remedies and mother tinctures; on drug images, on the idea of Essence, etc. Lately fairy-tales, colours, radiaesthesia, imaginary interpretations in the
disguise of artistic prescribing, so called innovation in understanding the dream-delusion analysis, iridology, etc. have entered the world of homoeopaths.
The scientific minded homoeopath will always ask : Isthis the homoeopathy Hahnemann would have liked us to practice after 200 years ?
Fantasies, imagination and speculation in relation to theunderstanding of disease, the sick man, and in the construction of the prescribing totality, should have no place in scientific homoeopathy. A few lines from the foot-note to the first aphorism in Organon is worthquoting: ``His mission is not, however, to construct so called systems, by interweaving empty speculations and hypothesis concerning the internal essential nature of the vital processes..nor it is to give countlessexplanations regarding the phenomena in diseases and their proximate cause, wrapped in unintelligible words and an inflated abstract mode of expression, which should sound very learned in order to astonish the
ignorant-whilst sick humanity sighs in vain for aid..'' It is very important to have a scientific temperament so that homoeopathy survives and withstands time. Therealisation has to come, that,thehomoeopathicprescription has to be mad
by matching the patient's true totality with that of the prover. A simple rule, that seems to have been forgotten by many. Otherwise every poet would have his
own fanciful collection of materia medica.
