1	Constantine Hering Law of Cure Cure, Palliation and Suppression
2	Constantine Hering Painting
3	Hering’s Law of Cure – Original Excerpts Cure takes place in a definite orderly manner and direction...normal vital processes, cellular, organic and systemic, begin at the center and proceed outwardly...life is a centrifugal force, radiating, externalizing, ...'from above downward'. In the same sense disease is a centripetal force, opposing, obstructing, penetrating toward the center and tending to disorganization... the progression of all chronic diseases is from the surface toward the center; from less important to more important organs - 'from below upward'. Curative medicine reinforces the life force, reverses the morbid process and annihilates disease. Symptoms disappear from above downwards, from within outward and in the reverse order of their appearance. When a patient with an obscure rheumatic endocarditis, for example, begins to have signs and symptoms of acute arthritis soon after taking the homeopathic remedy and is relieved of his chest sufferings, we know that cure has commenced.'
4	Summary of the Law of Cure Hering observed that the body seeks to externalize disease, noting that symptoms will surface as part of the curative process. According to one of Hering's "laws", a person's symptoms will appear and disappear in the reverse order of their appearance upon the body. Thus, a patient might re-experience symptoms during the healing process. Another observation was that the body heals from top to bottom, and from more vital organs to less vital organs.
5	Cure, Palliation and Suppression We use this to help us understand how a remedy is working in the body A remedy can have 3 basic Reactions Cure Palliation Suppression
6	What is Meant by Cure Patient's health is gradually restored and this is eventually a stable and permanent state. It is not necessary for medicines to be always continued. The patient has an actual increase in well-being greater than what was present prior to the illness.
7	Indications of a Curative Reaction Healing aggravation. Return of "old symptoms". Apparent healing process, ongoing for a long period of time.
8	Palliation – Use of Allopathic Methods Chronic disease is not permanently extinguished by using allopathic methods of treatment. Actually, after a short time of seeming improvement, the disease shows itself with renewed intensity requiring even greater doses and more frequent use of the medicine (or additional medicines) is required. (Organon par. 23)
9	What is Palliation? The palliative medicine produces a condition completely different than does the curative medicine. At the beginning the palliative medicine makes the life force insensible to the natural disease with an apparent rapid neutralization of the disease.
10	Palliation is Short-Lived However, the effect quickly disappears by itself (all medicinal diseases are short-lived) leaving the natural disease unchanged.
11	Palliated Disease Comes Back! Moreover, after the effect of the palliative medicine on the body, there is a secondary counter-reaction by the life force which is similar in kind and intensity to the original disease. This counter-reaction augments and strengthens the original disease so that the disease symptom for which the palliative drug was prescribed becomes more severe after treatment than before. par. 69)
12	Palliated Disease Comes Back STRONGER! Moreover, after the effect of the palliative medicine on the body, there is a secondary counter-reaction by the life force which is similar in kind and intensity to the original disease. This counter-reaction augments and strengthens the original disease so that the disease symptom for which the palliative drug was prescribed becomes more severe after treatment than before. par. 69)
13	Palliation requires the continued use of medicines Therefore, palliative treatment requires the continued use of medicines - indefinitely in chronic disease - because if the treatment is stopped the disease shows forth in a more severe form than it was at the beginning. (par. 69)
14	Suppression One or more symptoms disappear (for a long time or permanently) without cure. The patient is not generally (e.g., overall) improved and, with time, will even become worse as the disease develops itself. The most permanent and severe form of suppressive therapy is surgery.
15	The Process of Cure Increased well-being (energy, spirits, activity, social interaction, mood, alertness). Signs of physiological resistance to disease (fever, vomiting, diarrhea, inflammatory response, discharges) if the prior condition was one of feeble reaction. Homeopathic aggravation (within the first few minutes or hour after the remedy). Seen mostly in chronic disease. Counter-action of the life force- an increase in (often) one symptom of the symptom-complex. Seen very quickly in acute illness (minutes to hours). In chronic disease, often seen over 2-3 days. Disappearance (or reduction of) symptoms of the illness. Return of normal behavior (grooming, interaction, habits, personality characteristics). Sequential increase and reduction of one or more symptoms of the disease complex - brief and not intense - and often occurring in reverse chronological order. Return of "old" symptoms, usually ones that were suppressed by prior allopathic treatment, usually several weeks after starting treatment.
16	The Process of Palliation A symptom (or group of symptoms) rather quickly disappears while the medicine is being used. • Though some symptoms are relieved, the patient does not seem to be improving in a general sense, e.g., increased well-being. Some symptoms that were present before are not better - in fact persist unchanged or become worse. With time, new symptoms, not seen before, now make their appearance ("side effects"). There are no signs of cure (as defined elsewhere) underway (e.g., no aggravation, no enhanced well-being, no signs of inflammation or discharge, etc.). If the medication is discontinued, the symptoms return after a while and may actually be more intense than before. Over time, if the medicine is continued, the patient deteriorates (loss of interest, apathy, sluggishness, a new crisis of apparently "new" disease with a different diagnosis).
17	The Process of Suppression One or more symptoms disappear for a while, or permanently. This may happen very quickly or over a period of time. The medicine does not have to be continued because the symptom has diminished. The patient often continues to have one or more remaining symptoms - not considered to be part of the diagnosis. There is no evidence of enhanced well-being and no evidence of a process of cure. After a while (week, months, even years), a new symptom or disease appears in a different place in the body (e.g., a new diagnosis). Alternatively, no new physical symptoms develop but the patient worsens emotionally. This can occur very soon after the suppressive effect. The patient seems to be relatively immune to common infectious diseases. • There may be an increased attraction or susceptibility to parasites. After a period of what is usually considered as "good health", there is a crisis and discovery of a disease more severe than the original one. New diseases that do appear are more interior, e.g., deeper inside the body, or further up towards the chest or head.
18	Graphic View of Cure
19	Graphic View of Palliation
20	Graphic View of Suppression