MATERIA MEDICA PURA

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MATERIA MEDICA PURA
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MATERIA MEDICA PURA By Samuel Hahnemann

• MATERIA MEDICA PURA(LATIN) or REINE
  ARZNEIMITTELLEHRE (GERMAN) is one of the most
  important source book of homoeopathic materia
  medica .
• The first edition of this invaluable contribution
  by Dr Samuel Hahnemann was published from 1811
  to 1821.1st edition has 6 volumes.

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• Vol 1- 12 medicines 6 new and 6 old, in
  1811.(Bell,Dul, Cin,CanSat,Cocc,Nux,Op,Mosch,Olean
  ,Mer,Acon,Arn)
• Vol 2- 8 medicines 3 magnets ,
  1816.(Caust,Ars,Fer,Ign,Magnes, Magnes north
  pole, Magnes south pole ,Puls,Rheum,Rhus,Bry)
• Vol 3-8 medicines , 1817.(Cham,Cin,Hell,Asar,Ipeca
  c,Scilla,Starm,Verat alb)
• Vol 4-12 medicines , 1818.(Hyos,Dig,Aur,Guaic,Camp
  ,Led,Rut,Sars,Con,Cheild,Sulph,Argen)
• Vol 5- 11 medicines, 1819.(Euphr,Meny,Cycl,Samb,Ca
  l acet, Mur acid, Thuj,Tarax, Phosp
  acid,Spig,Staph)
• Vol 6- 10 medicines , 1821.,(Angust,Mang,Cap,Verba
  sc,Coloc,Spong,Dros,Bis,Cic,Stann)

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• It consisted of 64 medicines (22 medicines from
  fragmenta)
• 37 provers. Some occur comparatively rarely, but,
  some with great frequency. Eg. Franz, Gross,
  Hahnemanns son Freidrich, Hartmann, Herrmann,
  Hornburg, Langhammer, Ruckert, Staph,Of the few
  exceptions of this rule.1) Langhammers symptoms
  both mental and moral.This prover deformed in
  body and unfortunate in his circumstances, was so
  depressed and altogether morbid in his
  disposition that his psychical state could at no
  time be fairly ascertained to the medicine he was
  taking. His moral symptoms are of very similar
  character under every drug he proved..

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• 2) Staphs Erotic Symptoms Von Gersdroffs
  flatuosities should be taken with caution
  .Proving has been made up on persons in perfect
  health, living in a contentment and comparative
  ease. When an extraordinary circumstance of any
  kind for eg., fright, chagrin, external injuries,
  excessive enjoyment, of any pleasure, or some
  event of great importance supervened during the
  proving, then no symptoms were recorded.When
  they were of mild variety (slight importance) the
  symptoms have been placed (-thus informing the
  reader hat they could not be considered
  decisively genuine) in brackets.. No information
  of dose and mode of administration

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Second edition

• Vol 1- 1822.
• Vol 2- 1824
• Vol 3 4- 1825.
• Vol 5-1826
• Vol 6-1827
• 66 medicines 3 new remedies (carbo animalis,
  carbo veg ambergris in 6th vol)

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• In the first edition the volumes contain no
  contributions from the fellow provers. But, when
  these medicines appear in the second edition,
  their pathogenesis have been freely supplied from
  fellow provers and largely augmented accordingly.
  We can see that names of about 37 provers of
  which some occur comparatively rarely, but some
  with great frequency.all medicines except 13 have
  citations from authors.Medicines with citations
  are observations of poisioning and over dosing.

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Third edition

• 2 volumes 1830 1833.
• 67 medicines First vol-37 medicines second vol
  30 medicines. Medicine as before, Causticum
  transferred to Die Chronischen Krankheiten.The
  chief change that has taken place has been the
  amalgamation of all symptoms of Hahnemanns own
  observations with those of others in to one
  continuous schema. Pathogenesis increased in most
  instances.More additions of symptoms 30-40
  symptoms which are Hahnemanns and his
  observations on sick. More number of fresh
  provings.

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• The present edition is the third edition.It is
  translated from the latest German editions by R.
  E. Dudgeon, M.D. With annotations by Richard
  Hughes LRCPE.  This work consists of 2 volumes.
  . The essays scattered among the six volumes were
  divided into two and put as preface in two
  volumes. Published by B Jain publishers Pvt.
  Ltd. New Delhi.

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Contents of volume 1

• Translators preface.
• Preface by author
• Spirit of the Homeopathic Medical Doctrine
• Preamble
• Total 37 drugs ( from Aconite to Ipecac ) No. of
  pages 718 . 

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Contents of volume 2

• Nota Bene For my Reviewers
• Examination of the sources of the common materia
  medica
• A Reminiscence
• The medical observer a fragment
• The power of small dose of homeopathic medicine.
  Total 30 drugs ( ledum to verbascum ) No. of
  pages -- 709
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Translators preface

• The materia medica pura as left to us by
  Hahnemann consist of six  volumes, two of which (
  vol 1 2 ) had reached a third edition ,while
   the remainder did not get beyond the second .
  Dates of publication of these volumes are
  Volume 1 -- 1830. Volume 2 -- 1833. Volume 3
  4 -- 1825. Volume 5 -- 1826. Volume 6 1827.
  Earlier editions, the pathogenesis of the
  various medicines not arranged in the same way as
  they are in the latest .  

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• Thus in the former editions -- Hahnemanns
  observations are put first, separately numbered
  the symptoms observed by his disciples under his
  superintendence and those derived from the work
  of other observers being arranged together in a
  different list and specially numbered .   In
  the third edition, to which only the first two
  volumes attained, the arrangement is different.
  Here all the symptoms of each medicine whether
  observed by Hahnemann himself or his disciples or
  taken from the old school authorities are
  combined in one schema and numbered continuously.
  

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• Hahnemanns own observations being distinguished
  by having no name or sign attached, while those
  of his pupils are indicated by an abbreviation of
  the name of each appended to their respective
  observations. The authorities of the old school
  are named after the symptom for which they are
  responsible.   Another peculiarity in the work,
  as it has been left to us, is that the medicines
  are not arranged alphabetically. Each volume
  contain a varying number of medicines, arranged
  alphabetically according to their common German
  names, but there is no attempt to maintain the
  alphabetical arrangement in respect to the whole
  work.    

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• If the work had been translated as such (German
  original), this would give 6 volumes of various
  sizes and their contents differently arranged. It
  would reproduce the work as it exists in the
  German original, but it would like that, be
  difficult to use as a book of reference and if
  the minor details of the German work were also
  preserved it would involve a considerable
  additional amount of printing without any
  advantage there from.

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MERITS OF TRANSLATED WORK

•  Medicines arranged alphabetically, according to
  their English latin names symptoms arranged in
  the plan adopted in the latest editions.
• To give out the work in two handsome volume of
  equal size. (Instead of publishing the work in
  six volumes of very unequal size, with no general
  alphabetical arrangement of the medicines.)
• Greater utility and literary homogeneity of the
  work.
• 4.Hahnemanns abbreviations of his provers name
  are not always the same, but uniformity has been
  maintained in this translation

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PLAN ADOPTED FOR THE WORK (Translation)

• The essays distributed throughout the original
  volume have been divided between the two volume
  of the translation, so as to form appropriate
  prefaces to each. The alteration introduced by
  Hahnemann in his latest editions with regard to
  the indication of the name of the prover by an
  abbreviation has been extended to all the
  medicines in this translation These abbreviations
  are printed in italics.  The names of old school
  authorities for symptoms are printed in small
  capitals can see it at a glance by the student
  or a casual reader, whether the symptom is one
  produced by an intentional proving, or is the
  result of the generally accidental poisoning or
  over dose of an old school observer.  

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• As in the original, the symptoms with no name or
  abbreviation appended are those observed by
  Hahnemann himself. Subjoined is a list of
  Hahnemanns fellow provers, the abbreviation of
  their names employed in this work and the
  medicines proved by each.
• Eg Stapf , Ernst ---- Stf ( acon, ars, arn,
  asr, bel, bry, cam, can, cha, chi,gui,
  hel,mt-n,men, mer,mu-x,oln,phx,rut,sam,sar,spi,spo
  ,squ,stn,stp,thu,vrb) Adam, DrAd(cb-a, cb-v)
  Hempel, H - - - -Hpl.(bell)

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• Of these provers ADAM was a Russian physician.VON
  GERSDORFF a nobleman residing in
  Eisenach,Nenning a surgeon who furnished many of
  the symptoms of materia medica of Hartlaub and
  Trinks , from whose work Hahnemann took some
  symptoms, Indicated by the abbreviation of their
  names Hb, Ts , either singly or conjointly. The
  remainders of the provers are more properly
  Hahnemanns own disciples. Most, if not all of
  these provers were medical men many of them well
  known as eminent practitioners of homeopathy, and
  some distinguished by their valuable
  contributions to Homoeopathic literature.

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• Many of the symptoms have the time of occurrence
  after taking the medicine. This is indicated by
  contractions between brackets. Here m means
  minutes, h hours and d days. This is not the
  first English translation of Hahnemanns Materia
  Medica Pura. In 1846
• Dr. Hempel published a translation. But as Dr.
  Hughes has pointed out, Hempels translation is
  extremely imperfect.  
• Later Dr.Quin translated Materia Medica. The
  first volume was completed and printed, but was
  destroyed by a fire at printing press. The only
  copy saved is in the library of British
  Homoeopathic Society. It has neither preface nor
  even a title page. The first volume is translated
  from the second edition. But, the medicines it
  contains do not altogether correspond with the
  original. The arrangement of symptoms is not that
  of Hahnemenn.

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• The present is the first attempt to give a
  faithful and complete English translation of the
  latest editions of the work. Dr. Hughes helped in
  this work. He has done the careful revision of
  the proof sheets and has given numerous
  suggestions of improved versions of the original
  , where by both the faithfulness and readableness
  of the translation have been greatly improved.  
  It is of course, impossible to render exactly
  into English the expressions peculiar to the
  German language or to give an exact translation
  of every word. So the translator has given the
  English equivalents for German phrases where such
  exist or to give English expressions that most
  nearly correspond with the German originals.    
  

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• There are certain German words and phrases used
  by Hahnemann, for which we have no precise
  English equivalent. Sometimes two totally
  different things are expressed by one English
  word only.

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• For eg   The German Hals used for both
  throat and neck. Brust either chest or mammae.
  Fuss -- denotes foot, sometimes leg upto knees,
  sometimes the whole lower extremities. Schenkel
  thigh, sometimes leg, occasionally the whole
  lower limb . Schooss the groin or iliac region
  occasionally the whole hypogastrium. Gesicht --
  sight or face. Druckend pressive sometime
  aching. And it is not always easy to determine
  which English equivalent should be used, no hard
  and fast rule can be adopted and the translator
  must determine from the context or sometimes from
  his inner consciousness which translation
  should be employed.   As a rule druckend,
  followed by auf or an must mean pressive,
  whereas if followed by in it probably means
  aching.

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• Forwards by Hughes who assisted Dr. Dudgeon in
  this work   Hughes refers to the Hahnemanns
  quotations from authors. These are absent from
  few of his pathogenesis and in many are very
  numerous , so as to number in the whole material
  medica pura upwards to4000. It is obvious that
  no new editions of a work so full of citations
  can be satisfactory, which does not examine these
  in their originals for purpose of verification
  and of correction ( if necessary ) . Therefore to
  make this translation of the Materia Medica Pura
  as accurate as possible, it should be desirable
  that all the citations contained in this work
  should be verified from their original sources
  and renewed from thence. It often adds to the
  value of a symptom that, we should know the
  object and circumstances of its occurrence, the
  dose by which it was produced and so forth
  Hahnemann rarely gives such information.

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• We long for the daybooks of the experiments,
  which gave us these, in the case of the cited
  symptom we have them. On the first mention of any
  authority in each pathogenesis, he has stated the
  nature of his observations, and to each symptom
  that has required it, he has appended such
  explanations and corrections as might be
  necessary to set it forth in its full meaning and
  value. All these matter will be found in the
  notes at the bottom of the pages, designated by
  small figures 1, 2, etc and divided by a line
  from Hahnemanns own annotations which have the
  usual , , c.  

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AUTHORS PREFACE From volume 1, 3rd edition 1830

• It gives a detailed amount of the futile
  endeavors hither to made to determine the powers
  of medicines from their colour, taste, and smell.
  It shows how chemistry has been applied to, in
  order by wet and dry distillation to extract from
  medicinal substances phlegma, ethereal oils,
  empyreumatic acids and oils, volatile salts and
  from the residuary caput mortum fixed salts
  and earths call nearly identical with one
  another. It is well known that not a single one
  of the innumerable medicinal substances, in spite
  of all these technical torturing could be brought
  to reveal what sort of healing power it was
  possessed of. Certainly the material substances
  extracted from them were not the spirit animating
  every single substance which enable it cure
  certain morbid stages. This spirit could not be
  laid hold of by the hands it can only be
  recognized by its effects on the living body.

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• Hahnemann criticizes the old school prescription
  of different drugs in combinations and says that
  the day of true knowledge of medicine and of the
  true healing art will dawn when physicians shall
  trust the cure of complete cases of disease to a
  single medicinal substance, and when regardless
  of traditional systems they will employ for the
  extinction and cure of a case of disease, whose
  symptom they have investigated, one single
  medicinal substance whose positive effects they
  have ascertained, which can show among these
  effects a group of symptoms very similar to those
  presented by the case of disease.

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• He also quotes that among the observations from
  extraneous sources in the following pages are
  some which were observed in patients, these
  observations are not altogether valueless, at all
  events they serve occasionally to confirm similar
  or identical symptoms that may appear in pure
  experiments on the healthy.

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• In Hahnemanns own experiments and those of his
  disciples, every possible care was taken to
  ensure their purity, in order that the true
  powers of each medicinal substance might be
  clearly expressed in the observed effects. They
  were performed on persons as healthy as possible
  and under regulated external conditions as nearly
  as possible alike. If during the experiments some
  extra ordinary circumstances from without
  happened which might be supposed to be capable of
  altering the results, from that time, no symptoms
  in the experiment was registered, they were
  rejected.

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• Hahnemann says that duration of action of
  medicine can be learned only from experiments on
  the healthiest possible persons. The very small
  doses prescribed by Homeopathy produce the
  uncommon effect, they do just because they are
  not so large as to render it necessary for the
  organism to get rid of them by the revolutionary
  process of evacuations, in cases of disease where
  the remedy has been unsuitably and not accurately
  homeopathically chosen.

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• Hahnemann mentions Organon of Medicine and say
  that men who has understood this will perceive
  that if a work on materia medica can reveal the
  precise qualities of medicines, it must be one
  from which all mere assumption and empty
  speculations about reputed qualities of drugs are
  excluded and which only records what medicines
  express concerning their true mode of action in
  the symptoms they produce in the human body. The
  dynamically acting medicines extinguish diseases
  only in accordance with the similarity of their
  symptoms.

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  The usual order of symptoms produced by a
remedy is arranged as follows --

• Vertigo, Confusion,Deficient mental power,Loss of
  memory Headache internal, external, Forehead,
  hair, Face in general vultus , Eyes and sight(
  Visus ), Ears hearing ,Nose, smell, Lips, Chin ,
  Lower jaw , Teeth, Tongue (impediments to speech)
  ,Saliva Internal throat, Fauces, oesophagus,
  Taste, Eructation , heartburn, hiccough,
  Nausea,Vomiting ,Desire for food and drink ,
  hunger ,Scorbiculus cordis eStomach Abdomen
  epigastrium hepatic region hypochondria
  ,Hypogastrium , Lumbar region ,Groin, inguinal
  region ,Rectum anusperineum ,Alvine evacuation,
  Urine, bladder, urethra, Genital organs, Sexual
  desire, Sexual power, emission of semen,Menstrual
  flux, leucorrhoea, Sneezing, coryza, catarrh,
  hoarseness,Cough , Breathing,Chest, Hearts
  movements, Sacral region, lumbar vertebra ,Back,

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• Scapulae,Nape,External throat, Shoulders ( axilla
  ) ,Arms, hands, Hips, pelvis,Buttocks,Thighs,
  legs, feet General corporeal sufferings and
  cutaneous affection, Sufferings from open air
  ,Exhalations , temperature of the body ,
  disposition to catch cold, sprains, paroxysms ,
  Convulsions, paralysis, weakness, fainting ,
  Yawning, sleepiness, slumber, sleep, nocturnal
  ailments, dreams , Fever, chill, heat,
  perspiration , Anxiety, palpitation of heart,
  restlessness, trembling , Disturbances of the
  disposition, affections of the mind .

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• In footnote it is mentioned that this order of
  symptoms is not always preserved the mental
  symptoms are sometimes placed at the end of the
  list of symptoms . the incovience of separating
  mental and emotional symptoms is tacticly
  acknowledged by Hahnemann , as he places them
  together in chronic diseases. 

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SPIRIT OF THE HOMEOPATHIC MEDICAL DOCTRINE

• From volume 2 , 3rd edition 1833, this essay
  appeared in a journal in March 1813, but these
  words were not listened to  In this section
  Hahnemann says that it is impossible to
  understand internal essential nature of diseases
  and the changes they produce in hidden parts of
  the body and also that it is absurd to frame a
  system of treatment on such hypothetical surmises
  and assumptions. It is also impossible to derive
  the medicinal properties of remedies from any
  chemical hypothesis or from their smell, colour,
  or taste and it is useless to attempt from such
  hypothetical surmises and assumption, to apply to
  the treatment of diseases these substances which
  are so hurtful when wrongly administered.
• For the removal of all morbid symptoms nothing
  remains but health.he explains different modes of
  treatment i.e. allopathy,antiopathy homoeopathy.
  He also explains predisposition,susceptibility,
  natures law of cure importance of small doses.

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PREAMBLE

• From volume 2, 3rd edition 1833   In
  Homeopathy the treatment is not directed towards
  imaginary or invented internal causes of the
  disease, not yet towards names of diseases
  invented by man of which nature knows nothing. As
  every case of non-miasmatic disease is a distinct
  individuality, independent, peculiar, a complex
  of symptoms always differing in nature, so
  inorder to effect a cure we should take every
  aggregate of morbid symptoms as complete as can
  be met within any single known drug.
• Hahnemann refers to organon of medicine for
  directions applied in practice.the physician
  should contribute by proving drug on himself to
  ascertain the dynamic and curative power of
  drug.  Without this investigation to know the
  pure pathogenetic action on the healthy
  individual all treatment of disease will continue
  to be not only foolish but also a criminal
  action, a dangerous attack upon human life.

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• Regarding the experimenter if he suffer from
  slight ailments during these provings of the
  powers of medicines, then these symptoms should
  be placed in brackets, there by indicating that
  they are not confirmed or dubious. But this will
  not often happen, being that during the action
  upon a previously healthy person of a sufficient
  strong dose of the medicine, he is under the
  influence of the medicine alone and it is seldom
  that any other symptom can show itself during the
  first days. In order to investigate the
  symptoms of medicine for chronic diseases for
  e.g. in order to develop the cutaneous diseases
  we must not be contended with taking one or two
  doses of it only, but continue its use for
  several days to the amount of two adequate doses
  daily to experience an action from it and also
  should continue to observe the diet and regimen.
   

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• The mode of preparing the medicinal substances
  for homeopathic treatment will be found in the
  5th edition of organon of medicine aphorism 269
  291 and also in the second part of the chronic
  diseases. For the proving of medicines on healthy
  individuals, dilutions and dynamization are to
  employed as high as are used for the treatment of
  diseases, namely globules moistened with the
  decillionth development of power.   The
  symptoms obtained from proving should be
  questioned repeatedly to ascertain the exactness
  of their sensations and sufferings and to
  ascertain with exactness the conditions under
  which the symptoms occurred. Diet should be
  regulated and the prover should be free of mental
  tensions, in order to be able to observe the
  alterations .In their health purely and obviously
  due to the medicines taken. Hahnemann also
  details 2 examples of homoeopathic cure by
  Bryonia Pulsatilla.  By conducting the trials
  in this manner, we become careful, sensitive
  observers and if with this combine pure moral
  conduct and the acquisition of other useful
  branches of knowledge we will become proficient
  in the healing art.

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Volume-2
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NOTE BENE FOR MY REVIEWERS

• Hahnemann adds these paragrapgh to show how much
  enmity the better healing art had to endure from
  the allopathic doctors up to the year 1817.
• On the beginning of the note Hahnemann points
  several unfair criticisms he met on the 2nd part
  of Materia Medica Pura especially on the essay
  spirit of homeopathic medical doctrine and
  provides a strong reply.
• In the foot note Hahnemann criticizes for
  printing homopathy and homopathic in place of
  homoeopathic and homoeopathy as these 2 are
  having two different meanings , one means common
  , identical the same and the other similar.
  And redicules that the critics should have some
  idea of the meaning of the word homoeopathy.
• Hahnemann advices to repeat the experiments
  carefully and accurately to find the doctrine
  confirmed at every step.The homoeopathic medical
  doctrine will stand out in more prominent relief
  appear to great advantage against the foil of
  this nonsense and will dispel the nocturnal
  darkness of antiquated stupidities for it teaches
  how to afford certain benefit in diseases.

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Examination of the Sources of the Common Materia
Medica

• 1 The first source of the MM (Dioscorides
  reechoed by his successors )is mere guesswork and
  fiction, which set forth the general therapeutic
  virtues of drugs. These substances are resolvent,
  deodstruent, diuretic, diaphoretic, emmenagogue,
  sedative, antispasmodics, cathartic etc.
• Hahnemann describes the highly commendable ways
  (quoting egs of Kampfs clysters and use of
  calomel) in which a medicine is raised to the
  undeserved honour of being a resolvent,
  deobstruent.2. The second source of virtue of
  drugs in the Materia Medica is their sensible
  properties from which their action may be
  inferred. Hahnemann critizes the doctrine of
  signatureEg. 1) Testicle Shaped Orchis root to
  restore the manly vigour.2) Phallus Impudicus to
  strengthen weak erections.3) Yellow Turmeric to
  cure jaundice.3

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• 3. The third source is by Chemistry by
  Geofroy.To attain the knowledge of real pure
  action of remedies on the human frame by means of
  vegetable and animal chemistry. Animal chemistry
  can merely separate from animal substances such
  inanimate matters as show a different chemical
  action with chemical reagents. Chemical
  constituents shown by vegetable chemistry to
  exist in plants also act in the same way. Thus,
  chemistry can only give chemical information with
  respect to medicinal substances. But, cannot tell
  what spiritual dynamic changes they are capable
  of affecting in the health of the human being.

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• 4. The fourth source The most common of all the
  sources.It is the clinical and special
  therapeutic indications for employment in the
  ordinary material medica, namely the employment
  of medicines in actual diseases where by it was
  imagined that information could be obtained with
  respect to the diseases in which the different
  medicines are useful.
• 5. By accident. These specific cannot be always
  because the diseases were not constant in their
  nature.
• 6. Testing experimentally their pure effects
  which form the pure materia medica.

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A REMINISCENCE(from vol, iv, 2nd edition,
1825_)

• The actual morbid state was attributed to
  pathology by the old school of medicines and it
  was given special names and recorded in
  nosological works. For these specially named
  diseases they gave special modes of treatment and
  this constituted science of therapeutics.Diseases
  are nothing more than alterations of the sound,
  normal state of health, manifested by signs and
  symptoms. So, the honest physician should
  investigate the peculiar character of the disease
  before him in order to restore the patient with
  certainty. The simple natural way alone remains
  for us to ascertain with certainty the power of
  medicines to healthy individuals. Such a medicine
  will never fail to cure the disease

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THE MEDICAL OBSERVER

• The medeical observer is taken from volIV, 2ND
  edition , 1825. In this Hahnemann explains In
  order to be able to observe well, the medical
  practitioner requires to possess the capacity and
  habit of noticing carefully and correcting the
  phenomena that take place in natural diseases as
  well as those that occur in the morbid states
  artificially exited by medicines when they are
  tested upon the healthy body and the ability to
  describe them in the most appropriate and natural
  expressions. The duty of the observer is only to
  take notice of the phenomena and their course
  his attention should be on the watch , not only
  that nothing actually present escape his
  observation,but also what he observes he
  understood exactly as it is.

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HOW CAN SMALL DOSES OF SUCH VERY ATTENUATED
MEDICINES AS HOMOEOPATHY EMPLOYS STILL POSSESS
GREAT POWER.

• When a small portion of medicine is added to
  water or alcohol, it liberates the dynamic powers
  of the medicine by means of succussion or
  trituration. Every part should contain an equal
  portion of the drop of medicine.This effect is
  developed by friction by which not only the
  internal physical properties are roused but also
  the dynamic medicinal powers are released.

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SCHEME OF ARRANGEMENT IN EACH MEDICINE

• 1) Name of the drug Common Name / Latin
  Name.2) Brief description of its preparation
  its part used, its properties, poisonous effects
  etc.3) Names of Hahnemanns disciples who
  assisted him in the proving of drugs.Eg. Abner,
  Gross, Staph, Frederic Hahnemann, Ruckert senior,
  Stapf,Whale in AconiteAuthorities of traditional
  medicines quoted by Hahnemann for the recorded
  effects of the drugs.Eg. Abano,Pet. De, De
  Venenis, cap.30, 1496.
• Bacon, Vinc.,philosoph. Transacxtions, xxxviii.
• Durr , hufel journ.,ix, 4 etc from Aconite
• 4) The number of symptoms the drug has in
  fragmenta de viribus,first,second third edition
  of Materia medica pura5) Name of the drug in
  capital.6) Order of Symptoms.

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