LECTURES ON HOMOEOPATHIC PHILOSOPHY BY JAMES TYLER KENT
- The old school of Allopathy considered about sickness' and
medicine' in a particular way.
- The sphere of sickness was limited to the physical level.
Only tissue changes were seen and considered.
- The source of sickness, process of sickness, the nature of
sickness and the concept of real health were not studied.
- Only the result of sickness was felt with fingers, seen
with eyes and observed by sense through instruments.
- The meaning of restoration of health was confined to relief
in the ailments of particular organs where they appeared.
- Drugs were used in crude forms to remove the ailments.
- The system was based entirely on experience. Decisions were
made on opinions of individuals at different times and concensus of opinions or hypothesis.
- Pathological findings formed the basis of the diagnosis.
- The internal of man his mental and emotional aspects were
not considered.
- Symptoms the language of sickness, at the levels of
mind, emotion and body were not studied.
- Every pathological result had its corresponding bacteria.
- Doctrine of Vital Force had no place for them.
- Prime importance was given to the organs of man, and not
to the man himself which constituted of body mind and emotions.
Will and understanding of man not studied and considered
Homoeopathic Philosophy
Dr. Hahnemann proved the drugs on healthy enlightened human bodies. He found that the drugs affected the mind, the emotions and the body and the effects are expressed through symptoms and modalities. He also found that these drugs in potency are able to remove Similar Sickness appearing in human beings. He discovered an Universal Truth; a truth based on science' where opinions do not matter, experiences do not form basis; source of sickness, process of sickness and the nature of sickness is explored and the correct curative agent is found.
Dr. Kent has interpreted and explained the various aspects of Hahnemann's "Organon of the Healing Art". His lectures are so vivid that they mirror the fundamental laws of health and healing to the mankind at all levels of understanding. This book was written about 90 years ago-but still, the concepts hold true in the present times. He was an empirical Hahnemannian. He could not compromise with the deviation from principles and philosophy and we find his criticism sometimes sharp and bitter of Pseudo-homoeopaths'.
Keynotes Of Philosophy
- Man is the will and the understating and the house which
he lives in is his body.
- The organs are not the man. The man is prior to the organs.
- The order of sickness as well as the order of cure is
from man to his organs. The real sick man is prior to the sick body.
- A man is sick prior to localization of disease. When we
wait for localization, the results of disease have rendered the patient incurable.
- Symptoms are but the language of nature, talking out, as
it were, and showing as clearly as the daylight, the internal nature of the sickman or woman.
- Crude drugs cannot heal the sick and that what changes they
effect are not real but only apparent.
- Tissue changes are of the body and are the results of the
disease, they are not the disease.
- The bacteria are results of the disease. The disease cause
is more subtle.
- The remedy, which will produce on healthy man similar
symptoms, is the master of the situation, is the necessary antidote, will overcome the sickness, restore the will and understanding to order and cure the patient.
- Man consists in what he thinks and what he loves and there
is nothing else in man.
- The physician has to perceive' in the disease that which
is to be cured, and that is through totality of symptoms'. He has to perceive the nature of disease and the nature of the remedy.
- Experience has only a confirmatory place. It cannot take
the place of science and truth.
- All true diseases of the economy flow from centre to
circumference. All miasms are true diseases.
- The active cause is within, and the apparent cause of
sickness is without. If a man has no deep miasmatic influence, outer causes will not affect him.
- Homoeopathy has two parts: the science of homoeopathy are
the art of homoeopathy. One has to learn the art of homoeopathy to prepare himself for the application of the science of homoeopathy.
- Vital force is constructive and formative, and in its thing
in the universe has its aura. Every star and planet has it. The remedy to be homoeopathic must be similar in quality and similar in action to the disease cause.
- As soon as the internal economy is deprived in any manner of
its freedom, death is threatening; where freedom is lost, death is sure to follow.
- Potency should suit the varying susceptibility of sickman.
- Any more than just enough to supply the susceptibility is a
surplus and is dangerous.
- Human race has been greatly disordered in the economy
because of surplus drug taking.
- Primitive cause is not in the bacteria. Bacteria themselves
have a cause to appear and survive.
- Over sensitive patients are actually poisoned by the
inappropriate administration of potentized medicines.
- Their chronic miasms are complicated with chronic drugging
and its effect upon the vital force.
- The physician who can only hold in his memory the symptoms
of a disease or a remedy will never succeed as a homoeopath.
- The majority of such as call themselves homoeopaths at
the present time, are perfectly incompetent to examine a patient, and therefore incompetent to examine homoeopathy.
- It is impossible to test homoeopathy without learning how
to get the disease image so before the eyes that the homoeopathic remedy can be selected.
- At the present day, there is almost no such thing as an
unprejudiced mind.
- Do not prescribe until you have found the remedy that is
similar to the whole case, even although it is clear in your mind that one remedy may be more similar to one particular group of symptoms and another remedy to another group.
- It is unaccountable, therefore, that some of our
homoeopathic practitioners make use of palliatives that are so detrimental to the patients.