Category ORGANON

TEMPERAMENT

The psycho-physical personality peculiar to an individual, influencing hismetabolic process, manner of thought and action can be termed as temperamentof that particular person. The word temperament is derived from a Latin word“temperare” which means to temper, or moderate. TEMPERAMENT=TEMPERERE =…

Vital force in disease

Vital force constantly fights with the disease producing powers at everymoment of the life. Either because of the prolonged exposure or due to thestronger power of the miasms, vital force deranges. This deranged state of thevital force brings forth lack…

Rational Medicine (§ 54 & its footnote)

Allopathy called itself the rational medicine for several centuries. In thename of systemic medication allopaths have utilized many improper therapeuticmethods. In the name of research, allopaths have studied the human organismfrom the materialistic point only and neglected the life force.…

SUPPRESSION

The word “suppression” is derived from a Latin word “supprimere”, whichmeans “to press down forcibly”. Suppression is the process of forcibly removingthe present disease manifestations by any means other than fixed principles atthe cost of a new disease. Suppression diverts…

SUSCEPTIBILITY

Susceptibility can be termed as the fundamental quality of a living organism to react to any sort of stimuli that distinguishes the living from the non living. Stuart Close says, “By susceptibility we mean general quality or capacity of the…

INDISPOSITION (FOOTNOTE TO § 7)

Indisposition is not a true disease. It is a slight deviation in the state of healthwith one or more trivial symptoms, which can be controlled by a slight changein the diet and regimen. Indisposition does not require any remedy. For…

THE DEFLECTED CURRENT

When seemingly indicated remedy does not act, the physician has to investigate the case again to find out the presence of any obstacles to cure. Finding out and correcting such obstacles to cure might prove curative in the near future.…

18th century medicine

By the beginning of 18th century the control of church authority overmedicine had completely faded away. The entire Europe was full of theories andhypothesis regarding the nature and development of diseases. Physicians weredivided into various groups of thoughts. Each and…