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why to follow guidelines?..part 4
Never mix acute and chronic symptoms.Acute problems are easy to treat, as the symptoms that they produce are new and troublesome to the patient,
they are fresh in his mind,
and he can give a better picture about them.
When we say, a patient has to be treated on totality, many prescribers tend to try to elicit all the problems, the patient is having since birth, and try to match a remedy for all those symptoms.
It will be an exercise in futile, as what is needed to be treated is the top most layer, in this case, the acute one.
Giving one medicine to treat the miasm, and follow it up the next day, with the medicine for acute problem, is not correct.
That will confuse the case.
The now altered state from his previous state of health,is all that is to be taken care of.
If he is a calm person earlier ,and now became irritable, this is a symtom to be considered.
If his nature in general is to be haughty, and continues to be haughty, it is not a symptom to be considerd while treating acute cases.
Murthy
♥ gavinimurthy on 2006-11-15
This is just a forum. Assume posts are not from medical professionals.
In actual practice...many times..... med. given for the 'acute problem'...does not 'excite a response' until (very important...until)...a dose is given to counter the miasm present in the constituiton of the patient.
Books will write many things ....actual experience teaches some thing else.
We have seen it happen even in some cases here at ABC Forum.
Pankaj Varma
Books will write many things ....actual experience teaches some thing else.
We have seen it happen even in some cases here at ABC Forum.
Pankaj Varma
♡ PANKAJ VARMA last decade
I am copying this reply from another thread, posted by me. (I request other experienced homeopaths to share with us their manner of treating such patients):
1.Chronic problems are those where there is an existence of a miasm in the costitution of the patient.
When a patient of a chronic problem catches an acute disease ...such has a 'viral fever' ...the onset of which is very rapid....it is seen that a well chosen remedy for that acute problem may not excite a reaction from the system.
In such a state ...it is prudent and necessary to give the medicine for the miasm as an inter-current medicine....so that the well chosen medicine has a chance of initiating a cure for the 'acute' infection.
The medicine for the acute disease is re-introduced 24 hour after the the medicine for the miasm has been administered...in order to block the ability of the viral to invade the constitution of the patient at rapid speed.
2. Drug relationships have been documented for many years now. A good physician is expected to be thorough with the drug relationships and act accordingly.
Experienced homeopaths have the ability to see 'one drug picture' super imposed on 'another drug picture'. The job has become simpler after the introduction of homeopathic softwares.
When a software throws up 2 or 3 close fits...it is an indication.
Pankaj Varma
1.Chronic problems are those where there is an existence of a miasm in the costitution of the patient.
When a patient of a chronic problem catches an acute disease ...such has a 'viral fever' ...the onset of which is very rapid....it is seen that a well chosen remedy for that acute problem may not excite a reaction from the system.
In such a state ...it is prudent and necessary to give the medicine for the miasm as an inter-current medicine....so that the well chosen medicine has a chance of initiating a cure for the 'acute' infection.
The medicine for the acute disease is re-introduced 24 hour after the the medicine for the miasm has been administered...in order to block the ability of the viral to invade the constitution of the patient at rapid speed.
2. Drug relationships have been documented for many years now. A good physician is expected to be thorough with the drug relationships and act accordingly.
Experienced homeopaths have the ability to see 'one drug picture' super imposed on 'another drug picture'. The job has become simpler after the introduction of homeopathic softwares.
When a software throws up 2 or 3 close fits...it is an indication.
Pankaj Varma
♡ PANKAJ VARMA last decade
I made this post about 2 years back on another thread here at ABC. I am posting it here again for benefit of memebers:
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Remedies have 'drug relationships' such as:
-complimentary
-anti-dotal
-inimical
-one following the other....producing good results
-one following the other .....not producing favourable results ....hence not to be done (Sulphur and Calcarea Carb as example)
-one medicine completing the good work done by another
-one medicine being 'an acute remedy' and another being 'a chronic' for similar symptoms. Like Belladona and Calcarea Carb.
Some medicines being used as 'inter-current' remedies.... to prepare a base for another remedy to act faster.
It is best left to an experienced homeopath to alternate remidies or follow one remedy by another.
Persons new to homeopathy should not attempt on their own such alterations etc. It requires a deep study before one can do it skilfully.
May I inform everyone that even experienced homeopaths need to refer to a book time and again to recollect drug relationships. It is very difficult to commit the entire study to memeory....almost impossible.
Some companies of repute offer combination remedies....they have a group of doctors (homeopaths) who study drug relationships, balance the combination and then offer it in the market. More often they have tested the combinations for many years. There is no harm using such combinations.
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Best wishes,
Pankaj Varma
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Remedies have 'drug relationships' such as:
-complimentary
-anti-dotal
-inimical
-one following the other....producing good results
-one following the other .....not producing favourable results ....hence not to be done (Sulphur and Calcarea Carb as example)
-one medicine completing the good work done by another
-one medicine being 'an acute remedy' and another being 'a chronic' for similar symptoms. Like Belladona and Calcarea Carb.
Some medicines being used as 'inter-current' remedies.... to prepare a base for another remedy to act faster.
It is best left to an experienced homeopath to alternate remidies or follow one remedy by another.
Persons new to homeopathy should not attempt on their own such alterations etc. It requires a deep study before one can do it skilfully.
May I inform everyone that even experienced homeopaths need to refer to a book time and again to recollect drug relationships. It is very difficult to commit the entire study to memeory....almost impossible.
Some companies of repute offer combination remedies....they have a group of doctors (homeopaths) who study drug relationships, balance the combination and then offer it in the market. More often they have tested the combinations for many years. There is no harm using such combinations.
********
Best wishes,
Pankaj Varma
♡ PANKAJ VARMA last decade
If the well chosen medicines fail to act, then intercurrent medicines are needed.
This is what the theory says, and what practice confirms.
Not all acute problems are acute manifestations of chronic miasms.
If you go out and eat spicy food, and get diarrhoea, next day morning, you need nux.vomica, because you have nux.vomica symptoms.
You don't start with Sulphur and give nux.v later. If somebody is doing it, it is a wrong practice.
We think of intercurrents, only when well selected remedies fail to act.
Even then, a reasonable time is to be allowed for the action of the deep acting medicine to get exhausted, the case retaken, and a suitable remedy chosen, for the remaining acute symptoms.
It is not correct to start all acute treatments with the miasmatic medicine..
If the acute problem is due to the chronic miasm then only, intercurrents are required.
The ability of the software is limited to the ability of the prescriber.
Rubbish in, rubbish out, aptly applies here.
First of all ,you should know, what symptoms to feed in the software, to get the indicated remedies.
Then, you have to choose the most appropriate medicine, out of those two or three, which resemble the patient.
Good knoweldge of remedy pictures is essential to do this.
But, as Nash says
'The remedy beckons the prescriber.'
This is the case for most acute problems.
No software is required for those cases, where the remedy beckons itself.
Murthy
This is what the theory says, and what practice confirms.
Not all acute problems are acute manifestations of chronic miasms.
If you go out and eat spicy food, and get diarrhoea, next day morning, you need nux.vomica, because you have nux.vomica symptoms.
You don't start with Sulphur and give nux.v later. If somebody is doing it, it is a wrong practice.
We think of intercurrents, only when well selected remedies fail to act.
Even then, a reasonable time is to be allowed for the action of the deep acting medicine to get exhausted, the case retaken, and a suitable remedy chosen, for the remaining acute symptoms.
It is not correct to start all acute treatments with the miasmatic medicine..
If the acute problem is due to the chronic miasm then only, intercurrents are required.
The ability of the software is limited to the ability of the prescriber.
Rubbish in, rubbish out, aptly applies here.
First of all ,you should know, what symptoms to feed in the software, to get the indicated remedies.
Then, you have to choose the most appropriate medicine, out of those two or three, which resemble the patient.
Good knoweldge of remedy pictures is essential to do this.
But, as Nash says
'The remedy beckons the prescriber.'
This is the case for most acute problems.
No software is required for those cases, where the remedy beckons itself.
Murthy
♡ gavinimurthy last decade
Combination medicines is not the subject matter here.
However since it is rised,
Please read
Don't touch combinations
Thread from the archives.
Murthy
However since it is rised,
Please read
Don't touch combinations
Thread from the archives.
Murthy
♡ gavinimurthy last decade
In Aphorism 38, Hahnemann tells us that the stronger and dissimilar acute disease will postpone or suspend the old chronic and weaker disease. Thus, administering the constitutional/chronic remedy during emergencies such as dangerous pathological crises, severe traumas, overexposure, serious injuries, and virulent acute miasms, is a serious mistake as it runs the risk of disrupting the natural symptom pattern and causing unproductive aggravations as well as accessory symptoms of the chronic remedy!
Further classical totality takes in to account only the uncommon, peculiar symptoms of mind, physical generals and peculiar particulars,including the symptoms of the active dominant miasm.
dr s.bahl
Further classical totality takes in to account only the uncommon, peculiar symptoms of mind, physical generals and peculiar particulars,including the symptoms of the active dominant miasm.
dr s.bahl
sbahl last decade
Some presribers have a tendency to start all presriptions either with Sulphur, Thuja or Merc.sol.
They normally ask the patient to take it on one day, and start the 'indicated' medicine after 24 hours.
Even assuming that the choice of the antimiasmatic medicine is correct, how are we sure that the antimiasmatic medicine will stop working after 24 hours?
Homeopathic philosophy teaches us that the action of a deep acting medicine, may not start before a week of its administration.
How can one justify this change of prescription after 24 hours?
I appreciate answers from prescribers, who prescribe like this.
Murthy
They normally ask the patient to take it on one day, and start the 'indicated' medicine after 24 hours.
Even assuming that the choice of the antimiasmatic medicine is correct, how are we sure that the antimiasmatic medicine will stop working after 24 hours?
Homeopathic philosophy teaches us that the action of a deep acting medicine, may not start before a week of its administration.
How can one justify this change of prescription after 24 hours?
I appreciate answers from prescribers, who prescribe like this.
Murthy
♡ gavinimurthy last decade
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