Re: [H] Combos and complexes

Hi, Shannon --

As long as we persist in confusing Hahnemann's definition of homoeopathy
with his directions for practising it or with the beliefs or deductions
that may have influenced such directions, we will continue to have no
anchor for understanding what homoeopathy is.

It's not something whose identification requires a textbook or even a
description. In fact, plastering riders about better and worse ways to
practise it merely obfuscate its clear delineation to a point at which some
on this list can imagine that it doesn't differ substantially from any
other "natural" therapy; that they are all one method, all equally validly
known as homoeopathy.

Once you're clear on the nature of a definition, which is that it draws a
boundary, then the simplest definition that does that job accurately is the
best, simply because it will leave aside irrelevancies. You've seen a
hundred such simple expressions of homoeopathy's definition on this list,
and I think you'll agree that none of them depends on anything that anybody
believes, deduces, wishes, tries, or practises.

In particular, Hahnemann's belief that two disease processes may have
infected the organism and yet reside only in discrete parts of it has no
part to play in the definition of homoeopathy.

Reasoned though I'm sure that deduction was from evidence, it strikes me as
wildly inconsistent both with miasms' general infection of the organism and
with Hahnemann's own statement about the whole effect on the organism of
any medicine. But whether Hahnemann is right or wrong about that makes no
slightest difference to the nature of homoeopathy, as I suspect you know!

Cheers --

John

On 3 January 2012 12:03, Shannon Nelson <shannonnelson@tds.net> wrote:

>
> On Jan 1, 2012, at 8:14 PM, John Harvey wrote:
>
> > ....
> > Whether Hahnemann was even correct in his deduction that the two
> > coexisting
> > dynamic disease processes could occur in discrete parts of the
> > organism is
> > open to question.
>
> :-) Ah, but is it *homeopathy* if one does so?
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