commentary: Unlike natural disease, medicine (artificial morbific agents) 

	acts all the time,
	on every human being
	unconditionally

Medicine can affect individuals health unconditionally. In natural disease does not affect everybody. E.G. In bird flu infection not everybody is affected. Some only have minor symptoms. Some have fatal symptoms.

These aphorism  have a bearing upon three factors which must be known by homoeopathic physician

	degree or intensity ( potentization),
	repetition of the dose, and
	upon susceptibility,

Potentization

ARTIFICIAL DRUG DISEASE.

We have studied potentization sufficiently to see that disease causes exist among attenuated or  potentized things, the infinitesimal or immaterial substances, producing artificial drug disease in a healthy individual  and thus the physician must see that the curative remedy for the natural disease must be on the same plane.

Hahnemann states "that we have more power over human beings with drugs than disease cause, for man is only susceptible to natural diseases upon a certain plane.'

Here I am taking the example of infectious disease (bacterial, viral, parasitic infection etc. Disease causes (bacterial, viral, parasitic infection etc) flow into man ; he can neither control nor resist them, and they make him sick. After the infection vital force comes into play and resist these infection and certain changes occur and man ceases to be susceptible to further infection, and there is no longer an inflowing of cause into his economy ; a suspension has taken place, because susceptibility to that infection  has ceased.

Susceptibility ceases when changes occur in the economy that bar out any more infection.

Infection and natural cure: Take for example how we get infected by influenza virus that "causes" so called viral fever. If it is an epidemic many persons are infected and others are left out. After getting infection he become sick which he cannot control. After the infection vital force comes into play and resist these infection and certain changes occur and man ceases to be susceptible to further infection, and there is no longer an inflowing of "cause" (here influenza viruses) into his economy ; a suspension has taken place, because susceptibility to that infection  has ceased. Natural cure has taken place. We cannot depend on such natural cure because some times the vital force cannot withstand such type of the infection may lead to death of the person. Thus is necessity of homoeopathic  medicine to overcome death by assisting vital force.

 ABOUT SINGLE DOSE- WHAT A PHYSICIAN SHOULD KNOW

The physician should  know why  is it that he should give only one dose, and the rationale by which susceptibility is satisfied. 

Both cure and contagion are very similar, and the principles applying to one apply to the other.

DISEASE IS CAUSED BY INCREASED SUSCEPTIBILITY TO VARIOUS PATHOGENS CAUSED BY DERANGEMENT OF VITAL FORCE: SO ALSO HOMOEOPATHIC MEDICINE PRODUCE   DISEASE IN HEALTH IN THE SAME WAY BY INCREASED SUSCEPTIBILITY TO THAT MEDICINE                                                                                                          

     In cure we have the advantage of change of potency, and this enables us to suit the varying susceptibilities of sick man. Because of these varying degrees of susceptibility some are protected from disease cause and some are made sick ; the one who is made sick is susceptible to the infection (bacterial, viral, parasitic infection etc) caused by deranged vital force. The degree of the disease cause (deranged vital force) fits his susceptibility (to bacterial and/or viral and/or parasitic infection etc) at the moment he is made sick.

FLOW CHART OF INFECTION

  FLOW CHART ON DRUG PROVING

But it is not so with medicines. medicines can be regulated by the physician

Man has all the degrees of potentization, and by these he can make changes and thereby fit the medicine to the varying susceptibility of man in varying qualities or degrees.

Hence Hahnemann writes :

"Medicines (particularly as it depends on us to vary doses according to our will) appear to have greater power in affecting the state of health than the natural morbific irritation, for natural diseases are cured and subdued by appropriate medicines."

When does a medicine that has been administered  be unhomoeopathic ?

The same principle as to susceptibility must apply, because of the similarity between cure and Infection.

Let me take the illustration. Suppose we have a case of tonsillitis, and after due study Lachesis appears to be the most similar of all medicines and a dose is given. Now, when does Lachesis  be unhomoeopathic ?When the symptoms that indicated it change, then it is no longer indicated. If it is given at all after this change, it operates upon a dissimilar plane from what it did in its homoeopathicity, and if it acts at all it does not act curatively but suppression occur. Any more than just enough to supply the susceptibility is a surplus and is dangerous. So never repeat the remedy unnecessarily.

It is true, that in vigorous, physically strong subjects who have lightning-like reaction the dose may be repeated and changes occur for the better if the remedy is not quite homoeopathic to the case. But some are injured in this way because they are delicate subjects, whose vital force cannot withstand such repeated dose, whose reaction is slow ; the reaction is actually prevented by the repetition of the dose ; i.e., the order we have tried to establish is actually prevented.

In a chronic disease administer ARSENCUM ALBUM ONLY when it is clearly suggested, and the symptoms disappear and the patient feels better. Then the remedy ceases to be homoeopathic, and if it is given  longer whatever action it has, is unhomoeopathic and not desirable.

Enough medicine must be given to establish order, and that is done almost in the first dose ; at most it is but a matter of a few hours, and as long as order continues never repeat the remedy.

That is just the way infection takes place.

Hahnemann teaches that the human economy is more under control of man than under the control of disease, for the economy can be affected only by such disease as it is susceptible to, but man, whether for the purpose of proving or for the purpose of curing, can so vary the dose that he can always get results, and the very susceptible ones are terribly damaged by the repetition of the dose.

In the thirty-first aphorism Hahnemann says that disease causes are limited in their ability to effect changes in health, to certain conditions and states; i.e., to susceptibility.

Now if we talk about cure instead of contagion, it would seem that a certain dose of medicine administered had lasted a certain time. That is commonly the appearance.

The medicine appears to act all that time, and you should be clear in your mind that this is only an appearance. It really means that a certain length of time elapses before another dose is necessary, viz., until another state of susceptibility has arrived. So again we say, whenever a medicine ceases to be homoeopathic it is of no use to administer that medicine any longer, as it will act on the patient only upon an artificial susceptibility.

By this we mean that certain sensitive patients always have a susceptibility to high potencies. We have thus two things to deal with, the acute state, created by the disease itself, and the chronic state, which is the natural state of the patient born under miasm.

Once infected there is a tendency of vital force to protect him or her from further infection. But when a remedy ceases to be homoeopathic, the patient has not this immunity against more of its power because of the possibility of variance in the hands of the physician; the potency being given to the patient outside of his own degree of susceptibility, he may be damaged