[Omeo33] Art 1179 - Homeopathy, 2011, 100 (1), 11-17

[Gino Santini]

Homoeopathic philosophy: its importance in the treatment of chronic  
diseases
John Weir and Ch.B. Glas

What is homoeopathic philosophy?—It is an understanding of the various  
phenomena of reaction to the like-drug-stimulus, supplied by the  
homoeopathic remedy. It not only deals with the choice of the drug,  
but teaches us how to use it.
There is nothing more true in the world than this: what we sow, that  
we shall reap. In homoeopathy, especially in the treatment of chronic  
diseases, we shall get out what we put in. If we expect the impossible  
we shall be disappointed. If we despair and say “ incurable,” we shall  
miss many unexpected triumphs. If we sow mistakes we shall reap  
failures. And out of failure comes disheartenment and loss of faith in  
our work. The “efficacy of homoeopathy in chronic diseases” depends on  
two factors that make for success on the part of the practitioner,  
viz., knowledge and faithfulness.
To begin with, we need to know our work from start to finish.
To prescribe remedies peculiar to the homoeopathic school is not  
enough. To understand the “grading” of symptoms (that is to say, their  
relative importance as regards the choice of the remedy) is not  
enough; to know our way blindfold about the repertory, and to use it  
constantly in prescribing, is not enough. To prescribe according to  
the Law of Similars, is not enough. To be able to hit the drug is  
much; but it is not everything.
It is the right and necessary beginning; but it is only the beginning.  
To prescribe only high potencies—or low —is not enough.
Hahnemann, who gave us the Law of Similars: who showed us the relative  
value of symptoms: who told us how to use the repertories: and how to  
be led by them to the materia medica: gave us, besides this, a very  
great deal more. And unless we go the whole way with him we need not  
expect (as he warns us) ever to see “the efficacy of homoeopathy in  
chronic diseases.”

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