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 […]

A substance that can cause flu-like symptoms in a poisoning can, in the right dose, stimulate the body to recover from a flu.