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regimen

The therapeutic application of the natural law of opposites to balance disturbances in the system that are not due to a disease as such, but more to faulty lifestyle, or that create what Hahnemann referred to as "obstacles to cure (of a disease)," that is, these deficiencies or excesses get in the way of a restoration of health, even after the the disease has been removed by the law of similars. It also includes those therapies that are aimed at the balancing of energy, whether of the psyche or soma, such as acupuncture, manipulative therapies (osteopathic, chiropractic, cranio-sacral), flower essences, tissue salts, drainage, detoxification, biotherapies (oligo, litho, gemmo), psychotherapy. Therapeutic regimen involves the sustentive (healing) power of the Life Force.

cure

The "annihilation" of disease (to use Hahnemann's term) through the use of a remedial agent (artificial disease) according to the law of similar resonance. This action provides what Hahnemann in Aphorism 60 terms the initial action of the remedial process and acts on the generative power of the Life Force, which is the side of the Life Force in which the initial disease agent engenders the disease. The disease, once engendered, cannot be removed by measures that only affect the sustentive power (see Regimen).

healing

The restoration of health following the initial action of the remedial agent (cure), which Hahnemann termed the counteraction (healing reaction). While the initial (curative) action is essentially imperceptible and gentle, the counteraction is what produces the various symptoms often termed an "aggravation" but which is really a temporary exacerbation(return of old symptoms or emergence of new symptoms of the same disease), followed by a restoration of balance and disappearance of the symptoms.

heilkunst

Hahnemann called his primary work the "Organon der Heilkunst." This work covers more than the law of similars (also the law of opposites), and more than the selection of remedies according to the totality of characteristic symptoms of the disease. Thus, Hahnemann used the term "Heilkunst" to refer to the application of the full range of his new medical system. While this term can be translated rather banally as "medicine" or "medical art," it has for Hahnemann the deeper meaning, as per Aphorisms 9 and 10, of the remdial art of rendering a person whole (heil), and of providing the basis for each person's spiritual unfoldment ("heil" also equates to salvation).

remediation

A remedy is something that removes a disease (law of similars and medicine proper) or imbalance (law of opposites and the realm of therapeutic regimen). Remediation, then, is the process of using a remedy in this sense. It is a translation for the German term "heilen." In the case of disease, it involves two stages: the initial action (cure) and the counter action (healing). A cure without healing, or healing without a cure does not lead to wholeness or remediation.

heilen

This is the German term that encompasses both healing and cure, and can mean either one or both depending on context. When it carries both meanings within it, it is best translated as "remediation."

law of opposites

The ancient natural law of balancing, adding where there is a deficiency or removing where there is an excess, to achieve homeostasis. If one has an arthritic condition because of a lack of water, then the cure is to supply the water; if one is sick because of drinking fluoridated water, then the cure is to stop. Such action then entrains a counteraction (healing) to restore balance in the face of the correction of the deficiency or excess.

law of similars

The ancient natural law of the destruction, annihilation of disease, based on the use of a remedial agent that will produce a similar artificial disease in a healthy person.

Arndt-Schultz Law

Developed by two Austrian researchers regarding various substances: small doses stimulate; medium doses inhibit; large doses kill.

antipathic

The relationship between a remedy and a disease which is based on the law of opposites, which can only palliate or suppress, not cure (which can only be done according to the law of similars).

tonic

In the context of disease, a disease that has a constant nature, such that there is only ever one remedy (tonic remedy) for that disease (e.g., Arnica for contusion disease). Tonic diseases (based on the German word "Stimm" or tone used by Hahnemann when talking of the engenderment of primary or idiopathic diseases) have various jurisdictions: homogenic, iatrogenic, pathogenic and ideogenic.

Dynamic School/System

The Romantic movement in Western culture and thought gave rise to the idea that neither the mystical version (there is no matter, all is spirit - Berkeley), nor the material (there is no spirit, as all is derived from the interactions of matter) was valid, nor indeed Kant's attempted grand solution (there is both spirit and matter, but we cannot know the former at all). Instead, it led to the understanding that the split in nature existed not in nature, but in man and man could pierce the veil of matter (the appearances or natura natura of Bacon) to the inner content and meaning (natura naturans), but this required a polar logic that could allow man to develop this potential within him. This polar logic is built into the universe and gives rise to apparent paradoxes, which are really dynamic polarities, meaning that one cannot exist without the other (e.g., dark and light, action and counter-action). The main thinkers in this system of thought are Goethe, Coleridge, Wilhelm Reich and Rudolf Steiner. It is within this tradition that Hahnemann is to be placed, not the vitalist movement.

Vitalist School/tradition

A movement in the 19th Century to rescue the banishment of spirit from matter by the advance of material science, by positing a theoretical "vital force" above matter, without explaining how this influences matter or is influenced by it. The vital force is an abstraction that cannot be measured and was rightly ridiculed and banished from science. Translators in the 19th and 20th Centuries mistook Hahnemann's references to the Life Principle, the Dynamis and the Life Force as being a reference to this abstract "vital force."

Anthroposophical medicine

The system of medicine based on the work and insights of Rudolf Steiner, which he himself termed an "extension of Heilkunst." It provides a deep and complex explanation of the hidden forces at play in man and nature that affect health and disease. The term comes from the term "anthropos" (man) and "sophia" (knowledge or wisdom). It provides a dynamic insight into the true physiology of man and disease.

extended Organon

The Organon that includes the Preface, the Introduction and the various works referenced by Hahnemann in the aphoristic portion of the Organon, such as Chronic Disease, and various of his occasional writings (found in the collection misnamed The Lesser Writings).

sequential treatment

Hahnemann spoke of the need to treat sequentially and anytime more than one remedy is given to treat a given patient, this entails a sequence of remedies. Hahnemann gave us a sequence for the treatment of cases that had more than one chronic miasms, for example. It also is the term used by the Swiss homeopath, Dr. Jean Elmiger, who developed the sequential treatment of tonic diseases (mainly iatrogenic) based on their sequence in time.

dual remedies

Hahnemann, based on his own experiences starting from the 4th edition of the Organon, and that mainly of Dr. Jules Aegidi and von Boeninnghausen, his closest collaborators in the 1830s, began to use two remedies in solution, each one from a different "side" of disease (meaning for a pathic and tonic disease in a patient) - simultaneity of ingestion. For political reasons, because this dual use was going to be used against him by the allopaths, Hahnemann reverted to the use of one remedy outside the initial action, but within the counteraction of of the second - simultaneity of action. This is known as the Dual Remedy Affair and has been mostly hidden and distorted in the homeopathic literature.

dual nature of disease

Disease conceptually has, as Hahnemann understood, two sides - a constant side and a variable side. Disease of a constant nature (tonic diseases) only have one remedy and can often be determined through the cause (e.g., Arnica for contusion disease or Morbillinum for measles) - homotonic prescribing. The remedy for diiseases of a variable nature (pathic diseases) can only be determined once the symptoms of the disease (counteraction) manifest in a given patient - homeopathic prescribing.

nosology

The classification of disease.

thermotic principle

Hahnemann stated that each disease has a unique "fever" or thermal disturbance, which provides a thermotic principle for disease.

orgone blanket

A means, based on the work of Wilhelm Reich, to concentrate life or orgone energy in a person for therapeutic purposes.

orgonomic medicine

The system of medicine based on the work and discoveries of Wilhelm Reich of orgone (life) energy in man and the cosmos, which has at its base the liberation of the generative (sexual) power in each person for his higher spiritual purposes.

kennen

The form of knowing that comes from the body mind (gut) through the autonomic nervous system, which we tend to call intuitive. To have deep personal knowledge based on life experience through participation.

erkennen

The higher form of kennen, that is raised out of the feeling, aesthetic realm into that of pure thought. This is the basis of artistic knowledge, and is the form of knowledge gained in provings on oneself.

homeoprophylaxis

The term used by some for the application of remedies to a healthy person to provoke an artificial disease so as to induce an immunity. This is effectively a proving, and should really be termed "homoprophylaxis" as it uses tonic remedies (usually isopathic agents or nosodes) based on the fixed relationship of such remedies with a given disease (e.g., Morbillinum and measles).

obstacle to cure

These are those practices that block the healthy, balanced flow of healing (sustentive) energy and thus interfere with the full remediation that should follow the adminstration of the curative remedy.

mesmerism

Hahnemann mentions the use of "animal magnetism" by a "mesmerist" to affect the life energy of a patient. This term comes from the use of one's own life energy (animal magnetism) by Anton Mesmer of France and is reflected in our times by various therapies, such as Reiki, Therapeutic Touch and various energy manipulations.

word	definition
regimen	The therapeutic application of the natural law of opposites to balance disturbances in the system that are not due to a disease as such, but more to faulty lifestyle, or that create what Hahnemann referred to as "obstacles to cure (of a disease)," that is, these deficiencies or excesses get in the way of a restoration of health, even after the the disease has been removed by the law of similars. It also includes those therapies that are aimed at the balancing of energy, whether of the psyche or soma, such as acupuncture, manipulative therapies (osteopathic, chiropractic, cranio-sacral), flower essences, tissue salts, drainage, detoxification, biotherapies (oligo, litho, gemmo), psychotherapy. Therapeutic regimen involves the sustentive (healing) power of the Life Force.
cure	The "annihilation" of disease (to use Hahnemann's term) through the use of a remedial agent (artificial disease) according to the law of similar resonance. This action provides what Hahnemann in Aphorism 60 terms the initial action of the remedial process and acts on the generative power of the Life Force, which is the side of the Life Force in which the initial disease agent engenders the disease. The disease, once engendered, cannot be removed by measures that only affect the sustentive power (see Regimen).
healing	The restoration of health following the initial action of the remedial agent (cure), which Hahnemann termed the counteraction (healing reaction). While the initial (curative) action is essentially imperceptible and gentle, the counteraction is what produces the various symptoms often termed an "aggravation" but which is really a temporary exacerbation(return of old symptoms or emergence of new symptoms of the same disease), followed by a restoration of balance and disappearance of the symptoms.
heilkunst	Hahnemann called his primary work the "Organon der Heilkunst." This work covers more than the law of similars (also the law of opposites), and more than the selection of remedies according to the totality of characteristic symptoms of the disease. Thus, Hahnemann used the term "Heilkunst" to refer to the application of the full range of his new medical system. While this term can be translated rather banally as "medicine" or "medical art," it has for Hahnemann the deeper meaning, as per Aphorisms 9 and 10, of the remdial art of rendering a person whole (heil), and of providing the basis for each person's spiritual unfoldment ("heil" also equates to salvation).
remediation	A remedy is something that removes a disease (law of similars and medicine proper) or imbalance (law of opposites and the realm of therapeutic regimen). Remediation, then, is the process of using a remedy in this sense. It is a translation for the German term "heilen." In the case of disease, it involves two stages: the initial action (cure) and the counter action (healing). A cure without healing, or healing without a cure does not lead to wholeness or remediation.
heilen	This is the German term that encompasses both healing and cure, and can mean either one or both depending on context. When it carries both meanings within it, it is best translated as "remediation."
law of opposites	The ancient natural law of balancing, adding where there is a deficiency or removing where there is an excess, to achieve homeostasis. If one has an arthritic condition because of a lack of water, then the cure is to supply the water; if one is sick because of drinking fluoridated water, then the cure is to stop. Such action then entrains a counteraction (healing) to restore balance in the face of the correction of the deficiency or excess.
law of similars	The ancient natural law of the destruction, annihilation of disease, based on the use of a remedial agent that will produce a similar artificial disease in a healthy person.
Arndt-Schultz Law	Developed by two Austrian researchers regarding various substances: small doses stimulate; medium doses inhibit; large doses kill.
antipathic	The relationship between a remedy and a disease which is based on the law of opposites, which can only palliate or suppress, not cure (which can only be done according to the law of similars).
tonic	In the context of disease, a disease that has a constant nature, such that there is only ever one remedy (tonic remedy) for that disease (e.g., Arnica for contusion disease). Tonic diseases (based on the German word "Stimm" or tone used by Hahnemann when talking of the engenderment of primary or idiopathic diseases) have various jurisdictions: homogenic, iatrogenic, pathogenic and ideogenic.
Dynamic School/System	The Romantic movement in Western culture and thought gave rise to the idea that neither the mystical version (there is no matter, all is spirit - Berkeley), nor the material (there is no spirit, as all is derived from the interactions of matter) was valid, nor indeed Kant's attempted grand solution (there is both spirit and matter, but we cannot know the former at all). Instead, it led to the understanding that the split in nature existed not in nature, but in man and man could pierce the veil of matter (the appearances or natura natura of Bacon) to the inner content and meaning (natura naturans), but this required a polar logic that could allow man to develop this potential within him. This polar logic is built into the universe and gives rise to apparent paradoxes, which are really dynamic polarities, meaning that one cannot exist without the other (e.g., dark and light, action and counter-action). The main thinkers in this system of thought are Goethe, Coleridge, Wilhelm Reich and Rudolf Steiner. It is within this tradition that Hahnemann is to be placed, not the vitalist movement.
Vitalist School/tradition	A movement in the 19th Century to rescue the banishment of spirit from matter by the advance of material science, by positing a theoretical "vital force" above matter, without explaining how this influences matter or is influenced by it. The vital force is an abstraction that cannot be measured and was rightly ridiculed and banished from science. Translators in the 19th and 20th Centuries mistook Hahnemann's references to the Life Principle, the Dynamis and the Life Force as being a reference to this abstract "vital force."
Anthroposophical medicine	The system of medicine based on the work and insights of Rudolf Steiner, which he himself termed an "extension of Heilkunst." It provides a deep and complex explanation of the hidden forces at play in man and nature that affect health and disease. The term comes from the term "anthropos" (man) and "sophia" (knowledge or wisdom). It provides a dynamic insight into the true physiology of man and disease.
extended Organon	The Organon that includes the Preface, the Introduction and the various works referenced by Hahnemann in the aphoristic portion of the Organon, such as Chronic Disease, and various of his occasional writings (found in the collection misnamed The Lesser Writings).
sequential treatment	Hahnemann spoke of the need to treat sequentially and anytime more than one remedy is given to treat a given patient, this entails a sequence of remedies. Hahnemann gave us a sequence for the treatment of cases that had more than one chronic miasms, for example. It also is the term used by the Swiss homeopath, Dr. Jean Elmiger, who developed the sequential treatment of tonic diseases (mainly iatrogenic) based on their sequence in time.
dual remedies	Hahnemann, based on his own experiences starting from the 4th edition of the Organon, and that mainly of Dr. Jules Aegidi and von Boeninnghausen, his closest collaborators in the 1830s, began to use two remedies in solution, each one from a different "side" of disease (meaning for a pathic and tonic disease in a patient) - simultaneity of ingestion. For political reasons, because this dual use was going to be used against him by the allopaths, Hahnemann reverted to the use of one remedy outside the initial action, but within the counteraction of of the second - simultaneity of action. This is known as the Dual Remedy Affair and has been mostly hidden and distorted in the homeopathic literature.
dual nature of disease	Disease conceptually has, as Hahnemann understood, two sides - a constant side and a variable side. Disease of a constant nature (tonic diseases) only have one remedy and can often be determined through the cause (e.g., Arnica for contusion disease or Morbillinum for measles) - homotonic prescribing. The remedy for diiseases of a variable nature (pathic diseases) can only be determined once the symptoms of the disease (counteraction) manifest in a given patient - homeopathic prescribing.
nosology	The classification of disease.
thermotic principle	Hahnemann stated that each disease has a unique "fever" or thermal disturbance, which provides a thermotic principle for disease.
orgone blanket	A means, based on the work of Wilhelm Reich, to concentrate life or orgone energy in a person for therapeutic purposes.
orgonomic medicine	The system of medicine based on the work and discoveries of Wilhelm Reich of orgone (life) energy in man and the cosmos, which has at its base the liberation of the generative (sexual) power in each person for his higher spiritual purposes.
kennen	The form of knowing that comes from the body mind (gut) through the autonomic nervous system, which we tend to call intuitive. To have deep personal knowledge based on life experience through participation.
erkennen	The higher form of kennen, that is raised out of the feeling, aesthetic realm into that of pure thought. This is the basis of artistic knowledge, and is the form of knowledge gained in provings on oneself.
homeoprophylaxis	The term used by some for the application of remedies to a healthy person to provoke an artificial disease so as to induce an immunity. This is effectively a proving, and should really be termed "homoprophylaxis" as it uses tonic remedies (usually isopathic agents or nosodes) based on the fixed relationship of such remedies with a given disease (e.g., Morbillinum and measles).
obstacle to cure	These are those practices that block the healthy, balanced flow of healing (sustentive) energy and thus interfere with the full remediation that should follow the adminstration of the curative remedy.
mesmerism	Hahnemann mentions the use of "animal magnetism" by a "mesmerist" to affect the life energy of a patient. This term comes from the use of one's own life energy (animal magnetism) by Anton Mesmer of France and is reflected in our times by various therapies, such as Reiki, Therapeutic Touch and various energy manipulations.