HERING'S LAW AND SUPPRESSION
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- Date: Thu, 21 Feb 2008 14:10:48 -0800 (PST)
HERING'S LAW AND SUPPRESSION
by Peter Morrell
Hering's Law, so-called, and by no means regarded by all homeopaths as
a universally applicable law, is named after the American homeopath
Dr. Constantin Hering, 1800-80. It was he who proposed that under
homeopathic treatment true cure works...
by bringing back, or revisiting, old symptoms;
by stimulating the healing power of the organism;
by moving sites of disease from the inside to the outside;
by moving sites of disease from more vital to less vital areas;
and from top downwards;
as a result, during cure, eruptions on the skin or old discharges are
likely to recur.
This became called 'Hering's Law' and operates in the opposite
direction to suppression.
'Cure takes place in a definite orderly manner and direction...normal
vital processes, cellular, organic and systemic, begin at the center
and proceed outwardly...life is a centrifugal force, radiating,
externalizing, ...'from above downward'. In the same sense disease is
a centripetal force, opposing, obstructing, penetrating toward the
center and tending to disorganization... the progression of all
chronic diseases is from the surface toward the center; from less
important to more important organs - 'from below upward'. Curative
medicine reinforces the life force, reverses the morbid process and
annihilates disease. Symptoms disappear from above downwards, from
within outward and in the reverse order of their appearance. When a
patient with an obscure rheumatic endocarditis, for example, begins to
have signs and symptoms of acute arthritis soon after taking the
homeopathic remedy and is relieved of his chest sufferings, we know
that cure has commenced.' [Close, p.132]
'Cure... consists of the speedy, gentle and permanent restitution of
health... in its entire extent ...and in the shortest, most reliable,
and safest manner, according to clearly intelligible reasons or
principles.' [Close, p.74]
'Suppression or palliation of disease, is the removal of the symptoms
of disease by external, mechanical, chemical or topical treatment; or
by means of powerful drugs, given internally in massive doses, which
have a direct physiological or toxic effect but no true therapeutic or
curative action. The suppressed case always goes bad... the abscess
and fistula act as if they were the vent or exhaust of the disease,
affording temporary safety to vital organs. Close the exhaust and an
explosion follows.' [Close, pp.74-5]
'The mere removal of the tangible products of disease by mechanical
means as in the case of tumors, or of the external visible signs of
disease by topical applications as in the case of eruptions and
discharges, not only does not cure the disease, but does the patient a
positive injury and renders the case inveterate or more difficult to
cure...to the death of the patient from metastasis and the
complications which result from such treatments. Disease is only cured
by the internally administered similar medicine...' [Close, p.73]
'It should be a matter of routine in making the first examination, to
ascertain what drugs have been used. In chronic cases this
investigation should extend back through the whole lifetime of the
patient. The diseases from which the patient has suffered, and the
drugs used in their treatment should be ascertained if possible... the
key to a difficult case may be the drug or drugs which have 'cured'
some acute disease, perhaps early in the patient's medical history.
Antidoting the drug clears up the case. Frequently, for example, will
some chronic disease of the liver, kidneys, spleen or lungs be traced
back to an initial attack of malarial fever checked by massive doses
of quinine or arsenic. The patient has 'never been well
since'...' [Close, p.120]
'In a case variously diagnosed as chronic gout... I witnessed the
reappearance of a discharge from the urethra fifteen years after the
original gonorrheal discharge had disappeared under the influence of
astringent injections. With the establishment of the discharge, the
patient's 'rheumatic' symptoms began to rapidly improve and a perfect
cure resulted... metastasis of the original disease was caused by the
injections... drug symptoms and complications often arise in the most
unexpected and surprising ways, and baffle all but the most acute and
experienced examiners. Hair dyes, and tonics, complexion beautifiers,
dentrifices, medicated soaps, antiseptics; borax in baby's mouth to
prevent sprue, and carbolic acid in mama's douche to prevent babies;
innumerable ointments and lotions; to say nothing about the equally
numerous patent and proprietary nostrums which fill the shelves of the
corner drug stores and find their way 'down the red lane' into the
human system, all play their part in creating morbid susceptibility,
idiosyncrasy and drug diseases and in making work for the
doctor.' [Close, p.121]
Source:
Stuart Close, 1924, The Genius of Homeopathy, Lectures and Essays on
Homeopathic Philosophy, Jain, India reprint.
Homeopathe International
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