Organon of Medicine • Aphorism 18 The Sole Guide to the Remedy Understanding the Totality of Symptoms as the Foundation of Remedy Selection § 18 — Sixth Edition “From this indubitable truth, that besides the totality of the symptoms with consideration of the accompanying modalities (§ 5) nothing can by any means be discovered in … Read more
§ 17 Organon of Medicine • Sixth Edition Removal of Symptoms = Removal of Disease Understanding the relationship between symptoms, disease, vital force and restoration of health Aphorism Core Idea Explanation Practical Meaning Think Box Summary Aphorism 17 — Sixth Edition “Now, as in the cure effected by the removal of the whole of the … Read more
Organon of Medicine • Sixth Edition Aphorism § 16 Dynamic disease, dynamic action and restoration of vital harmony §16 Aphorism Sixteen The Dynamic Nature of Disease & Cure § The Aphorism “` Our vital force, as a spirit-like dynamis, cannot be attacked and affected by injurious influences on the healthy organism caused by the external … Read more
§15 Organon of Medicine • Aphorism Series Aphorism § 15 Vital Force, Organism & the Unity of Disease Aphorism Simple Meaning Central Idea The Unity Vital Force Organism §14 → §15 Quick Revision 📜 The Aphorism “ The affection of the morbidly deranged, spirit-like dynamis (vital force) that animates our body in the invisible interior, … Read more
§14 Organon of Medicine • Aphorism Series Aphorism § 14 The Internal Disease Revealed by Signs & Symptoms Aphorism Simple Meaning Central Idea Signs & Symptoms The Observing Physician Nature’s Arrangement §13 → §14 Quick Revision 📜 The Aphorism “ There is, in the interior of man, nothing morbid that is curable and no invisible … Read more
§13 Organon of Medicine • Aphorism Series Aphorism § 13 Disease Is Not a Separate Material Entity Aphorism Simple Meaning Central Idea Material Disease Calculus Example Surgery & §13 §12 → §13 Quick Revision 📜 The Aphorism “ Therefore disease (that does not come within the province of manual surgery) considered, as it is by … Read more
§12 Organon of Medicine • Aphorism Series Aphorism § 12 The Morbidly Affected Vital Energy & the Whole Disease Aphorism Simple Meaning Vital Energy Signs & Symptoms Whole Disease Treatment §11 → §12 Quick Revision 📜 The Aphorism — Sixth Edition “ It is the morbidly affected vital energy alone that produces disease, so that … Read more
§11 Organon of Medicine • Aphorism Series Aphorism § 11 Dynamic Disease Force & Derangement of the Vital Force Aphorism Simple Meaning Dynamic Disease Vital Force Symptoms Example §10 → §11 Quick Revision 📜 The Aphorism — Sixth Edition “ When a person falls ill, it is only this spiritual, self acting (automatic) vital force, … Read more
§10 Organon of Medicine • Aphorism Series Aphorism § 10 The Vital Force & Life Functions Aphorism Simple Meaning Vital Force Life Functions Life & Death Philosophical Concept Quick Revision 📜 The Aphorism “ The material organism, without the vital force, is capable of no sensation, no function, no self-preservation, it derives all sensation and … Read more
§9 Organon of Medicine • Aphorism Series Aphorism § 9 The Vital Force & Harmony of Health Aphorism Explanation Vital Force Health & Harmony Higher Purpose Kent’s Concept Quick Revision 📜 The Aphorism “ In the healthy condition of man, the spiritual vital force (autocracy), the dynamis that animates the material body (organism), rules with … Read more