Illustrations of the principle of Homoeopathy. . ************************************** . The word Homoeopathy derives from two Greek words " Homois " meaning " Like " and " pathos " meaning " Suffering " and occurs twice in the new treatment where it is translated " as like passions " on both occasions.In 1790 Hahnemann made his first experiment with China and for a considerable period he adopted a method of treatment , the law of Similars in other words he practiced Homoeopathy which he had established as sound scientific method of drug therapy . In 1831 serious epidemic was spreading west from eastern Europe . But Hahnemann scored a great success with Homoeopathy in treating Cholera the wild contagious disease. The agravate statics of Allopathy treatment of Cholera in Europe and America , show a mortality of over fourty percent , statistics of Homoeopathy treatment a mortality of less than nine percent . These impressive results helped to establish Homoeopathy in the British Isles.Homoeopathy uses a small dose of medicine as this has been found to be sufficient to stimulate the body's vital reaction recuperative powers convined that Homeopathy medicines could be immense benefit to mankind and thus Doctrine of Hahnemann about the discovery of Miasms is an unprecedented documentation as peerless theory to the world universally accepted by all system of ancient and modern medicines.Thus we had the proud prevelage to tell so how many stories of eminent doctors practised in Homoeopathy.Their success among the public so as to bring medical relief to the doors of even the poor masses through this economically cheap , harmless and very effective system of medicine.
Health is a state of complete physical, mental and social well being. It is not only composed of three components or dimension that is physical , mental and social. A fourth dimension should also be taken into account, which is spiritual . Any suffering which frightens and terrifies a human is called sickness or a disease is manifested in each individual by his personal character.The aim of a physician or a medical consultant either to cure or palliate when the circumstances demand .In such demand Dr. Hanhemann has very clearly said in his keynotes of cure or palliation useful to the physician or medical attendant in assisting him to cure are particulars of most probable exciting cause of the illness and the most significant points in the whole history of the chronic disease to enable him to discover the fundamental cause which is generally due to Miasm. . . Now let us examine the living world, of course the living objects have life. But what is life. !, ?. That question does not admit of a precise answer for one may at best describe what life is , but not defined what it is ,? Every kind of living object has its own specific form. Thus a man is different from another man . All living things or objects whatever their external form are built of individual units called cells. This cellular organisation is an important characteristic feature of all organisms . Cells are grouped into tissues. The tissues are variously distributed in different regions of the body contributing the shape . In a healthy body the rates of anabolism and ketabolism are delicately balanced . In young anabolism over steps ketabolism resulting in growth and reverse occurs in old age . Eventually leading to death. . The food building activity is constructive , absorption or ingestion takes place in complex kind digestion its own body by assimilation. Nutrition proceeds in three steps . Absorption , digestion and assimilation in order.The organ of the body takes oxygen from the environment and gives out carbon dioxide . The human being have special respiratory system, digestive, excretory, and reproductive organs. It can exhibit organism metabolism reproduction and locomotion. . . . Now we shall proceed how Homeopathy , Acupuncture or Bio-chemic & other Complementary medicines integrate in human body and helps physical life in this world. The health of human individual depends on the maintenance of vital reaction of the host cells and tissue fluid balance. The introduction of a toxic agent into the body stirs up this defensive reactivity. If the reaction is adequate no damage or at least only transient damage is done . How ever the reaction is adequate from one cause to another , then a sick state of the body will be induced and become sooner or later,in a shape of which the sick person is aware. These symptoms are evidence of physical / mental disorders. They constitute the outward and visible or observable sign of inward metabolic disturbance . In the absence of any more satisfactory means of defecting early and occult tissue changes . These symptoms may assume a very peignent theraputic significance. . These cells and tissues of the body are delicate and easily damaged , the finely poised balance of vital function endocrine , bio -chemical , bio -physical is readily disturbed. Then the aim of treatment or adequate therapy should help to assist the normal deffence the reaction of the body to co operate with nature not to coerce nature and possible , interfere with vital function , at the same time certainly not to merely control symptoms at the risk of inducing fresh tissue changes and further disturbance of metabolic balance.If a toxic bactirial substance is introduced into the living body it will excite a reaction in the cells and tissues of that body which is defensive and detoxicative in character, and if this reaction is inadequate a state of illness of greater or lesser severity will ensue and it may be possible so to aid and boost this defensive reaction by the administration of very small and very automuated dose of the same toxic agent that the body either will not become ill or will cure itself of the sick state induced by that agent. Thus similar remedy carefully controlled dosage become a successful theraputic agent for prevention or cure of disease . . . . Hanhemann in his penitrative wisdom and institution fore stalled the findings of present day research . He said in effect that the body become sick because of its deffence forces were fighting a losing battle,so he applied the principle of immunology The Law of Similars to cover the whole range of drugs and substances available for medical aids or medicinal purposes. Even as an imbalance of the mind lead to disturbance in the body .Disturbances of the body affect of the mind also .Hahnemann himself cites trhe example of the suppuration of the Lungs transforming itself into insanity. In day today practice this is proved in case of primary complex. A highly educated patient of mental affections proceed from one or more factors belonging to psychological conditions.They will be improved by sensible , friendly exhortations, consolatory arguments, serious representations and sensible advice. If the mental affection depends on a bodily disease it will be aggrevated by the same messures . For example depressive type of patients will be still more depressed , plaintive, disconsolate and retiring. The Mania type of them would thereby become still more embittered and the silly prattler become more foolish than ever. Extensive studies in progress in various countries of West as in Russia on matters of neurosis and psychosmatic ailments suggest that brain and mind are having a matter control over all the bodily function. Consiously done is only the top of iceberg and subconcious .Unconsious are extensive areas of mind comparable to the under water part of the ice berg, that control each and every activity of all parts of the body .Imagination and visualization are the highest function of a human mind that create any situation . Effectively topping these capabilities can be used as a means to remedy psychosomatic ailments. . . Conventional treatment with / by Tranquilizers and other drugs are only pallative.In due courses all disease s treated by this way increase in extend and severity . Homoeopathy its feel proof case taking method helps to unravel the psychosomatic cause in many cases ,But hanhemann writtings and practical experience point that a better more speedy and sure cure could be achieved . If only Homoeopath's could modify their approach in the light of the information available from psychological studies " Awaiting dreams a superstitious fancy or a solemn prediction that death would occur at a certain day or at a certain hour has not frequently produced by all the signs of commencing and increasing disease of approaching death. Death itself at the hour announced which coul not happen without simultaneous production of the inward changes corresponding to the state observed externally. , . . Totality of symptoms . . *************************** . Homoeopathy treats the sick individual know the disease because homoeopathy consider a man as a whole and not his individual organs or parts . It is the peculiarity in Homoeopathy. No organ , No tissue , No cell , No molecule is independant of the activities of others , but life of each one of these elements is merged into the life of the whole. The unit of human life cannot be the human life , or organ , or tissue , or cell, or molecule , or atom, But consider the whole orgqanism and the whole body or the man. . . Life recognized as three parts . The body, the mind and the spirit.It is a trinity.This trinity is present in all life and in some form in every part of our organism and these forces react in sympathy and they are inter independent .The spirit like vital energy dominates the whole. It is only when vital energy or vital force is present , we recognize that there is living organism , capable of physical action and exercise the mental power. Ability to take hold on the spiritual forces.Life is a unity from its inception from the time of mating of the parent cell and the ego of the completed cell does not change even a bit after once beginning its process.has with in it self the power to develop cells, muscles , nerve ,brain etc.Because of continual flow of vital energy which dominates the whole. The vital energy is that force which animates each individual. This individual is said to have life only when the vital energy becomes inanimate and is dead.Kent a scholar calls the vital force as the vice regent of the soul. The vital energy in one differs from that in another.No two individuals are alike. Each individual posses a special personality and special psychological construction depending upon the interplay of hereditary tendencies , and factors of disease. In health , the spirit like vital energy or the vital force animates the material body and keeps its harmonious operation as regards both sensation and function. Health is there fore a condition where the vital force is in order. The vital force dynamic in nature . It is controlling factor which cannot been seen without the medium its working through the medium like electric wires, fans lights.Disease is an altered state of vital force caused by a dynamic agent inimical to life. . . Disease are nothing more than alterations in the state of health of the healthy individual which express them selves by morbid signs - Hahnemann. In disease , the vital force every where present in the organism is primarily morbidly deranged and express its sufferings in the abnormal sensations and the functions of the organism. Vital force being invisible in itself and only made known by its effects on the organism . Its morbid derangement is made it self known by manifestations. Function of these parts of the organism exposed to the sense of observer or the physician by the morbid symptoms and in no other way can make it self known ,ie.., in disease the vital force is disturbed by a more powerful morbific agent dynamic in nature .The vital force is unable to maintain the equilibrium and the balance of the harmonious functions of the organs. The manifestation of disorder are expressed by symptoms which give us a picture of internal essence of the disease which are termed as " totality of symptoms." There fore the disease consists only of the totality of symptoms.Means Whole patient or sick individual . Disease and its symptoms constitutes a whole, just as vital force and material body constitute a whole unit. This symptom totaly is the only guide to the study of the disease.
DEFINITION
"Homoeopathy is a system of treatment of the diseased by drugs usually prescribed in minute doses, that in a healthy person would produce symptoms like those of disease."
ORIGIN
The Homoeopathy way of healing was devised by the Great German physician Dr.Christian Frederick Samuel Hahnemann in the late 18th Century. He came across an old idea of the efficacy of 'Cinchona bark' in treating intermittent fever due to its toxic effect on the stomach and conducted experiments upon himself in order to get the truth. He deduced from the experiment that Cinchona was used as a remedy for intermittent fever and it could produce symptoms similar to those of intermittent fever in healthy people, if taken for a specific period of time. The law of 'Similia Similibus Curentur' or 'let likes be treated by the likes' thus forms the basis of treatment under the Homoeopathic method of drug therapy employed to cure the natural sufferings of person by the administration of drugs which have been experimentally proved to possess the power of producing similar artificial sufferings or symptoms of diseases in healthy human being.
Basic Concepts
In Homoeopathy the main emphasis is on the remedial agents in illness and in health. It is a low cost system using only the non-toxic drugs. It has established a reputation for successful treatment of acute and chronic illness and in certain disease for which there is no or less treatment in other systems. Dr.Samuel Hanemann, who was the founder of this system enunciated the basic concepts and its principles in "Organon the Art of Healing" in the year 1810.
Due to various reasons like cost-effectiveness and non-toxic nature of its drugs, no side effects of easy in take. Homoeopathy is getting a very high recognition and acceptance from the people. Having its origin in the moden scientific age, it has the benefit of basing its theory and concept on demonstrable scientific principles and procedures.
It is based on the following cardinal principles
1. The law of Similars
2. The law of Single Remedy
3. The law of Minimum Dose
4. Doctrine of Drug proving
5. Doctrine of dynamisation
6. Doctrine of vital force
7. Doctrine of Chronic disease
Among this, the most fundamental is the 'law of Similars'. This law states that the symptoms experienced by the sick person are reactions of the body which it mobilizes in order to counteract a morbid influence, be it a specific stress such as bacteria or viruses, or a non-specific stress such as climatic changes, environmental pollution, mental and emotional disturbances etc. Among the seven, first three are having more therapeautic importance and value.
HEALTH AND DISEASE IN HOMOEOPATHY:
This system assumes that any disease symptoms, syndrome is the reaction of the defence mechanism of human body against the disease-causing agent. The symptoms are the means through which the body tries to regain its lost balance. According to it, the symptoms syndrome in a disease is not the disease per se but the reaction of the defense mechanism mobilized by the body in order to counteract a morbific influence existing in the body and causing the loss of balance of the healthy body. Thus the disequilibrium in the normal functioning of the organs of body implies sickness.
DIAGNOSIS & TREATMENT
In Homoeopathy patients are diagnosed (their individual symptoms) but not their disease. As there is specific medicine for specific disease, unless the diseases are diagnosed, they cannot be treated, in other systems of medicine, where as in Homoeopathy, medicine are proved in healthy individuals are their symptoms are recorded. In order to treat the diseased individual their symptoms are to be matched with the patients' symptoms. Therefore, importance is given to the symptomatology than the diagnosis. By treating in this way, the natural defence mechanism (Immunity) of the individual is strengthened and recurrence of the disease is curtailed.
In deciding the treatment, the Homoeopathic practitioner follows the well-known principles of 'Similia Similibus Curentur'. In simple terms it means let the similar substance which can produce specific symptoms in a healthy individual cure those similar symptoms in a sick individual, although the symptoms have arisen from another cause i.e.Bacteria, virus etc., The cure is based on the assumption that the patient is extremely sensitive to that particular remedy and only to that remedy which can produce his/her symptomatology. Homoeopathy has a definite and effective treatment for some disease such as Diabetes, Arthritis, Bronchial Asthma, Epilepsy, Skin Eruption, Allergic conditions and Mental or Emotional disorders. Even, some surgical disease gets cured in Homoeopathy with out undergoing surgery.
Thus the sick person after taking treatment not only gets cured of his disease, but simultaneously regains a perfect state of health.
Advent of Homoeopathy in India
Homoeopathic system of treatment was first introduced in India in 1839 by Dr.J.M.Honigberger. During his visit to India, he cured Maharaja Ranjit Singh of Punjab. The Homoeopathic system of treatment spread successfully among all sections of the people. This system of treatment is economical and the medicines have no side effects.
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