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ADVANCED MEDICINE – POOR HEALTH
Dr. Raviraj Pore MD (Hom)
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change could not be advancement, as we see today in
homoeopathy. There are so many ‘so-called’ advanced
methods of practices which are avoiding basic principals
of the science. Then what is the reliable advancement.
The topic discussed here of immense important because
many practitioners are trying to practice in their own
style without logical explanation. Today, most of the
homoeopaths use many medicines at one time or
unnecessary high potencies or frequent repetitions –
because most of them are trying to make their practice
easier and avoiding fundamental principals.
As many pioneers in homoeopathy told that “Just taking
homoeopathic medicine does not mean that you are taking
homoeopathic treatment”. Many homoeopaths practice
homeopathic medicine with allopathic style.
As we see in allopathic practice, antibiotics /
painkillers / anti-allergens have been changing after
every 25 to 50 years. The medicines used in18th century
was unable to effectively treat the diseases of19th
century and medicines used in 19th century are incapable
of treating same conditions today. Keeping this aspect
focus now let us look at global scenario. We see
tremendous variation – in countries where antibiotics
were used very properly, they still find the same useful
& there is no need of next generation antibiotics (more
powerful with more dangerous side effects). While in
other countries the so-called modern therapy is going
from less dangerous suppression to more dangerous
suppression.
In India, rules & regulations about medications and
pharmacy are easier to break than to break a traffic
signal, in this aspect awareness is most important. Any
one can get any medicine without prescription from a
chemist which is most harmful:
- Oral contraceptive pills were used horribly without
supervision of Gynecologists
- Steroids were used profoundly where not indicated for
quick relief. Etc
Homoeopathy recommends minimum medication as a ‘Law of
Minimum’. This is one of the cardinal principal of
Homoeopathic science. The beneficial effects of minimum
dose were recognized by Dr. Hahnemann 210 yrs ago.
In Homoeopathy, combinations, high potencies,
unnecessary frequent repetitions have been practiced in
attempt to give quick symptomatic relief to patient. The
use combinations, high potencies, unnecessary frequent
repetitions may
- lead to dangerous suppression
- spoil the case &
- delay the process of cure
This happens because these practitioners are not
following the fundaments clearly given by Dr. Hahnemann
in the books on Organon & Chronic diseases. Here, I want
to turn your attention on what Hahnemann has said,
written and advised about poly-pharmacy.-
1*-The double remedy method originated with Dr. Karl
Julius Aegidi (1794-1874), one of Hahnemann’s disciple &
physician to Princes Frederica of Prussia. In cases
where he could not find one remedy to match the symptoms
(and don’t forget we are talking about the experiments
of the early 1830s, with many fewer remedies than we
have now), Aegidi combined two homoeopathic remedies
that fit the case. He communicated this to Hahnemann who
did his own experiments and, in response to Dr. Aegidi,
wrote on May 15th,1833 :-
“Do not suppose that I reject anything good from mere
prejudice…All I desire is the truth…Two remedies should
be given in combination in a highly poetized form,
provided each, in its own is homoeopathic to the case.
In such a case it is an advantage to our art which
should not be repudiated…I am likewise to hear that von
Boeninghausen approves of this plan. At the same time, I
shall protest and earnestly warn against the arbitrary
combination of any two drugs indiscriminately” (Author’s
emphasis added).
As you can see, even when he performed his own
experiments, Hahnemann speaks about remedies
homoeopathic to the case, and from what I understand,
they were never given at same time, but rather alternate
with one another.
In a personal letter to Von Boenninghausen dated Oct
16th 1833, Hahnemann wrote :-
“From many attempts of this kind of double remedies only
one or two have been successful, which is insufficient
for the establishment of a new rule. It seems to be a
very doubtful and very difficult method; from several
trials in this manner only one or two turned out well,
which is insufficient for the proposing of a new theory”
His experiments with double remedies had proved a
failure, because they did not work as well as single
remedies-only successful in one or two cases. Though
those experiments sound very successful, as some claim?
Hahnemann wrote in both the 5th & 6th edition that –
Apho. No 273:- In no case being treated is it necessary
to give a patient more than a single simple medicinal
substance at one time, and for this reason by itself it
is inadmissible to do so….
Apho. No 274:- A true physician already finds in simple
employed unmixed and by themselves everything he could
wish for….
2* - Always remember primary action and secondary action
which could not be analyzed and explained when more than
one medicine given at one time.
3* - Furthermore, Boeninghausen discusses a letter he
had received from Dr. Croserio, who was very familiar
with Hahnemann’s practice in Paris, visiting him almost
daily. Here, Dr. Croserio states explicitly:-
“ He never prescribed two different remedies, to be used
in alteration or one after the another; he always wanted
to see first the effect of the one remedy before he gave
another, and this even with patients whom he treated at
a distance of two to three hundred miles. Nor would he
change, even in acute diseases it was a rare case to see
him allow the patient to take more than one spoonful in
24 hrs. In order to pacify the patients or their
relatives he frequently allowed them to take simple
sugar of milk.
At the end of this discussion we are trying to remind
the origin of homoeopathic science that is –
A true homoeopathic remedy can only cure symptoms that
it can produce in a healthy organism. If the remedy
cannot produce these symptoms in a proving, then it
cannot cure them. This is, as every homoeopath knows, a
basic rule of Homoeopathy. Anything else is not
homoeopathic.
As a homoeopath all of us were always welcome the
experiments and advancement but without avoiding the
basic principles of our science, most of the homoeopaths
were unknown about the fact that Hahnemann had already
experimented, discussed in either 5th & 6th edition of
Organon or in book on Chronic diseases and refused most
of the so called modern methods that most of us were
doing today.
[References - 1*, 2*,& 3* - Achieving and Maintaining
the simillimum by Luc De Schepper, page 76, 77, 79, 83,
88. Readers are advised to go through this book.]
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