CLARKE JH, Homoeopathy Explained - Classical Homeopathy Online

One and the same drug may be homoeopathic to a great variety of diseased conditions.
VI.
All that is needed is that the leading symptoms of a case should find their counterpart in
characteristic symptoms produced by the drug.
VII.
The drug may have produced many other symptoms which do not correspond to
symptoms of the disease besides those which do, but this in no way impairs its efficacy in
any particular case.
VIII.
When, in a case of disease, we wish to evoke one part of the action of a drug for the cure,
without exciting those other disease-producing powers of the drug which are not
homoeopathic to the case, we are able to do so by diminishing the dose.
IX.
We are enabled to do this because of the increased susceptibility in disease, and because
this increase of susceptibility only extends, as a rule, so far as the drug is homoeopathic.
X.
We can in this way use the most deadly poisons as remedies without fear of producing
anything but good effects.
XI.
For this discovery, and for the invention of an effectual method of graduated attenuation
of medicinal substances, we are also indebted to Hahnemann.
XII.
There are some substances which, though inert or nearly so when taken in their natural
state, become, when finely divided after Hahnemann’s method, powerful agents both for
deranging health and restoring it when deranged. Graduated attenuation by Hahnemann’s
method increases dynamic power.
XIII.
In many cases the more highly attenuated a medicine is, the more powerful is its
medicinal action. “Dynamisation” is therefore a more correct term to employ than
“attenuation”.