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One must recognize and take into account the symptoms that occur in the sick person, that what causes fever and so on is a kind of call to the forces in the organism that can drive out the enemy that has crept in. — Therefore, proponents of this type of healing will say that one must resort to those remedies in nature which, when taken by a healthy organism, cause the disease in question. Of course, these remedies, which cause certain symptoms of disease in a healthy organism, should not be administered to the sick organism in large doses, but only in such small doses that the remedy in question is just enough to elicit a reaction from the organism against the damage that has occurred. This is the principle of homeopathy: that which can cause a certain disease in a healthy organism also has the potential to restore the sick organism to health. The remedy used is that which the organism itself reveals through its symptoms. The idea is that the organism in a diseased state shows through its symptoms that it is trying to overcome the disease. Therefore, we must support it with precisely this remedy.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"title":"Questions Regarding Health in Light of Spiritual Science","site_heading":null,"date":"1909-01-14","location":null,"word_count":317,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/57/1909-01-14/p009","alignment_confidence":"medium","alignment_reason":"beads:structural_identity","two_voice_volume":false,"translation_credit":{"scope":"unit","status":"established","translator":"Steiner Online Library","identified_edition":"eLib2014","book_title":"Where and How Does One Find the Spirit?","publisher":null,"publisher_inferred":false,"match_score":1.0,"source_url":"https://www.rsarchive.org/Lectures/GA057/English/eLib2014/19090114p01.html","evidence":"lecture_page_line"},"edition_coverage":{"de":["original"],"en":["English"]},"available_versions":[{"lang":"de","edition":"original","edition_basis":null,"is_original":true,"is_default_edition":true,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/57/1909-01-14/p009"},{"lang":"en","edition":"English","edition_basis":null,"is_original":false,"is_default_edition":true,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/57/1909-01-14/p009","paragraph_aligned":true}],"record":{"record_type":"unknown","scope":"volume","note":"How this text was taken down (shorthand transcript, listeners' notes or manuscript) is not on record here. 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