Decoction of aromatic or dissolving herbs

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Source: Materia medica pura by Hahnemann, Samuel, 1755-1843 (1846), narrative-offset-85079.

Ingredients or materials as extracted

• aromatic or dissolving herbs: Even when a physi- cian sometimes prevails upon himself to give a patient suffering with an acute disease, one remedy at a time, nevertheless he accompanies it with all sorts of medicinal substances, considering them as mere domes- tic remedies. He cannot get along without resorting, as accompani- ments, to a poultice of aromatic or dissolving herbs to be applied to the affected part, (as if these herbs did not act u

Method as extracted

1. Boil according to the source passage: Even when a physi- cian sometimes prevails upon himself to give a patient suffering with an acute disease, one remedy at a time, nevertheless he accompanies it with all sorts of medicinal substances, considering them as mere domes- tic remedies. He cannot get along without resorting, as accompani- ments, to a poultice of aromatic or dissolving herbs to be applied to the affected part, (as if these herbs did not act upon the olfactory nerves of the patients and did not influence the system generally through the skin ;) or to a liniment, fomentation, gargle, mustard-plaster, vesicatory, baths either entire or partial, injections of Valerian, Chamomile, etc., (as if all this amounted to nothing, and did not influence the general state of the patient through the skin, mouth, rectum, etc.;) or to a tea of mint, chamomile, juniper, or so-called pectoral herbs, etc., (as if a decoction of such herbsor flowers had no power.) In company with such accessory substances, which, although they are looked upon as innocent, domestic remedies, are nevertheless violent medicines, the drug which is adminis- tered internally, even when given in a large dose, cannot possibly exert its genuine action, and a small homeopathic dose would so much the more be without effect.

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