Philosophy of Holistic Medicine: The Law of Cure.

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Hering's law of cure. By Dr Roger Schmidt Presented by Sylvain Cazalet Dr C. Hering [Hering's law of cure has been verified by not only homeopaths but also ayurveds, naturopaths and energy healers. This suggests that the body is subject to certain laws that governs its

working as a whole. I have dealt with this cursorily in my article, "The Dynamics of Disease", which is available in the net at http://www.jcrows.com/ayurvedic.html . Herings law, in a nutshell, stipulates that there is a DIRECTION OF CURE. With this knowledge the physician can be sure whether he has really benefitted the patient or only made him worse despite a reduction in the severety of symptoms. Says Hering, the cure proceeds; 1. From top to bottom. A symptom or a set of symptoms may slide down. What appeared on the head may go to the chest, then the abdomen, then the

legs before going away entirely. 2. From within to outward. The problem may leave the innards of the body and surface on the skin, nails, hair, and/or mucous membranes before disappearing. If the patient has an ulcer in the abdomen, during the treatment if the patient suddenly develops a profuse discharge of any of the mucous membranes, or develops a scary rash, then the direction is towards a cure. In such a case the subsequent acute manifestation should not be disturbed and must be allowed to take its course. 3. Backwards in time. The present symptom may be replaced by what has taken place prior to it, moving backwards the way it developed. For example a kidney failure patient may go back to his cardiac

manifestation, then the severe abdominal complaints he may have suffered earlier may resurface. Then the eczema or psoriasis that was suppressed earlier may recur which when treated holistically, or by continuing the present method of treatment will cure the patient. 4. From the more important organ to a less important one. As stated above the affected kidney may heal with the disease going to the heart, then the liver, the abdomen, then the skin before affecting a cure. A mental symptom like anxiety may be relieved as the disease takes hold of a physical organ and then moving on from the more vital organ to the less important one. A word of caution here. Merely going to a practitioner who uses holistic remedies

will not result in a cure as stated above. The practitioner must be aware of the DYNAMICS OF HEALING and must be a master in both the philosophy, art and the techniques of his science of healing. Both philosophy and practice must travel hand in hand. During the course of treatment the experienced physician enters the realm of the patient and both get transported to a plane which facilitates the healing. The intuition of the doctor and the expression of the patient as to what ails him are the fundamentals without which cure is an illusion. Disease per se may not be bad in a healthy person. The law of cure is not peculiar to the physicians efforts but is characteristic of the body's function. An accumulation of waste in the body may find relief from a sudden diarhhoea or a profuse cold. At such times rest and a simple diet will relieve the symptoms

and the patient emerges feeling better than ever, cured of ennui. An emergency may thus be averted by the action of the body alone. What ought to be treated and what may grow worse from an external intrusion is a decision that only a knowledgeable and sincere physician well versed in the art of healing can make. Detoxification is the primary aim of the body. Detoxification is the primary aim of the health conscious individual and the trained physician. The aim is the same, only the practices resorted to may be different. The body-mind energy complex is the best healer and its collective role should be a subject of close scrutiny for every physician. Now please read on from the excerpts of an article I found on the net. I have given a link to an excellent

power point presentation at the bottom of the article. For the reader who wishes to delve deeper into the subject, "Lectures on Homoeopathic Philosophy" by James Tyler Kent would be a great beginning.- Jagannath] For a series of facts and phenomena to be the object of a science, they must be united by real connections, submissive rules, principles and fixed laws. The scientific mind invents neither facts, nor their relations of causality any more than their laws and principles. Its mission consists in investigating, discovering 'them' and establishing them on a basis as solid as possible. Repeated observations and experimentation, which is only observation applied to artificially produced relations of causality, establish the reality of these facts

on the firm basis of experience. When the relations of causality are permanent and invariable the existence of positive laws may be concluded from them. As empirically found out facts, relations of causality have too, their raison d'être. They derive from more general laws and have their principles. Leading up to these principles, in so far as they can be positively established, is the highest mission of science. On the limit of these positive principles, experimental sciences stop. If we exceed that limit, we enter the domestic domain of philosophy, the domain of primary and metaphysical causes. No scientific man should remain a stranger to this domain. Willingly or not, those limits are constantly exceeded ; as the search for principles is imposed upon the human mind by its very nature. The reality of the relations of causality, of the principles of laws and the possibility of proving them by observation, are the first condition of every true science. Another and quite as necessary condition is the fixity of those laws. What makes the strength and superiority of homœopathic therapeutics is that it rests on precise and fixed (LAWS and PRINCIPLES. Beside our great law SIMILIA SIMILIBUS CURANTUR) which forms the solid basis of the Hahnemannian doctrine, there exists a secondary one little known : THE LAW OF CURE. Constantine Hering had the merit of formulating for the first time the law of the direction of symptoms, i. e. : From above downwards. From

within outwards. From a more important organ to a less important one. In the reverse order of their coming. Dr James Tyler Kent I have been unable to find the original work, J. T. Kent in his Lectures on Homœopathic Philosophy and Lesser Writings speaks of Hering and of the modus operandi of cure. Stuart Close likewise mentions the law of cure in his Genius of Homœopathy. As far as I know no trace of it can be found in the homœopathic literature or elsewhere. After defining what the Law is, it is useful to study the expression "cure" Our illustrious master, Samuel Hahnemann, took as starting point that the aim of any medicine is the cure of diseases. This is the true art of healing. "The perfection of a cure consists in restoring health in a prompt, mild and permanent manner : in removing and annihilating disease by the shortest, safest and most certain means, upon principles that are at once plain and intelligible" Hahnemann says restore health and annihilate the whole, the entire disease, not SUPPRESS certain symptoms. This discrimination is of capital importance upon which it behooves us to insist very specially, for people usually call "cure" the disappearance of certain symptoms or syndromes, external manifestations of disease, such as constipation, eruptions, leucorrhœa, piles, etc. A patient calls for the intervention of the physician for symptom that he finds especially unpleasant, which make him suffer in his comfort or his vanity. He does not know what distinguishes PALLIATION from a GENUINE CURE, and he has no idea that such external manifestation is only one of the episodes of a deeper affection, one of the parts, often the least important one, of the general trouble. And the physician, always in a hurry and anxious to keep the patient as a client, is but too often tempted,

alas I to take the easy but dangerous way of palliation, of the suppression of external symptoms or pain. For example, this rheumatic patient so quickly freed from his articular symptoms through the energetic intervention of his physician, returns to his clever doctor shortly after and says to him, "You cured my rheumatism so well, why can you not cure my asthma ?" The physician, and of course the patient, do not recognize the connection between cause and effect of the peripheral disturbances to the related and consequent internal manifestations, which become more and more serious. The clear-sighted homœopathic physician can observe every day in his practice that connection. The undeniable proof of what should be called the "repercussion" in the interior of the body of external manifestations suppressed, is the return of the previous symptoms, the reappearance of external

manifestations, thanks to well-chosen homœopathic remedies. The pains, changes, sufferings, which occur on the surface of the body, not originating from any external violence, or merely from the consequences of some slight external injury, owe their source to an internal affection. It is, therefore, equally absurd and dangerous to regard these diseases as symptoms that are purely local, and to treat them exclusively, or nearly so by topical applications, as if they were surgical cases, in which manner they have been treated till the present day. These maladies have been considered as purely local, and, consequently, received the appellation of such because they were looked upon as affections that were in a manner attached to the extreme parts in which the

organism took little or no share, as it was ignorant of their existence. Reflection, however, will suffice to explain why an external malady (which has not been occasioned by an important external violence) cannot arise, continue, or much less grow worse, without some internal cause, the co-operation of the whole system, the latter consequently being diseases. (Organon. §. 187, 188, 189) Dr Paul Carton Behind all local affections, says Dr. P. Carton, even the most

insignificant ones, seemingly the most localized, such as anthrax, eczema, coryza, sick headache, etc., is hidden a humoral alteration, an attack against the general condition, a fall of vital resistance's, which really form the essence of the malady. But it is principally in the so-called specialties (malady of the eye, ear or nose, etc.) that it is absolutely necessary to know that the eye, nose, ear must not be treated as if they were, so to say, placed on a tray, independently of the value of the general reactions of the patient. Insofar, any localized alteration (ulcer, fistula, abscess ganglion, etc.) can he looked upon as a barometer of the general state. Disease, therefore, is always general, it affects the individual as a whole, physical and psychical, and it is not possible to speak of cure unless the disturbed order

has been completely restored in the whole individual and unless the symptoms have altogether disappeared. The human body can be considered as a sort of confederation of organs, animated by a vital, immaterial principle. The control of all the functions is effected from the centre to the circumference, so as to secure harmony and fulfil the purpose assigned to the organism. The morbific agent always affects the centre of government first, and it produces at first functional disorders before producing organic diseases. This is especially evident in acute maladies : every acute malady begins by general disturbances, modifications of the temper and character, then troubles of sleep, appetite, etc., appear. And only later after a more or less long period (called incubation period) are the manifestations localized in such or such part of the

organism (static period). In chronic disease that process remains the same, though it is far more difficult to detect. The medica mental provings show a movement quite analogous in the intoxicating action on the economy from centre to circumference. As the centre of government is affected first, the whole economy feels that modifying influence, that is why we can observe signs and symptoms in the whole body, with predominance in such or such system or organ, giving thus to the picture of intoxication its proper physiognomy. Then, if the malady affects first the interior of the individual, not his outside tissues and organs, it is obvious that it is the inside which must first be put in order, and the outside afterwards. The cure must then proceed from centre to circumference,

i. e. From above downwards. From within outwards. From the more important organs to the lesser. From the head to the hands and feet. The law of cure is infinitely precious to the physician ; it is his compass and rudder in the struggle against disease. It explains to him clearly in what manner the morbific principle evolves. The practitioner knows with certainty, which makes his strength and his success, that if the symptoms are developed in the direction indicated by the law, the patient will be cured and the symptoms will permanently disappear. He knows also when the symptoms take a country direction that the remedy was not well-chosen, that it acts as a palliative and that the patient will grow worse. For more: An

excellent power point presentation of the above: http://www.naturalholistic.com/Herings_law_files/frame.htm#slide0001.htm "In conclusion, vaccines are a perfect manifestation of everything that is satanic. They represent an adulterous and arrogant tampering with divine creation, based on the intellectual conceit of "perfecting" creation. They are poisonous, containing derivatives from metals such as mercury and aluminum, and from formaldehyde. They are made from the cell lines and viruses of biblically unclean animals such as monkeys, cats, etc. Worst of all, they are made from the cell lines of premeditatedly murdered children. " Bob Sperlazzo Christian Digest 11/29/2002

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