Dr. Sanjay Shah

MD (Hom)
Consulting Homeopath
 
 
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The Scope of homeopathy

 
Accuracy and efficiency in homoeopathic therapeutics is only possible to those who have a clearly defined idea of the field in which the principle of Similia is operative.
 
In defining the scope of Homoeopathy it is necessary first to discriminate between disease per se, as a Morbid vital process and the material results or products in which the morbid process ultimates. With the later, homoeopathy primarily has nothing to do. It is concerned only with disease per se, in its primary, functional or dynamical aspect.
 
Disease per se, Hahnemann says, is “nothing more than an alteration in the state of health of a healthy individual”, caused by a dynamic action of external, inimical forces upon the life principle of the living organism, making it self known only by perceptible signs and symptoms, the totality of which represents and for all practical purposes constitutes the disease.
 
It becomes necessary therefore, in homoeopathic prescribing to carefully separate the primary, functional symptoms, which represent the morbid process itself, from the secondary symptoms, which represent the pathological end products of the disease.
 
For the homoeopathic practioner the totality of the functional symptoms of the patient is the disease, in the sense that such symptoms constitutes the only perceptible form of the disease and are the only rational basis of curative treatment. Symptoms are the outwardly perceptible signs or phenomena of internal morbid changes in the state of the previously healthy organism, and are our only means of knowing what disease is. They represent a change from a state of order to a state of disorder. When the symptoms are removed the disease ceases to exist.
 
On these basis, a homeopathic prescription based on real principles, takes the total health status of an individual on higher stage, harmony of the total system i.e mind, body and spirit is regained and the resultant is termed CURE. With the same logic true homeopathic treatment can be of good help to all chronic and so called incurable diseases. It is very effective in all life style diseases like hypertension, diabetes, Hyperlipidemia, hyperacidity, Gastric ulceration, Obesity, all allergic conditions, skin disorders, autoimmune diseases, Insomnia, Depression etc. It is very effective in all pediatric disorders including learning disabilities like Autism and Dyslexia.