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Homeopathy Principles (continued) |
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Doctrine of Drug Proving |
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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Theory of Chronic Disease |
| 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
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Theory of Vital Force |
| 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 is of help. |
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Doctrine of Drug Dynamisation |
| 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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