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Understanding the Vital Force in Homeopathy
from:There is much misapprehension about homoeopathy among physicians
as well as among the laity. Among physicians there is a feeling
that if we know the materia medica that is all that is required.
The materia medica is indeed important, and its thorough
comprehension and study is needed at all times; but unless the
homoeopathic physician has a concept of the philosophy, of the
reasons underlying the administration of the remedy, he will
never make a careful homoeopathic physician.
One of the first and foremost elements with which the
homoeopathic physician must be conversant is the different forms
of energy, for it is on this basis only that we can prescribe
homoeopathically. In Hahnemann's Organon of the Healing Art he
gives us the following:
In the healthy condition of man the spirit-like vital force, the
dynamis that animates the material body, rules with unbounded
sway and retains all the parts of the organism in admirable
harmonious vital operation as regards both sensations and
functions, so that our indwelling, reason-gifted mind can freely
employ this living, healthy instrument for the higher purposes
of our existence.
This was the first introduction to the medical world of the
rational concept of life itself.
We recognize life in three parts, the body, the mind, and the
spirit. This is a trinity, and this trinity is always present in
all life and in some form in every part of our organism. These
forces react in sympathy and are inter-dependent. (Vide Organon
43).
No organ, no tissue, no cell, no molecule, is independent of the
activities of the others, but the life of each one of these
elements is merged into the life of the whole. The unit of human
life cannot be the organ, the tissue, the cell, the molecule,
the atom, but the whole organism, the whole man.
The growth and development of each individual progress as it
draws upon the physical energy, and upon the dynamic energy as
it is manifest in the brain, and upon the spiritual energy.
These different manifestations of energy are essentially
different in their workings. The law of growth is the same in
one as in another.
The influence of this vital force on the whole organism is so
delicately adjusted and so intimately connected with every part,
that seemingly distant organs or unrelated symptoms show the
effects of any disturbance of the vital force; and no one can
prophesy what the influence may be on the part of the economy or
what direction will be taken by the manifestations in each
individual, but his vital energy will direct the course with
unerring precision.
In treating disease we are drawing upon another storehouse of
dynamic force, which acts almost synchronously with the
disturbed vital force that is in the body. The pace is similar,
the symptoms are similar. We are dealing with the similar
remedy. Dr. Boger illustrates this by the picture of the runaway
train, where an engine is sent, not in the opposite direction to
meet and combat force with force, but in the same direction,
increasing in pace until it is equal in pace to the runaway; and
it is then in a position to subdue its speed.
The action of the proven remedy is similar to the action of
disease from whatever source. Disease first must be caused by a
disturbance of the vital energy and that in itself sets in
motion a train of symptoms exhibiting an exact picture of the
way in which the vital energy is disturbed.
It is only from these pictures that we can gather an
understanding of the inner workings of the sick individual. It
is only through the careful observation of the proving of the
potencies that we can know the action of any given remedy, to
understand where it has made its impress on the vital force. The
vital force is resilient and impressions not only show forth
promptly but over a considerable period of time. As has been
seen, an understanding of the vital force is a necessity in the
practice of homeopathy. It is crucial in an understanding of
disease, and of remedy.
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