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Homeopathy
By Dr. Jimish
Modi., Homeopath
The origin of
homeopathy
The word 'homeopathy' is derived
from 'Homoeo' meaning similar and 'Pathy' or pathos or system of medicine.
It is based on "the law of similars", SIMILIA SIMILIBUS CURANTEUR, meaning
, 'let likes be treated by likes'. Accordingly, if a medicine has to act
as a curative for a disease, it should be able to produce the same symptoms
of that disease, when administered to a healthy individual. This was discovered
by a German physician, Dr.Samuel Hahnemann, in his quest for finding a
very simple and humane system of medicine, which would be gentle and not
barbaric as those of the old school. In his experiment with Peruvian bark/Cinchona
officianlis, he found that when he took small doses of refined Peruvian
bark, it produced in him the same chills, headache and fever as would occur
in a person suffering from intermittent fever. When the same medicine was
given to a patient of intermittent fever, he was cured. With this realization,
he experimented further on himself and his followers with other medicines
and formulated a new system of medicine called HOMOEOPATHY. Homeopathy
thus has the distinction of being the only 'pathy' using humans as provers
of medicines.
The principle
According to the principles of homeopathy,
there is a dynamic life force called VITAL FORCE that animates every living
thing. Diseases strike at the dynamic level by weakening this vital force,
the innate higher principle governing the internal defense mechanism. The
weakened vital force expresses its imbalances in the form of symptoms which
the patient experiences on all three levels of being namely mind, emotions
and body. The discerning homeopath, during case taking, closely considers
all these expressions of the vital force on all these 3 levels to derive
the totality of symptoms. Homeopathy heals this totality of symptoms by
stimulating and energizing the vital force to overcome the disease force,
thereby restoring the mind, emotions and body back to health.
The cure
Homeopathic medicines are prescribed
on the following criteria:
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Single similar medicine: The
totality of symptoms is compared with the various medicines in the mataria
medica and the remedy, which is strikingly closest to the patient's totality,
is selected. Only one medicine is chosen at a time.
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Minimum dose: Medicines are administered
in the potentised form. Potentisation releases the dynamic curative
powers of the inert substance, which when administered as medicines help
in stimulating the vital force.
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Minimum repetition: Once the
medicines have stimulated the vital force, they reorganize themselves and
encourage the inner defense mechanisms to overcome the disease. At the
first signs of healing, the aggravation in the patient's symptoms will
decrease and an appreciable feeling of well being is perceived. Once this
stage is achieved, no further stimulation is necessary and the healing
process continues. Only if an obstacle to the healing process is encountered
or a new remedy is indicated, the medicines are repeated or changed.
Thus cure is achieved on all
3 planes of the being in compliance with 'Nature's law of cure ', which
states that: "Cure takes place from above downwards, from within outwards,
from more important organs to less important organs and the symptoms disappear
in the reverse order of their appearance."
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