Imagine reading a book full of symptom lists and you are looking for the symptom of the headache and you find a drug A, B, C for it. You select the medicine ‘A’ based on the location of the pain. Further, there are 2 chances either it will work or it won’t. If it worked you will think medicine does wonder, but what if the headache was due to normal disturbance in routine(Indisposition- Aphorism 150)? If it won’t work, it was you who picked the wrong medicine? or homeopathy medicine does not work on you? Or chances could be the headache must be due to some serious cause!! Can anything be practiced without knowing the philosophy behind it? Does this work for any other system of medicine? If no, then how will it work in the case of the Homeopathy system of medicine? Can Homeopathy be practiced by non-medicos? Let us know more about Homeopathy.
Dr. Samuel Hahnemann was a physician of an old school of medicine during the year 1700s. He had a love for literature and nature. In his course of study, he submitted various research thesis on the numerous subjects in the universities. Dr. Hahnemann was a Professor of many young doctors and physicians. He was a practicing physician who worked in cases of every type of disease during his time.
The apothecaries opposed him for dispensing medicines he made by himself for the patients. Dr. Hahnemann’s literature is based on pure experimentation and his cases were published in Journals. The journey of Hahnemann was difficult which made him travel from place to place. He was a genuine physician who had a vast knowledge of medicine. People just distributing the medicine for goodwill and half-knowledge, are they justifying the discovery of science? Do you think self-medication or supplying medicine without the knowledge of the process yield results or may bring result by chance?
Can Homeopathy be practiced by non-medicos?- Glimpse of theory
The opening aphorisms of Organon of medicine address about 3 requisites, knowledge to be understood by every physician-
- Knowledge of Disease
- Knowledge of medicinal power i.e. of drugs
- Knowledge of posology
- Knowledge of Obstacle to recovery
Knowledge of disease
Knowledge of the disease can be understood only if a person can comprehend the normal anatomical and physiological functioning of the human body. As Dr. Hahnemann says it is important to trace the point of deviation from health to disease. It takes no less than a decade to understand the complete human functioning after going over tons of medical books. It necessitates constant days and nights of hard work for obtaining the ability to service mankind. The symptoms in the book of materia medica are a representation of disease. Symptoms in the book have to be studied in the detail to identify the course and extent of its representation. The selection of the remedy depends on the course of illness. This should be alarming for those who intend to prescribe with the superficial study. This should also be alarming for those who take these medicines from the so-called practitioners.
Knowledge of medicinal power
Dr. Hahnemann quotes that along with the knowledge of the disease, knowledge of medicinal power is also an important aspect that should be studied by all the doctors. Only if a physician possesses the information on symptoms in the therapeutics book of medicine, the physician is able to administer it. Understanding the core or the sphere of action of every drug helps in differentiation among the many. Every drug of homeopathy is administered to healthy individuals of all age groups and all sexes during the drug proving. It is not proved on animals because many substances are poisonous to the human body but unharmful to animals. After administration of the drug the symptoms are classified according to the system and noted down daily. This is how all the drug pictures are presented in the materia medica book. A physician should hold the knowledge of symptoms of the drug in the materia medica as per Dr. Hahnemann. Can homeopathic be practiced by non-medicos?
Knowledge of Posology
Posology is concerned with the dosage of the medicine. If a physician knows about the disease and the drug that is most indicated for his patient’s state, then he needs to know the administration of dosages. Criteria for the selection of doses are based on various aspects like the pathology of the disease, the ability of the patient to respond, his prognosis, the extent of deviation of mind and body from a healthy state, etc. There are principles that help in the administration of a remedy. There are principles that guide the physician about the repetition of medicine. Concepts of exhaustion of the potency, selection of vehicles for the administration of medicine, etc. are the different theories that should be mastered by the physician to deal with his patients.
Knowledge of Obstacle to cure
According to Dr. Hahnemann physicians should be aware of the things that bound the process of recovery in the patient. For eg., if the patient is not having proper food which can cause a deficiency in a patient, or he is abstained from sun exposure which may lead to low Vitamin D levels and indirectly affects calcium levels, or is avoiding physical activity. The immense amount of medications and consultation will not fulfill the vacuum created by abstaining from basic healthy lifestyle practices. The patient’s environment can also be a maintaining cause of his mental stress; awareness about which is important. A physician is one who possesses the knowledge of the things that cause the disease and knows how to remove it to restore health. It takes years of practice to acquire knowledge about the science of the human body, do you think homeopathy can be practiced by non-medicos?
Conclusion
In this world of instant food, instant services, or instant relief, do not blind yourself from anything lesser than you deserve. If you can get the best treatment for your body and functioning of the system why go for the lesser then the ethical mode of practice? Imagine your child taking medicine, which helps him to build his immune system. Our body is intelligent enough to protect itself from various infections but the constant bombardment of medicines weakens the system. Self- medication is added trouble leading to incurable diseases. Nowadays, people have become medicine-dependent at an early age. Now, those in their 50s or 60s age group must have recently started with their medicines, but generations younger to them are discovered to be medicine-dependent 10 to 20 years earlier. As the population dependent on pills has become normal, those not on any medications are automatically driven to the idea of sustaining health by depending on medicines. The need of reaching out to a homeopathy doctor for a proper assessment is important.
The homeopathy system was questioned, but have you ever contemplated can homeopathy be practiced by non-medicos? Is it losing its essential beneficiary impact because of malpractice or malobservations? Are we losing our health at the cost of the economy? Various issues are impacting our way of living. Be Aware, be the change!
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