upon healthy man, as well as the dynamic energy of the medicines upon the principle of life in the restoration of health is nothing else than infection and so not in any way material, not in any way mechanical. Just as the energy of a magnet attracting a piece of iron or steel is not material, not mechanical. One sees that the piece of iron is attracted by one pole of the magnet, but how it is done is not seen. This invisible energy of the magnet does not require mechanical (material) auxiliary means, hook or lever, to attract the iron. The magnet draws to itself and this acts upon the piece of iron or upon a steel needle by means of a purely immaterial invisible, conceptual, inherent energy, that is, dynamically, and communicates to the steel needle the magnetic energy equally invisibly (dynamically). The steel needle becomes itself magnetic, even at a distance when the magnet does not touch it, and magnetises other steel needles with the same magnetic property (dynamically) with which it had been endowered previously by the magnetic rod, just as a child with small-pox or measles communicates to a near, untouched healthy child in an invisible manner (dynamically) the small-pox or measles, that is, infects it at a distance without anything material from the infective child going or capable of going to the one to be infected. A purely specific conceptual influence communicated to the near child small-pox or measles in the same way as the magnet communicated to the near needle the magnetic property.
In a similar way, the effect of medicines upon living man is to be judged. Substances, which are used as medicines, are medicines only in so far as they possess each its own specific energy to alter the well-being of man through dynamic, conceptual influence, by means of the living sensory fibre, upon the conceptual controlling principle of life. The medicinal property of those material substances which we call medicines proper, relates only to their energy to call out alterations in the well-being of animal life. Only upon this conceptual principle of life, depends their medicinal health-altering, conceptual (dynamic) influence. Just as the nearness of a magnetic pole can communicate only magnetic energy to the steel (namely, by a kind of infection) but cannot communicate other properties (for instance, more hardness or ductility, etc.). And thus every special medicinal substance alters through a kind of infection, that well-being of man in a peculiar manner exclusively its own and not in a manner peculiar to another medicine, as certainly as the nearness of the child ill with small-pox will communicate to a healthy child only small-pox and not measles. These medicines act upon our well-being wholly without communication of material parts of the medicinal substances, thus dynamically, as if through infection. Far more healing energy is expressed in a case in point by the smallest dose of the best dynamized medicines, in which there can be, according to calculation, only so little of material substance that its minuteness cannot be thought and conceived by the best arithmetical mind, than by large doses of the same medicine in substance. That smallest dose can therefore contain almost entirely only the pure, freely-developed, conceptual medicinal energy, and bring about only dynamically such great effects as can never be reached by the crude medicinal substances itself taken in large doses.
It is not in the corporal atoms of these highly dynamized medicines, nor their physical or mathematical surfaces (with which the higher energies of the dynamized medicines are being interpreted but vainly as still sufficiently material) that the medicinal energy is found. More likely, there lies invisible in the moistened globule or in its solution, an unveiled, liberated, specific, medicinal force contained in the medicinal substance which acts dynamically by contact with the living animal fibre upon the whole organism (without communicating to it anything material however highly attenuated) and acts more strongly the more free and more immaterial the energy has become through the dynamization.
Is it then so utterly impossible for our age celebrated for its wealth in clear thinkers to think of dynamic energy as something non-corporeal, since we see daily phenomena which cannot be explained in any other manner? If one looks upon something nauseous and becomes inclined to vomit, did a material emetic come into his stomach which compels him to this anti-peristaltic movement? Was it not solely the dynamic effect of the nauseating aspect upon his imagination? And if one raises his arm, does it occur through a material visible instrument? a lever? Is it not solely the conceptual dynamic energy of his will which raises it?

§ 12 Fifth Edition

It is the morbidly affected vital force alone that produces disease¹, so that the morbid phenomena perceptible to our senses express at the same time all the internal change, that is to say, the whole morbid derangement of the internal dynamis; in a word, they reveal the whole disease; consequently, also, the disappearance under treatment of all the morbid phenomena and of all the morbid alterations that differ from the healthy vital operations, certainly affects and necessarily implies the restoration of the integrity of the vital force and, therefore, the recovered health of the whole organism.
¹ How the vital force causes the organism to display morbid phenomena, that is, how it produces disease, it would be of no practical utility to the physician to know, and will forever remain concealed from him; only what it is necessary for him to know of the disease and what is fully sufficient for enabling him to cure it, has the Lord of life revealed to his senses

§ 12 Sixth Edition

It is the morbidly affected vital energy alone that produces disease¹, so that the morbid phenomena perceptible to our senses express at the same time all the internal change, that is to say, the whole morbid derangement of the internal dynamis; in a word, they reveal the whole disease; consequently, also, the disappearance under treatment of all the morbid phenomena and of all the morbid alterations that differ from the healthy vital operations, certainly affects and necessarily implies the restoration of the integrity of the vital force and, therefore, the recovered health of the whole organism.
¹ How the vital force causes the organism to display morbid phenomena, that is, how it produces disease, it would be of no practical utility to the physician to know, and will forever remain concealed from him; only what it is necessary for him to know of the disease and what is fully sufficient for enabling him to cure it, has the Lord of life revealed to his senses.

§ 13

Therefore disease (that does not come within the province of manual surgery) considered, as it is by the allopathists, as a thing separate from the living whole, from the organism and its animating vital force, and hidden in the interior, be it ever so subtle a character, is an absurdity, that could only be imagined by minds of a materialistic stamp, and has for thousands of years given to the prevailing system of medicine all those pernicious impulses that have made it a truly mischievous [non-healing] art.

§ 14

There is, in the interior of man, nothing morbid that is curable and no invisible morbid alteration that is curable which does not make itself known to the accurately observing physicians by means of morbid signs and symptoms - an arrangement in perfect conformity with the infinite goodness of the all-wise Preserver of human life.

§ 15 Fifth Edition

The affection of the morbidly deranged, spirit-like dynamis (vital force) that animates our body in the invisible interior, and the totality of the outwardly cognizable symptoms produced by it in the organism and representing the existing malady, constitute a whole; they are one and the same. The organism is indeed the material instrument of the life, but it is not conceivable without the animation imparted to it by the instinctively perceiving and regulating vital force (just as the vital force is not conceivable without the organism), consequently the two together constitute a unity, although in thought our mind separates this unity into two distinct conceptions for the sake of facilitating the comprehension of it.

§ 15 Sixth Edition

The affection of the morbidly deranged, spirit-like dynamis (vital force) that animates our body in the invisible interior, and the totality of the outwardly cognizable symptoms produced by it in the organism and representing the existing malady, constitute a whole; they are one and the same. The organism is indeed the material instrument of the life, but it is not conceivable without the animation imparted to it by the instinctively perceiving and regulating dynamis, just as the vital force is not conceivable without the organism, consequently the two together constitute a unity, although in thought our mind separates this unity into two distinct conceptions for the sake of easy comprehension.