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Organon
Chronic Disease
Drug Disease
§ 260 Sixth Edition
Hence the careful investigation into such obstacles to cure is so much
the more necessary in the case of patients affected by chronic
diseases, as their diseases are usually aggravated by such noxious
influences and other disease-causing errors in the diet and regimen,
which often pass unnoticed.1
1 Coffee; fine Chinese and other herb teas; beer prepared with
medicinal vegetable substances unsuitable for the patient's state; so-
called fine liquors made with medicinal spices; all kinds of punch;
spiced chocolate; odorous waters and perfumes of many kinds; strong-
scented flowers in the apartment; tooth powders and essences and
perfumed sachets compounded of drugs; highly spiced dishes and sauces;
spiced cakes and ices; crude medicinal vegetables for soups; dishes of
herbs, roots and stalks of plants possessing medicinal qualities;
asparagus with long green tips, hops, and all vegetables possessing
medicinal properties, celery, onions; old cheese, and meats that are
in a state of decomposition, or that passes medicinal properties (as
the flesh and fat of pork, ducks and geese, or veal that is too young
and sour viands), ought just as certainly to be kept from patients as
they should avoid all excesses in food, and in the use of sugar and
salt, as also spirituous drinks, undiluted with water, heated rooms,
woollen clothing next the skin, a sedentary life in close apartments,
or the frequent indulgence in mere passive exercise (such as riding,
driving or swinging), prolonged suckling, taking a long siesta in a
recumbent posture in bed, sitting up long at night, uncleanliness,
unnatural debauchery, enervation by reading obscene books, reading
while lying down, Onanism or imperfect or suppressed intercourse in
order to prevent conception, subjects of anger, grief or vexation, a
passion for play, over-exertion of the mind or body, especially after
meals, dwelling in marshy districts, damp rooms, penurious living,
etc. All these things must be as far as possible avoided or removed,
in order that the cure may not be obstructed or rendered impossible.
Some of my disciples seem needlessly to increase the difficulties of
the patient's dietary by forbidding the use of many more, tolerably
indifferent things, which is not to be commended.
§ 261
The most appropriate regimen during the employment of medicine in
chronic diseases consists in the removal of such obstacles to
recovery, and in supplying where necessary the reverse: innocent moral
and intellectual recreation, active exercise in the open air in almost
all kinds of weather (daily walks, slight manual labor), suitable,
nutritious, unmedicinal food and drink, etc.
§ 262
In acute diseases, on the other hand - except in cases of mental
alienation - the subtle, unerring internal sense of the awakened life-
preserving faculty determines so clearly and precisely, that the
physician only requires to counsel the friends and attendants to put
no obstacles in the way of this voice of nature by refusing anything
the patient urgently desires in the way of food, or by trying to
persuade him to partake of anything injurious.
§ 263
The desire of the patient affected by an acute disease with regard to
food and drink is certainly chiefly for things that give palliative
relief: they are, however, not strictly speaking of a medicinal
character, and merely supply a sort of want. The slight hindrances
that the gratification of this desire, within moderate bounds, could
oppose to the radical removal of the disease1 will be amply
counteracted and overcome by the power of the homoeopathically suited
medicine and the vital force set free by it, as also by the
refreshment that follows from taking what has been so ardently longed
for. In like manner, in acute diseases the temperature of the room and
the heat or coolness of the bed-coverings must also be arranged
entirely in conformity with the patients' wish. He must be kept free
from all over-exertion of mind and exciting emotions.
1 This is, however, rare. Thus, for instance, in pure inflammatory
diseases, where aconite is so indispensable, whose action would be
destroyed by partaking of vegetable acids, the desire of the patient
is almost always for pure cold water only.
Post by rpautrey2What role does the homeopathic diet/guidelines (Organon,Chronic
Diseases,Lesser Writings:Hahnemann,Lesser Writings:Boenninghausen,etc)
play in a homeopathic treatment plan?