All experience proves unmistakably that human organism is much more predisposed and susceptible to medicinal forces than to diseased noxiousnesses and infectious miasms; or, to express it differently, that the medicinal forces possess an absolute, but the diseased affections a merely limited,  power to change the conditions of the human organism.

This makes it already obvious that a possibility exists of curing disease by medicines (that is to say, that the diseased condition of the sickened organism can be obliterated by means of the most suitable alterations through medicines). But it becomes necessary also to comply with a second natural law, if the cure is to be made a reality; that is, a stronger dynamic affection overcomes the weaker one in the living organism permanently, if the first is similar in kind to the latter;  because the dynamic change of the condition to be expected from the medicine must not, as I believe I have proved, be either differentially deviating from or allopathic to the diseased condition; otherwise a much greater disturbance would follow, as is the case under the common practice; neither must be opposite, so that only a palliative, fallacious improvement, which is invariably followed by an aggravation of the original disease, may be produced. But the medicine must possess the tendency to cause a condition similar to the disease (to cause similar symptoms on the healthy person), and observations much have shown this tendency, and then only can it become a permanently curative medicine.

Whereas the dynamic affections of the organism (either by medicines or disease) can be discerned only by means of expressions of changed sensations and changed functions; and whereas, also, the similarity of their dynamic affections reciprocally can be ascertained only through a similarity of symptoms; and as the organism (much more easily affected by medicines than by diseases) is more submissive to drug-action; that is to say, is more easily affected and changed by it, than from a similar affection of diseases; it follows that, without a possibility of contradiction, the organism must necessarily be relieved from the diseased affections if a medicine is applied which, also entirely different in its nature from the disease (Foot-note-13), approaches it as near as possible in its similarity of symptoms, that is, is homoeopathic to it; because the organism, as a complete living unit, is not capable of absorbing two similar dynamic affections at the same time without compelling the weaker to succumb to the stronger one; and as the organism is more apt to be affected by the stronger force (medicinal affection), then there will be a necessity created to part with the weaker one (diseased affection), and by that process the organism is healed of it.

It is illusive for any one to think that the living organism under the administration of a dose of homoeopathic medicine, for the cure of its disease, thereby becomes burdened with an addition to its ills; just as if a plate of lead already pressed by an iron weight were the stronger pressed by the adding of a stone to it; or a piece of copper heated by friction, by pouring hot water on it, must become still more heated! Nothing of the kind, not passive, not according to physical laws of inorganic nature is our living organism governed. It reacts with its life-antagonism, so that it, as a unit, as a living whole, submissively permits the diseased condition to be extinguished, if a similarly strong force pervades the organism by means of a homoeopathic remedy.

Our living human organism is spiritually reacting. It excludes by a spontaneous force a less powerful affection, as soon as the stronger force of a homoeopathic remedy produces a different but very similar affection. In other words, on account of the oneness of its life it cannot suffer, at the same time, from two similar general disturbances, but is compelled to part with the previous dynamic affection (disease) as soon as it is acted upon by a second dynamic force (medicine), which is more apt to affect it; provided that medicine possesses the capability of affecting the organism (symptoms) in a very similar manner to the first affection. Something similar occurs in the human mind (Foot-note-14).

In proportion as the human organism is more easily affected by medicines when in a state of health than by disease, as I have demonstrated above, so is that organism when diseased, without comparison, much more easily affected by homoeopathic medicines than by any other (for instance, allopathic or enantiopathic) – and it is acted upon easily and in a very high degree, as it is already inclined to certain symptoms by the disease, hence it becomes more susceptible to similar symptoms by the homoeopathic medicine – just as our own similar mental suffering causes the mind to become much more sensitive to similar stories of woe. Therefore, it becomes obvious that only the smallest doses become useful and necessary for a cure; that is to say, for the changing of the sickened organism into a similar medicinal disease; and for that reason is it unnecessary to give it in a larger dose, because in this case the object is obtained not through the quantity but through potentiality and quality (dynamic conformity, homoeopathy). There is no utility in a larger dose, but there is harm done; the larger dose on the one side does not cause the dynamic change of the diseased affection with more certainty than the most suitable smallest dose; but it causes and supplants, on the other side, a multiplied medicinal disease, which is always an evil, although it passes by after a certain lapse of time.

The organism becomes strongly affected, and becomes pervaded by the force of a medicinal substance which is capacitated to obliterate and extinguish the totality of the symptoms of the disease, through its endeavours to create similar symptoms. The organism becomes, as we have said, liberated from the diseased condition at the very time that it is affected by the medicinal power, by which it is decidedly more apt to be impressed.

The medicinal forces, as such, even in larger doses, hold the organism only for a few days under their influence; and, therefore, it becomes apparent that a small dose, and in acute diseases a very small dose of that medicine (such as it has been proven constitutes the dose for a homoeopathic cure) can affect the organism for a short time only (and in acute diseases the smallest dose is capable of affecting the organism for only a few hours), and that the medicinal affection which now occupies the place of the disease very soon and imperceptibly passes into pure health.

It appears that the nature of the human organism is governed solely by the laws we have here presented if disease is to be permanently cured by medicines; and really we may say that this action is a mathematical certainty. There exists no case of a dynamic disease in this world (with the exception of the death-agony, and, we may so class it here, advanced age and the destruction of indispensable viscera or limbs) which cannot be cured quickly and permanently by a medicine which has been found to cause in its positive effects symptoms in great similarity to it.

The sick person can by no other possible means of cure (Foot-note-15) be more easily, more quickly, more certainly, in a more reliable and permanent manner, liberated from disease, than through homoeopathic medicines in small doses.

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Foot-note-13: Without this natural difference between diseased affections and the medicinal affections, no cure could be effected. If both were not only similar, but also of the same nature, therefore identical, there would be no effect produced (probably only an aggravation of the evil). In the same manner, it would be vain to expect to cure a chancre by moistening it with the poison of another chancre.  Back to (Foot-note-13)

Foot-note-14: For instance, a grieved girl, lamenting the death of a playmate, becomes solaced through the strong effect of being introduced to a family where she finds half-naked children who have just lost their father, their only support. She becomes more reconciled to her comparatively smaller loss; she is cured of her grief for her playmate, because the oneness of the mind can at the same time be affected only by a single similar emotion, and that emotion must be subdued if another similar emotion take possession of her mind which affects her stronger, and in that manner becomes a homoeopathic remedy, extinguishing the former. The girl would not have been relieved of the grief she felt for the loss of her playmate, if, for instance, the mother had scolded her (a heterogene allopathic force). On the contrary, she would have been much sicker in mind by the addition of a different mortification, and again would be grieved girl, had she been seemingly cheered for a few hours palliatively by a jocund festivity (because the emotion in this case was an opposite, enanthiopathic), have fallen afterwards into deeper sadness when she was left to her solitude, and then would have cried more bitterly than before. What we here see in the psychological condition, we find also in the organic life. The oneness of our life does not allow itself to be occupied and possessed of ttwo general similar dynamic affections at the same time; because, if the second affection prove itself to be the stronger one, the first will become obliterated, just as soon as the organism becomes affected by the second.

Foot-note-15: Even in the common practice, and in rare cases, the strikingly effective cures are the results of a homoeopathically suitable and homoeopathically acting medicine (accidentally prescribed). It was impossible for the physician to choose a homoeopathic remedy for the cure of diseases, as the positive (the positive effects observed on healthy persons) effects of medicines were never thought of, and therefore they remained ignorant of them; and even those medicines, with such as were made known by my writings, were not considered useful for curative purposes. Furthermore, they remained ignorant of the necessary conditions for a permanent cure, and of the effects of medicines on those symptoms of disease which were similar to them (the homoeopathic law of cure).1   2    3