Disease = disturbance or mistunement differentiatedinto condition and state
§. 16. Our Living Poweras spirit-like Dynamis cannot otherwise be seized and affectedthan in a spirit-like (dynamic) way through damaging impingementson the healthy organism by inimical Potences from the outer world,disturbing the harmonious play of Life. (§.148)
68. a) The inner processin diseases becomes known only through the perceptible alterations,ailments and symptoms, the only way our Life gives utterance tothe inner disturbances. so that in each case at hand wenever even come to know which of the disease symptoms is
a primary action of the diseased malignity {condition?}
or which is a self-help reaction of the Living Power {state?}
§.70.a... diseases consistsonly in the stateand the ailmentsof the patient and the sense-perceptiblealterations of his condition.
condition = manifest consequencesof a state of mind or of surrounding conditions and regimen
§. 229 On the contrary, one should seek to remove all kinds of external disturbances of their senses and of their mind; there are no entertainments for their befogged spirit, no beneficent diversions, no instructions, no soothing words, books or objects for their indignant soul, languishing in the fetters of the sick body, no refreshment for them except cure; quiet and comfort radiate back onto their spirit only from their somatic condition retuned towards improvement.
§19... DISEASES are nothing other than ALTERATIONS OF CONDITION IN HEALTHY PEOPLE which express themselves through disease signs (§16, §19, §21, §22, §68, §104, §106, §107)
§.22 a) Once befallen with malignities, our Living Power is capable of nothing other than expressing its mistunement by means of the disturbance of the organism's sound course of Life and by feelings of suffering... 37. DYNAMIC MISTUNEMENTS OF OUR SPIRIT-LIKE LIFE IN FEELINGS AND FUNCTIONS, THAT IS, IMMATERIAL MISTUNEMENTS OF OUR CONDITION. (54, §31, §7o)
§.6....outwardly discernible alterations in the condition of the body and soul, DISEASE SIGNS, OCCURRENCES, SYMPTOMS (§108)
§.70... medicines ... possess the power to retune the human condition residing in feelings and functions; indeed... their curative power must rest SOLELY on this their power of altering the condition of man.
P15...[the] capacity to (dynamically) alter and re-tune the condition (§.65)
§.11a) power to elicit alterations in the condition of our animal life; (§. 269.c)
Specific conditions
27. a) And tartar emetic and Ipecacuanha, aside from their other peculiar disease-arousal-symptoms, have then yet added disadvantages for the condition of the patient, and the gall-secretion comes into disorder so that, if the sufferer was not entirely robust, he yet for several days must find himself ill due to this alleged causal treatment in spite of all this violent expulsion of the complete stomach contents. If however the sufferer, instead of [taking] such violent and always disadvantageous evacuant medicines, sniffs only a single time at highly diluted Pulsatilla juice (on a large mustard seed [sized] therewith moistened globule), whereby the mistunement of his condition in general and of his stomach contents in particular is certainly lifted so [that] in two hours he is recovered, and indeed if he yet once more has eructation, the air is tasteless and odorless - the stomach contents are no longer spoiled, and at the next meal he has again his proper appetite; he is hale and hearty.
27. transition to the typhoid condition.
56. each [disease] only and always is a special virtual, dynamic mistunement of the condition; ...in chronic diseases, the Living Power seemed to soothe this or that troublesome symptom of the internal condition.
§.91 The occurrences and condition of the patient during some previous medicinal use do not give the pure image of the disease;
§.117 ... the sex-related condition alterations
State = supersensible reality
§.289.a) ...that monstrous retunement of the whole Human Entity was ushered in in cases of neurasthenic patients called somnambulism and clairvoyance, wherein the person, transported from the sense world, appears to belong more to the spirit world -- a highly unnatural and dangerous state.
§.117 a) A few persons can faint from the smell of roses, and get into various other morbid, occasionally dangerous states from partaking of mussels, crab or barbel roe, by touching the foliage of some kinds of sumac, etc.
§.6. deviations from the former healthy state of the now sick patient, which the latter himself feels, the bystanders perceive and the physician observes. (167)
§.193 ...the common disease state of the body is voided at the same with the local malady,
§.236....transposed into a state of health.
§.246. During treatment every marked progressive and conspicuously increasing improvement is a state...
§.275 the natural, original, present, remaining, current disease state of the patient (2, 165, §168, §170, §181, §183, §184, §207, §250, §260 fn, §276); latent state [referring to Psora] (§.221, §244)
§. 201 ... with proper regard [being had] for the state of the convalescent.
Pyschic and Somatic States
state of mind (§. 210, §211, §213fn,§253) emotional and mental state, (§2r2, §2a7, §220, §230)
§.225 In time, emotional diseases of this kind often then ruin the somatic state of health to a high degree. (§.226)
Specific Somatic States
27. a) paralysed state - strong coffee would have dynamically raised the diminished irritability of the stomach and alone have set it in a state to convey out from above or below its still ever so excessive contents.
79. in protracted diseases the evacuations, organized by the nature of the patient, announce themselves not infrequently as reliefs, though only brief, of troublesome states of terrible pains, paralyses, cramps etc.;
62. a) the comatose state
§.183. a) When the patient, with but scant symptoms, nevertheless feels very ill, ... so that one can ascribe this state more to a dulling of the nerves, which does not allow the pains and ailments in the patient to come to distinct perception,
(alternate) intermittent states {§231, §232 fn, §233, §234, §235, §239)
§.233 The TYPICAL INTERMITTENT DISEASES ARE those where a constant disease state returns at fairly definite intervals [in the midst] of apparent well-being, and recedes again at likewise definite intervals
§.235 ... the remedies for these [alternating fevers] ... must be able, likewise, to similarly arouse either both or all three alternating states in healthy bodies, or as much as possible correspond homeopathically in symptom similarity to the strongest and most peculiar alternating state (either to the state of chill with its auxiliary symptoms, or to that of the heat with its auxiliary symptoms or also to that of the sweat and its auxiliary ailments); but especially the symptoms of the patient's condition in the fever free time must guide in the selection of the most apt homeopathic remedy.
Each remedy has thecapacity to engender particular modifications of state and condition
§. 119 Each of these substances works in its own different, but determinate way, prohibiting their confusion, and engenders modifications of the state of health and of the condition of people.
§212....there is no efficacious medicinal substance in the world which does not very noticeably alter the emotional and mental state ... and each medicine, to be sure, in a different way.
§.239.... almost every medicine in its pure action arouses its own specific fever and even a kind of alternating fever with its alternating states. that deviates from all of the fevers generated by other medicines,
Allopathic treatmentcan only see and address conditions [wrongly termed states], whichcan lead to alteration of state.
§.75 These botchings of the human condition produced by the allopathic calamitous art ... are among all chronic diseases the saddest, the most incurable,
§.8 a) the former director of the old school, Hufeland ... was not yet able to imagine disease as an organismic [state of] Being dynamically altered by the morbidly mis-tuned Living Power not as a modified condition
§.54 They declared the diseases to be states which always reappeared in rather the same manner. Most systems therefore conferred names on their fictional disease images, and each system classified them differently. Actions were attributed to medicines according to presumptions ... which were supposed to lift, that is to cure, these abnormal states.
§. 276.a) ... the Allopath... makes him suffer in a sad state of health for years on end.
In summary, the functionalrelation of condition and state
§19...remediation is likewise only possible by an alteration of the patient's condition into the healthy state,
§.fn14 .... the medicine retunes the condition of the person and generates in and on the same a disease state for a longer or shorter time. (156)
§.112 ...to raise the condition up to the natural healthy state again.
§.256... if the patient tells of these or those newly arisen substantial occurrences and symptoms -- features of a medicine not aptly homeopathically selected -- though he may aver ever so good-naturedly: [his condition is improving] ,a) nevertheless, one does not have to believe him in this affirmation, but to regard his state as having taken a turn for the worse, as likewise all appearances will then evidently soon teach.
§.64.a.... our Living Power appears to comport itself purely conceptively (receptively, passively as it were) and thus, as if forced, to allow the impressions of the artificial Potence impinging from without to take place in itself, thereby modifying its condition. but then, as it were, to rally again and A) to generate the exact opposite condition-state (§37), -- or, B) when there is not an exact opposite state to the initial-action in nature, the Living Power appears to strive to assert its superiority by extinguishing the alteration actuated in itself from without (by the medicine),
§.117 For since both the indwelling power of the impinging substance, as well as the capacity of the spirit-like Dynamis enlivening the organism to be aroused by this impinging substance are required for these above mentioned conditions, as well as for the generation of all other morbid condition alterations in people, so can the conspicuous illnesses in the so-called idiosyncrasies not only be laid to the account of these particular bodily constitutions, but must be derived from these occasioning things, in which the power must at once lie to make the same impression on all human bodies except that few amongst the healthy bodily constitutions are inclined to let themselves be transposed by them into a so conspicuous disease state.
Study Guide on DiseaseState vs. Condition prepared for the Santa Barbara HomeopathicStudy Group Basedon a rendition of the Organon by Steven Decker - 15 November 1995