aphorism 33

In accordance with this fact, it is undeniably shown by all experience¹ that the living organism is much more disposed and has a greater liability to be acted on, and to have its health deranged by medicinal powers, than by morbific noxious agents and infectious miasms, or, in order words, that the morbific noxious agents possess a power of morbidly deranging man’s health that is subordinate and conditional, often very conditional; whilst medicinal agents have an absolute unconditional power, greatly superior to the former.

¹   A striking fact in corroboration of this is, that whilst previously to the year 1801, when the smooth scarlatina of Sydenham still occasionally prevailed epidemically among children, it attacked without exception all children who had escaped it in a former epidemic; in a similar epidemic which I witnessed in Konigslutter, on the contrary, all the children who took in time a very small dose of belladonna remained unaffected by this highly infectious infantile disease. If medicines can protect from a disease that is raging around, they must possess a vastly superior power of affecting our vital force.

commentary:

Medicine are superior than disease because

	we have the regulation of the dose  in our own power (is unconditionally) than by natural  natural disease-one get infected only conditionally that is only when susceptibility is satisfied.
	For natural diseases are cured and overcome by suitable medicines.

ARTIFICIAL DRUG DISEASE

Medicines are superior. Here let me bring to you that superior power of medicines are often misused.

When we look over the improper use of all sorts of medicines, we can but conclude that the mankind, because of drug-taking, has been greatly upset  the economy. You have heard Hahnemann speak of the management of chronic diseases ; he clearly states that the greatest difficulties are those that have been produced in the economy by continuous drug taking.

 Life long disorder is created by continuous drug taking. Kent says "Think of the poor old individuals who were in the habit of taking sulphur and molasses, think of those who were perpetually tapping their livers with blue mass, think of the western sufferers who have filled themselves every year with quinine pan-cake to keep off the chill. These people are so disordered that it takes years of careful prescribing to turn them into a state of order."

Now we have antibiotics, steroids, hormone therapies all produce so called artificial drug disorder. 

Hahnemann was more practical in his findings. He observed care fully the natural disease especially when infected by two or more disease in same person. Let me illustrate his  observations. When a violent epidemic say recent Chikungunya infection in Kerala (India) is ranging we all know that, although the number of victims is large, they are few who go through the epidemic unharmed, and the question always arises, why is it ?

The relation between acute and chronic dissimilar diseases.

We suppose, and probably rightly so, that a large number of the immune have escaped because they were usually strong and vigorous, or in a state of very good order or their vital force is intact. That is not correct.

But we find among those who have escaped the epidemic a number of persons who are anything but strong, really invalids, one in consumption, another in the hypertension, another with diabetes. We study them  all together and find that none of them have had Chikungunya or dysentery or smallpox, or whatever disease was epidemic.

They have not been susceptible to epidemic influences. Can  we explain such phenomena? Hahnemann's observation of sick is answer to such a question.

The reason is that they have sickness that it is out of the question for the epidemic to suppress. The epidemic is allopathic, or dissimilar to their diseases, and cannot suppress their disease because of its virulency.

Now if they have some mild form of chronic disease, a severe attack of dysentery will cause that chronic disease (which they were suffering before the attack of dysentery) to disappear temporarily, and the new (epidemic) disease will take hold and run its course, and when it subsides the old symptoms will come back again and go on as if they had not been tampered with.

This is are example of dissimilars, and demonstrates that dissimilars are unable to cure: they can only suppress. If the chronic disease is stronger than the epidemic disease, i.e., if it has an organic hold upon the body, it cannot be suppressed. This is essentially the relation of the acute dissimilar disease to the chronic disease of severity.

The relation between chronic dissimilar diseases is somewhat different.

For example, a patient is in the earlier stages of Bright's disease, and the symptoms are clear enough to make a diagnosis. He takes syphilis, and at once the kidney disease is held in temporary cessation or suspension, the albumin disappears from the urine and his waxiness is lost. But after a year's deliberate prescribing the syphilitic state vanishes, and very soon the albumin appears again in the urine, the dropsy returns and he dies of an ordinary attack of Bright's disease. Then there are cases where two chronic diseases seem at times to alternate with each other ; one seems to be quashed for a time and the other prevails. Under proper homoeopathic treatment one will be reduced in its activity and the other chronic disease will show itself. 

ALTERNATING OF MIASM

This you will find to be the case when you have to treat syphilis and psora together. The psoric patient, who has been suffering from a skin eruption or one of the various forms of psora, takes syphilis. All the psoric manifestations, the nightly itching of the salt rheum will disappear, and the syphilitic eruption will come on and take their place. You will treat the syphilitic manifestations for a while and you will be able to quash them, and in proportion as the disease is subdued the psoric manifestations will come up again and will bold in temporary cessation or suspension that portion of the syphilitic state which is still uncured. You will then be compelled to drop the anti-syphilitic and take up the anti-psoric treatment, and again the homoeopathic remedies will restore apparent order in the economy.

But after this has been done, you will be surprised to see syphilitic state return in the condition matching to its last manifestations. You must then drop the anti-psoric treatment and resume the anti-syphilitic. Thus they alternate ; when you weaken one, the stronger comes up. If the patient is given proper treatment his condition will be simplified, but if given old school treatment it will become very complicated.

What will happen when allopathic drugs are given to such a person who has both miasm?

The two miasms will unite and form a complexity, which is a most vicious state of affairs ; then the syphilitic eruptions, while they have all the appearance of syphilis, will itch as if they were psoric eruptions. Mercury in large doses is capable of bringing about such a result.

Proper homoeopathic treatment causes a separation of miasm, while inappropriate treatment produces complication, and you will never see one improve where homoeopathic remedies have caused the tying up of the combination (psora and syphilis).

Again, take a chronic malarial diathesis, which has existed so long that it has complicated itself with psora, we will see after the quinine has been antidoted that the chills and fever will come back in their original form.

Here you see an evidence of the separation which Homoeopathy always tends to bring about.

The malarial state is now brought into observation for the purpose of cure. It cannot be cured when complicated, for the remedy cannot be clear that will be similar enough to wipe them out. The first medicine  antidotes the drug and liberates the patient from the drug disease, and then you see the most acute or last appearing natural disease which comes back first. This is in accordance with fixed law, the last miasm or the last symptoms that have been made to go away will be the first to return and go away to appear no more.

I.  If the two dissimilar diseases meeting together in the human being be of equal strength, or still more if the older one be the stronger, the new disease will be repelled by the old one from the body and not allowed to affect it. A patient suffering from a severe chronic disease will not be infected by a moderate autumnal dysentery or other epidemic disease. The plague of the Levant, according to Larry,¹ does not break out where scurvy is prevalent, and persons suffering from eczema are not infected by it. Rachitis, Jenner alleges, prevents vaccination from taking effect. Those suffering from pulmonary consumption are not liable to be attacked by epidemic fevers of a not very violent character, according to Von Hildenbrand.

¹ "Memoires et Observations," in the Description de l’ Egpte, tom. i.

commentary:

The suggestion here is that if the two dissimilar diseases meeting together in the human being be of equal strength, or still more if the older one be the stronger, the new disease will be repelled by the old one from the body and not allowed to affect it. Hahnemann have given many more examples.

	A patient suffering from a severe chronic disease will not be infected by a moderate autumnal dysentery or other epidemic disease.
	The plague of the Levant, according to Larry,1 does not break out where scurvy is prevalent, and persons suffering from eczema are not infected by it. Rachitis, Jenner alleges, prevents vaccination from taking effect.
	Those suffering from pulmonary consumption are not liable to be attacked by epidemic fevers of a not very violent character, according to Von Hildenbrand

So, also under ordinary medical treatment, an old chronic disease remains uncured and unaltered if it is treated according to the common allopathic method, that is to say, with medicines that are incapable of producing in healthy individuals a state of health similar to the disease, even though the treatment should last for years and is not of too violent character.¹ This is daily witnessed in practice, it is therefore unnecessary to give any illustrative examples.

¹ But if treated with violent allopathic remedies, other diseases will be formed in its place which are more difficult and dangerous to life.

commentary:

From the previous aphrorism it is clear that when two dissimilar natural disease meet together in one living being, it cannot result in cure. Same is true with allopathy. Such allopathic medicine  which does not bring the same condition as of diseased body cannot and will not effect cure even given only in mild forms for years  but will  suppress the  disease.