The highest ideal of therapy is to restore health rapidly, gently, permanently; to remove and destroy the whole disease in the shortest, surest, least harmful way, according to clearly comprehensible principles. – Aphorism 2, Dr. Samuel Hahnemann, Organon of Medicine, 6th ed., Kunzli et al, trans. There isn’t much to object to in this second […]

Let’s now skip over Hahnemann’s next provocative statement of medical generality to answer the question left open by the last post. Hahnemann says we shouldn’t theorize as to the complex internal mechanisms of the body or use our incomplete biochemical knowledge to treat people. So, where should we go to understand someone’s illness? If not […]

The physician’s highest calling, his only calling, is to make sick people healthy — to heal, as it is termed. – Aphorism 1, Organon of Medicine [Kunzli, trans.] With this opening shot, Dr. Samuel Hahnemann begins his treatise on the healing art. It may not seem like a critical statement at first, and many of his […]