Principle Methods Of Treatment
If we omit surgery and obstetrics, the following treatments come into consideration for
the so-called internal disease:
1:- Dietary treatment, i.e., regulation regarding invalid food.
2:- Physical treatment , i.e., treatment by fresh air , water , and exercises, including yogic cure.
3:-Pharmacutical treatment, i.e., treatment by drugs.
Samuel Hahnemann (1755-1843) introduced system of medicine called Homoeopathy ,
based on the theory that disease can be cured by administering minimum doses of drugs which
in a healthy persons (Prover) would produce reactions similar to those produced by the disease.
Homoeopathy, or the biological-medicine method of healing is practiced on the motto, 'Similia similibus curenter'
(Let likes be treated by likes), Supports nature's healing process by minimum doses of such
drugs as directly bear upon the diseased cells and organs.
The Principle Of Homoeopathy Treatment
There are three Rules
(1) The Similar Remedy
The similarity between drug and disease need not go on even to pathological tissue changes
in order to be able to apply the principle of 'Similia Similibus Curenter'.
If we must go on even to pathology changes, we would be greatly crippled in two ways.
i. We would not {in many cases} be able to apply our remedies early enough to save life.
ii. The proving of drugs would have to be carried to the death or just short of it ,
to establish its perfect similarity.
Disease has its beginnings, which precede the stage at which so called pathological
changes are in evidence. Homoeopathy meets these conditions in their symptom with
the remedy corresponding to its pathogenesis, and can thus prevent the disease going on to
pathological manifestations, or cure the patient of both the symptom logy and pathology
where cure is at all possible.
(2) The Single Remedy
A well selected single remedy in appropriate potencies prevents or cures a disease.
In incurable cases, it minimizes the sufferings. Combination of medicines need not be
prescribed because these were not experimented on provers.
A single remedy may sometimes not complete the cure, because it did not act deep action
and interfered with by any one of the three miasms, psora, sycosis, and syphilis or two
or three miasms acting together. It is well known the short action of Arsenic Album antidotes
all the three miasms and Aconite or Rhus tox is completed by Calcarea carb.
(3) The Minimum Dose
Hahnemann first established the homoeopathic law of similars, he employed in his first experimental
trials crude medicines in comparatively small doses, when applied in according with
the law of similars, caused such violent aggravations of sufferings that he was compelled
to seek for means to avoid this great difficulty and for this reason only he resorted first
to a mere division of quantities, called 'Dilution', 'Trituration'.
Dose of drug administered in according with 'the law of similars' must be less then
a physiological dose. It must not be large enough to aggravate.
It is usual that 'low potencies' up to 30 are used in acute disease and 'high potencies'
200 to CM in chronic disease where repetition should be seldom.
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