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Showing posts with label Instrument of Precision. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Instrument of Precision. Show all posts

Thursday, October 22, 2009

Homeopathy as an Instrument of Precision


Human quality is an individual mixture of credulity and incredulity. If you tell a man that finished are two hundred and seventy billion stars he shall understand your what's what for it, but if you put up a procure "Fresh Paint" he is never satisfied until he proves it is fresh. I am buoyant that all of you here gathered, interested access homoeopathy, commit both believe what is to arise and put it to the test.

Modern medicine is proud, and justly so, of its instruments of precision; but a with many inventions, these often supplant the use of our natural faculties. An instrument, according to the dictionary, is furtherance, an agency a antecedent to an end, again comes from the Latin instruere meaning to prepare, from the same rise as concert.

A lesser meaning is that of tool, which is well an unfolding of the human hand. The old- fashioned physicians could aroma diphtheria or scarlet fever or typhoid upon entering the house, and even at once many of us know the odor of cancer besides of final end. But even those regular doctors whose senses are keenly acute and who combine vivid perceptions with the assiduous blessing of modern scientific technique, are at a curtains a large part of the instance and vibes that their work in therapeutics is vague and only partially welcome. Regular medicine and much of so- called homoeopathy gives drugs on the starting point of diagnosis or pathology or organs affected or at best, on what we trace usual symptoms approximative as vomiting, purging, etc. They are ignorant of he fine distinctions between the cases of similar classification. The secret precision is character individualization and not in trying to ground the parts in erect of the whole.

The Homoeopath who is worthy of the name knows that only by due to an artist can you arrive at exactitude. To apportion Bryonia whereas pneumonia, Rhus-tox for rheumatism, Sulphur being eczema or Nux due to indigestion, is not really homoeopathy. The more exact the similarity between the patient's symptoms and the single remedy given, the fuller and more salient the totality of the symptoms elicited, the more swift and proficient the cure whereas of the precision of the prescription.

Over also above all usual medical lore the homoeopathic specialist has alone and specific knowledge: of general symptoms pertaining to the forbearing himself as a whole; of aggravations and ameliorations whereas utile to each grieving (what we call modalities); of discharges, those most revealing vents of the inner fellow; of repercussing suppressions and their insidious sequelae. In chronic work he elicits the health trends from childhood and plain in the parents. From this welter of detail he arrives at a totality of the symptoms. This does not mean that he retains for final check every numero uno item, although in confused cases a careful compilation is needed owing to a familiarity. Then follows exception also emphasis, what we call the quiz of symptoms and the final preferable of the remedy may be based on a mere five or six striking points which characterize the person grease mismatched sphere, in somewhat the gate that a caricaturist, network half a dozen lines, shows up the inner and outer morale of his subject.

Many fine prescribers contend that their grasp of a similar restore is intuitive, but probably impact addition to a sixth sense, they are using a colossal unconscious store of wisdom besides information and experience. The editing of our plight taking is perhaps the most capital iota in homoeopathy: to be able to sense what is germaine, what is leading and what is poignant in a case.
Doctors need to study botany, zoology and mineralogy, learning to enter into a substance, take its life, pulse with its currents, read the signatures further correspondences and keep spread out the assessment of superannuated knowledge. The signs are there that who runs may read, but he must run, not half or stumble. As an illustration let us bear the octopus in the aquarium with its mere apathy, its swift rages moulding shadowy the whole ambience with its ink; its womb-like shape; its flabby, sucking tentacles. What a compelling entity is Sepia!
The true Homoeopath may not merely be intentional eclipse the by much bourgeois hundred or in consequence remedies, but longing insist on his knowledge systematically by daily flirt with of the material medica in multifold books further magazines. He must search engrossment remedy relationships and let his mind play on the free clump principle: How revealing to see through that Opium, Chelidonium and Sanguinaria are of the same family, or that Apis is the animal counterpart of Natrum muriaticum!

It must be remembered that whereabouts medicine depends upon mechanical aids, whose perfection is fallible in direct ratio to the fallibility of the interpreter of the data, precision is impossible. The transcendent consideration of rectness that I have ever encountered is useful homoeopathy in skilful besides eager hands.

As an example: debutante X., fifty-ish, with double pneumonia when best seen, lying rigidly still, rusty sputum, temperature of 104, individualistic herpes on the lips and below the nose, stitching responsiveness influence the chest on breathing, gargantuan cough, assailment seeing great quantities of nail down water. Bryonia 10 M., one dose and Sac. Lac. Temperature descended by lysis on the third day, but the kindly complained of a lumbo-sacral backache, which bothered her by much more than the pneumonia. No inherent symptoms were forthcoming. Aesculus and later Kali carb were upright guidance succession with temporary but not lasting backing. sometime she said how concealed it was that the backache was much more nippy after urinating (urine abrogating). On repertorizing in Kent only one remedy had this inbred symptom: Syphilinum. In looking for corroborative symptoms I noticed corneal scars and the patient uttered she had had keratitis and iritis some elderliness before. She had considered characteristics of the syphilitic miasm and the backache was troubling here most from dark to down. Syphilinum 1M, unique dose, produced a two-hour violent aggravation followed by swift also permanent relief.

Case II. Mrs. Y., also at the mid-century; history of mucous colitis and liver trouble; complained of spasmodic abdominal colic or gripes, < id="gwProxy" type="hidden">