FIVE DISEASES OF HOMOEOPATHY

1)IGNORANCE : our ignorance of subjects is so big
2)IDOLISATION :idolosing people, making guru's
3)EGOTISM: of colleagues and guru's, like the "I know" ,"I will tell you what to do attitude"
4)DOGMATISM:"this is the ONLY way"not bases on facts but on dogma, on opinion. If you think this method is the only way, it has to be based on facts and not only on opinion.
5)DEVIATION FORM THE INDUCTIVE METHOD.
Importance of observation ND not imagination.
Imagination is there to sometimes help you to do a theory, to further observe. Discovery is made from observation.

(Slightly modified from the writings of Dr. Andre Saine)
(I am too small to comment further... Just found it worth sharing... In fact hard hitting and thought provoking... Being precise)

AN EXCERPT FROM THE LESSER WRITINGS OF Dr. HAHNEMANN - The medical observer

The capability of observing accurately is never quite an innate faculty; it must be chiefly acquired by practice, by refining and regulating the perceptions of the senses, that is to say, by exercising a sever criticism in regard to the rapid impressions we obtain of external objects,and at the same time the necessary coolness, calmness and firmness of judgement must be preserved, together with a constant distrust of our own powers of apprehension .

The vast importance of our subject should make us direct the energies of our body and mind towards the observation; and great patience, supported by the power of the will, must sustain us in the direction until the completion of the observation. 

One remedy well studied is better than several not half understood - Dr. E. B. Nash

HOMOEOPATHY AND SOCIAL MEDICINE

In the footnote to § 271 he outlines a social and philanthropic medical service whereby the sick, whether rich or poor, would be given free remedies through the bounty of the State.(Dr.Pierre Schmidt - Hidden treasures of the sixth edition )

A new foot-note is added in the Sixth Edition, as follows: "Until the State, in the future, after having attained insight into the indispensability of perfectly prepared homoeopathic medicines, will have them manufactured by a competent impartial person, in order to give them free of charge to homoeopathic physicians trained in homoeopathic hospitals, who have been examined theoretically and practically, and thus legally qualified. The physician may then become convinced of these divine tools for purposes of healing, but also to give them free of charge to his patients - rich and poor". -

WISDOM FROM VITHOULKAS SIR

It is just an excerpt from essence of Materia Medica ,from Nux vom drug picture by VIthoulkas Sir.I feel I lucidly states  a very fundamental concept.

As always in homoeopathy, however, we must be careful not to prescribed Nux vomica on the basis of such positive and constructive personality traits. Unlike the techniques of astrology, palmistry, handwriting analysis, physiognomy and others, which describe the qualities of the person - whether for good or bad - homoeopathy bases its prescriptions on the pathological state of the person. We would not wish to give a remedy which might make a person less pragmatic and efficient! So, let us consider the states in the development of the pathological state requiring Nux vomica for cure.

MIASMS IN DIFFERENT EYES

Hahnemann's miasm theory,as it has become known,has been a difficulty for homoeopathic practioners ever since.Some have responded like  Stapf and Gross,with embarrasment;others have seen it as the most brilliant contribution to Homoeopathy.Early English writers such as Dudgeon and Hughes were outright in their condemnation of it,while early Americans such as Allen and Kent seized upon it as the missing element in an otherwise perfect science.To this day many practioners ignore it while others make it the foundation of their practice.(Rima Handley)

SULPHUR ASSORTED – part 2 (glimpses from Lippe ,Nash and Boger)

i) Chronic hæmorrhages; she seems to get almost well, when it comes again and again, for weeks, with weak faint spells (Chin., Ferr.)

ii )A chronic, constitutional grumbler (Nux-V.)

iii) Is often required to promote adsorptions of effusions (Kali-I.).

iv)Tongue coated white, with red tip and edges, mostly in acute diseases .

v) ASCENDING EFFECTS; heats, orgasms, vertigo, etc.

vi)Hypochondiasis after suppressed eruptions