Hering’s Law of Cure: How True Healing Unfolds in Homeopathy
- Nora Pettik
- Nov 13, 2025
- 4 min read
What is Hering’s Law of Cure?
Hering’s Law of Cure describes the natural direction in which genuine healing unfolds. In homeopathy, the aim is not simply to remove symptoms but to restore balance and harmony at every level of the person. According to this principle, the healing process moves from within outward, from top to bottom, and in the reverse order in which symptoms first appeared.
This understanding allows both homeopath and client to recognize whether healing is truly taking place or whether symptoms have merely been suppressed.
Homeopathy vs Symptom Suppression
Conventional medicine often focuses on symptom control. Painkillers silence pain, creams calm rashes, and medications suppress coughs. While this can bring temporary comfort, it may also drive the disturbance deeper into the system, where it can later reappear as another complaint.
Homeopathy approaches illness differently. It seeks to awaken the body’s self-healing intelligence. When the correct remedy is chosen, the body begins to realign itself, often retracing old symptom patterns as it moves toward balance. Hering’s Law of Cure describes this natural order of recovery and helps us understand that temporary symptom shifts are not setbacks but signs of real progress.
Collecting the Whole Symptom Picture: CLAMS
To find the right remedy in an acute situation, homeopaths gather a full and detailed picture of the individual’s experience using C.L.A.M.S:
C – Concomitants: Other symptoms that occur at the same time.
L – Location: The exact part of the body affected.
A – Aetiology (Cause): What triggered it, such as grief, stress, exposure, or injury.
M – Modality: What makes it better or worse, such as movement, weather, time of day, or food.
S – Sensation: The quality of the feeling: burning, pressure, sharp pain, or heaviness.
In chronic cases, homeopaths also explore beyond CLAMS to understand the deeper constitution: personality traits, emotional tendencies, fears, reactions to stress, thermal preference, sleep patterns, and recurring life themes. All of these reveal how a person experiences the world and how the imbalance expresses itself.
The most important clues are always the strange, rare, and peculiar symptoms: those unique expressions that make each individual different from another.
Case: Healing from Eczema and Asthma
Anna, a 36-year-old teacher, came for help with long-standing asthma. She had developed eczema as a child, which was treated with steroid creams for many years. The skin cleared, but in her early twenties she began to suffer from asthma attacks that worsened in damp weather and emotional stress. She described herself as reserved and easily hurt but rarely showed emotion in public.
During the consultation, I collected not only the physical details (the modalities and sensations of her asthma) but also explored her emotional life and general tendencies:
Thermal preference: She disliked heat and felt worse in stuffy rooms.
Food cravings: Strong desire for salty foods.
Sleep pattern: Restless before midnight, often dreaming of the sea.
Emotional picture: Sensitive to criticism, holds back tears, tends to hide disappointment.
General energy: Tired in the morning, mentally alert in the evening.
Family history: Skin conditions and allergies common among close relatives.
All these details together built a clear constitutional picture. The remedy chosen matched both her physical symptoms and her emotional state.
After a few weeks, her breathing improved, she could walk longer distances without wheezing, and her energy lifted. Then something interesting happened: small red patches appeared again on her arms: the same eczema that had vanished years earlier.
I explained that this was a healthy sign. The healing was moving from the lungs outward to the skin, exactly in the direction described by Hering’s Law of Cure. Over the following weeks, the skin slowly cleared again, this time without suppressive creams, and her asthma symptoms did not return.
The process showed how the body was reorganizing itself, resolving the deeper imbalance that had once been pushed inward.
Emotional Healing Example
James, aged 42, sought help for chronic tension headaches that worsened under pressure. The homeopathic consultation revealed that his headaches had begun after a painful breakup, which he had never fully processed. He described feeling emotionally blocked, unable to cry, and constantly tense around the neck and shoulders.
His chosen remedy matched this picture of suppressed grief and internal pressure. After taking it, he noticed a few days of emotional release: he cried unexpectedly and felt lighter afterward. Within a week, his headaches lessened in both intensity and frequency.
This healing sequence also followed Hering’s Law of Cure: emotional balance returned first, and then the physical symptoms eased.
The Principle of the Minimum Dose
Classical homeopathy also follows the law of the minimum dose, which means giving the smallest possible stimulus to encourage the body’s self-healing response. The goal is not to force change but to guide the vital force gently back to balance.
When the remedy matches well, a single dose may be enough to initiate lasting improvement. Repeating it too often or taking multiple remedies can interfere with this natural process. Allowing time and observation respects the body’s rhythm and intelligence.
Recognizing the Direction of Healing
Healing according to Hering’s Law can be observed through subtle but clear signs:
Emotional and mental calmness returning before physical symptoms vanish
Sleep and energy improving
Old symptoms briefly resurfacing and then disappearing completely
Symptoms moving from deeper organs to the skin or limbs
Relief moving from the upper part of the body toward the lower
Keeping a health diary helps you notice these positive shifts and understand the body’s story of recovery.
Why Hering’s Law of Cure Matters
Recognizing this law helps us stay patient and trust the healing process. True recovery often unfolds in stages, sometimes bringing old sensations or emotions to the surface before complete relief appears.
Understanding Hering’s Law of Cure helps both client and homeopath see that these changes are not setbacks but signs that the body is working in harmony with its natural intelligence.
Healing is not only the absence of symptoms but the restoration of vitality, peace, and balance throughout the whole person.
Disclaimer:The information provided here should not be used as a substitute for the advice of a properly qualified and licensed healthcare provider. The information provided is for educational purposes only. For professional assistance, please book a consultation!
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