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| Hpathy Ezine - Feb., 2004 | ||||
Individualization-- Dr. Manish Bhatia |
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Individualization is the process of differentiating an object or a person from a class or group of similar objects or persons. It is a character of homeopathy that all its practical processes are governed by the process of individualization. In its drug-proving, its study of the materia medica compiled from those provings; its examination of the patient and study of the case; its selection of the remedy and its conduct of whatever auxiliary treatment is required, it always seeks to individualize. Individualization of DrugsHomeopathy recognizes the individuality of each drug and substance
in nature. Its method of testing or 'proving' drugs upon the healthy
human beings is designed and used for the purpose of bringing out
the individuality of each drug so that its full power and relations
are established. During a homeopathy drug proving the effect of
a drug is closely studied on all parts of the body and in large
number of people. This gives us the full range of action of the
medicine. The crude sensations and symptoms like headache, colic, diarrhea etc. are not of much use to a homeopath and in homeopathy drug provings much finer symptoms are elicited. For e.g., if a medicine produces headache during a homeopathic drug-proving, then the symptom is completed with the location of pain, type of pain (throbbing, aching, bursting, burning etc.), aggravating and ameliorating factors, concomitant symptoms etc. The complete information allows us to differentiate various medicine producing headache in drug-provings or to say in other words the information allows us to differentiate various medicines capable of curing headache. In aphorism 118 of Organon of Medicine, Dr. Hahnemann writes: "Each medicine exhibits peculiar action on the human frame which are not produced in exactly the same manner by other medicinal substance of a different kind." Again in the footnote to the aphorism 119, Dr. Hahnemann writes: "Anyone who has a thorough knowledge of, and can appreciate the remarkable difference of, effects on the health of man of every single substance from that of every other, will readily perceive that among them there can be no equivalent remedies, no surrogates." It means there are no substitutes in the selection of a remedy. Either a medicine is indicated in a case or it is not. Symptomatic comparison between similar drugs are carried out to find their individuality. |
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