Aphorisms 27 - 49 and 82 - 104

Question 1

What do curative powers of a remedy depend on?

Answer 1

27 – Curative powers depend on the symptoms produced being similar to the symptoms of the disease but stronger.

Question 2

How does homeopathic cure work?

Answer 2

28 – 29 – Artificial disease of the remedy overpowers the weaker natural disease. When the force of the artificial disease is spent, the body returns to normal health.

Question 3

What is more likely to alter the human body’s state of health – drugs or nature?

Answer 3

30 – Drugs, because medicinal agents affect all people, so the body is more susceptible to medicinal forces.

Question 4

Do disease agents affect everyone?

Answer 4

31 – No, we fall ill only when susceptible.

Question 5

Do medicinal agents affect everyone?

Answer 5

32 – Yes, medicinal agents affect all people

Question 6

Is the body more susceptible to medicinal forces or natural ones?

Answer 6

33 – More susceptible to medicinal forces.

Question 7

What must the artificial disease be like in order to cure?

Answer 7

34 – The artificial disease must be stronger and and most similar

Question 8

Can nature cure an old disease by adding a dissimilar one?

Answer 8

34 – No, nature cannot cause an old disease by adding a new dissimilar one.

Question 9

What happens when two dissimilar disease meet in the same person?

Answer 9

35 – See aphorisms 36 - 40

Question 10

When two dissimilar diseases meet in the same person, what effect does old disease have on new dissimilar diseases?

Answer 10

36 – An old disease that is equally strong or stronger will keep away new dissimilar diseases.

Question 11

What effect do non-homeopathic treatments have on chronic disease?

Answer 11

37 – Chronic diseases are not affected by non-homeopathic treatment

Question 12

What effect do new, stronger diseases have on the old disease?

Answer 12

38 – New stronger diseases can suppress old disease, but will never remove it.

Question 13

What does allopathic treatment do to the disease? What happens when the medicine is withdrawn?

Answer 13

39 – Allopathic treatment suppresses the disease. The chronic disease returns when the medication is withdrawn.

Question 14

Do new diseases remove old diseases, or vice versa?

Answer 14

40 – No – new diseases can join older diseases and become complex, but neither one removes the other.

Question 15

What is the effect of heavy drugging with allopathic medicines?

Answer 15

41 – Heavy drugging with allopathic medicines leads to an artificial drug disease and makes it into a chronic problem.

Question 16

Can two dissimilar disease exist in the body at the same time?

Answer 16

42 – Yes. Two dissimilar diseases can exist in the body at the same time.

Question 17

What can we observe when two similar diseases meet?

Answer 17

43 – When two similar disease meet, we can observe how cure takes place.

Question 18

Can two similar diseases suspend, ward off, or exist at the same time?

Answer 18

44 – No, two similar disease cannot suspend, ward off or exist at the same time.

Question 19

What will two similar diseases do to each other in the organism?

Answer 19

45 – Two similar diseases will destroy each other in the organism

Question 20

Aphorisms 46 – 47

Answer 20

46 – Examples of foregoing

47 – It should be convincingly clear that this is how to cure according to natural law.

Question 21

Do dissimilar diseases cure?

Answer 21

48 – No, dissimilar diseases do not cure.

Question 22

Is nature rich in remedial homeopathic diseases?

Answer 22

49 – No, nature is poor in remedial homeopathic diseases so we do not notice them often.

Question 23

How should the case be conducted in trying to cure disease?

Answer 23

82 – Carefully

Question 24

What are requisites for understanding the picture of the disease?

Answer 24

83 – Freedom from prejudice and sound sense.

Question 25

What should the patient do? What should the physician do?

Answer 25

84 – The patient should talk. The physician should listen, not interrupt, and write it all down.

Question 26

Should all the symptoms be written down together?

Answer 26

85 – No. Start a new line for every symptom.

Question 27

When should the physician ask for particulars?

Answer 27

86 – When the patient finishes talking, the physician can ask for particulars.

Question 28

What kind of questions should the physician not ask?

Answer 28

87 – The physician should not ask yes or no questions.

Question 29

What should the physician ask the patient about the body?

Answer 29

88 – Ask the patient about the parts of the body not mentioned.

Question 30

What should the physician ask after asking particulars about the body parts not mentioned?

Answer 30

89 – The physician should ask more special detailed questions

Question 31

What should the physician note down?

Answer 31

90 – The physician should note what he observes in the patient.

Question 32

What must be understood in cases of chronic disease? What must the physician ask the patient to do?

Answer 32

91 – In chronic cases, understand what the symptoms were before medicines were taken. Ask the patient to discontinue medicines to see the real disease.

Question 33

What should the physician do about other medicines n cases of rapid course (acute) disease?

Answer 33

92 – In cases of rapid course disease, the physician should forget the other medicines and do what she can to sort it out.

Question 34

What other sources of information are useful to understand the patient?

Answer 34

93 – Learn what the patient’s friends say about the patient.

Question 35

What questions are useful to remove the maintaining causes in chronic cases?

Answer 35

94 – In cases of chronic disease, ask about habits, diet and domestic situation to be able to remove the maintaining causes.

Question 36

Is a broad overview sufficient in cases of chronic disease?

Answer 36

95 – No. In chronic cases, the minutest peculiarities are attended to.

Question 37

Do patients always describe their symptoms accurately? What two ways might patients describe their symptoms?

Answer 37

96 – Some patients might exaggerate their symptoms.

97 – Others have false modesty and allege that their symptoms are of no consequence.

Question 38

What is a credible source of information from the patient?

Answer 38

98 – The physician should attach credence to the patient’s own expressions.

Question 39

What is the advantage to case taking and treatment in acute disease?

Answer 39

99 – Acute diseases of short duration and easy to treat. There is less to inquire into. They are often spontaneously detailed.

Question 40

What is true of epidemic diseases?

Answer 40

100 – 102 – It takes time to see the totality of the epidemic disease. You must see the characteristics of the disease through several patients.

Question 41

How must the physician proceed in case of chronic disease? What must they see about the patient?

Answer 41

103 – Chronic disease must be carefully investigated. You must see the totality of the patient.

Question 42

What must be done to see the effect of the medicine?

Answer 42

104 – Once the totality is sketched, the most difficult part is done. The physician has a picture of the disease. To see the effect of the medicine, just ask how the patient is and cross out the symptoms that have been cured.