§ 24:
There remains, therefore, no other mode of employing medicines in diseases that promises to be of service besides the homoeopathic, by means of which we seek, for the totality of the symptoms of the case of disease, a medicine which among all medicines (whose pathogenetic effects are known from having been tested in healthy individuals) has the power and the tendency to produce an artificial morbid state most similar to that of the case of disease in question.
Prasad Rasal:
After explaining the details about the Allopathic & Antipathic modes of treatment prevalent during his time, now he turn towards the third more convincing mode of the treatment available to treat the diseased humanity which is based on the Natures Laws & i.e. Homoeopathy. Now, he is turning to give explanation of the method discovered by him & which is based on the Symptom Similarity in which the pure effects of the medicines are available as they are already proved on healthy human beings. There pathogenetic effects are already known before prescribing & that's why they are pure. So that, one can use them for sick person by finding out the totality of the symptoms from him & matching the same from the proved medicines
Friday, April 8, 2011
Thursday, April 7, 2011
Perceiving the Non-Verbal State in Children: A Repertorial Study
Generally, in our consulting, number of times we have to tackle the infants or children. Once a child takes Homoeopathic medicine, he never goes to Allopath because of the sweet Homoeopathic pills. In fact number of times, he ask for those pills even though he is not ill. We get maximum pediatric OPD due to our sweet & gentle Homoeopathic Medicines. But the budding Homoeopaths fear to take the case of a child or infant & they consider that Case Taking is only possible thro’ questions. In fact due to maximum energy is present in those infants & kids; we can get a very clear picture due to their expression if we are able to perceive that. Perceiving this picture without words or sentences is nothing but the Non-verbal Communication. If you master this, perceiving the state of disposition & mind becomes very easy task in infants & children. Few aspects of pediatric case can come right from parent’s discussion. Today, we will learn few aspects of it with the help of examples.
Dr Samuel Hahnemann says in aphorism no.83 regarding the qualities of Homoeopathic Physician as:
1. Free from prejudice
2. Sound senses
3. Attention in observing
4. Fidelity in tracing the picture of the disease
So, one should always utilize & develop those qualities in every pediatric case taking. He must consider every pediatric case with unprejudiced mind & with the help of his own Sound Senses should observe whatever is happening with the child. He should not miss anything because without asking anything, you have to find out the state of his disposition & mind.
Let’s explore it with the help of few examples.
Example: An infant is brought to you by the parents in a frightened state telling you that he is continuously crying since last 4-5 hours. We think that he might be suffering from the colic or earache. When the infant is brought to your clinic, is not crying, but as soon as it is kept on the table starts crying piteously. Unless carried, he doesn’t stop crying. Parents suffer because of continuous carrying him.
So, we can get following rubrics:
1. Weeping, Children, In, Carried & held, when, Amel.
2. Carried, Desires to be, Constantly
3. Weeping, Piteous
Here, we can get two remedies: Cham & Cina but we can differentiate them easily because in
• Weeping, Piteous, Carried, when - there is only Cina.
Naturally, we can prescribe Chamomilla to this weeping child with successful result.
Example: An infant is brought to you for the complaint of shrieking at the time of feeding him since one or two days. He refuses the feeding otherwise he is not having complaints. Here again we can get following rubric:
• Shrieking, screaming, shouting, Children, in, Nursed, when being: Bor
Example: An infant is brought to you for the complaint of weeping whole day & sleeps better at night without crying. Here we can get the rubric:
• Weeping, Children, In, Day, all, & sleeps all night: Lyco, Psor
Here we can differentiate between Lyco from Psor with the help of following rubric:
• Weeping, Children, In, Night, All night, good at day: Jalapa, Psor
So, Psorinum is indicated in both the rubrics which show that both the possibilities are possible in Psor but not in Lyco & we can prescribe Lyco along with rest of the things present in the case.
Example: A common complaint of the parents is that child has become too obstinate. If we take, Obstinate, Children as a rubric, we get 34 remedies for the same & it becomes a difficult task to differentiate those remedies. If we ask details regarding this Obstinacy & if the answer is: Doctor, we don’t know what has happened to him since last few days; if we don’t listen to whatever he says, he starts weeping & weeps a lot for hours piteously. So, we can consider a proper rubric which suggests a remedy directly as:
• Weeping, Children, In, Will is not done, when: Cina
And if the answer is: Doctor, we don’t know what has happened to him since last few days; he asks for number of things & when not given, he weeps a lot for hour together. So, we can consider a proper rubric which suggests a remedy directly as:
• Weeping, Children, In, Refused, the least thing, when: Cham
Example: A child is brought to you for weeping continuously since 8 days when summer has started. If we open the repertory, we get:
• Weeping, Children, In, Summer complaints, in: Ant-c
It indicates that we should be keen observer about all the factors which modifies the health of the children, as well as we should be intelligent enough to apply the knowledge of the Repertory.
Now, we will discuss few more common situations.
Example: A child brought to your consulting by the parents & as soon as they enter inside the clinic, the child starts crying loudly. When they enter inside the consulting, the child clings to parents tightly, cries a lot, pulling them outside, avoiding the look of the Physician. This is the state of his disposition & mind along with the physical complaints for which he is brought.
It is necessary to perceive regarding the crying of the children. Children fear a lot to injections because of which they weep a lot. We can consider following rubrics for this state:
• Fear, Injured, of being
• Clinging, Persons or furniture, to
• Escape, attempts to
• Looked at, to be, Evading the look of other persons
On the basis of above rubrics, we can very easily prescribe Stramonium.
Example: A child is sitting along with the parents. If you ask him a question or his name, instead of answering to you, he answers in his parents ears as if muttering or whispering. Here, we can take following rubric:
• Mind, Speech, Whispering, Answering to the mother instead of to the prescriber directly: Sil
Example: A child is brought to you by parents for any physical problem. He is too restless & not sitting in position, biting nails while moving here & there, looking curiously to each & everything present in the consulting, trying to touch them, asking the parents regarding them. If you ask any question, he hides behind the parents or chair. Following rubrics tell us the remedy:
• Restlessness, Children, in
• Biting, Nails
• Touch things, Impelled to
• Inquisitive
• Hide, Desire to
• Timidity, Bashful
Hyoscyamus covers all those rubrics.
Example: A very mild, quiet, cute, & affectionate baby who kisses her parents is brought to you for some physical complaints.
• Affectionate, Children kiss & caresses: Puls
Example: A rough, irritable, shrieking child brought to you. If you put him a question, he talks in rough tone & does not give proper answers.
• Answer, Civil, cannot give: Cham
Example: If you put a question to a child, you feel that his attention is somewhere else & answers in a very confused way.
• Answer, Confusedly as if thinking of something else, Children, in: Bar-m
Example: If you put any question to a child, you find that child is unaware what has been asked, he looks totally absentminded.
• Absent-mindedness, Children, in: Bac
Example: You can observe children who craves sympathy, affection from everyone continuously
• Affection, Children craving for: Carc
Example: You can observe biting children who goes on biting anything or anyone
• Biting, Children, in: Bell
Example: You can find capricious children who are continuously busy in doing anything.
• Capriciousness, Children, in: CHAM, CINA, Rheum, Sac-alb
• Busy, Children: Cina
Example: You can find happy go lucky, cheerful children who enjoy the life without sadness.
• Cheerfulness, gaiety, happiness, Children, in: Bor
Example: You can find a crawling child who crawls in to the corner & wails, cries, howls.
• Crawling, rolling, Child crawls into corners, howls, cries: Camph
Example: Parent tells us that the child is so frightful that he cannot observe anything cruel, horrible things even on television.
• Cruelty, brutality, inhumanity, Children cannot bear to see cruelty in cinema: Calc
Example: You can find a child who gets frightened easily, fears to remain alone & always holds the hand of a mother
• Fear, Alone, of being, Child wants mother to hold her hand: Bism
• Clinging, Children, of, Take the hand of mother, will always: Bism, Gels, Kali-c, Lil-t, Lyc, Phos
Example: Sometimes, we com across rough, harsh, restless behavior of the children
• Harshness, rough, Children, in: Bac
Example: Sometimes, we find idiotic children
• Idiocy, Children, in: Aeth
Example: We can get impolitely behaving rude children
• Impolite, Children: Lyc
Example: We find some silly children who use to laugh unnecessarily at every occasion
• Laughing, Tendency, Silly, Children at every occasion, in: Croc
Example: We can get two types of children who are having weakness of memory. One whose memory is weak as:
• Memory, Weakness, loss of, Children, in: Agar
And another type who cannot understand, dwarfed with loss of, or weak memory:
• Memory, Weakness, loss of, Labor, for mental, Child cannot be taught: Bar-c
Example: Few children never like to be taken up; they become furious when taken up:
• Rage, fury, Taken up, child on being: Stram
Example: We can find two extreme types of children about taking responsibility. One who develops physically but are very late to understand or take the responsibility as:
• Responsibility, Late, in children: Bar-c
And another who are very strong to carry the responsibility as
• Responsibility, Strong, Children, in: Carc
Example: Sometimes we come across very serious children who behave like adults as:
• Seriousness, earnestness, Children: Sep
Example: Whereas sometimes we get shameless children as:
• Shameless, Children, in: Tub
Example: And sometimes we get very wild children as:
• Wildness, Children, in: Petr
These are very few examples to explain how one should utilize the Repertory in practice of pediatrics.
In such a manner if we study the repertory, it becomes very easy to perceive the state of disposition & mind from the infants & children & practice Homoeopathy with confidence.
Dr Samuel Hahnemann says in aphorism no.83 regarding the qualities of Homoeopathic Physician as:
1. Free from prejudice
2. Sound senses
3. Attention in observing
4. Fidelity in tracing the picture of the disease
So, one should always utilize & develop those qualities in every pediatric case taking. He must consider every pediatric case with unprejudiced mind & with the help of his own Sound Senses should observe whatever is happening with the child. He should not miss anything because without asking anything, you have to find out the state of his disposition & mind.
Let’s explore it with the help of few examples.
Example: An infant is brought to you by the parents in a frightened state telling you that he is continuously crying since last 4-5 hours. We think that he might be suffering from the colic or earache. When the infant is brought to your clinic, is not crying, but as soon as it is kept on the table starts crying piteously. Unless carried, he doesn’t stop crying. Parents suffer because of continuous carrying him.
So, we can get following rubrics:
1. Weeping, Children, In, Carried & held, when, Amel.
2. Carried, Desires to be, Constantly
3. Weeping, Piteous
Here, we can get two remedies: Cham & Cina but we can differentiate them easily because in
• Weeping, Piteous, Carried, when - there is only Cina.
Naturally, we can prescribe Chamomilla to this weeping child with successful result.
Example: An infant is brought to you for the complaint of shrieking at the time of feeding him since one or two days. He refuses the feeding otherwise he is not having complaints. Here again we can get following rubric:
• Shrieking, screaming, shouting, Children, in, Nursed, when being: Bor
Example: An infant is brought to you for the complaint of weeping whole day & sleeps better at night without crying. Here we can get the rubric:
• Weeping, Children, In, Day, all, & sleeps all night: Lyco, Psor
Here we can differentiate between Lyco from Psor with the help of following rubric:
• Weeping, Children, In, Night, All night, good at day: Jalapa, Psor
So, Psorinum is indicated in both the rubrics which show that both the possibilities are possible in Psor but not in Lyco & we can prescribe Lyco along with rest of the things present in the case.
Example: A common complaint of the parents is that child has become too obstinate. If we take, Obstinate, Children as a rubric, we get 34 remedies for the same & it becomes a difficult task to differentiate those remedies. If we ask details regarding this Obstinacy & if the answer is: Doctor, we don’t know what has happened to him since last few days; if we don’t listen to whatever he says, he starts weeping & weeps a lot for hours piteously. So, we can consider a proper rubric which suggests a remedy directly as:
• Weeping, Children, In, Will is not done, when: Cina
And if the answer is: Doctor, we don’t know what has happened to him since last few days; he asks for number of things & when not given, he weeps a lot for hour together. So, we can consider a proper rubric which suggests a remedy directly as:
• Weeping, Children, In, Refused, the least thing, when: Cham
Example: A child is brought to you for weeping continuously since 8 days when summer has started. If we open the repertory, we get:
• Weeping, Children, In, Summer complaints, in: Ant-c
It indicates that we should be keen observer about all the factors which modifies the health of the children, as well as we should be intelligent enough to apply the knowledge of the Repertory.
Now, we will discuss few more common situations.
Example: A child brought to your consulting by the parents & as soon as they enter inside the clinic, the child starts crying loudly. When they enter inside the consulting, the child clings to parents tightly, cries a lot, pulling them outside, avoiding the look of the Physician. This is the state of his disposition & mind along with the physical complaints for which he is brought.
It is necessary to perceive regarding the crying of the children. Children fear a lot to injections because of which they weep a lot. We can consider following rubrics for this state:
• Fear, Injured, of being
• Clinging, Persons or furniture, to
• Escape, attempts to
• Looked at, to be, Evading the look of other persons
On the basis of above rubrics, we can very easily prescribe Stramonium.
Example: A child is sitting along with the parents. If you ask him a question or his name, instead of answering to you, he answers in his parents ears as if muttering or whispering. Here, we can take following rubric:
• Mind, Speech, Whispering, Answering to the mother instead of to the prescriber directly: Sil
Example: A child is brought to you by parents for any physical problem. He is too restless & not sitting in position, biting nails while moving here & there, looking curiously to each & everything present in the consulting, trying to touch them, asking the parents regarding them. If you ask any question, he hides behind the parents or chair. Following rubrics tell us the remedy:
• Restlessness, Children, in
• Biting, Nails
• Touch things, Impelled to
• Inquisitive
• Hide, Desire to
• Timidity, Bashful
Hyoscyamus covers all those rubrics.
Example: A very mild, quiet, cute, & affectionate baby who kisses her parents is brought to you for some physical complaints.
• Affectionate, Children kiss & caresses: Puls
Example: A rough, irritable, shrieking child brought to you. If you put him a question, he talks in rough tone & does not give proper answers.
• Answer, Civil, cannot give: Cham
Example: If you put a question to a child, you feel that his attention is somewhere else & answers in a very confused way.
• Answer, Confusedly as if thinking of something else, Children, in: Bar-m
Example: If you put any question to a child, you find that child is unaware what has been asked, he looks totally absentminded.
• Absent-mindedness, Children, in: Bac
Example: You can observe children who craves sympathy, affection from everyone continuously
• Affection, Children craving for: Carc
Example: You can observe biting children who goes on biting anything or anyone
• Biting, Children, in: Bell
Example: You can find capricious children who are continuously busy in doing anything.
• Capriciousness, Children, in: CHAM, CINA, Rheum, Sac-alb
• Busy, Children: Cina
Example: You can find happy go lucky, cheerful children who enjoy the life without sadness.
• Cheerfulness, gaiety, happiness, Children, in: Bor
Example: You can find a crawling child who crawls in to the corner & wails, cries, howls.
• Crawling, rolling, Child crawls into corners, howls, cries: Camph
Example: Parent tells us that the child is so frightful that he cannot observe anything cruel, horrible things even on television.
• Cruelty, brutality, inhumanity, Children cannot bear to see cruelty in cinema: Calc
Example: You can find a child who gets frightened easily, fears to remain alone & always holds the hand of a mother
• Fear, Alone, of being, Child wants mother to hold her hand: Bism
• Clinging, Children, of, Take the hand of mother, will always: Bism, Gels, Kali-c, Lil-t, Lyc, Phos
Example: Sometimes, we com across rough, harsh, restless behavior of the children
• Harshness, rough, Children, in: Bac
Example: Sometimes, we find idiotic children
• Idiocy, Children, in: Aeth
Example: We can get impolitely behaving rude children
• Impolite, Children: Lyc
Example: We find some silly children who use to laugh unnecessarily at every occasion
• Laughing, Tendency, Silly, Children at every occasion, in: Croc
Example: We can get two types of children who are having weakness of memory. One whose memory is weak as:
• Memory, Weakness, loss of, Children, in: Agar
And another type who cannot understand, dwarfed with loss of, or weak memory:
• Memory, Weakness, loss of, Labor, for mental, Child cannot be taught: Bar-c
Example: Few children never like to be taken up; they become furious when taken up:
• Rage, fury, Taken up, child on being: Stram
Example: We can find two extreme types of children about taking responsibility. One who develops physically but are very late to understand or take the responsibility as:
• Responsibility, Late, in children: Bar-c
And another who are very strong to carry the responsibility as
• Responsibility, Strong, Children, in: Carc
Example: Sometimes we come across very serious children who behave like adults as:
• Seriousness, earnestness, Children: Sep
Example: Whereas sometimes we get shameless children as:
• Shameless, Children, in: Tub
Example: And sometimes we get very wild children as:
• Wildness, Children, in: Petr
These are very few examples to explain how one should utilize the Repertory in practice of pediatrics.
In such a manner if we study the repertory, it becomes very easy to perceive the state of disposition & mind from the infants & children & practice Homoeopathy with confidence.
Organon of medicine
§ 22:
But as nothing is to be observed in diseases that must be removed in order to change them into health besides the totality of their signs and symptoms, and likewise medicines can show nothing curative besides their tendency to produce morbid symptoms in healthy persons and to remove them in diseased persons; it follows, on the one hand, that medicines only become remedies and capable of annihilating disease, because the medicinal substance, by exciting certain effects and symptoms, that is to say, by producing a certain artificial morbid state, removes and abrogates the symptoms already present, to wit, the natural morbid state we wish to cure. On the other hand, it follows that, for the totality of the symptoms of the disease to be cured, a medicine must be sought which (according as experience shall prove whether the morbid symptoms are most readily, certainly, and permanently removed and changed into health by similar or opposite medicinal symptoms1) have the greatest tendency to produce similar or opposite symptoms.
1 The other possible mode of employing medicines for diseases besides these two is the allopathic method, in which medicines are given, whose symptoms have no direct pathological relation to the morbid state, neither similar nor opposite, but quite heterogeneous to the symptoms of the disease. This procedure plays, as I have shown elsewhere, an irresponsible murderous game with the life of the patient by means of dangerous, violent medicines, whose action is unknown and which are chosen on mere conjectures and given in large and frequent doses. Again, by means of painful operations, intended to lead the disease to other regions and taking the strength and vital juices of the patient, through evacuations above and below, sweat or salivation, but especially through squandering the irreplaceable blood, as is done by the reigning routine practice, used blindly and relentlessly, usually with the pretext that the physician should imitate and further the sick nature in its efforts to help itself, without considering how irrational it is, to imitate and further these very imperfect, mostly inappropriate efforts of the instinctive unintelligent vital energy which is implanted in our organism, so long as it is healthy to carry on life in harmonious development, but not to heal itself in disease. For, were it possessed of such a model ability, it would never have allowed the organism to get sick. When made ill by noxious agents, our life principle cannot do anything else than express its depression caused by disturbance of the regularity of its life, by symptoms, by means of which the intelligent physician is asked for aid. If this is not given, it strives to save by increasing the ailment, especially through violent evacuations, no matter what this entails, often with the largest sacrifices or destruction of life itself.
For the purpose of cure, the morbidly depressed vital energy possesses so little ability worthy of imitation since all changes and symptoms produced by it in the organism are the disease itself. What intelligent physician would want to imitate it with the intention to heal if he did not thereby sacrifice his patient?
Dr Prasad Rasal:
While explaining this aphorism, Dr Samuel Hahnemann now turns towards the different modes of treatments available during his time giving out the details of each method boldly without hesitation because what he was saying was the indubitable Truth. In fact, this is the reason, why he has used the words Aude Sapere on the first page of Organon.
He start explaining about the two methods of treatment in this aphorism which considers the symptoms for prescription. First based on the Symptom Similarity i.e. Homoeopathy & Second one based on Contradictory Symptoms i.e. Antipathy. The details about Antipathy are explained in further aphorisms.
In the foot note to this paragraph, he criticizes a lot on the third mode of treatment prevalent during his time in which there is no relation between the patients symptoms & the medicine used i.e. heteropathic mode - Allopathy. The different methods prevalent were Blood Sucking-Letting, using Laxative or Purgatives, Emetics used to cure the patient on the wrong logic i.e. they are copying the Nature i.e. Duce Naturae without understanding the real logic. Those allopathic practitioners used to call them as a Rational Practitioner of the healing art because they considers that they are removing the (Material) cause of the disease by using all these methods. Their logic was that the disease appears because of entrance of some material cause inside the human body & that's why body tries to throw it away by means of producing the Vomiting/ Diarrhea/ some Discharge. So, if the itself tries to throw away the cause thro' those methods, why we should not copy the nature? This was the Allopath's logic at that time. And all those methods were reigning the therapeutic world at that time.
But, due to use of this wrong logic, they use to make the patients more sick due to removal of the vital juices necessary for the health. In fact, they use to produce more deaths due to these wrong methods. And that's why Dr Samuel Hahnemann boldly criticized this allopathic method as an irresponsible murderous game with the life of the patient.
But as nothing is to be observed in diseases that must be removed in order to change them into health besides the totality of their signs and symptoms, and likewise medicines can show nothing curative besides their tendency to produce morbid symptoms in healthy persons and to remove them in diseased persons; it follows, on the one hand, that medicines only become remedies and capable of annihilating disease, because the medicinal substance, by exciting certain effects and symptoms, that is to say, by producing a certain artificial morbid state, removes and abrogates the symptoms already present, to wit, the natural morbid state we wish to cure. On the other hand, it follows that, for the totality of the symptoms of the disease to be cured, a medicine must be sought which (according as experience shall prove whether the morbid symptoms are most readily, certainly, and permanently removed and changed into health by similar or opposite medicinal symptoms1) have the greatest tendency to produce similar or opposite symptoms.
1 The other possible mode of employing medicines for diseases besides these two is the allopathic method, in which medicines are given, whose symptoms have no direct pathological relation to the morbid state, neither similar nor opposite, but quite heterogeneous to the symptoms of the disease. This procedure plays, as I have shown elsewhere, an irresponsible murderous game with the life of the patient by means of dangerous, violent medicines, whose action is unknown and which are chosen on mere conjectures and given in large and frequent doses. Again, by means of painful operations, intended to lead the disease to other regions and taking the strength and vital juices of the patient, through evacuations above and below, sweat or salivation, but especially through squandering the irreplaceable blood, as is done by the reigning routine practice, used blindly and relentlessly, usually with the pretext that the physician should imitate and further the sick nature in its efforts to help itself, without considering how irrational it is, to imitate and further these very imperfect, mostly inappropriate efforts of the instinctive unintelligent vital energy which is implanted in our organism, so long as it is healthy to carry on life in harmonious development, but not to heal itself in disease. For, were it possessed of such a model ability, it would never have allowed the organism to get sick. When made ill by noxious agents, our life principle cannot do anything else than express its depression caused by disturbance of the regularity of its life, by symptoms, by means of which the intelligent physician is asked for aid. If this is not given, it strives to save by increasing the ailment, especially through violent evacuations, no matter what this entails, often with the largest sacrifices or destruction of life itself.
For the purpose of cure, the morbidly depressed vital energy possesses so little ability worthy of imitation since all changes and symptoms produced by it in the organism are the disease itself. What intelligent physician would want to imitate it with the intention to heal if he did not thereby sacrifice his patient?
Dr Prasad Rasal:
While explaining this aphorism, Dr Samuel Hahnemann now turns towards the different modes of treatments available during his time giving out the details of each method boldly without hesitation because what he was saying was the indubitable Truth. In fact, this is the reason, why he has used the words Aude Sapere on the first page of Organon.
He start explaining about the two methods of treatment in this aphorism which considers the symptoms for prescription. First based on the Symptom Similarity i.e. Homoeopathy & Second one based on Contradictory Symptoms i.e. Antipathy. The details about Antipathy are explained in further aphorisms.
In the foot note to this paragraph, he criticizes a lot on the third mode of treatment prevalent during his time in which there is no relation between the patients symptoms & the medicine used i.e. heteropathic mode - Allopathy. The different methods prevalent were Blood Sucking-Letting, using Laxative or Purgatives, Emetics used to cure the patient on the wrong logic i.e. they are copying the Nature i.e. Duce Naturae without understanding the real logic. Those allopathic practitioners used to call them as a Rational Practitioner of the healing art because they considers that they are removing the (Material) cause of the disease by using all these methods. Their logic was that the disease appears because of entrance of some material cause inside the human body & that's why body tries to throw it away by means of producing the Vomiting/ Diarrhea/ some Discharge. So, if the itself tries to throw away the cause thro' those methods, why we should not copy the nature? This was the Allopath's logic at that time. And all those methods were reigning the therapeutic world at that time.
But, due to use of this wrong logic, they use to make the patients more sick due to removal of the vital juices necessary for the health. In fact, they use to produce more deaths due to these wrong methods. And that's why Dr Samuel Hahnemann boldly criticized this allopathic method as an irresponsible murderous game with the life of the patient.
Organon of Medicine
§ 21:
Now, as it is undeniable that the curative principle in medicines is not in itself perceptible, and as in pure experiments with medicines conducted by the most accurate observers, nothing can be observed that can constitute them medicines or remedies except that power of causing distinct alterations in the state of health of the human body, and particularly in that of the healthy individual, and of exciting in him various definite morbid symptoms; so it follows that when medicines act as remedies, they can only bring their curative property into play by means of this their power of altering man’s state of health by the production of peculiar symptoms; and that, therefore, we have only to rely on the morbid phenomena which the medicines produce in the healthy body as the sole possible revelation of their in-dwelling curative power, in order to learn what disease-producing power, and at the same time what disease-curing power, each individual medicine possesses.
Dr Prasad Rasal:
In this aphorism, Dr Samuel Hahnemann wants to explain the importance of Drug Proving on healthy human beings in order to understand the pure effects of the Medicines. Unless we prove it on them, we cannot understand the medicinal i.e. disease producing powers of those medicines which we can utilize as disease-curing properties on the basis of Law of Similars. The hidden properties of those medicine come in to activity when we use them on healthy human being in dynamic doses. We get the functional morbid alterations at the level of altered sensations & functions which are very much useful to find out Similimum. This is the only method to find out the hidden properties of the Medicines.
Now, as it is undeniable that the curative principle in medicines is not in itself perceptible, and as in pure experiments with medicines conducted by the most accurate observers, nothing can be observed that can constitute them medicines or remedies except that power of causing distinct alterations in the state of health of the human body, and particularly in that of the healthy individual, and of exciting in him various definite morbid symptoms; so it follows that when medicines act as remedies, they can only bring their curative property into play by means of this their power of altering man’s state of health by the production of peculiar symptoms; and that, therefore, we have only to rely on the morbid phenomena which the medicines produce in the healthy body as the sole possible revelation of their in-dwelling curative power, in order to learn what disease-producing power, and at the same time what disease-curing power, each individual medicine possesses.
Dr Prasad Rasal:
In this aphorism, Dr Samuel Hahnemann wants to explain the importance of Drug Proving on healthy human beings in order to understand the pure effects of the Medicines. Unless we prove it on them, we cannot understand the medicinal i.e. disease producing powers of those medicines which we can utilize as disease-curing properties on the basis of Law of Similars. The hidden properties of those medicine come in to activity when we use them on healthy human being in dynamic doses. We get the functional morbid alterations at the level of altered sensations & functions which are very much useful to find out Similimum. This is the only method to find out the hidden properties of the Medicines.
Friday, March 25, 2011
Organon of Medicine
§ 20 Sixth edition
This spirit-like power to alter man’s state of health (and hence to cure diseases) which lies hidden in the inner nature of medicines can in itself never be discovered by us by a mere effort of reason; it is only by experience of the phenomena it displays when acting on the state of health of man that we can become clearly cognizant of it.
Prasad Rasal:
In this aphorism, Dr Samuel Hahnemann again want to clear the concept of Dynamic Homoeopathic Medicine. Because, number of times, even till today, this question is again & again asked by materialist regarding the action of the Homoeopathic Medicines that How they act?
If the things are Dynamic, how can it be possible to find out the action of Homoeopathic Medicine? We can find out the dynamic hidden power present in Homoeopathic Medicine only by the method of Cause & Effects. Unless, we use it on healthy human beings, we can not get the exact knowledge regarding the medicinal power. There is no scientific instrument available to find out the same & it cannot be discovered because of its dynamic nature.
He has used the same word "Knowledge of Medicinal Powers" again in the aphorism no.3 while explaining the qualities of the Homoeopathic Physician. Here, he want to explain that Medicinal Power of every Drug is different in different potency because the same drug shows a different picture in different potency & it can be cognizable to us only by using it on healthy human beings. For e.g. Rhus t 6 is totally a different medicine than Rhus t 10m as they produce totally different action when used in healthy human being. Rhus-t 6 will show a very superficial action more at the exterior at the level of akin & mucous membranes as in the form of fever blisters while Rhus-t 10m will show the depth of it at the level of more interior at Bones & Mind producing the pains, swellings & restlessness etc.
Drug Proving is the only method thro' which we can perceive this spirit-like power.
This spirit-like power to alter man’s state of health (and hence to cure diseases) which lies hidden in the inner nature of medicines can in itself never be discovered by us by a mere effort of reason; it is only by experience of the phenomena it displays when acting on the state of health of man that we can become clearly cognizant of it.
Prasad Rasal:
In this aphorism, Dr Samuel Hahnemann again want to clear the concept of Dynamic Homoeopathic Medicine. Because, number of times, even till today, this question is again & again asked by materialist regarding the action of the Homoeopathic Medicines that How they act?
If the things are Dynamic, how can it be possible to find out the action of Homoeopathic Medicine? We can find out the dynamic hidden power present in Homoeopathic Medicine only by the method of Cause & Effects. Unless, we use it on healthy human beings, we can not get the exact knowledge regarding the medicinal power. There is no scientific instrument available to find out the same & it cannot be discovered because of its dynamic nature.
He has used the same word "Knowledge of Medicinal Powers" again in the aphorism no.3 while explaining the qualities of the Homoeopathic Physician. Here, he want to explain that Medicinal Power of every Drug is different in different potency because the same drug shows a different picture in different potency & it can be cognizable to us only by using it on healthy human beings. For e.g. Rhus t 6 is totally a different medicine than Rhus t 10m as they produce totally different action when used in healthy human being. Rhus-t 6 will show a very superficial action more at the exterior at the level of akin & mucous membranes as in the form of fever blisters while Rhus-t 10m will show the depth of it at the level of more interior at Bones & Mind producing the pains, swellings & restlessness etc.
Drug Proving is the only method thro' which we can perceive this spirit-like power.
Organon of Medicine
§ 18 Sixth Edition
From this indubitable truth, that besides the totality of the symptoms with consideration of the accompanying modalities (§ 5) nothing can by any means be discovered in disease wherewith they could express their need of aid, it follows undeniably that the sum of all the symptoms and conditions in each individual case of disease must be the sole indication, the sole guide to direct us in the choice of a remedy.
Prasad Rasal
In this aphorism, Dr Samuel Hahnemann want to explain the importance of the language of the disease for the purpose of finding out the similimum. He has already explained it while explaining the Qualities of Homoeopathic Physician in the Aphorism no.3 that he should have the" knowledge of Disease, indication". So, in one sentence, he has explained the need of having the knowledge of the diseases from pathological point of view in order to understand the disease pathology & pathogenesis along with the understanding of its prognosis but not from prescribing point of view. He used the next word i.e. indications which is important for prescribing point of view. Because, the disease get expressed thro' signs & symptoms along with the state of the individual expressed thro' sensations, modalities & concomitants. These modalities gives the characteristic appearance to the sign & symptom which is very useful to find out the Similimum. For e.g. Asthmatic breathlessness agg. at 12 midnight, better by drinking sips of warm water directly gives hint to us regarding the Ars alb. If it's only Asthma as a diagnosis, we cannot find out the medicine on the basis of pathology.
That's why he says ... from this indubitable truth, that besides the totality of the symptoms with consideration of the accompanying modalities (§ 5) nothing can by any means be discovered in disease wherewith they could express their need of aid, it follows undeniably that the sum of all the symptoms and conditions in each individual case of disease must be the sole indication, the sole guide to direct us in the choice of a remedy.
From this indubitable truth, that besides the totality of the symptoms with consideration of the accompanying modalities (§ 5) nothing can by any means be discovered in disease wherewith they could express their need of aid, it follows undeniably that the sum of all the symptoms and conditions in each individual case of disease must be the sole indication, the sole guide to direct us in the choice of a remedy.
Prasad Rasal
In this aphorism, Dr Samuel Hahnemann want to explain the importance of the language of the disease for the purpose of finding out the similimum. He has already explained it while explaining the Qualities of Homoeopathic Physician in the Aphorism no.3 that he should have the" knowledge of Disease, indication". So, in one sentence, he has explained the need of having the knowledge of the diseases from pathological point of view in order to understand the disease pathology & pathogenesis along with the understanding of its prognosis but not from prescribing point of view. He used the next word i.e. indications which is important for prescribing point of view. Because, the disease get expressed thro' signs & symptoms along with the state of the individual expressed thro' sensations, modalities & concomitants. These modalities gives the characteristic appearance to the sign & symptom which is very useful to find out the Similimum. For e.g. Asthmatic breathlessness agg. at 12 midnight, better by drinking sips of warm water directly gives hint to us regarding the Ars alb. If it's only Asthma as a diagnosis, we cannot find out the medicine on the basis of pathology.
That's why he says ... from this indubitable truth, that besides the totality of the symptoms with consideration of the accompanying modalities (§ 5) nothing can by any means be discovered in disease wherewith they could express their need of aid, it follows undeniably that the sum of all the symptoms and conditions in each individual case of disease must be the sole indication, the sole guide to direct us in the choice of a remedy.
Organon of Medicine
§19 – Now, as diseases are nothing more than alterations in the state of health of the healthy individual which express themselves by morbid signs, and the cure is also only possible by a change to the healthy condition of the state of health of the diseased individual, it is very evident that medicines could never cure disease if they did not possess the power of altering man’s state of health which depends on sensations and functions; indeed, that their curative power must be owing solely to this power they possess of altering man’s state of health.
Dr Prasad Rasal:
In this aphorism, Dr Samuel Hahnemann wants to explain regarding definitions of Disease, Cure & Medicine.
What is exactly mean by Disease?
Diseases are nothing but the alterations in the state of health of the healthy individual which are ex...pressed at the level of Sensations & Functions thro' morbid signs & symptoms
What is mean by Cure?
Cure is nothing but bringing back the former healthy state from a diseased one i.e. removing those signs & symptoms with the help of proper Medicine selected on the Law of Similars.
What is exactly mean by Medicine?
He says that substances which has the capacity to alter the state of health of the human being at the level of Sensations & Functions are called as the Medicines. The curative power of the Medicine solely depend up-on this specific characteristic.
Dr Prasad Rasal:
In this aphorism, Dr Samuel Hahnemann wants to explain regarding definitions of Disease, Cure & Medicine.
What is exactly mean by Disease?
Diseases are nothing but the alterations in the state of health of the healthy individual which are ex...pressed at the level of Sensations & Functions thro' morbid signs & symptoms
What is mean by Cure?
Cure is nothing but bringing back the former healthy state from a diseased one i.e. removing those signs & symptoms with the help of proper Medicine selected on the Law of Similars.
What is exactly mean by Medicine?
He says that substances which has the capacity to alter the state of health of the human being at the level of Sensations & Functions are called as the Medicines. The curative power of the Medicine solely depend up-on this specific characteristic.
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