22nd June 2003, 09:42 AM
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The symptoms that go into making the disease diagnosis are common to the disease. In order to find the similimum, it's necessary to find the symptoms that are unique to the person. The common symptoms will not lead to the correct remedy.
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§ 153 Sixth Edition
In this search for a homœopathic specific remedy, that is to say, in this comparison of the collective symptoms of the natural disease with the list of symptoms of known medicines, in order to find among these an artificial morbific agent corresponding by similarity to the disease to be cured, the more striking, singular, uncommon and peculiar (characteristic) signs and symptoms1 of the case of disease are chiefly and most solely to be kept in view; for it is more particularly these that very similar ones in the list of symptoms of the selected medicine must correspond to, in order to constitute it the most suitable for effecting the cure. The more general and undefined symptoms: loss of appetite, headache, debility, restless sleep, discomfort, and so forth, demand but little attention when of that vague and indefinite character, if they cannot be more accurately described, as symptoms of such a general nature are observed in almost every disease and from almost every drug.
1 Dr. von Bonninghausen, by the publication of the characteristic symptoms of homœopathic medicines and his repertory has rendered a great service to homœopathy as well as Dr. J.H.G. Jahr in his handbook of principal symptoms.
§ 154
If the antitype constructed from the list of symptoms of the most suitable medicine contain those peculiar, uncommon, singular and distinguishing (characteristic) symptoms, which are to be met with in the disease to be cured in the greatest number and in the greatest similarity, this medicine is the most appropriate homœopathic specific remedy for this morbid state; the disease, if it be not one of very long standing, will generally be removed and extinguished by the first dose of it, without any considerable disturbance.
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Shirley Reischman
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