| In Homeopathy
we prescribe only those medicines whose medicinal properties are
known through 'drug proving'. Drug proving is a systematic investigation
of pathogenic (disease-producing ) power of medicine on healthy
human being of different ages, both sexes and of various constitutions.
These recordings of drug proving give the only reliable knowledge
of medicines which is very essential to cure disease homeopathically.
Different medicines must be proved thoroughly in order to obtain
full details of their curative properties. The drug must be proved
on human beings because:
- Animals do not give subjective or mental symptoms.
- Effects of the same drug on animals and on human beings are
different.
- We do not get the modalities and finer symptoms in animal provings.
The drug must be proved on the healthy human being because:
- The symptoms of the drug and the disease will be mixed together.
- Moreover, the action of the drug on the sick person is different
from normal person.
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During the early age of homeopathic practice Hahnemann
observed that in spite of best homeopathic
treatment some cases would return with a recurrence of symptoms
at intervals. This failure led him to investigate thoroughly a large
number of chronic cases and after 12 years of observations he reached
the conclusion that the chronic diseases are caused by chronic miasms.
The miasms are Psora, Syphilis and Sycosis.
Psora is the real fundamental cause and producer of innumerable
forms of disease. It is the mother of all diseases and at least
7/8th of all the chronic maladies spring from it while the remaining
eighth spring from Syphilis and Sycosis. Cure is only possible by
proper anti-miasmatic treatment. |
| It is Homeopathy
which stresses the existence and operation of the vital force in
a living organism. The human organism is a triune entity consisting
of body, mind, and spirit. This spirit which is responsible for
different manifestations of life was termed by Dr. Hahnemann as
'Vital Force'. Hahnemann speaks of the vital force in Aphorism 10
of his Organon of Medicine
as : "The material organism without the vital force is capable
of no sensation, no function, no self preservation; it derives all
sensations, and performs all functions of life solely by means of
the immaterial being (the vital force) which animates the material
organism in health and disease."
In the healthy condition, it is the vital force which maintains
normal functions and sensations of the organism. But when the vital
force is primarily dynamically deranged by morbific influence, it
causes abnormal sensations and functions which are manifested outwardly
through the material body as abnormal signs and symptoms, the totality
of which constitutes the disease.
Again if a cure is to be established it is the vital force that
must arouse itself or be abided to arise for the recovery. If the
vital force is too debilitated and exhausted then no medicinal aid
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| Homeopathic dynamisation is a process by which the
medicinal properties which are latent in natural substances while
in their crude state, become awakened and developed into activity
to an incredible degree.
According to Dr. Stuart Close, "Homeopathic potentisation
is a mathematico-mechanical process for the reduction, according
to scale, of crude, inert or poisonous medicinal substances to a
state of physical solubility, physiological assimilability and therapeutic
activity and harmless, for use as homeopathic healing remedies."
Drugs are potentised by two methods:
- Trituration - in case of insoluble substances.
- Succussion - in case of soluble substances.
The objectives of potentisation in Homeopathy are:
- To reduce the medicinal substance which helps to avoid unwanted
medicinal aggravations and side effects.
- Homeopathy believes that vital force is dynamic in nature and
that is affected by disease, can only be cured by the dynamic
power of serviceable medicine, not by its material quantity.
- By this process the most virulent and deadly poisons are not
only rendered harmless, but are transformed into beneficial healing
remedies.
- Substances which are medicinally inert in their crude natural
state are thus rendered active and effective for healing the sick.
- The medicinal qualities of other drugs which are more or less
active in their natural state are enhanced and their sphere of
action is broadened by this process.
- The action of potentised medicines is deeper, longer and more
wide-spread.
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