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HOMEOPATHY AT A GLANCE

Prof Pushpa Latha & Prof V.N.Rao


LUC of HOMEOPATHY

Homeopathy is a special system of Medical Therapeutics based on Natural


Principles and is without side effects, addiction, allergies and with better relief,
prolonged relief to complete cure of the patients.
it is a system of alternative medicine propounded by a German physician
Chritian Samuel Friedrich Hahnemann in the year 1790.
Let us understand at a glance.
Let us pose TWO QUESTIONS :
I. WHY HOMEOPATHY
II. WHAT HOMEOPATHY

I.WHY HOMEOPATHY?

Homeopathy is one of the leading traditional and complementary


medicine system under ministry of health Malaysia. It is fully regulated by
traditional and complementary division under ministry of health Malaysia .
1 OFFERING TO NEW GENERATION TO BECOME HOMEOPATHIC DOCTOR

2. OFFERING TREATMENT TO THE PATIENTS

1 OFFERING TO NEW GENERATION TO BECOME HOMEOPATHIC DOCTOR

As a career in homeopathy it offers a great future in the present conditions


of the society .If the student clearly understands the needs of the suffering
humanity and has a burning desire to serve them to come out of their unending
pains and diseases homeopathy offers him a good pathway to follow.

HOMEOPATHY is not a pathway many walked over .This is a new system


based on principles which are founded on the natural laws.

It is not an easy task to study Homeopathy, but when the student sticks to
the principles and follows them strictly ,studious in his learning and practicing
HOMEOPATHY for the benefit of the mankind it offers him name fame finance lots
of mental satisfaction from the cures he offers to the suffering people and great
reputation as a successful physician.it offers him a lifelong vocation and avocation.
Homeopathy offers the student a lifelong independent position and opportunity
to study and practice the principles of homeopathy [a doctor is a student
throughout his life].

Apart from these achievements the student can pursue his studies as masters
degree, Ph.D and post doctorate presentations and settle as a medical faculty in
homeo colleges or do research in homeopathy.

2. OFFERING TREATMENT TO THE PATIENTS

PRESENT SCENARIO OF MEDICAL SYSTEM where treatment is symptomatic and


having side effects, complications , drug allergies, drug addictions even to
iatrogenic diseases, but humanity needs a better alternate system of medicine
which has no side effects, no drug addiction, no drug allergies with better reliefs,
prolonged relief and finally cure of diseases.the answer for better alternate system
is HOMEOPATHY.

Homeopathy is well suited to all irrespective of age , sex,race, acute or


chronic diseases especially children, female, geriatrics and all with viral
fevers/diseases, autoimmune disorders like rheumatoid arthritis, certain
cancers,skin and respiratory allergies ,asthma , PCOD, Infertility, Piles
Cervical / Lumbar Disc Disorders, hypothyroid complaints etc of all medically
treatable ailments. More than 50% of surgical diseases may be well tackled in
homeopathy.
According to Homeopathy the cure is not only relief of the suffering but
it is a sure safe, rapid gentle and permanent removal of the disease with no
recurrences or reappearance of the symptoms nor the treatment leaves any side
effects.

The treatment is harmless in nature because of the use of infinitesimal


quantity of the medicinal substances .After removal of the totality of symptoms the
patient is restored to the normal state of health and need not continue the
treatment for lifelong.

Homeopathy not only cures the diseases but also removes the familial and
hereditary tendencies of the diseases the patient carries with his genome patterns.
Homeo medicines enable the vital force to provide its own immunity towards the
inherited diseases.

Homeopathy successfully treats all bacterial and septic diseases like


cholera,typhus,typhoid,malaria ,diphtheria ,dengue, Chikun gunya cerebrospinal
fevers ,meningitis encephalitis,tuberculosis,pneumonia.etc. by giving homeo
medicines without resorting to antibiotics or antiseptics.

In most advanced cases of diseases where irreversible destructive changes


have occurred in vital organs then also Homeopathy comes into play with
medicines which palliate the condition by removing the most troublesome
symptoms like burning bleeding and severe pains, accumulation of fluids in serous
sacs as pleurisy or ascites etc. breathlessness in pericarditis etc.and life of the
patient can be extended from weeks to months and in the last days painless death
can be possible.

In cases of renal and hepatic colic Homeopathy can remove the agonizing
pain and also removes the tendency to form stones.

In auto immune diseases hormonal imbalances female problems pregnancy


sterility,pediatric problems like constant weeping earaches ,abdominal
colics,teathing problems ,late milestones of life ,stunted growth ,late learning to
talk ,walk etc.bed wetting of adolescence,late first menses ,excessive bleedings,
painful menses ,pcos,hypo or hyper thyroidismetc all have a perfect treatment and
cure in Homeopathy.

II..WHAT? HOMEOPATHY SYSTEM OF MEDICINE


Let us discuss in the following headings.

1. INTRODUCTION
2. PRINCIPLES
3. CONCEPT

INTRODUCTION
BASIS:-The second rule of HIPPOCRATES – similia similibus curantur
and the logic, both inductive and deductive of LORD BACON, suggestion of VON
HALLER about the experiment of medicines on healthy human beings to get the
pure effects of the drugs. Translation of Cullen’s Materia Medica, first
experimentation with Cinchona bark on Hahnemann himself and repeated
experiments with various medicines on hundreds of followers and friends and
confirmation of the fact that sick making powers of medicines are the sick curing
powers herald the birth of homeopathy.
From the point of cell injury, the disease is caused by an injury to a
certain group of cells. Our minute dose will effect a change in those cells only and
works as a stimulus because those cells are already sensitized by the effect of the
injurious influences on them and they need the help, the minute homeopathic dose
sets the normalcy in the tissues. The main aim of homeopathy is the cure of the
natural diseases without any side effects painlessly harmlessly and permanently
Natural diseases are those which are caused by natural causes,the telluric and
atmospheric conditions different types of acute infections the mental and
emotional disturbances cause many diseases which can be successfully treated by
homeopathy .
2.PRINCIPLES
1).. SIMILIA SIMILIBUS CURENTUR--let likes be treated by likes
Homoeopathy is a method of scientific study and therapeutic practice. It implies a
particular way of applying drugs to diseases.
Homoeopathy is a method of curing the suffering of a person by the
administration of drugs which have been experimentally proved to possess power
of producing similar sufferings in a healthy human being. It may be defined as a
system of medicine based upon natural laws.
2). LAW OF DIRECTION CURE –“The cure takes place from above downwards, from
within outwards, from an important organ to a less important organ, the symptom
disappear in the reverse order of their appearance, the first to appear being the last
to disappear”.Dr Hering formulated a law about the direction how a cure takes
place .this is true in both cure and recovery.
3)- THE LAW OF MUTUAL ACTION-
The action and reaction are equal and opposite”-
The law which follows naturally the law of mutual action is the law of
least action which was formulated by Maupertius, the French mathematician. For
the Homeo physician it may be known as the law of quantity and dose-
The quality of action necessary to effect any change in nature is the least possible,
the decisive amount is always a minimum, an infinitesimal.
4).. LAW OF THE QUANTITY AND DOSE-
“The Quantity of the drug required is in the inverse ratio to the similarity”- i.e.
the greater the similarity, the lesser is the Quantity required, for the greater
will be the susceptibility of the patient.
5).. A corollary to the Law of Quantity is-
“THE QUALITY OF THE ACTION OF A HOMOEOPATHIC REMEDY IS
DETERMINED BY ITS QUANTITY IN INVERSE RATIO”.
This is the relation between the susceptibility of the patient and the similarity of
the drug .The laws of Quality and Quantity go hand in hand.
6). FUNCTION CREATES AND DEVELOPS THE ORGAN.
It is observed that prior to the development of structural changes, the
disease, expresses itself thro’ functional disturbances. This is the clinical aspect
of the disease where the abnormal physiology can be seen. If untreated,
structural changes develop in the tissues and organs.first of reversible nature
followed by irreversible changes.then We can only palliate the condition.
Following biological law, function create and develops the organ,
Homoeopathy postulates the law of symptom development- functional
changes precede structural changes.
7). LAW GOVERNING THE HOMOEOPATHIC REMEDY-
“The dose and Quantity that will thoroughly permeate the organism
and make its essential impress upon the vital force is that which will affect
the functional sphere of the individual”.

8). LAW OF REPETITION OF DOSE.-


“Never repeat your remedy so long as it continues to act”.
The action of the drug can be known by the appearance of the evidence
of its action in amelioration or aggravation (homoeopathic) or complete
disappearance of symptoms. The indication for repetition of the remedy is the
condition of the patient, the improvement coming to a stand still, until that
time we should not repeat the remedy.
9). Never repeat the dose in a proving while symptoms are manifest from the
dose already taken.
The laws governing the production of artificial disease states follow closely
the law of mutual action, law of least action, and laws of quantity and quality.
1)Any drug which in its natural state affects the vital energy but little, will
develop a proving only in high potency.
e.g. Carbo veg, Lycopodium, Graphitis.
2) Any drug which in its natural state disturbs the vital energy to functional
manifestations only may be proven in a crude form.
e.g. Lobelia, Ipecac
3) Any drug which in its natural state disturbs the vital energy to destructive
manifestations should be proven only in a potentiated form.
All poisons, acids, alkalies etc

10). DRUG DYNAMIZATION-


It is a mathematico mechanical process in which the medicinal substance is
diluted , reduced in quantity according to scale, of crude ,inert or poisonous
medicinal substances to a state of physical solubility, physiological assimilability and
therapeutic activity and harmlessness for use as homoeopathic healing remedies.
11). PRINCIPLE of VITAL FORCE
Aphorism 9 ORGANON OF MEDICINE–In the healthy condition of man the
spiritual vital force (autocracy), the dynamis that animates the material body
(organism) rules with unbounded sway and retains all the parts of the
organism in admirable harmonious vital operation as regards both sensations
and functions,so that our indwelling reason gifted mind can freely employ this
living healthy instrument for higher purposes of existence .
12). PRINCIPLE OF CHRONIC DISEASES
The true natural chronic diseases are those that arise from a chronic
miasm which when left to themselves and unchecked by employment of those
remedies that are specific to them always go on increasing and going worse
notwithstanding the best mental and corporeal regimen and torment the
patient to the end of his life with ever aggravated sufferings .these are most
numerous and greatest scourges of human race, for the most robust
constitution ,the best regulated mode of living and the most vigorous energy
of the vital force are insufficient for their eradication.

3 . CONCEPTS
DISEASE:
Homeopath studies a patient physically, mentally, emotionally, sociologically
and spiritually.
What Hahnemann felt is that Disease is not a fixed entity but an ever-
changing process like life itself. Hahnemann felt that nature has no nomenclature
or classification of disease. Nature produces individual disease and insists that the
true physician should not treat the systematic combination, which makes up a
genus of disease (a kind of confounding together of diseases) but should treat the
individuality of the disease
Etiologically he divided the chronic diseases under 3 miasmatic maladies – Psora,
Sycosis & Syphilis.
INDISPOSITION: -If a patient complains of one or more trivial symptoms which has
been observed a short time previously, the physician should not regard this as fully
developed disease that requires medical aid. A slight alteration in diet and regimen
will usually suffice to dispel such an indisposition.eg; ;1.remove from room all strong
smelling flowers.
2.Extract foreign body from cornea which causes inflammation of eye

SURGICAL
Eg. In case of injuries accruing to the body from without. The
treatment of such diseases is relegated to surgery; but this is right in only so far as
the affected parts require medical aid, whereby the external obstacles to the cure,
which can only be expected to take place by the agency of the vital force, may be
removed by mechanical means. But when in such injuries the whole living
organism requires; as it always does active dynamic aid to put it in a position to
accomplish the work of healing-the services of the dynamic physician and
homoeopathy come into requisition.
DYNAMIC DISEASES
Derangement of the vital principle to such an abnormal state that
can furnish the organism with the disagreeable sensations and incline it to
irregular processes and its morbid derangements, only makes itself known by the
manifestation of disease in the sensations and functions of those parts of the
organism exposed to the senses of the observer and physician.
ACUTE DIESASE:
Acute diseases are transient explosion of latent psora, which finishes its
course more or less quickly, but always in moderate time.
INDIVIDUAL, SPORADIC,EPIDEMIC:
In case of epidemic diseases after close observation of
several cases the physician can come to a totality of signs and symptoms
depending on which he can select the most suitable homoeopathic medicine. ie.,
GENUS EPIDEMICUS to be curative for patients and preventive for other healthy
persons.
CHRONIC DISEASES .
I. Diseases with fully developed symptoms
1. Miasmatic; 2. Non-Miasmatic
II.Diseases with few symptoms: One-Sided Diseases.
MIXED MIASMATIC STATE :
Diseases Like Tuberculosis, Diabetes, Cancers Caused By Combination Of
Two Or Three Miasms
DISEASES WITH FEW SYMPTOMS:
1. ONE SIDED DISEASES:
One-sided diseases are diseases, which have very few symptoms and
difficult to cure as they display only one or two principal symptoms which obscure
all others. It can be divided into two.
Onesided Diseases are again classified into 2 Types
1. Mental
2. Corporeal.

INTERMITTENT DISEASES
Typical intermittent diseases are those where morbid state of unvarying
character returns in a fixed period while patient apparently in good health at
equally at fixed period. There are two types:
1. Non-febrile –eg.epilepsy, asthma
2. Febrile eg. malaria
ALTERNATING DISEASES:
Alternating diseases are those diseases in which certain morbid states
alternate at uncertain intervals with morbid states of different kind.
Eg. Leg pain alternate with ophthalmia.

INDIVUALISATION OF A PATIENT== PORTRAIT OF DISEASE


Portrait means a representation of a person or an animal especially of the
face, made by drawing, painting photography etc. Another meaning is that a verbal
picture, a graphic description.
The central theme of Organon of Medicine comprises the operation of curing
which consists of 3 points:
1. Knowledge of disease
2. Knowledge of the medicine
3. Knowledge of the judicious mode of employment of medicine in
diseases
IMPORTANCE OF DIAGNOSIS
As the first objective is to come to a decision about diagnosis:
1. The homoeopathic physician must be a diagnostician and a prognosticator;
this primary duty is to determine immediately what ails the patient, exact
nature of the disease and also the nature of the treatment required, if any.
2. The management of the patient as regards the diet and regimen entirely
depends upon the recognition of the basic fact of the diagnosis. An error
in this step will cost at times the life of the patient and sometimes the
professional reputation of the physician.
3. Clinical diagnosis enables the physician to choose his case and to eliminate
cases requiring primarily surgical or other measures
4. A complete diagnosis offers a full comprehension of the patients’
personality, his constitution and mechanism of the production of the
symptoms, subjective and objective. It gives an idea about the locations of
the disease i.e. tissues or organs affected.
5. The pathological changes, type, degree, extent, the pathogenic agent
(microorganism) the physiological disturbances induced, the pathological
accompaniments and the pathogenesis, it will not be possible to give
prognosis with any degree of accuracy unless we possess this knowledge
6. The knowledge of the diagnostic symptoms i.e. the pathognomonic
symptoms helps in determining the individual characteristic symptoms
which form the basis of the prescription in homoeopathic practice
according to the concept of the totality of the symptoms.
7. It aids prescription by giving information about the location and nature of
pathological changes present – pathological generals. It determines
whether the pathological changes are far advanced and have affected any
of the vital organs
8. Diagnosis gives indication about
a) The use of deep acting constitutional remedies like Silicea,
Lycopodium, Sulphur etc. Unless the case is prepared beforehand
by the administration of the superficially acting related remedy
b) Use of high potency
c) Frequent repetition of similar deep acting remedy if the case is in
border line i.e. good enough to receive the impact of a carefully
administered and regulated similar remedy. E.g.: a dose of a remedy
like Phosphorous 30 may be required once in 3 or 4 months. The
above incidents necessitate the clear knowledge of the clinical
diagnosis.
9. The clear diagnosis helps in differentiation of a natural disease process
from other disturbances in the health occasioned by causes other than
dynamical which resemble the disease process. Ex: Asiatic cholera from
Arsenic poisoning, Dry cholera from Camphor poisoning
Natural illness ---- Abuse of drugs
THE TREATMENT
consists of
1) General measures depend on
a) Clinical diagnosis
b) Idiosyncrasy of the patient
c) Nature of the Simillimum
d) Non medicinal accessory Therapeutics measures like
psychotherapy, physiotherapy etc.
2) Specific measures
Drugs – Simillimum or surgery required secondarily
TOTALITY OF SYMPTOMS
It is an expression peculiar to homoeopathy which requires special attention.
Totality of symptoms is the true and only basis for every homoeopathic
prescription.
Hahnemann says “The ensemble or totality of these available signs and
symptoms represents in its full extent the disease itself. They constitute the true
and only conceivable portrait of the disease .
The totality of symptoms means all the symptoms of the case which are
capable of being logically combined into a harmonious and consistent whole, having
form, coherency and individuality.

CONSTITUTION AND TEMPERAMENT


CONSTITUTION=The physical make-up of the body, including the mode of
performance of its functions, the activity of its metabolic processes, the manner and
degree of its reaction to stimuli, and its power of resistance to the attack of
pathogenic organisms.( Stedman’s medical dictionary-19thEdn 1957)
Constitutional=General, relating to the system as a whole, not local
TEMPERAMENT=The physical organization peculiar to the individual, which
influences one’s metabolic processes, manner of thought and action, and general
views of life.( Stedman’s medical dictionary-19thEdn 1957)
TEMPERAMENT-TYPES:
1.Atrabilious or Melancholic temperament: = one marked by emaciation, extreme
and lasting irritability, and a pessimistic outlook on the world.
2.Bilious(choleric)=Marked by more or less pigmentation, high blood pressure, slow
pulse, well developed muscle, strong appetites, tenacity of purpose and a choleric
temper.
3.Lymphatic (Phlegmatic)=Marked by pallor of skin, slow and shallow respiration,
sluggish circulation, hyperplasia of lymphatic glands and of the thymus, and a
tendency to inflammations of the skin and lymphatics; it is much the same as the
scrofulous diathesis.
4.Nervous = The subject is mentally and physically alert, with rapid pulse,
excitability, often volubility, but not always fixity of purpose.
5.Sanguineous= The subject has fresh complexion, light hair and eyes, a full pulse, a
good digestion, and a quick but not lasting temper (a fit of anger)
CONSTITUTION (DIATHESIS):
Anaemic: Asthmatic: Cachexia (in general):Cancerous: Carbo-nitrogenoid:
Catarrhal:Dwarfish:Cretinism:Dyspeptic:Fibre:Lax:Fibre:Rigid:Gouty: Haemorrhagic
(bleeders): Hemorrhoidal: Herpetic: Hydrogenoid: Lymphatic (flabby, relaxed
torpid):Plethoric: Psoric: Rachitic: Rheumatic: Scorbutic: Scrofulous (strumous):
Sycotic: Syphilitic: Tuberculous: Venous: Weakly:

POSOLOGY(SCIENCE OF DOSAGE)
A) CENTESIMAL POTENCIES.:6; 12; 30; 200;1M; 10M; 50M; CM; DM; MM- IN
DILUSIONS(LIQUID FORM) TO BE PREPARED ADDING TO SUGAR GLOBULES.
B) DECIMAL SCALE:-- 1X;3X; 6X; 12X; 30X; 200X MOSTLY USED BY BIOCHEMIC MEDICINES
C) L.M .(50-MILLESIMAL): 0/1; 0/2; 0/3---------0/30 IN PILLS
MOTHER TINCTURES----Q
***DOSAGE:-ONE DOSE-5 PILLS FOR ADULTS AND 3PILLS FOR CHILDREN
SUSCEPTIBILITY
---Susceptibility is the general quality or capability of the living organism of
receiving impressions & the power to react to the stimuli – STUART CLOSE
-----We may define susceptibility primarily as the reaction of the organism to
the external and internal influences – ROBERTS
----Susceptibility is influx or flow of cause into the body – KENT.
----Susceptibility is an inherent capacity in all living things to react to stimuli in
the environment and represent a fundamental quality that distinguishes the
living from the non-living - DHAWALE
 Susceptibility implies affinity, attraction, desire, hunger, need.
 These are present normally as states and conditions, but can become morbid
and cause disease.
The potency is directly proportional to the amount of susceptibility, the
higher the susceptibility the higher will be the potency required in any given
case.
IDIOSYNCRASY
Reacting abnormally to normal stimuli like food items .this can be
called as allergy
CONCLUSION
Thus homeopathy is a scientific method of treating the patients with
harmless medicines surely rapidly gently removing the disease in its whole
extent in the shortest possible time leading to a permanent cure.
As homeopaths we have a higher place of honour in the society as
constitutional therapists.
Let us see the scope of HOMEOPATHY;
THE diseases caused by dynamical causes which disturb the vital functions of
mind and body are successfully cured by Homeopathy.
DISEASES of Mental, psychical, thermic, atmospheric, climatic causes,
Dietetic, hygienic ,contagious ,infectious causes.
Diseases caused by abuse of drugs.ETC.

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