As long as men have existed they have been liable, individually or collectively to diseases from physical or moral causes. In a crude state of nature few remedial agents were required as the simple mode of living admitted of but few diseases. With the civilizationPrinciples
However much it may be boasted about civilization, it is turning out to be a curse to mankind of mankind, world over, on the contrary, the occasioning of diseases and the necessity for medical aid increased in equal proportion. Ever since the time of hippocrates i.e., 2,500 years in the west and even before it the ancient Indian systems of medicine sought for a permanent and complete solution to the sufferings of mankind. All those attempts being against it, nature opposed and reacted to it with increased incidence of much more serious diseases in a transformed manner.
At this juncture, homoeopathy had arrived into the scene as a new dawn to the suffering mankind with sound principles based on eternal laws of nature which are bound to be the same in the past, present and in the future. An important point to be noted here is that mere prescription of homoeopathy drugs by a homoeopathy doctor does not become homoeopathy. The sincere application of principles as laid by the founder decides the genuineness of treatment and the corresponding cures. Homoeopathy is nobody’s property, whoever may apply it honestly, it showers marvellous results. One last thing to say "Homoeopathic physician may fail, but HOMOEOPATHY NEVER FAILS".
The principle of "vital force" is truly a great contribution by the aptly named Sage-Scientist Dr. Samuel Hahnemann to the medical world basing on which we can explain the concepts of health, disease, medicine and cure.
Vital force is a purely immaterial, invisible and dynamic energy which animates the material organism in health and in disease. It is a self governing force which rules the body with unlimited power. It retains all the parts of the organism in admirable, harmonious, vital operation. The material organism (body) without this vital force is capable of no sensation, no function and no self preservation. The material organism derives all sensations and performs all the functions of the life by means of this immaterial force. The material organism without this is dead and now only subject to the power of external physical world, it decays and is again resolved into its chemical constituents. As a power invisible in itself, the vital forceVital force
The invisible, dynamic force which animates the material organism in health and in disease …. is only cognizable by its effects on the organism. There are many such things as for example the gravitational force of the earth, being invisible, makes itself known by the falling of an object to ground; the conceptual magnetic power in a magnet, being immaterial, manifests itself by attracting the iron fillings; the feeling of love of the parents, being abstract, manifests by careful and responsible upbringing of their children.
The spiritual vital force, everywhere present in the organism furnishes the body with proper sensation, proper function and proper self-preservation which we call "Health". Being gifted with proper sensation by the dynamic vital force, the organism is able to smell, hear, taste, and see various things comfortably.
It performs various functions of the body with perfect co-ordination in health. We never make calculations while walking or ascending steps, but it happens so smoothly that we never encounter the problem of knocking head, hands or legs against things, when in health. We never wish to stop breathing while swallowing but it happens with excellent co-ordination, so that the foods and liquids which we swallow never enter into nose or larynx, even though there is a common channel for digestive and respiratory tracts for some distance. We can operate the switches even in dark which we are accustomed to. The vital force performs various functions of nervous, circulatory, respiratory systems etc. in an integrated approach. Had there not been the proper self presentation of vital force we will not instinctively remove our hand when it touches a hot thing. Likewise we would not think of life in its precious nature, rationally, and stay balanced in times of crisis without thoughts of suicide, had there not been the proper self-preservation.
In general notion a person without any sufferings is deemed to be healthy. Is it real health or apparent health? For this to decide we need to focus our attention on the health history of our parentage (grandparents, maternal and paternal uncles and aunts, parents). If they are absolutely healthy then there is every chance of, we being really healthy. If that is not the case and the family health history is poor, then the question arises how we are able to stay so healthy?
To answer this question we should go through one of the novel concepts introduced by homoeopathy to medicine namely the "disease resistance" which can be elaborated as resistance offered by a stronger disease towards a weaker disease. We generally speak of resistance and immunity which means resistance offered by a person in health to disease. In day to day living we speak of persons suffering from trivial and acute diseases such as repeated attacks of cold, fevers, diarrhoea, chicken pox, worms etc. to be unhealthy. While speaking so we are missing an important point that as long as a person (usually children) is suffering from these trifling complaints frequently, he is not been attacked by chronic diseases such as asthma, tuberculosis, diabetes, hypertension, cancers, so on and so forth. Only when the small acute troubles cease to appear, an individual is liable to be affected by serious chronic disorders because the so called chronic and deep seated diseases resist the occasioning of weaker acute diseases which is what termed "disease resistance". The routine concept of resistance and immunity says the diametrically opposite of this that the child being weak in resistance suffers frequently and grownups being highly resistant opposes these complaints.The hollowness of this concept can be easily brought into light by the simple observation that the so-called children of weak resistance are only attacked by the short lived or self-limited diseases and the so-called healthy adults of increased and stronger resistance are being attacked by chronic diseases of unlimited progression. From this we must understand the fact that so called acute diseases are nothing but expulsion of some disease pollution which by their inherent yielding nature are easy to deal with, as compared to chronic disease of obstinate character. So it is very important that when we come across a child who is staying apparently healthy (without any acute troubles but with diseased parentage) to be kept under the care and supervision of a genuine homoeopathic physician as it should be understood that the child is harbouring a deep seated chronic disease far from being diagnosed as of now.
One more important concept which homoeopathy introduced to medicine is "one-side diseases", which means diseases with too few symptoms. When we take the cases of an abscess and cancer, the abscess which yields to treatment relatively easy or goes off by itself when left to its own course causes intolerable pain and suffering during its maturation, breakage and healing whereas the cancer which is life threatening causes very little trouble except bleeding in some conditions and pressure symptoms. This shows that an easily curable condition like abscess expresses itself with multiple sufferings and an incurable condition like cancer expresses itself with too few symptoms i.e., the one-sided condition, the other symptoms all over the body being masked. To consider such individuals with too few symptoms (though not diagnosed) to be healthy is as foolish as believing that the stars, sun and moon behind the clouds are absent because as soon as the cloud cover is blown away the original disease can be seen in its full extent as are stars, sun and moon. To conclude in a single sentence the curability of a disease depends on the extent of expressionExpression
The extent of expression in the form of symptoms decides the curability of a disease ….
of the disease, the more complete and expressive the disease is, the more curable it is and the more one-sided a disease with too few symptoms the less curable it is.
When a person falls ill, it is only the spiritual, self acting vital force that is primarily deranged by the dynamic influence of disease inimical to life; it is only the vital forceVital force
The invisible, dynamic force which animates the material organism in health and in disease ….
, deranged to such an abnormal state, that can furnish the organism with its disagreeable sensations and incline it to the irregular processes which we call "disease".
It is the disease affected vital force alone that produces diseases, so that the disease symptoms perceptible to our senses express at the same time all the internal change. In other words "Disease" manifests in those parts of the organism that are exposed to the senses of observer and physician in the form of sensations and functions and nothing "to be cured" is concealed internally. The changes in the health of the body and of the mind, i.e. the deviations from the former healthy state of the now diseased individual, which are felt by the patient himself and observed by those around him and the physician together represent the disease in its whole extent, namely the totality of symptoms, form a true and conceivable portrait of disease but not a particular condition like cancer or kidney stone; not a clot in the blood vessels of heart or brain i.e. thrombosis ; not a raised blood sugar level i.e. diabetes ; not a lowered haemoglobin in blood i.e. anaemia. Consequently the disappearance of the totality of symptoms i.e., the disease in its entirety is what is said to be "cure".
One of the revolutionary concepts introduced by homoeopathy to the medical world is "susceptibility" or a state of predisposition of the organism to a disease. Most of the other systems of medicine propose the cause of the disease to be a material whether it is a virus or bacteria or a worm and so on and so forth. The hollowness of the "concept of material cause" can be easily understood by the fact that only a few susceptible persons are getting affected with lung cancer though millions of people are smoking; a few susceptible persons are only affected with liver cancer though millions are drinking alcohol. This doesn’t mean that alcoholism and smoking are harmless. Indeed they hasten the process of disease in those susceptible individuals by 10-15 years depending on the level of addiction Likewise we know that thousands and millions of various bacteria remain spread in the atmosphere which we are exposed to, but a few, who are susceptible to that disease, are getting affected with common cold, T.B., pneumonia etc. In the same way many girls may stay together in a hostel but a few complain of lice and many boys may stay in a hostel together but some only complain of ringworm or scabies. There may be many putrefaction causing bacteria around us but they only attack a body which is already dead. From these examples we can understand that susceptibility is the prime factor when it comes to cause of the disease and all these material agents such as bacteria, viruses etc. are nothing but scavengers which feed upon the dead tissue and are obviously found in the clinical or laboratory investigations.
The factor behind this susceptibility is our unnatural living as for instance the incidence of eye diseases increased after the so called civilized societies started to remain awake during nights by using the artificial lights which he is not supposed to as human eye is not designed for night vision. For the same reason many animals which live in close association with human beings, far from nature, are being susceptible to many diseases like man when compared to those which live in forests close to nature. That is why homoeopathy advocates to live close to the nature.
For example a condition like gastric ulcer may manifest in the form of burning sensation which represents phenomenal stage, next to it there appears a functional disturbance such as indigestion with belchings, which represents physiological stage of disease, further it manifests in the form of an ulcer which is a structural change representing the pathological stage and eventually a cancerous change in the ulcer representing an incurable stage which is almost an irreversible condition.
Most of the other systems recognize and name the conditions as diseases usually in the third or fourth stages, i.e. when they enter into the sphere of surgery, by which time the diseases have travelled a long distance when it is too late for medical treatments. The superiority of homoeopathy over other systems of medicine lies with that they are recognized as diseases in their earliest stages so that they can be cured then itself and are prevented from going to surgical necessities. Though there is an incredible advancement in the field of surgery and surgical techniques in the recent decades, as per homoeopathy letting disease allow into the domain of surgery with unscientific treatments is, itself, greatest misfortune to mankind. And also another important advantage attached with homoeopathy is that no diagnostic term such as asthma or jaundice or hypertension or typhoid is essential to the treatment as it is based on the totality of the symptoms. One of the best edges of homoeopathy over other systems of medical practice is that many symptoms do not come under a distinct diagnosis as for example secretion of milk in non-pregnant women, itching of teeth, visible palpitation of heart, biting of tongue and cheeks while talking and chewing etc. can be treated in homoeopathy with assured results.
In day-to-day living and routine medical practice Cure means mere removal of principal symptom or normalizing an abnormal clinical parameter (such as serological, pathological parameters).
But as far as Homoeopathy is concerned "Cure" means restoration of the health of the individual. To be more clear, there is originally a stored health in every individual, deviation from that original stored health is what we call "disease". Now restoration to that original state of health without leaving any traces of disease is what "cure" means in homoeopathy.
In acute diseases which have a definite onset, a definite course and a definite end (be it ecovery or death) such as pneumonia, typhoid etc., as said before in general notion bringing down the body temperature clinically or removal of few other principal symptoms is cure but the remaining symptoms such as cold, cough or diarrhoea does not get relieved simultaneously with fever. Even after the removal of these, vague symptoms such as weakness, debility, lack of appetite etc. still persist for some time. If that case is treated in homoeopathy, though it may take relatively longer time to bring down the temperature, complete restoration of health i.e., removal of all perceptible signs and symptoms including the fever takes place in the same time or even in a shorter period as compared to other modes of treatments and the individual enjoys the original standards of his health. So, the relative delay in bringing down the temperature shall not be considered as late.
Coming to the chronic diseases which have an indefinite beginning and an indefinite course until death such as diabetes, hypertension, asthma, thyroid irregularities, rheumatic pains etc., as an acute disease of some days or weeks standing yields in few days, the chronic disease of some months or years old takes relatively longer periods to yield. If we take a case of fever arising from coryza (common cold) which, when left to itself declines in few days, will yield to homoeopathic treatment in few hours or days. In the same way fever arising from typhoid which declines in 2-3 weeks yields in few days or a week in homoeopathy. Likewise fever arising from tuberculosis which runs chronically when left to its own course, being obstinate in nature, will yield in few weeks or months in homoeopathy. Fever as fever when seen in a narrow spectrum and superficially may look the same but the background factor, namely coryza, typhoid or tuberculosis, which runs the disease, decides the gravity of the disease which we are dealing with. Such factors have a lot of influence over the length & depth of the complaint and correspondingly the time taken to get cured under homoeopathic treatment.
Along with these we need to reckon another class of chronic diseases namely the surgical diseases such as tumours, calculi etc. Basically we need to understand that a tumour or cancer arises in an individual because of a tumour or cancer producing tendency. Likewise a calculus or stone has formed because of a stone forming tendency lurking in that individual. So, with any kind of advanced surgical techniques we can only remove the tumour or calculus in that individual but not the tendency that is responsible for the production of that diseased condition. So the tendency having not been eradicated there is every chance of reappearance of the complaint in the same part or not unusually in a more important part. This is nothing but plucking off and throwing away a rotten fruit instead of radical removal of the cause of the condition. In these cases of surgical diseases homoeopathy goes to the root and brings a change in the disease producing tendency whereby the present tumour or calculus disappears simultaneously leaving no chance for the disease tendency to produce such a condition elsewhere in the economy.
Finally and last but not the least is that the unique greatness of homoeopathy lies with that while treating and curing the present condition, much more serious and long standing diseases can be prevented. Left to its own course every disease condition advances further day by day usually transforming itself into different forms at various stages of life in every individual on account of his unnatural mode of living (of course all this happens in a much more increased pace when treated unhomoeopathically).For example polyureac conditions (such as diabetes) which are characterized by increased frequency of urination can be prevented by treating and curing the bed wetting complaint usually observed in children of diabetic parentage. Similarly spasmophilic conditions such as epilepsy or asthma can be prevented by treating a usually ignored and trifling complaint of spasmodic cry in children. So it should not be deemed to have taken long time to cure a small and trivial complaint as it is a fore runner of a future chronic complaint.
So for the chronic diseases, particularly for which no other system of medicine offers a permanent cure, the time take by a 
treatment should be considered as the most rapid cure possible.
Most of the other systems of medicine view mental diseases as an independent entity without any relation with the other physical ailments. But according to homoeopathy mental diseases do not, however constitute a class of diseases distinctly separated from all others.
since in all the other so called physical diseases (whether it be acute or chronic), the state of mind and its disposition is always altered without exception. Therefore we will never be able to cure conformably to nature that is to say, homoeopathically, if we do not in every case of disease,(even in acute diseases such as typhoid, diarrhoea, flu etc.,) make note of and use the mental symptoms in the selection of remedy.
Basically we should not forget that a human mind is an equipoise mixture of emotions, reasoning, judgement and memories. When we say a person is an angry or grieving individual, it means his mentality is being predominated by that particular emotion. Likewise if we say that a person is suffering from a psychiatric trouble such as schizophrenia, depressive disorder, it means his physical symptoms are being dominated and not infrequently masked by the mental symptoms. Apart from these one sided mental diseases homoeopathy gives utmost value to the minute changes in the mind and the disposition of an individual.
Homoeopathy comprehends the abnormality of both the overcautious and careless attitude equally. An overcautious gesture of sitting beside an emergency window always anticipating a danger is as equally abnormal as a reckless attitude of sitting at an open door in a railway coach.Likewise unusually hardworking nature is as equally diseased symptom as laziness.In the same way unusual intelligence is an equally unhealthy trait as mental retardation .Homoeopathy establishes the link between the suppressed emotion such as suppressed anger, grief, fear and the subsequent physical and mental ailments arising there from. No other system gives so much value for the most ignored and so felt "nothing diseased" symptoms such as miserly, greedy, timid, bold, indifferent or buoyant human natures.
Not only appreciating these individual mental symptoms in their own merit, homoeopathy judiciously makes use of these alterations in mind while treating the sick individual successfully but not merely sedating or agitating the miserable sick on a general basis. The uniqueness of homoeopathy lies in not only foreseeing the future malignant conditions in a child of unusually refractory (uncontrollably mischievous) nature but also treating the present condition on one hand and simultaneously making the child free from the cancerous mishaps in future on the other hand. Once again, needless to say, any treatment proves to be unscientific and detrimental without a wholistic approach of mental and physical symptoms and the thought of a rapid and permanent cure of a disease in its entirety remains forever a dream.
Now a days counselingCounseling
Counselling alone doesn’t serve the purpose, especially in true psychiatric disorders like …..
has become a crazy affair with increasing awareness of psychological troubles.One should note that mere "counselling" does not serve the purpose and not infrequently a futile act in a case of true psychiatric disorder such as weakness of memory, personality disorders, depressive disorders etc. without proper homoeopathic treatment.
Firstly we must know and should digest the fact that almost "every medicine is a poison basically". After much methodical refinement and systematized mode of preparation (each substance accordingly) a poison is transformed into medicine.
So any medicine or substance with medicinal value when taken in indiscriminately turns out to be poisonous and injurious. For the same reason the amount of medicine i.e. the dose and the number of doses are strictly regulated in every system of medicine without exception whether it be allopathy or ayurveda or homoeopathy. In domestic living (particularly in Indian households) people use substances of medicinal properties indiscriminately in foods ignoring the fact that a medicine should be used when a person is diseased or when there is a strong likelihood of getting affected with a disease. One should not and must not forget that a medicine should be taken as medicine and in the form of medicine but not as a part of food. Only nourishing things should be a part of our food not things of medicinal value which never take part in nutrition.
The reason for this is that every substance that we consume with medicinal values viz., ginger, garlic, turmeric, cloves, cinnamon, poppy seeds, mustard used in pickles, iodized salt, sunflower oil, gum of stinkisand, mint, coffee, tea etc.,. when left in the body uneliminated turns out to be toxic and detrimental to the health. So the vital forceVital force
The invisible, dynamic force which animates the material organism in health and in disease ….
, the spiritual dynamic force which governs the mind & body, is forced to get relieved of these toxic influences investing a lot of precious energy, unnecessarily, which should be used, at normal times, for proper functioning of body and mind in health and in disease. So with every use of these medicinal substances the vital force is compelled to divert its precious energies to eliminate these toxins thereby making the body weak and further susceptible to diseases easily. The same point holds very good when a person is under homoeopathic treatment as the energy supplied by the homoeopathic drug to the vital force to combat with disease and get rid of it will be used forcibly to expel the noxious influences thereby leaving the disease partially cured or totally uncured depending on the level of violation of dietary instructions.
One of the steadfast pillars on which homoeopathy is based upon is "individualisation" which means viewing every condition as distinctly separate and peculiar of its own. The principle of individualisation is strictly applied in health, disease and cure as well as in dietary instructions. Diet should be suggested basing on individual constitution, stage and strength of disease, particular symptoms, environmental conditions etc. Homoeopathy strictly puts into practise the famous English saying "one man’s meat is another man’s poison". Hence everyone should be their own physician. One should assist nature, not force it. Still here are given some general dietary tips which must be followed by patients in general and, in particular, who are under homoeopathy treatment.
