This document provides a summary of a presentation by Dr. Bipin Jethani on revisiting Samuel Hahnemann through his works and principles. Some of the key points made in the presentation include: Hahnemann was ahead of his time in areas like psychosomatic medicine, public health, contagious disease, and experimental pharmacology. The presentation also discusses Hahnemann's appreciation of areas like surgery, allopathy in emergencies, and the material and dynamic components of the human body. Clinical cases are presented to illustrate Hahnemannian concepts and pearls of wisdom are shared from Hahnemann's writings.

1. REVISITING HAHNEMANN
THROUGH HIS WORKS AND
HIS PRINCIPLES

2. PRESENTATION BY:
DR. BIPIN JETHANI
READER (NFSG)/ ASSOC. PROFESSOR,
DEPARTMENT OF ORGANON OF MEDICINE
NEHRU HOMOEOPATHIC MEDICAL COLLEGE,
GOVT. OF NCT OF DELHI
E-mail: drbipin.jethani@gmail.com
#9868396623

3. HAHNEMANN: A MULTIFACETED MAN
OF HUMANISTIC MEDICINE
‘Hahnemann was so far ahead of his
time that his teaching, in its higher
phases, could not be fully
understood until science in its slower
advance had elucidated and
corroborated the facts upon which he
based it’
…………Stuart Close in his work
The Genius of Homeopathy

4. Professor Dr. Riecke in a dedicatory speech (1833)
expressed himself forcibly in discussing Materia Medica :
‘In this matter we stand on a pinnacle of homoeopathy.
Whoever has at all realised the wretched state of Materia
Medica, whoever has regarded it as a medical romance, will
be glad to appreciate the significance of a meritorious effort
to give it a better foundation. Nobody before Hahnemann
completed the investigation of medicinal potencies by
experiments on healthy subject in such scientific manner….’
FATHER OF EXPERIMENTAL
PHARMACOLOGY

5. Hahnemann "possessed an extraordinary
understanding for the nervous and mental activities of
his patients…and [possibly] considered psycho-
therapy in certain cases to be more important, more
applicable than the use of homeopathic medicines,"
[R. Haehl, vol.1, 272-3]
PIONEER OF
PSYCHO-SOMATIC
MEDICINE

6. CONVENTIONAL MEDICINE RE-AFFIRMS
PSYCHO-SOMATIC MEDICINE
EMERGING FIELD OF PSYCHO-NEURO-IMMUNOLOGY

7. Hahnemann "recommended the use of fresh
air, bed rest, proper diet, sunshine, public
hygiene and numerous other beneficial
measures at a time when many other
physicians considered them of no value.
Samuel Hahnemann (1792), The Friend of
Health
Pioneer of modern public health
AND sanitation measures

8. Hahnemann in 1830 discussed the role of
micro-organisms in the transmission of
disease in his article, "Cause and
Prevention of the Asiatic Cholera" in
which he refers to the "excessively minute,
invisible, living creatures, so inimical to
human life."
PROPONENT OF
CONTAGIOUS NATURE
OF DISEASE

9. "...only a very small quantity of the thyroid secretion stands
between intelligence and idiocy.
It is a gruesome thought to realize that the absence of one
chemical in such miniscule quantity can result in a failure of
development of the mind and body of an individual.”
The Glands of Destiny, Cobb, I. G
VISIONARY CONCEPT
OF MINUMUM

10. ACCEPTANCE OF SMALL DOSES
IN ALLOPATHIC SYSTEM
Interleukin 1, an
important part of our
immune system, has
been found to exhibit
increased T-cell clone
proliferation at 1019.
Chemicals in the brain
called beta-endorphins
are known to modulate
natural killer cell activity
in dilutions of 1018.
Emerging Science of Homeopathy: Complexity, Biodynamics,
and Nanopharmacology
Drs. P. Bellavite and A. Signorini’s

11. For as two things are required for the production of
these as well as all other morbid alterations in the
health of man - to wit, the inherent power of the
influencing substance, and the capability of the vital
force that animates the organism to be influenced
by it…………….
(§ 117 of Organon of medicine-6th edition)
PROPOGATOR OF
EPIDEMIOLOGICAL
TRIAD OF CAUSATION

12. Arndt Schulz Law confirms
Hahnemann‘s biphasic action of
medicine, that is, the inversion of the
effectiveness of a medicine as a
function of the dose.(§ 62-66)
PIONEER OF BIPHASIC
ACTION OF MEDICINE

13. ‘Only in the most urgent cases, where danger to life and
imminent death allow no time for the action of a homœopathic
remedy - not hours, sometimes not even quarter-hours, and
scarcely minutes - in sudden accidents occurring to previously
healthy individuals - for example, ………. from lightening,
from suffocation, freezing, drowning, etc. - is it admissible and
judicious, at all events as a preliminary measure to stimulate
the physical life with a palliative (medicines for symptomatic
relief).
HAHNEMANN
APPRECIATED SCOPE OF
ALLOPATHY IN EMERGENCY
MEDICINE (§ 67 FN)

14. APPRECIATION OF SURGERY BY
HAHNEMANN(§ 186)
For in the case of injuries accruing to the body from without, if
they be at all severe,…..the treatment of such diseases is
relegated to surgery; …….. in so far as the affected parts
require mechanical aid,……….. , may be removed by
mechanical means, e.g., by the reduction of dislocations, by
needles and bandages to bring together the lips of wounds, by
mechanical pressure to still the flow of blood from open
arteries, by the extraction of foreign bodies that have
penetrated into the living parts, by making an opening into a
cavity of the body in order to remove an irritating substance
or to procure the evacuation of effusions or collections of
fluids, by bringing into apposition the broken extremities of a
fractured bone and retaining them in exact contact by an
appropriate bandage,

15. HAHNEMANN’S INSIGHT INTO
MATERIALISTIC AND DYNAMIC
COMPONENTS OF HUMAN BODY
The organism is indeed the material instrument of
the life, but it is not conceivable without the
animation imparted to it by the instinctively
perceiving and regulating vital force (just as the
vital force is not conceivable without the
organism), consequently the two together
constitute a unity, although in thought our mind
separates this unity into two distinct conceptions
for the sake of facilitating the comprehension of
it. (§ 15 )

16. BACTERIOLOGY IN LIGHT OF VITALISTIC
PHILOSOPHY
It is important to understand that Hahnemann's expressed views
on the role of micro- organisms in the transmission of certain
diseases in his article "Cause and Prevention of the Asiatic
Cholera”, which in no way contradicts his very strong and
clear statements that disease is transmitted in a purely
dynamic way.
Micro-organisms,like all living organisms, include a dynamic
aspect without which they cannot exist; the material organism
and its dynamic presence form a unity (Aph.15). Therefore,
where they are involved in the transmission of disease, micro-
organisms act dynamically as well as having a material

17. BASIS OF PRESCRIBING:
CONCEPT OF ‘INDICATIONS’
‘If the physician clearly perceives what is to
be cured in diseases, that is to say, in
every individual case of disease
(knowledge of disease,
indication),………...’
§ 3 – Organon of the Art of Healing

18. EVOLUTIONARY
UNDERSTANDING OF DISEASE
(CONCEPT OF ANAMNESIS)
‘Useful to the physician in assisting him to cure are
the particulars of the most probable exciting cause of
the acute disease, as also the most significant points
in the whole history of the chronic disease, to
enable him to discover its fundamental cause, which
is generally due to a chronic miasm.’
§ 5 of Organon of the Art of Healing

19. MY CLINICALEXPERIENCES IN LIGHT OF HAHNEMANNIAN
WRITINGS
(EVIDENCE BASEDCASE STUDIES)

20. CLINICAL GEMS FROM WORKS OF HAHNEMANN

21. August Bier
CLINICAL GEMS FROM
ORGANON OF MEDICINE

22. CASE STUDY : a febrile child
A 6 yr. old child developed c/o fever with
very slight nasal discharge. During fever,
the child was overtly talkative as reported
by other. The sense of well being was
marked with low grade fever. Considering
the loquacity accompanying fever, I gave
the child Podophyllum 200, in dissolved
doses but with not much improvement.

23. CASE STUDY : a febrile child
The child continued to suffer from
low grade fever, complaining of
tiredness but with no localising
sign. The child gradually felt
increasing lack of energy and yet
there was no definite prescribing
clue.

24. § 183 FOOTNOTE GIVES THE PRESCRIBINGCLUE
‘In cases where the patient (which, however,
happens excessively seldom in chronic, but not
infrequently in acute, diseases) feels very ill,
although his symptoms are very indistinct,
so that this state may be attributed more to the
benumbed state of the nerves, which does not
permit the patient’s pains and sufferings to be
distinctly perceived, this torpor of the internal
sensibility is removed by opium, and in its
secondary action the symptoms of the disease

25. The child was prescribed Opium in 30
potency with remarkable result and fever
came down within 4 hours of
administration of Opium.

26. PEARLS OF WISDOM IN INTRODUCTORY PART OF
ORGANON OF MEDICINE
 It is worthy of remark, that the morbid symptoms of
patients suffering from tapeworm are generally of such a
kind, that they are rapidly relieved (homoeopathically) by
the smallest dose of tincture of male-fern root; so that the
ill-health of the patient, which causes this parasitic animal
to be restless, is thereby for the time removed; the
tapeworm then feels at ease, and lives on quietly in the
excrement of the bowels, without particularly distressing the
patient or his intestines, until the antipsoric treatment is
so far advanced that the worm, after the eradication of the
psora, finds the contents of the bowels no longer suitable for
its support, and therefore spontaneously disappears, for ever
from the now cured patient, without the least purgative
medicine.

27. PREVENTIVE ASPECT OF MEDICINE
He is likewise a preserver of
health if he knows the things
that derange health and cause
disease, and how to remove
them from persons in health. (§
4)

28. PEARLS OF WISDOMFROM
The Chronic Diseases, their Peculiar
Nature and their Homœopathic Cure.
The dose of antipsoric medicine must not
be taken by females shortly before their
menses are expected, nor during their
flow; but the dose can be given, if
necessary, four days, i.e., about ninety-
six hours after the menses have set in.

29. HOMOEOPATHIC TREATMENT IN PREGNANCY
 Pregnancy in all its stages offers so little obstruction to
the antipsoric treatment, that this treatment is often
most necessary and useful in that condition. Most
necessary because the chronic ailments then are more
developed. In this state of woman, which is quite a
natural one, the symptoms of the internal psora are
often manifested most plainly on account of the
increased sensitiveness of the female body and spirit
while in this state; the antipsoric medicine therefore
acts more definitely and perceptibly during
pregnancy………….

30. CLINICAL TIPS
FROM MATERIA
MEDICA PURA

31. MAGNETIS POLUS
AUSTRALIS
Symptom no. 274 in Materia Medica Pura
Sore pain in the inner side of the nail of the
big toe, in the flesh, as if the nail had
grown into the flesh on the side, very
painful on being even slightly touched (aft.
8 h.).

32. MANGANUM ACETICUM:
AMELIORATION BY LYING DOWN
Symptom no 210: Deep cough, without
expectoration, all day, which ceased when lying
down returned the following day with tenacious
mucus expectoration,& pain as of a concussion in
the scrobiculus cordis & chest, but went off
quickly at noon. [L.Rkt. ]
Symptom no 279 :On rising up from bed, in the
evening, a severe burning over the skin of the
whole body, which went off on lying down again
in bed. (aft 8 h.)

33. MANGANUM ACETICUM:
AMELIORATION BY LYING DOWN
 Symptom no 91: Toothache of a horrible kind :it darts
suddenly into two somewhat decayed molars opposite to
one another-more in the upper-where the pain is then
indescribable, thence it goes occasionally into the arm, the
zygoma, the throat or the ear,& again returns to the teeth,
with complete prostration of the strength- he can scarcely
walk, he must lie down, with extraordinary internal
uneasiness & oppression; by a few mouthfuls of coffee the
pain when at its height, was momentarily removed, but
after a minute recurred with all its former violence- with
rather dialated pupils; it was somewhat elastic, or by
laying the forehead on the table, but it was much
aggravated by sitting upright. [Stf. ]

34. ARNICA MONTANA:
INTRODUCTION IN MATERIA MEDICA PURA
‘In some kinds of
FALSE
PLEURISY,
however, it is very
efficacious, in
such, namely,
whose symptoms
correspond to
those of this root’
WEEPING JUST
BEFORE OR
WITH COUGH
FEAR OF BEING
TOUCHED

35. PERCEIVING ARNICA FROM MATERIA MEDICA PURA
On the side of the nape a pimple that causes shooting and
ulcerative pain when touched.
(This kind of pimple, so painful when touched, with an
inflamed red areola, which arnica produces specifically,
bears the greatest resemblance to the well-known boils
(furunculi), and consequently these are homoeopathically
cured by arnica, and in persons who are frequently
troubled with them are prevented by the use of arnica,
and their future occurrence warded off, as experience has
taught me.) (aft. 48 h.).

36. He wrote to his friend Dr. Stapf, “Be
as sparing as possible with your
praises. I do not like them, I feel
that I am only an honest,
straightforward man who does not
more than his duty.”
HUMILITY PERSONIFIED

37. HAHNEMANN:
STAMPING CLINICAL
PRACTISE WITH TEACHINGS
OF THE MASTER
‘.your honor to me in deeds is manyfold more
worthy than honor bestowed by many in
words……..My faith in you stems not only in the
earnest efforts with which you follow the words in
spirit, but also your ability to enlarge upon their
clinical application for suffering humanity. ….
The generations of physicians shall respect you for
this.’
Extract from letter to Boenninghausen
Samuel Hahnemann, his Life and Work.

38. REMEMBERING
HAHNEMANN
For all his lifelong
hardwork, constant
endeavours for the
benefit of suffering
humanity; it has been
very rightly engraved for
him.
NON INUTILIS VIXI