This vital energy, which is the sun of our individual human economy, has a distinct relationship to universal vital energy. It is vital energy in the individual which offers hom opathy its scientific demonstration of healing. Let us be alert to observe and accurate to correlate the plain facts before us, that we may recognize, formulate and work in accord with the fundamental laws that govern hom opathy and all nature. Cure takes place from above downward, form within outward, form the more important to the less important organ, and in the reverse order of the onset of the symptoms. The decisive amount is always a minimum, and infinitesimal.
Functional symptoms precede structural changes.
Any drug which in its natural state affects the vital energy but little will develop a proving only in a high potency. Any drug which in its natural state disturbs the vital energy to functional manifestations only may be proven only in a potentiated form. Any drug which in its natural state disturbs the vital energy to destructive manifestations should be proven only in a potentiated form.