Dr. Herbert A. Roberts in his book “The principles and art of cure by homoeopathy” writes an essay on “The Deflected Current” to suggest the physicians about the obstacles to cure.
He studied on,
- Why are our results not uniformly satisfactory?
- Why the seemingly indicated remedy always doesn’t work?
He felt that we have no such measuring device or tool of accuracy by which we can identify the obstacles to the cure.
A physician should find out the possible obstacles to cure and try to correct them.
He suggested to the physician on where and how to look for such obstacles.
There are three possible sources of obstacles to cure,
Read in detail the “CONCEPT OF CURE IN HOMOEOPATHY” before you learn the obstacles to cure.
Let’s discuss each of them one by one.
When medicine is carefully selected by a sincere homoeopath with accurate dose and required potency check for the possibilities such as,
1. If the disease is incurable
- Disease that has reached to an advanced pathological stage becomes incurable.
- Such cases should be palliated rather than trying to cure the disease.
Example: Metastatic cancer
Learn about Palliation and what are the cases where a disease should be palliated here, PALLIATION IN HOMOEOPATHY.
2. Presence of mechanical obstruction in the body
- Sometimes if there is the presence of any foreign substance in the body, it works as a causative factor of the disease.
- In such cases, without removing the foreign body from the site of complain, disease symptoms will persist.
- Example: Constant itching eruptions around the neck region after wearing an imitation necklace.
3. Mental stress/emotional trauma
- When patient lives under constant anxiety, fear, stress, tension, grief etc., it diverse the action of well selected remedies.
- Try to understand the mental generals of the patient while case taking.
- Choose the most similimum accordingly and guide the patient to manage his/her domestic situations.
4. Excessive use of drugs by the patient
- Excessive use of palliative drug substances as sedatives, analgesics, anti-depressants, cosmetics etc. may provide temporary relief.
- But they slow down the process of cure with homoeopathic treatment.
- Example by Dr. H.A. Roberts, a case of persistent cough did not improve with “Coccus cacti” until the patient was asked to stop using her lipstick.
5. Faulty dietary habits
- Excessive consumption of coffee, soft drinks, alcoholic beverages, junk food etc. may retard the action of medicine.
- Lack of nutrition also affects the recovery of the patient.
6. Sedentary lifestyle
- Regular habit of physical activity or exercise improves the vitality of the body.
- Improved vitality helps in the natural healing process by homoeopathic medicines.
B. OBSTACLES FROM PHYSICIAN’S SIDE
What if the physician himself lacks some of the qualities necessary for the treatment of the patient?
1. Errors while selecting the similimum
Dr. Hahnemann used to say that any physician can commit only three mistakes at three stages,
- FIRST STAGE: Selecting the exact similimum
- SECOND STAGE: Selection of proper dose and potency
- THIRD STAGE: Repetition of doses
Mistake in any of the above stages can become an obstacle to cure.
2. Prejudiced physician
- A patient is always concerned about his most annoying symptoms.
- Some may exaggerate their symptoms while narrating to get more powerful drug to be prescribed by the physician.
- A physician must observe neutrally to find out uncommon and peculiar symptoms that help to choose a similimum.
3. Prescribe only on the basis of keynote symptoms
- Key note symptoms are equally bane or a blessing.
- Keynotes are only the brief outlines of the remedies.
- Many physicians memorize the remedies only by keynotes.
- If they are used as a reference to study Materia medica they serve well.
- But if he prescribes only on the basis of keynotes, it’s dangerous.
- If the remedy is partially similimum to the patient, it removes the clearly perceptible symptoms of the disease (But disease may get palliated).
- Now picture of the patient gets distorted and serves as an obstacle to cure.
Read in detail about, PALLIATION AND ITS JUSTIFIABLE GROUNDS IN HOMOEOPATHY.
C. OBSTACLES FROM REMEDIAL SIDE
1. Lack of genuine medicine
Qualities of genuine medicine are
- Carefully identified the source of medicine.
- Then precisely dynamized it by following the rules of pharmacy.
- Properly followed the standardization techniques while dispensing of the medicines.
If any of above steps get compromised while handling, preparing or distributing the medicine, the efforts of the physician become worthless.
2. Poor drug proving
- Our homoeopathic Materia medica is built by the healthy human provers.
- So, a prover must be devoted, careful, sincere, clever and reliable.
- Because it is important to evaluate the usefulness of the symptoms while drug proving.
- Improper proving of drugs makes it impossible to achieve cure.
THANKS, IMPORTANT, BUT MOST NEGLECTED SUBJECTS BY MOST OF THE PHYSICIAN.
SYMPTOMS DISEASE SYNDROMES PATHOLOGY IS OTHER SIDE OF NATURE HEALING CRISES IN BIOLOGY, RESPONSIBLE FOR ALL HEALING AND ACTION REACTION OF MEDICINE.
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