When you either taking homoeopathic treatment or prescribing medicines homoeopathically you should remember the obstacles to cure :
( For common people & doctors also ) 1. Obstacles in diet & regimen : 2. Maintaining & exciting causes : 3. Hurried change of doctor : 4. Taking any other medicine simultaneously : ( For Doctors only ) 5. Hurry or laziness during case-taking : 6. Hurried change of medicine : 7. Maismatic obstacles : 8. Congenital anomalies (Birth defects) : 9. Where surgical help is obvious : 1. Obstacles in diet & regimen : All excess in food, use of salt & sugar, excess of coffee & tea and alcohol should be avoided. Foods and drinks made from medicinal vegetables and herbs, strong odours, toothpaate and perfumes, strong scented flowers in apartment, highly spiced dishes, onion, asafoetida (hing), old cheese, pork & flesh of duck and geese are to be avoided. These hamper the medicinal action. Woolen clothings next to the skin, sedentary life in close apartments, frequent indulgence in passive exercise (riding, driving etc.), taking a long siesta in recumbent posture, remain awake long at night, uncleanliness, unnatural debauchery, frequent excitement by reading or seeing obscene matters, prolonged onanism, subjects of anger, grief, vexation or over exertion of body and mind, dwelling at damp rooms or marshy areas should be avoided so that the cure may not be obstructed or becoming impossible. Poverty is an unavoidable obstacle to cure. 2. Maintaining and exciting causes : Those harmful factors are present constantly and responsible for the patient's illness but after removing those the health returns easily are called Maintaining causes. So such causes are to be avoided as far as possible.As for example, continuous mental stress, depression; living in damp room or marshy areas; living a sedentary lazy life; eating highly spicy and oily fried food daily, poor nytrition etc. And those causes initiates any disease procedure is called Exciting cause. In acute diseases, exciting causes helps to select an appropriate medicine and a rapid cure. 3. Hurried change of doctor : It is very harmful to the patient. At least 3 consultations within a span of 1 week (in acute disease) to 2 months (in chronic cases) to be done before deciding to change your doctor. Otherwise it will be your waste of time, no doctor can follow & assess the prognosis of your case earlier. When you shift to a new doctor then the follow up countdown will start newly. Ultimately when your acute disease will be resolved spontaneously in due course of its nature, till then the total time of your illness is longer than if you would stick to your first able physician. And the chronic disease will never cure in frequent change of doctor, only it will be more complicated because chronic disease never ends like acute disease. 4. Taking any other medicine simultaneously : More than one system of medicine in not to be continued simultaneously ever. Doctors should also remember to enquire about intake of any other medicine during the current treatment (specially during Homoeopathic treatment). 5. Hurry and laziness during case taking : Doctors should remain cautious during noting the case and its history. Any hurry or laziness during interrogation commonly causes missing of any significant point or useful symptoms for a good prescription. If case taking is done properly then we have crossed half way of the road to cure. But if case taking has been faulty then no progress is done at all along the road to cure. 6. Hurried change of medicine : Many a times we do this error during follow up. If in general the patient is feeling good then the local symptoms are not to be worried for. If we have patience and good observing capabality then the prescribed medicine completes its work. Otherwise the case becomes jumbled up though the first prescription was correct. The lack of experience, patience and confidence is usually responsible for this error. 7. Maismatic obstacles : Dr. Samuel Hahnemann, the discoverer of Homoeopathy, observed for 12 long years after starting to practice homoeopathically that even after prescribing according to symptoms similarity the chronic diseases are obstinate to be cured. After researching he found some deep acting polycrest (those act on many systems of human body) medicine are only able to this chronic obstinate trend of diseases. There are three miasmatic trend of disease symptoms (Psoric, Syphylitic & Sycotic). During treatment follow up the predominant miasms are to be eradicated one by one. 8. Congenital anomalies (Birth defects) : Those defects has remained after birth will never develop upto normal features. So these deficites during foetal development can not be normalised or cured with medicine. Know about congenital anomalies & never assure any patient about its cure with homoeopathy or any medicine. Only surgery can correct them in some cases. 9. Where surgical help is obvious : In true surgical diseases internal medicine or homoeopathy can not help. Surgical help means some sort of medical help mechanically through surgical operations. Where any mechanical assistance (such as, reduction of any gap between anatomical structures or removal of any compression from outside/ obstruction inside any duct/canal/gut etc.) is obviously needed then it is completely outside the domain of internal medicine (Homoeopathy is absolutely a system of Internal Medicine). Bibliography : 1. Organon of Medicine, 5th Edition (aphorism 260 footnote) by Dr. Samuel Hahnemann 2. Essentials of principles and practice of Homoeopathy by Dr. S. P. Dey
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AuthorDr. Anindya Das, B.H.M.S. Archives
October 2018
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