Homoeo at A Glance PDF
Homoeo at A Glance PDF
Homoeo at A Glance PDF
I.WHY HOMEOPATHY?
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.
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.
In cases of renal and hepatic colic Homeopathy can remove the agonizing
pain and also removes the tendency to form stones.
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”.
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.
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.