It might seem that cure would be hastened by the application of the remedy locally as well as internally.

197. Ini tidak harus dilakukan. Dalam penyakit di mana terdapat gangguan lokal, menyapu remedi di permukaan mungkin menghilangkan simptom-simptom lokal sebelum penyakit internal, dan ini nampak seakan sembuh tetapi sebenarnya tidak.

 This should not be done. In diseases where there is a local affliction, the application of the remedy to the surface may annihilate the local symptoms before the internal disease, and this may seem to be a cure but isn't.

198. Penggunaan aplikasi setempat sahaja tidak wajar diamalkan. Jika anda hanya membuang simptom lokal, kerap kali menyukarkan anda untuk melihat simptom-simptom dalaman yang tidak jelas (yang mungkin lebih karakteristik dan sukar untuk melihat).

 The use of topical applications alone is inadmissible. If you only remove the local symptoms, it is often hard to see the more obscure inner symptoms (which may be slightly characteristic and difficult to see)

199. Jika simptom-simptom eksternal telah dibuang (melalui pembedahan, dan sebagainya),  mungkin baki simptom-simptom dalaman terlalu samar/kabur untuk menemui remedi kerana simptom-simptom luaran tidak boleh dilihat lagi.

 If the external symptoms have been removed (by surgery, etc.) the remaining internal symptoms might be too vague to discover the remedy because the external symptoms can no longer be seen.