
š² KENT'S 12 OVSERVATIONS AND ROBERT'S " REMEDY - REACTIONS" š²
- Dr. Praveen Kumar Shukla
- Jan 14, 2021
- 22 min read
š³ KENT'SĀ 12 OBSERVATIONS ā AND ROBERT'S - āĀ REMEDY REACTIONSā š³ ( References in the Organon of Medicine & Chronic Diseases ) ā¼ Kent ās Observations are one and the same of Robertsā Remedy Reactions. ā¼ Dr. J. T. Kent has described it as observing the actions of the remedy on the sick ā while Dr. H. A. Roberts has explained it as the action of the remedy on the patient after the administration of the remedy. š ā¼ REMEDYĀ āĀ the most indicated medicine amongst the ocean of the medicinesĀ ā as explained in the § 3Ā in the Organon of Medicine. ā¼ We pay our tribute to Dr. James Tyler Kent and Dr. Herbert Alfred Roberts for arranging them together and bringing it to our notice for our easy references. ā¼ One of the first things required of a homÅopathic physician is that his powers of observation should be highly developed. ā¼ His powers of discrimination should be very keenly attuned, first, that he may observe the patient in the analysis of the symptoms and selection of the remedy; and second, that he may have the keen perception of the symptoms after the remedy has been carefully selected & administered of the similimum, some action should result, what is expected after the remedy has been administered. ā¼ļø According to our Master Hahnemann in § 154, āIf the antitype constructed from the list of symptoms of the most suitable medicine contain those peculiar, uncommon, singular and distinguishing (characteristic) symptoms, which are to be met with in the disease to be cured in the greatest number and in the greatest similarity,Ā thisĀ medicine is the most appropriate homÅopathic specific remedy forĀ thisĀ morbid state; ā¦ā¦ā¦ā. After the administration of the remedies the commonest things that remedies do is to aggravate or ameliorate. ā¬ļø THE AGGRAVATION IS OF 02 KINDS ā ā¼ļø there may be an aggravation of the disease, in which the conditions of the patient worsen; or, there may be an aggravation of the symptoms, but the patient says, āI feel betterā. ā¼ļø An aggravation of the diseaseĀ means that the patient is growing weaker, the symptoms are growing stronger. š ā¼ļø But in theĀ HomÅopathic aggravation, there is the aggravation of the symptoms of the patient, while the patient is growing better. ā¼ļø This is something which is observed by theĀ intelligentĀ physician after a true HomÅopathic prescription. ā¬ļø REFERENCES OF OBSERVATIONS IN THE ORGANON OF MEDICINE AND CHRONIC DISEASESĀ : ā Of the 12 Observations of Kent, the š ā¼ 9 TH observation is the action of the medicine on healthy human beings (i.e. *drug proving*). š ā¼ Therefore, there are 11 observations on the sick persons. š ā¼ Antidotal observationsĀ ā 1, 10, 12. š ā¼ Palliative observations āĀ 5, 6,7 š ā¼ Ideal cure Ā Ā Ā Ā Ā Ā Ā Ā Ā Ā Ā Ā Ā Ā Ā Ā Ā Ā Ā Ā Ā Ā Ā ā 4, 11 š ā¼ Homeopathic Aggravation - 3 Ā Ā Ā Ā Ā Ā Ā Ā Ā Ā Ā Ā Ā Ā Ā Ā Ā Ā Ā Ā Ā Ā Ā Ā š² 1 ST OBSERVATIONĀ : š "A PROLONGED AGGRAVATION, AND FINAL DECLINE OF THE PATIENTā. ā¼ļø MeaningĀ : ā¼ļø The medicine may or may not have been a correct one; but surely the potency was very high, and the medicine was deep-acting antipsoric. ā¼ļø Therefore, instead of helping, it has established destruction; since there have been enough irreversible tissue changes. š· Duty of the Physician : ā¾ļø It necessitates immediate antidoting. ā¼ļø After re-case-taking, a more similar medicine in low potency is to be prescribed. ā¼ļø High potency should never be used in chronic and doubtful cases. According to Dr. M. L. Tyler, āBegin with 12 or 30, especially where tissue changes may have occurredā. According toĀ Dr. H. A. Roberts, āIt is probably wiser not to use an antipsoric in these conditionsā. š· PrognosisĀ : ā Very bad. š¶ ReferencesĀ : ā¼ļø In § 255, āā¦ā¦Now, supposing the remedy is perfectly appropriate, if the improvement delay too long in making its appearance, this depends either on some error of conduct on the part of the patient, or on the homÅopathic aggravation produced by medicine lasting too long (§ 157), consequently on the dose not being smallenough.ā ā¼ļø In § 276, Dr. Hahnemann described that, āā¦.., even though it may be homÅopathically suited to the case of disease, does harm in every dose that is too large, the more harm the larger the dose, and by the magnitude of the dose and in strong dosesā it does more harm the greater its homÅopathicity and the higher the potency 1 selected, and it does much more injury than any equally large dose of a medicine that is unhomÅopathic, ā¦..ā ā¼ļø In § 279, it is said, āThis pure experience shows UNIVERSALLY, that if the disease do not manifestly depend on a considerable deterioration of an important viscus (even though it belong to the chronic and complicated diseases), ā¦.ā ā¼ļø InĀ The Chronic DiseaseĀ [Vol. 1; Pg 120; Reprint 2000; B. Jain] , āBut if these aggravated original symptoms appear on subsequent days still of the same strength as at the beginning, or even with an increased severity, it is sign that the dose of this antipsoric remedy, although properly selected according to homÅopathic principles, was too large, and it is to be apprehended that no cure will be effected by it; because the medicine in so large a dose is able to establish a disease, which in some respect, indeed, is similar to it; with respect to the fact, however, that the medicine in its present intensity unfolds also its other symptoms which annul the similarity, it produces a dissimilar chronic disease instead of the former, and, indeed, a more severe and troublesome one, without thereby extinguishing the old original oneā. ā¼ļø Again in the same text, The Master instructed, āNow when the stormy assault caused by too large a dose of medicine, although homÅopathically selected, has been assuaged through an antidote or the later use of some other antipsoric remedies, then, later on, the same antipsoric remedy ā which had been hurtful only because of its over-large dose ā can be used again, and, indeed, as soon as it is homÅopathically indicated, with the greatest success only in aĀ farĀ smaller dose and in amuchĀ more highly potentized attenuation,Ā i.e., in a milder qualityā. š² 2 ND OBSERVATION : š "PROLONGED AGGRAVATION, THEN VERY SLOW IMPROVEMENTā. ā¼ļø MeaningĀ : ā¾ļøHad the case come a bit later, it would also have fared the same fate as in 1 ST Observation. ā¾ļøThe medicine was right. ā¾ļøThe potency was very high. ā¾ļøThere have been enough tissue changes. ā¾ļøThe dose would act for a very long period. š· Duty of the PhysicianĀ : The action of the medicine is not to be disturbed till the dose has worn off. š· PrognosisĀ : ā Favourable. š¶ ReferencesĀ : ā¼ļø In § 245, Dr. Hahnemann explained, āā¦ā¦ Every perceptibly progressive and strikingly increasing amelioration in a transient (acute) or persistent (chronic) disease, is a condition which, as long as it lasts, completely precludes every repetition of the administration of any medicine whatsoever, because all the good the medicine taken continues to effect is newĀ hasteningĀ towards its completion. ā¼ļø Every new dose of any medicine whatsoever, even of the one last administered, that has hitherto shown itself to be salutary, would in this case disturb the work of amelioration.ā ā¼ļø In § 245, He stated, āBut even with such individuals we may convince ourselves on this point by going with them through all the symptoms enumerated in our notes of the disease one by one, and finding that they complain of no new unusual symptoms in addition to these, and that none of the old symptoms are worse. ā¼ļø If this be the case, and if an improvement in the disposition and mind have already been observed, the medicine must have effected positive diminution of the disease, or, if sufficient time have not yet elapsed for this, it will soon effect it. ā¦..ā ā¼ļø In § 276, āToo large doses of an accurately chosen homÅopathic medicine, and especially when frequently repeated, bring about much trouble as a rule. ā¼ļø They put the patient not seldom in danger of life or make this disease almost incurable. ā¼ļø They do indeed extinguish the natural disease so far as the sensation of the life principle is concerned and the patient no longer suffers from theoriginal disease from the moment the too strong dose of the homÅopathic medicine acted upon him but he is in consequence more ill with the similar but more violent medicinalĀ diseasewhichĀ is most difficult to destroy.ā ā¼ļø InĀ The Chronic DiseaseĀ [Vol. 1; Pg 119; Reprint 2000; B. Jain] , āLeast of all, need we to be concerned when the usual customary symptoms are aggravated and show most prominently on the first days, and again on some of the following days, but gradually less and less. ā¼ļø This so-called homÅopathic aggravation is a sign of an incipient cure (of the symptoms thus aggravated at present), which may be expected with certainty.ā š² 3 RD OBSERVATIONĀ : š "THE AGGRAVATION IS QUICK, SHORT AND STRONG WITH RAPID IMPROVEMENT OF THE PATIENTā. ā¼ļø MeaningĀ : ā¼ļøThe reaction of the economy is vigorous. ā¼ļø There is no much tissue changes, or very superficial, if any. The potency was a bit higher. š· Duty of the Physician : ā¼ļø An aggravation of this kind is very much reassuring. ā¼ļø Medicinal action is not to be disturbed. š· Prognosis : ā Very good. š¶ ReferencesĀ : ā¼ļø In § 157, Dr. Hahnemann explained, āBut though it is certain that a homÅopathically selected remedy does, by reason of its appropriateness and the minuteness of the dose, gently remove and annihilate the acute disease analogous to it, without manifesting its other unhomÅopathic symptoms, that is to say, without the production of new, serious disturbances, yet it usually, immediately after ingestion ā for the first hour, or for a few hours ā causes a kind of slight aggravation when the dose has not been sufficiently small and (where the dose has been somewhat too large, however, for a considerable number of hours), which has so much resemblance to the original disease that it seems to the patient to be an aggravation of his own disease. ā¼ļø But it is, in reality, nothing more than an extremely similarĀ medicinal disease, somewhat exceeding in strength the original affection.ā ā¼ļø In § 158, āThis slightĀ homÅopathic aggravationĀ during the first hours ā a very good prognostic that the acute disease will most probably yield to the first dose ā is quite as it ought to be, as the medicinal disease must naturally be somewhat stronger than the malady to be cured if it is to overpower and extinguish the latter, just as a natural disease can remove and annihilate another one similar to it only when it is stronger than the latter (§§ 43 ā 48).ā ā¼ļø In § 159, āThe smaller the dose of the homÅopathic remedy is in the treatment of acute diseases so much the slighter and shorter is the apparent increase of the disease during the first hours.ā ā¼ļø In § 160, āBut as the dose of a homÅopathic remedy can scarcely ever be made so small that it shall not be able to relieve, overpower, indeed completely cure and annihilate the uncomplicated natural disease of not long standing that is analogous to it (§ 249, note), we can understand why a does of an appropriate homÅopathic medicine, not the very smallest possible, does always, during the first hour after its ingestion, produce a perceptible homÅopathic aggravation of this kind.ā ā¼ļø In § 161, āWhen I here limit the so-called *homÅopathic aggravation*, or rather the primary action of the homÅopathic medicine that seems to increase somewhat the symptoms of the original disease, to the first or few hours, this is certainly true with respect to diseases of a more acute character and of recent origin, but where medicines of long action have to combat a malady of, considerable or of very long standing, where one dose, consequently, must continue to act for many days, we then occasionally see, during the first six, eight or ten days, the occurrence of some such primary actions of the medicine, some such apparent increase of the symptoms of the original disease (lasting for one or several hours), whilst in the intervening hours amelioration of the whole malady is perceptible. ā¼ļø After the laps of these few days the amelioration resulting from such primary action of the medicine proceeds almost uninterruptedly for several days longer.ā ā¼ļø InĀ F.N. to § 282Ā (6 th edition), āThe rule to commence the homÅopathic treatment if chronic diseases with the smallest possible doses and only gradually to augment them is subject to a notable exception in the treatment of the three great miasms while they still effloresce on the skin,Ā i.e., recently eruptedĀ itch, the untouchedchancreĀ (on the sexual organs, labia, mouth or lips, and so forth), and theĀ figwarts. These not only tolerate, but indeed require, from the very beginning large doses of their specific remedies of ever higher and higher degrees of dynamization daily (possibly also several times daily). ā¼ļø If this course be pursued, there is no danger to be feared as is the case in the treatment of diseases hidden within, that the excessive dose while it extinguishes the disease, initiates and by continued usage possible produces a chronic medicinal disease. During external manifestations of these three miasms this is not the case; for from the daily progress of their treatment it can be observed and judged to what degree the large dose withdraws the sensation of the disease from the vital principle day by day; for none of these three can be cured without giving the physician the conviction through their disappearance that there is no longer any further need of these medicines.ā ā¼ļø InĀ The Chronic DiseaseĀ [Vol. 1; Pg 123; Reprint 2000; B. Jain] , āThese attacks, however, if the antipsoric remedy was selected fittingly and homÅopathically and the dose was a moderate one, during its continued action take place, even more and more rarely and more feebly, but if the dose were too strong they come more frequently and more strong, to detriment of the patient.ā Again He says inĀ The Chronic DiseaseĀ [Vol. 1; Pg 124; Reprint 2000; B. Jain] , āThe physician must, therefore, in chronic diseases, allow all antipsoric remedies to act thirty, forty or even fifty and more daysĀ by themselves, so long as they continue to improve the diseased state perceptibly to the acute observer, even though gradually; for son long the good effects continue with the indicated doses and these must not be disturbed and checked by the new remedy.ā š² 4 TH OBSERVATIONĀ : š "RECOVERY WITHOUT ANY AGGRAVATION WHATSOEVERā ā¼ļø MeaningĀ : āŖIt was the most similar medicine. āŖThe potency exactly fitted the case. āŖThere was no tissue change. āŖThere was only aĀ functional disorder. š· Duty of the PhysicianĀ : This is theĀ highest ideal of cure in the acute disease condition. š· PrognosisĀ : ā Very good (in acute disease). š¶ References: ā¼ļø Dr. Hahnemann explained in § 156, āThere is, however, almost no homÅopathic medicine, be it ever so suitably chosen, that, especially if it should be given in an insufficiently minute dose, will not produce, in very irritable and sensitive patients, at least one trifling, unusual disturbance, some slight new symptom while its action lasts; for it is next to impossible that medicine and disease should cover one another symptomatically as exactly as two triangles with equal sides and equal angles. But this (in ordinary circumstances) unimportant difference will be easily done away with by the potential activity (energy) of the living organism, and is not perceptible by patients not excessively delicate; the restoration goes forward, notwithstanding, to the goal of perfect recovery, if it be not prevented by the action of heterogeneous medicinal influences upon the patient, by errors of regimen or by excitement of the passions.ā ā¼ļø Again in § 159, He stated, āThe smaller the dose of the homÅopathic remedy is in the treatment of acute diseases so much the slighter and shorter is the apparent increase of the disease during the first hours.ā ā¼ļø In § 253, āAmong the signs that, in all diseases, especially in such as are of an acute nature, inform us of a slight commencement of amelioration or aggravation that is not perceptible to every one, the state of mind and the whole demeanor of the patient are the most certain and instructive. ā¼ļø In the case of ever so slight an improvement we observe a greater degree of comfort, increased calmness andfreedom of the mind, higher spirits ā a kind of return of the natural state. ā¼ļø In the case of ever so small a commencement of aggravation we have, on the contrary, the exact opposite of this: a constrained helpless, pitiable state of the disposition, of the mind, of the whole demeanor, and of all gestures, postures and actions, which may be easily perceived on close observation, but cannot be described in words.ā ā¼ļø InĀ The Chronic DiseaseĀ [Vol. 1; Pg 125; Reprint 2000; B. Jain] , āThere are not a few cases, where the practiced careful HomÅopath sees a single dose of his remedy, selected so as to be perfectly homÅopathic, even in a very severe chronic disease, continue uninterruptedly to diminish the ailment for several weeks, year, months, up to recovery; a thing which could not have been expected better in any other way, and could not have been effected by treating with several doses or with several medicines. To make the possibility of this process in some way intelligible, we may assume, what is not very unlikely, that an antipsoric remedy selected most accurately according to homÅopathic principles, even in the smallest dose of a high or the highest potency can manifest so long-continued a curative force, and at last cure, probably, onlyĀ by means of a certain infectionĀ with a very similar medicinal disease which overpowers the original disease, by the process of nature itself, according to which (Organon, § 45, Fifth Edition), two diseases which are different, indeed, in their kind but very similar in their manifestations and effects, as also in the ailments and symptoms caused by it, when they meet together in the organism, the stronger disease (which is always the one caused by the medicine, § 33, ibid.) destroys the weaker (the natural one). ā¼ļø In this case every new medicine and also a new dose of the same medicine, would interrupt the work of improvement and cause new ailments, an interference which often cannot be repaired for a long time.ā š² 5 TH OBSERVATION : šĀ "THE AMELIORATION COMES FIRST, THEN COMES THE AGGRAVATIONā ā¼ļø MeaningĀ : The medicine was antipathic in nature, or it was only partially or superficially similar. š¶ Duty of the PhysicianĀ : A more similar medicine is to be given after re-case-taking. š· PrognosisĀ : ā Bad. š¶ ReferencesĀ : ā¼ļø Dr. Hahnemann explained in § 256, āOn the other hand, if the patient mention the occurrence of some fresh accidents and symptoms of importance ā signs that the medicine chosen has not been strictly homÅopathic ā even though he should good-naturedly assure us that he feels better, as is not infrequently the case in phthisical patients with lung abscess, we must not believe this assurance, but regard his state as aggravated as it will soon be perfectly apparent it is.ā ā¼ļø InĀ The Chronic DiseaseĀ [Vol. 1; Pg 126; Reprint 2000; B. Jain] , āYet when a sudden great and striking improvement of a tedious great ailment follows immediately on the first dose of a medicine, there justly arises much suspicion that the remedy has only acted palliatively, and therefore must never be given again, even after the intervention of several other remedies.ā Again inĀ The Chronic DiseaseĀ [Vol. 1; Pg 130; Reprint 2000; B. Jain] , āWe cannot flatter ourselves that the antipsoric medicine given was rightly selected, or that it will forward the cure of a chronic disease, if it quickly and entirely destroys as if by a stroke of magic the most troublesome symptoms, old, great, continuous pains, tonic or clonic spasms, etc., so that the patient almost immediately after taking the medicine, fancies himself as much freed from sufferings as if he were already restored, and as if in heaven. ā¼ļø This deceptive effect shows that the medicine here acts enantiopathically as an opposite or palliative, and that in the days following we cannot expect anything from this remedy but an aggravation of the original disease. ā¼ļø As soon then as this deceptive improvement within a few days begins again to turn to aggravation, it is high time to give either the antidote to this medicine, or, when this cannotbe had, a medicine which is homÅopathically more appropriate. ā¼ļø Very rarely will such an enantiopathic remedy do any good in future. ā¼ļø If the medicine which is thus antipathic at once in the beginning,Ā i.e., which seemed so to alleviate, is inclined to reciprocal action, it is possible that when the aggravation from this dose takes place, a second dose of the same remedy may produce the contrary, and thus bring about a lasting improvement, as I have at least perceived in Ignatia.ā ā¬ļø 6 TH OBSERVATIONĀ : šĀ "TOO SHORT RELIEF OF THE SYMPTOMSā. ā¼ļø MeaningĀ : ā¼ļø InĀ Acute disease, the medicine has to be repeated much oftener. ā¼ļø The infection being violent or virulent in nature. ā¼ļø InĀ Chronic disease, the medicine was partially similar. ā¼ļø There is a condition which interferes with the action of the remedy. ā¼ļø Structural changes have occurred or organs are destroyed. š· Duty of the Physician : ā¼ļø InĀ Acute disease, a more similar medicine is to be found out and given. ā¼ļø InĀ Chronic disease, there is a very precarious condition. š· PrognosisĀ : ā Very bad (in chronic disease). š¶ ReferencesĀ : ā¼ļø Dr. Hahnemann explained in § 167, āThus if there occur, during the use of this imperfectly homÅopathic remedy first employed, accessory symptoms of some moment, then, in the case of acute diseases, we do not allow this first dose to exhaust its action, nor leave the patient to the full duration of the action of the remedy, but we investigate afresh the morbid state in its now altered condition, and add the remainder of the original symptoms to those newly developed in tracing a new picture of the disease.ā [ for Acute disease] ā¼ļø In § 250, āWhen, to the observant practitioner who accurately investigates the state of the disease, it is evident, in urgent cases after the lapse of only six, eight or twelve hours, that he has made a bad selection in the medicine last given, in that the patientās state is growing perceptibly, however slightly, worse from hour to hour, by the occurrence of new symptoms and sufferings, it is not only allowable for him, but it is his duty to remedy his mistake, by the selection and administration of a homÅopathic medicine not merely tolerably suitable, but the most appropriate possible for the existing state of the disease (§ 167).ā [ forĀ Chronic disease] ā¼ļø Again in § 252Ā Master stated, āBut should we find, during the employment of the other medicines in chronic (psoric) diseases, that the best selected homÅopathic (antipsoric) medicine in the suitable (minutest) dose does not effect an improvement, this is a sure sign that the cause that keeps up the disease still persists, and that there is some circumstances in the mode of life of the patient or in the situation in which he is placed, that must be removed in order that a permanent cure may ensue.ā [ forĀ Chronic disease] ā¼ļø InĀ The Chronic DiseaseĀ [Vol. 1; Pg 126; Reprint 2000; B. Jain] , āThe only allowableĀ exceptionĀ for animmediate repetition to the same medicineĀ is when the dose of a well-selected and in every way suitable and beneficial remedy has made some beginning toward an improvement, but its action ceases too quickly, its power is too soon exhausted, and the cure does not proceed any further. ā¼ļø This is rare in chronic diseases, but in acute diseases and in chronic diseases that rise into an acute state it is frequently the case. ā¼ļø It is only then, ā as a practiced observer may recognize āĀ when the peculiar symptoms of the disease to be treated, after fourteen, ten, seven, and even fewer days, visibly cease to diminish, so that the improvement manifestly has come to a stop, without any disturbance of the mind and without the appearance of any new troublesome symptoms, so that the former medicine would still be perfectly homÅopathically suitable, only then, I say, is it useful, and probably necessary to give a dose of the same medicine of a similarly small amount, but most safely in a different degree of dynamic potency. ā¼ļø When the remedy is thus modified, the vital force of the patient will allow itself more easily to be further affected by the same medicine, so as to effect by it everything that may be expected of this medicine and in this ailment.ā š² 7 TH OBSERVATIONĀ : āĀ š "A FULL TIME AMELIORATION OF THE SYMPTOMS, YET NO SPECIAL RELIEF OF THE PATIENTā. ā¼ļø MeaningĀ : There are latent conditions (existing organic conditions) in such patients that prevent improvement beyond the certain limit. E.g. a patient with one kidney or bigger part of the lungs having been fibrosed or calcified; and can only be relieved to a certain limit. š· Duty of the PhysicianĀ : ā¼ļø Patient is curable to a certain degree. ā¼ļø If there is some deterioration of the important viscus, complete CURE isĀ notĀ possible. š· PrognosisĀ : ā Bad. š¶ ReferencesĀ : ā¼ļø In § 279, Dr. Hahnemann says, āThis pure experience shows universally, that if the disease do not manifestly depend on a considerable deterioration of an important viscus (even though it belong to the chronic and complicated diseases), and if during the treatment all other alien medicinal influences are kept away from the patients,Ā the dose of the homÅopathically selected remedy can never be prepared so small that it shall not be stronger than the natural disease, and shall not be able to overpower, extinguish and cure it, at least in part as long as it is capable of causing some, though but a slight preponderance of its own symptoms over those of the disease resembling itĀ (slight homÅopathic aggravation, §§ 157 ā 160)Ā immediately after its ingestion.Ā ā š² 8 TH OBSERVATIONĀ : āĀ š "SOME PATIENT PROVES EVERY REMEDY THEY GETā. ā¼ļøMeaningĀ : ā¾ļøHe is inclined to be hypersensitive to all things. ā¾ļøHe has an idiosyncrasy to be affected by everything. He is often incurable. š· Duty of the PhysicianĀ : ā¼ļø He is to be given lowest, rather crude, potencies of the indicated drug ā both in acute & chronic diseases. He is useful to proving. ā¾ļøNever the less such constitutions are improved by some drugs such as Nitric acid, etc. š· PrognosisĀ : ā Bad. š¶ ReferencesĀ : ā¼ļøIn § 116, Dr. Hahnemann says, āSome symptoms are produced by the medicines more frequently ā that is to say, in many individuals, others more rarely or in few persons, some only in very few healthy bodies.ā ā¾ļøAgain in § 117, āTo the latter category belong the so-calledĀ idiosyncrasies, by which are meant peculiar corporeal constitutions which, although otherwise healthy, possess a disposition to be brought into a more or less morbid state by certain things whichĀ seemĀ to produce no impression and no change in many other individuals. But this inability to make an impression on every one is onlyĀ apparent. ā¦ā¦ā¦..ā āā¦..the obvious derangements of health in the so-called idiosyncrasies cannot be laid to the account of these peculiar constitutions alone, but they must also be ascribed to these things that produce them, in which must lie the power of making the same impressions on all human bodies, yet in such a manner that but a small number of healthy constitutions have a tendency to allow themselves to be brought into such an obvious morbid condition by them. ā¼ļø That these agents do actually make this impression on every healthy body is shown by this, that when employed as remedies they render effectual homÅopathic service toĀ allĀ sick persons for morbid symptoms similar to those they seem to be only capable of producing in so-called *idiosyncratic individuals.ā* š² 9 TH OBSERVATIONĀ : āĀ š "ACTION OF THE MEDICINES UPON PROVERSā. ā¼ļø MeaningĀ : ā¾ļø Healthy prover is always benefited by proving, if they are properly conducted. It is well to observe carefully the constitutional states of an individual above to become a prover; and to write these down and substract them from proving. ā¾ļø Master Hahnemann in his Organon of Medicine, from § 105Ā to § 145Ā has given instructions regarding drug proving. š· PrognosisĀ : ā Favorable. š² 10 TH OBSERVATIONĀ : āĀ š "NEW SYMPTOMS APPEAR AFTER THE REMEDYā ā¼ļø MeaningĀ : The medicine was wrong; and greater the number of such symptoms is, more wrong the medicine has been. š· Duty of the PhysicianĀ : ā¾ļøIf the symptoms are of light nature we shouldwait till the new symptoms pass off; and after re-case-taking a more similar medicine is to be given. ā¾ļøIf the symptoms are of serious nature & threaten, it has to be antidoted. š· PrognosisĀ : ā Bad. š¶ ReferencesĀ : ā¾In § 249, Dr. Hahnemann says, āEvery medicine prescribed for a case of disease which, in the course of its action, produces new and troublesome symptoms not appertaining to the disease to be cured, is not capable of effecting real improvement, and cannot be considered as homÅopathically selected; it must, therefore, either, if the aggravation be considerable, be first partially neutralized as soon as possible by an antidote before giving the next remedy chosen more accurately according to similarity of action; or if the troublesome symptoms be not very violent, the next remedy must be given immediately, in order to take the place of the improperly selected one.ā ā¾ InĀ The Chronic DiseaseĀ [Vol. 1; Pg 119; Reprint 2000; B. Jain] , āBut if the symptoms are different and had never before occurred, or never in this way, and, therefore, are peculiar to this medicine and not to be expected in the process of the disease, but trifling, the action of the medicine ought not for the present to be interrupted. ā¼ļø Such symptoms frequently pass off without interrupting the helpful activity of the remedy; but if they are of a burdensome intensity, they are not to be endured; in such a case they are a sign that the antipsoric medicine was not selected in the correct homÅopathic manner. ā¼ļø Its action must then be checked by an antidote, or when no antidote to it is known, another antipsoric more accurately answering its symptoms may continue a few more days, or they may return, but they will soon come to a final end and be replaced by a better help.ā š² 11 TH OBSERVATION : ā š " OLD SYMPTOMS ARE OBSERVED TO REAPPEARā. ā¼ļø MeaningĀ : ā¾ļø The medicine has been very right. ā¾ļø More such old symptoms reappear; more the chronic disease is curable. š· Duty of the PhysicianĀ : ā¾ļø The action of the medicine should not be disturbed. ā¾ļøOnly, if the re-established symptoms / discharge / eruption stay for pretty long time, the medicine may be repeated. ā¾ļøHere, the old symptoms / diseases may come and go in reverse order of their appearance. š· PrognosisĀ : ā Very good. š¶ ReferencesĀ : ā¼ļø In § 280, Dr. Hahnemann says, āThe dose of the medicine that continues serviceable without producing new troublesome symptoms is to be continued whileĀ gradually ascending, so long as the patientĀ with general improvement, begins to feel in a mild degree the return of one or several old original complaints. ā¼ļø This indicates an approaching cure through a gradual ascending of the moderate doses modified each time by succussion (§ 247). ā¼ļø It indicates that the vital principal no longer needs to be affected by the similar medicinal disease in order to lose the sensation of the natural disease (§ 148). ā¼ļø It indicates that the life principle now free from the natural disease begins to suffer only something of the medicinal disease hitherto known ashomÅopathic aggravation.ā ā¼ļø InĀ The Chronic DiseaseĀ [Vol. 1; Pg 119; Reprint 2000; B. Jain] , āFor if the symptoms occurring during the action of the remedy have also occurred, if not in the last few weeks, at least now and then some weeks before, or some months before in a similar manner, then such occurrences are merely a homÅopathic excitation, through the medicine, of some symptom not quite unusual to this disease, of something which had perhaps been more frequently troublesome before, and they are a sign that this medicine acts deeply into the very essence of this disease, and that consequently it will be more effective in the future. The medicine, therefore, should be allowed to continue and exhaust its action undisturbed, without giving the least medicinal substance between its doses.ā š² 12 TH OBSERVATIONĀ : š "SYMPTOMS TAKE THE WRONG DIRECTION" ā¼ļø MeaningĀ : The medicine has been a wrong one. E.g. the Rheumatism of extremities disappears and the Heart becomes involved. š· Duty of the PhysicianĀ : ā¼ļø Medicine is to be antidoted at once. ā¼ļø A more similar remedy is to be found out after re-case-taking and administered. š· PrognosisĀ : ā Unfavourable. š¶ ReferencesĀ : ā¼ļø In § 256, Dr. Hahnemann says, āā¦.., if the patient mention the occurrence of some fresh accidents and symptoms of importance ā signs that the medicine chosen has not been strictly homÅopathic ā even though he should good-naturedly assure us that he feels better, as is not infrequently the case in phthisical patients with lung abscess, we must not believe this assurance, but regard his state as aggravated as it will soon be perfectly apparent it is.ā ā¼ļø InĀ The Chronic DiseaseĀ [Vol. 1; Pg 135; Reprint 2000; B. Jain] , āThe frequent request of a patient to have one symptom, which above others is troublesome to him, removed first of all, is impracticable, but the ignorant patient should be excused for his request. ā¼ļø In the daily written report during the use of an antipsoric medicine, the patient who livesĀ at a distanceĀ should underscore once, for the information of the physician, those incident symptoms during the day, which after a considerable time or a long time he has now felt again for the first time; but those which he never had before and which he first felt on that day, he shouldĀ underscore twice. The former symptoms indicate that the antipsoric has taken hold of the root of the evil, and will do much for its thorough cure, but the latter, if they appear more frequently and more strongly, give the physician a hint that the antipsoric was not selected quite homÅopathically, and should be interrupted in time and replaced by a more appropriate one.ā ā¹ REFERENCES : ā ā¾Hahnemann, Dr. Samuel ā Organon of Medicine (5 TH and 6 TH Edition). ā¾Hahnemann, Dr. Samuel ā The Chronic Diseases, Their Peculiar Nature and Their HomÅopathic Cure. ā¾Joardar, Dr. Rakhal Raj ā The Dictionary of Organon (Part III). ā¾Kent, Dr. James Tyler ā Lectures on HomÅopathic Philosophy. ā¾Roberts, Dr. Hebert Alfred ā The Principles and Art of Cure by HomÅopathy. ⬠SOURSE: INTERNET. ⬠NOTE: THESE NOTES ARE PREPARED ONLY FOR STUDY PORPOSE. ⬠POSTED BY: TEAM HOMEOPATHY MCQS [ ONLINE HELPING HANDS FOR PREPRATIONS OF VARIOUS COMPITITIVE EXAMS IN HOMEOPATHY LIKE AIAPGET, UPSC, STATE PSC, NRHM EXAMS ETC ] ā¦ļø SINCE : 2014 - 15. š WITH EXCELENT RESULTS. š FOLLOW US š š³ TEAM HOMEOPATHY MCQS š³ ā¾ WEBSITE: https://praveensh2005.wixsite.com/teamhomeopathymcqs
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