In Homoepathy we do not prescribe for a disease or a single symptom but we take in to account all the symptoms of the patient. We compare them with the symptoms or characteristics of suggested medicines and then prescribe one single medicine for the totality of the symptoms.
Symptoms are physical and mental. Physical symptoms include temperature, pulse, variations in behaviour, excretions from the body like stools, urine, sweat, vomit, phlegm, etc. The time when the disease is aggravated or ameliorated and its exact locations on the body have to be carefully noted. These should be noted in as much details as possible.
One should try to build a complete symptoms picture of the patient, starting from the head downwards, in a systematic and orderly way.
Great Importance is attached to mental symptoms. These symptoms include the patient’s appetites, cravings, feelings of anxiety, apathy, anger, etc. his dreams, and also his aversions. One should then compare these symptoms with the characteristics of medicines and select whichever is closest. This should not be done in a hurry.
It should now be clear that in Homoeopathy every patient is treated individually according to the symptoms of his ailments, and if carefully selected remedies are administered in the initial stages, many chronic and serious diseases can be avoided. The remedy thus selected acts upon the Vital Force and gives it the right guidance. It is this Vital Force that eradicates the morbid symptoms in totally and restores the patient to normal health.
I would like to quote a few instances from my own experience to impress upon the readers the importance of mental symptoms. A female patient about 50 years of age had developed cancer in her breasts and one breast was removed in the hospital. After some time she developed a small tumor in the other breast and came to me for treatment. One of her mental symptoms helped me to select the right remedy for her cancer. She was afraid of being alone but at the same time was depressed, felt timid and averse to society. This particular condition indicated CONIUM which was given in 1000 potency and this saved removal of other breast. She has been well for the last 7-8 years. The tumor still exists though reduced to great extent and without and pain whatsoever.
Another instance of a patient at Ferozepur jail is as follows. It was in the beginning of 1945 that a Muslim Asst. Superintendent was transferred to this jail from another jail. He consulted me for his bleeding piles. He had become very anaemic and had grown weak and emaciated. I gave him medicine for 3-4 days but there was no relief. He came to me in my cell and pleaded that the Dy. Superintendent was all praise for me and I should pay more attention to his cancer. He told me that the D.I.G Prisons had heavily punished him for a very small act of negligence. He had been demoted from Dy. Superintendent to Asst. Superintendent and that his piles too had aggravated since then. I took the clue and prescribed IGNATIA. This remedy acts wonderfully in ailments which follow grief, disappointment, worry, despair, mental shock or mortification. I need not say that IGNITIA cured the patient not only physically but mentally also.
Many children become irritable, they want to be carried in the lap and are obstinate, easily angered. A few globules of CHAMOMILLA 6,12 wonderfully calm such children. This remedy is often called the the opium of Homoeopathy, ACID PHOS works very well in the ailments of disappointed lovers. AURUM gold subsides thoughts of suicide and disgust for life.
Once a Member of Parliament consulted me. He said that for the last 3-4 weeks he had been feeling afraid of making and speech in Parliament, though all along he had been a good speaker. This called stage-fright. A dose of GELSEMIUM 200 totally removed this fright in him.
One Executive Engineer developed a strange sense of anguish and despondency which lasted only for about 2 hours in the evening. He felt he will not be able to work in the office; he will be unable to deal with the files. There was great tension in the morning but when he went to the office he was quite normal and the same tension returned the next morning. A dose of ARSENICUM 1000 relieved his tension in three days only.
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