Emotional Diseases: §§ 210—230, and the foot notes. GREE, moral maladies; psychological disturbances; disorders of will, understanding and dispositions. Mental, moral or emotional diseases are no distinct class by themselves, since any and every disease always present mental symptoms, more or less in number. The disorders of mind and disposition present, like one sided diseases, only one or two symptoms, hence are more difficult to cure. And these are psoric in origin as all other one sided diseases are. Much work has been done, indeed, by many, on the subject, since Hahnemann, Notable among them are Freud, Je Adler, Ebing etc. Yet, Hahnemann’ classification of ; done for the first time ever, remains the most useful one, for the very practical purposes, to cure. He is the pioneer in this field since February, 1792, when he took over charge of the mental asylum in Georgenthal. It is he, who introduced the humane and humanitarian outlook towards the insane and maniacs. And his are the directions, which are yet to be improved upon, although remain to be appreciated and utilised to the full even to-day, after about two hundred years. Regarding the keeping and management of the mental cases he says, as “auxiliary mental regimen”, Chaining or tortures of any kind, physical or mental, should be completely avoided. Since more a physician fails to cure, more he is forced to take such torturous steps; (incidentally, what are electric shocks and strong hypnotics, in the name of ‘modern treatment’)? What these pitiable conditions need most is care.96 / THE DICTIONARY OF ORGANON The caretakers and keepers should behave with these helpless people as decently as with sane persons or with persons suffering from any other disease. The patients should never be rebuked for their acts; they should never feel that they are being ignored; rather ‘the physician and keeper must always pretend to belief: chem to be possessed of reason.” If the patients ever come to know that they were deceived, their cases become further damaged. They should be heard with attention; “to furious mania we must oppose calm intrepidity and cool, firm resolution”; to lamentations—an expression of sympathy is the need; “to senseless chattering—a silence, not wholly inattentive” is required; to disgusting and obscene conduct or speech total inattention is needed; to prevent destruction and injury—every thing should be kept out of reach of the patient. The only place where force could be justified, is in the taking of the medicine. Here too compulsion is avoidable, because homocopathic medicines may be given without the knowledge of the patient, the medicines being tasteless and small (e.g, with drinks), Hahnemann arranged all the types of MMENEANdees into four distinct classes (in §§ 216, 221, 224, 225): (1) Mental disorders which arise out of disappearance of some $0 called physical disease condition. §216 As for example: tubercular abscess of lung or fistula or psoas abscess, serious in nature and threatening to be fatal, transforms into mania. As the physical symptoms decrease in intensity and disappear, the mental symptom increases in intensity. Finally the physical“THE DICTIONARY OF ORGANON / 97 disease loses all its danger and a fully formed mental disorder is the result. Caution These maniacs should never be given psychiatric helps e.g. consolation, advice, persuation etc. Because—such measures are always harmful to this type of patients, and the disease is aggravated always. These are the most valuable observation and direction given by anyone ever. §§ 217, 218 The curative treatment consists, primarily, in these (2) cases, in bringing back the physical disease condition. To do it, all the signs and symptoms of the ‘corporeal morbid symptoms’ asalso the ‘mental and emotional state’ should be put together. Only the medicine most similar to this complete picture can bring the patient back to health. §§ 221 Insanity suddenly brought in a person by an exciting factor of psychological nature, and looking like an acute disease. It is only an acute exacerbation of the chronic disease, which was already there, only in latent state. The exciting factors for such a condition are either fright or vexation etc. or abuse of some intoxicating substance, as for example spirituous liquor, hashhish etc. Both types of the exciting factors (shock or addiction) may be termed as trauma. § 222 Asin any acute exacerbation of a chronic disease, the patient should always be treated, at first, by an acute medicine. Such as—aconite, belladonna, stramonium, hyoscyamus, mercury etc.’ But after such a procedure, it should not be assumed, that the patient is cured. Rather—he should be treated by antipsoric medicine for radical cure, not disregarding appropriate diet and regime.98 / THE DICTIONARY OF ORGANON (3)§ 224 The third group consists of such persons, whose MEA AiBEIBE results from “faults of education, bad practices, corrupt morals, neglect of the mind, superstition or ignorance.” If the disease condition did not really result from disappearance of some physical disease, these cases would be immensely “improved by sensible friendly exhortations [discussions], consolatory arguments, serious representations and sensible advice.” (Whereas cases resulting from physical disease are further damaged by the psychiatric measures just stated). This is the field where the psychiatrists thrive, (4)§ 225 The last group may be said to be the reverse of the first group. Here the disease is originated in the mind at first. It is caused by some emotional cause, “such as continued anxiety, worry, vexation, wrongs and the frequent occurrence of great fear and fright.” The continuation for Jong of such an abnormal emotional state finally “destroys corporeal [physical] health, often to a great degree.” §226 In the very beginning, while the body is not yet diseased, the cases may be quickly cured by psychiatric measures. “Such as,a display of confidence, friendly exhortations, sensible advice, and often by a well-disguised deception.” These psychical remedies will only help with appropriate diet and regimen, if the case is recent. The subject would have to be treated by antipsoric medicines “for security's sake.” § 227 Also, the cases, where the disease has continued for long and has, therefore, injured the body too, will have to be treated by antipsoric medicines.’ And —“the vast superiority of the homocopathic system over all other conceivable methods of the treatment is nowhere‘THE DICTIONARY OF ORGANON / 99 displayed in a more triumphant light than in mental and emotional diseases of long standing.” The words are, and have been verified to be, very true for about two hundred years.