CHRONIC DISEASE-ITS CAUSE

AND CURE
BY BANERJEE.P.N

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PREFACE

▪ ACKNOWLEDGEMENT TO DR.:N.GHATAK B.A,

whose Bengali work “the treatise”, from which
the present book has been translated.
▪ .
The Cause Of Disease:

▪ For true Homœopaths, ascertaining the cause

of diseases is,( to a large extent), waste of
time and energy
that the cause of disease is not outside the
patient, and that the so called external
circumstance
▪ Homoeopathic treatment should
be based on the internal cause.-
Psora ,syphilis,sycosis.
▪ It is no Homœopathy to prescribe on the external
exciting cause alone.
▪ Medicines, on the basis of the exciting cause, may
be necessary at times
▪ But in such cases, the exciting cause will be one of
the symptoms of the case, and the totality of the
symptoms, and not this one symptom only, will
decide the selection of the remedy.
Three fundemental things are essentially
necessary for true Homœopathic prescribing
(1)The Law of Similars-"Similia Similibus
Curantur"-
(2)The minimum dose
(3)The application of only one medicine
(unmixed) at a time.
THE REAL CAUSE OF DISEASE:

▪ Samuel Hahnemann said that, "Psora" is the real

cause of all diseases-that all diseases are only
temporary outbursts of latent "Psora".
▪ Most people understand “PSORA” to be "itches" or some
kind of skin disease, but it is not so.
▪ Itches or skin diseases are not "Psora", but they are the
"effects"(manifestation) of Psora.
▪ If you have "itches", it is to be understood that you have
"Psora",-that you are Psoric, because it is impossible for
one to have "itches" without having "Psora".
ESSENCE OF PSORA

It is only a condition of the

system that enables it to
develop diseases
 Where Does It come About

▪ So long as man lived strictly according to the Laws of God, so

long as man thought, felt and willed as a creation of God, who is
all good, there was no trouble.
▪ But as soon as he allowed himself to go astray, and began to yield
to false thinking and false willing, there was a "disorder" in his
mentation. And it was this disorder in mentation that came
gradually to be reflected in his physical body, and this was the
primary appearance of "Psora".
▪ It is from this "disorder" (first in mind and then reflected in
body) that man acquired the susceptibility to disease. This
"disorder in thought", only made "disorder in action"
possible, because after "thought" comes "action". The mind
was rendered bad, and the essential primary condition for
bad action created. Bad action came, and in its train all the
ills of man.
▪ This peculiar condition
of the mind which
promotes bad thinking is almost akin to an
"internal itching".
▪ This "internal itching of the mind", as it were,
furnished the first requisite for all human illnesses.
▪ Psora is the prime cause of all the varied
illnesses of mankind.
▪ It is that acquired condition which is now
inherent in human life-force and which gives
that life-force the tendency for disease .
▪ This "Psora" is being transmitted from
generation to generation and is gradually
growing mischievous more and more.
 Other miasm:Sycosis & syphilis

▪ The system which is not already Psoric cannot

receive Sycosis and Syphilis, because these
originate from bad and evil action, just as Psora
from bad and evil thinking.
▪ This Psora is in itself a cause for a hundred diseases,
and when it unites with other factors, it carries on
its destructive death-dealing processes in the most
ruthless way.
The following are some of the cases of unification of
Psora with other things
❑ The allopathic method of treatment, instead of
freeing the patient from this Psoric taint, by means of
external application of drugs, is only pushing it
inward. The suppressive treatment is only a method
of transformation of one manifestation of "Psora"
into another of a more severe character. Strong
crude drugs make easily curable cases, more difficult
to cure, and incurable too.
❑ Psora unites with Sycosis and Syphilis, and it
then becomes ten times more mischievous
and destructive. Correct
Homoeopathic treatment can radically cure
Sycosis (Gonorrhœa) or Syphilis when it has
only been just acquired, i.e. , when it is yet
unmixed and un-united with any other thing.
Rheumatism, Phthisis etc., are the results of
this type of conjunction of Psora, Sycosis and
Syphilis.
Unhomoeopathic application of Homeopathic drugs.
❑ Treatment, to be Homeopathic, must be according
to the three main principles of (1) Similarity, (2)
Minimum dose and (3) Application of only one
medicine at a time.
❑ If he make a selection of medicine ignoring the
above three principles or any one or two of them,
and prescribe belladonna for headache, Aconite for
fever, Arsenicum for cold, or if I make a mixture of
two or three medicines, etc, He is a Homeopathic
failure.(criticizes alternation of remedies & undue
repetition)
Evidence or citing of proof that psora is
the primary disorder

❑ Re-appearance of an old symptom as a favorable

indication. All the old symptoms which were not
cured but only suppressed by allopathic treatment
will gradually re-appear in the reverse order and be
cured. And last of all, will appear the prime
manifestation of "Psora" in the shape of dry itches
and disappear of itself.
❑ In such cases, you will have to give him a
Homœopathic anti-Psoric medicine, selected on
the similarity of symptoms.
The “Disease” and the “Patient”

▪ Other methods of treatment than Homœopathy

treat the particular "disease", no matter how the
condition of the "patient" may be. They treat
according to name of disease.
▪ Difference in the patients will make no difference in
the course of the treatment;(e g :hot poultices for
pneumonia,& quinine for all cases of intermittent
fever) .
▪ "Diagnosis is absolutely necessary for the treatment
of the case; without diagnosis it will be like
throwing stone in the dark the treatment will be
unscientific for allopaths.
▪ So long as the patient only feels and experiences
some inconveniences and uneasinesses, they cannot
admit the existence of any "disease", but as soon as
there is some organic abnormality that can be felt
out with the hand, touched with the finger or
ascertained with their scientific.
▪ They give a "name" to the disease only when they
can perceive with their senses, some palpable
physical abnormality, and after giving the "disease" a
name-which is "diagnosis"-they use the medicines
that have been used by previous doctors in that
disease.
▪ They cannot identify the sick man.
▪ But homoeopathy looks into the symptoms of the
patient (sick man)& tries to bring him back to the
normal condition regardless of the name of
disease(even before the disease has fully
developed.) what is diagnosed as "disease" today
is really no "disease", but its "effect".
▪ A true Homeopath, understand that ,by a
particular "disease" , the whole man is sick, and not
that any particular part of his body (organ) is sick.
 Who is sick?
▪ It is the whole man himself not part of his body.
▪ If a man complains of being ill, but on examination one
finds no abnormal findings in his body, then he is ill in the
interior, in the centre of himself.
▪ The disease has commenced in the interior, in the centre
of his "being", in his "mind"-in his thought, feeling and
will, and it will gradually spread to the and it will gradually
spread to the external body.
▪ The disease has commenced in the centre, and it will
come to the circumference,-from the mind to the
body,-from the spirit to the matter.
▪ If this is the course of disease, then the course
of cure also must be the same, ie., from the
centre to the circumference, from the mind to
the body
▪ The mind is, therefore, the beginning of disease as
also of cure, and Samuel Hahnemann, the father of
the True art of cure has advised that in selecting a
medicine for a given case, according to the totality
of symptoms, the greatest attention should be
paid to the symptoms of the mind.
▪ The "I" in the expression, "I am ill", which we say
while expressing our diseased condition to the
physician, points to the mind.
▪ It is the personal differences in the different cases
that call for different medicines.
▪ Treat the patient, the sick man, and not the
sickness.
▪ The difference between individual means a
difference between their respective minds, and
this again means a difference between their actions
and physical body, which means difference in their
diseases.
 How can we cure the sick ?
How is medicine selected?

▪ Based on the condition of the patient that will

suggest the medicine.
▪ The condition of the patient means the totality of
the symptoms which differentiate him from a
healthy man and from other patients.
Disease of the mind and of the body

▪ It is the bodily ailments that are generally called "diseases", and

it is for their removal only that people generally seek the
assistance of doctors and physicians.
▪ The ailments of the mind are not considered to be of much
consequence, at least so long as they do not assume such
dimensions as to attract notice and to render the man
incapable of his usual duties; or in other words, mental
illnesses are recognised as disease only when the man is
considered insane and is, as such, unable to perform his usual
functions, and it is then only that some course of treatment is
sought.
▪ But if we look deeper into the matter and watch the
condition of the minds of those around us, perhaps we will
hardly find one man with sound mind out of one thousand
individuals.
▪ Bad thought and bad action are impossible in a
healthy mind. It is in weak and diseased minds
that things leave their stamp most, while on
healthy minds, they are comparatively powerless.
(e g mishap in a family)
▪ Children lack the power of suppressing their ill
temper etc., but when they grow up, they learn
the art of showing up as good chaps, but this
does not mean that they are really healthy in
their minds.
▪ The very tendency for such pretended
goodness is an indication of mental ill health.
▪ Samuel Hahnemann rightly felt and said,
"Every man is a moral leper."
Why the mind b’cum diseased

▪ The mind is only a fine condition, an immaterial spiritual

condition of the material body; the material body is only a
product of the mind.
▪ Psora, Sycosis and Syphilis disease our body and so do they
disease the mind. Psora, Sycosis and Syphilis are the parents
of all our ills-mental and physical.
▪ When anything or any medicine acts on our body, the first
touch of that action is on the mind. If anything is to act on the
mind, it has to be on the same plane, of the same fineness and
subtlety as the mind, because material things enter the body first
and there they are converted into a fineness, in order to be able
to reach the mind.
▪ Food, for example, enters the material body, is digested and
converted into assimilable ingredients of the physical body,
and it is then that it reaches the mind, gives it the power to
think, feel and will.
▪ The miasms of Psora, Sycosis and Syphilis are very
fine-as fine and subtle as the mind,-and this is why
they are able to act on it at once.
▪ Homœopathic medicines in low potencies fail to
act on the mind, but when they are of higher
potencies, their first action is on the mind. This
has been found out in course of provings of drugs.
▪ Crude drugs and those in low potencies have
shown immediate action on the body of the
provers
▪ The miasms of Psora, Sycosis and Syphilis are
very subtle, and they consequently attack the
mind at once.
▪ This is but the primary infection of mind. If it is
corrected at once, the mischief ends there, but
this is unfortunately never the case.
 Suppression
▪ "Suppression of the mind first, and suppression of
its external manifestation on the body afterwards.
The first disturbance to the life-force is caused by
the primary infection, while the suppressive
treatment causes the second (though at a much
later period), due to its characteristic antagonism to
the flow of the life-force.
▪ Suppressive treatment turns the malady inward,
which ultimately settles on the mind, and this
mind again vitiated as it becomes after the inroad
of the disease-force on it, is, in its turn, a cause of
hundred other newer diseases.
▪ The life-force has a peculiar inherent tendency
to throw out to the surface, i.e. , to the body,
anything that interferes with its smooth, even
flow, and to re-assume its own normal course,
and the diseases of the mind thus take concrete
shapes in the body, under illnesses of different
names.
▪ This inherent tendency of the mind is a
tendency for self-preservation, but such
mischievous is the accepted method(allopathic)
of removing disease that, any disease in the
outside (in the body) is turned inward.
How to remedy this?
▪ The only remedy lies in educating the people in
understanding true cure.
▪ There is no man without Psora, these days, but the other
two miasms Sycosis and Syphilis have not yet spread so
far, and as such, if there is an acquirement of these (as
against inheritance,by unclean sexual practice), the
patient should at once have himself treated by a true
Homœopath. This will destroy the infection at once and
stop it from running further into the interior.
▪ If however, patent medicines or any suppressive course
of treatment is resorted to, only mischiefs will be
multiplied and the way to death cleared.
▪ Psora, Sycosis and Syphilis can be removed from
the system in a permanent manner only by
Homœopathy.
▪ It is, however, to be noted here that in cases of
direct acquirement of these miasms, true cure is
effected, only when they disappear after showing
their primary appearances.
▪ In cases, however, in which the infection has not
been acquired direct but inherited from parents
etc., the curative process does not show the
primary manifestations, but there are yet certain
indications that give unmistakable evidences of a
true cure.
▪ The longer these miasm will be in the system, the
greater and more complex will be their effects on
the patient
▪ But whatever the method of having the infection
of Sycosis and Syphilis-whether by acquirement
or by inheritance, only a Homœopathic remedy
in high potency selected on the law of Similars,
can annihilate them and free the life force from
their grip, and nothing else can accomplish this.
▪ The unhomœopathic traits that have been
gradually entering into Homœopathy-injection
(Homœo.) and mixing up of several remedies at a
time, and many such activities of a class of
Homœopaths who are making a fool of
Hahnemann, are fast putting Homœopathy into
disrepute and making an idle game of it. The
number of true Homœopaths is daily decreasing.
▪ People do not want Homœopaths, and there is no
encouragement for their hard and valuable work.
▪ They do not mind paying Rs. 50/- or 60/- and even
more for an Allopathic injection, but they grudge
paying Rs. 8/- or 16/-, even for the first prescription
of a chronic case,-a prescription that aims at
annihilating the disease in its entirety and freeing
the system altogether from all conceivable ills, and
not a prescription that merely removes the
appearance of the disease and gives it an inward
turn.
To live healthy lives and produce healthy children, capable of realising the duties of
life, remember the following few things:-
❑ Studied self-control and purity of mind.
❑ If you have acquired Sycosis and Syphilis in your life time, by your
own action, have yourself radically cured by a true course of
Homœopathic treatment, the quickest
❑ If you have no direct infection, you must have had Syphilis or
Sycosis or both by inheritance from your parents-parents having
them either by direct acquirement or by inheritance in their turn,
because nobody is free from these miasms, or at least from one of
them these days. In such cases have yourself treated
Homœopathically and be rid of them as quickly as possible.
❑ If you have neither acquired nor inherited these obnoxious
miasms, but if you have been vaccinated, for small-pox or plague
etc., it is certain that you are free from no miasms, and in that case
too, true Homœopathic treatment alone is necessary
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Disease - its name, appearance

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Disease-acute and chronic
▪ Allopathy actually classifies diseases into three
classes, according to their difference in the length
of the period of suffering,
▪ “Acute" if the patient has been suffering from it for
not more than six weeks;
▪ It is "sub-acute", if he has been suffering from it for
more than six weeks
▪ It is "chronic", if he has been suffering from it for
over two or three months.
▪ The length of the period of suffering is the only
criterion
▪ The basis of time is too mechanical to be
accepted as reasonable.
▪ A disease is chronic or acute by its nature-no
matter what the length of the period of
suffering from that disease may be.
▪ It is this characteristic of having a tendency to end
or continue that makes a disease "acute," and
"chronic" respectively.
▪ A chronic disease is a disease that has a
special tendency of ever continuing,
though in different forms, unless and until
removed by the aid of effective medicines,
while an acute disease is a disease which
has an inherent tendency of leaving the
patient after it has run out its course, even
without the aid of any medicine.
 The cause of chronic disease

▪ Apparently different diseases, cold, headache, colic,

epilepsy and insanity, are only different
manifestation of the same thing.
▪ And this thing Hahnemann has called "Psora."
▪ Psora is the original disease of mankind.
▪ "Psora" is the only disease, while all the so-called
diseases, having all the different shapes and names,
are its different expressions.
▪ If there was no Psora, there would have been no
disease in man.
Origin of psora
▪ Evil thinking(against the laws of God) created a tumult in his
mind.
▪ First comes an idea (passive thinking) about something, then
comes thinking (active thinking, actual thinking) and last of
all action. This active thinking, this mental endeavour of
doing, is a kind of mental itching, and this is "Psora".
▪ This "Psora" was yet in the mind, i.e. , it was yet a
condition of the mind not expressed in the body. The
condition of the mind, which was a condition of itching, as it
were, gradually came to be expressed in the physical body
in the shape of itches. This was the physical manifestation of
Psora.
▪ The history of the growth of Psora is, therefore,
this:-First there came in man a desire to think
otherwise than God willed him(i.e to think
against the laws of god) , to think unnaturally;
then there, was actual unnatural thinking; and this
unnatural thinking gradually came to be
manifested in his physical body in the shape of
itches.

▪ Psora has given us an eternal susceptibility to

disease.
▪ Mind is the fountain of disease. As the mind
thinks, so will the action be.

▪ Psora having vitiated the mind, the very

spring of action was vitiated, and the
action of man was necessarily evil; and his
evil action brought on two other
disease-Sycosis and Syphilis.
▪ Without Psora there could have been no Sycosis
and Syphilis, because without thinking, there could
have been no action.
▪ Thus, without Psora there could have been no
disease at all. In fact Psora prepared the ground for
all our ills.
▪ Psora is the prime cause, the only cause of all
diseases.
Sycosis
▪ Sycosis, is not Gonorrhœa. Sycosis is also a condition of
the life force, and that it is acquired by suppression of
Gonorrhœa.
▪ Unhomœopathic treatment i. e., treatment not based on
the natural curative law of Similars, only removes the
local infection of Gonorrhœa in the shape of the
characteristic discharge, and turns the infection inward,
and it then gradually attacks the more internal organs
and establishes Sycosis ,which combines with Psora
(because Psora is already there, and there could have
been no Gonorrhœa without Psora making the ground
for it) and produces a complexity which it becomes
difficult for the system to get rid off.
▪ The course of Psora is from the
centre to the circumference, from
the mind to the body, from mental
itching to physical itching, but the
course of Sycosis is naturally from
the circumference to the centre,
from the body to the mind, from
the Gonorrheal discharge to colic,
rheumatism and insanity.
Syphilis

▪ Syphilis is also a condition of the system, arising out

of the suppression of the chancre.
▪ The process of Syphilis is also from
the surface
to the interior, from the circumference to
the centre , from the body to the mind.
▪ Psor a prepares man for all diseases, Sycosis and
Syphilis each gives him the tendency for specific
types of diseases.
▪ An acute disease has an immediate
exciting cause(prime cause is psora
without which no disease exists), and has a
tendency to end, while a chronic disease
has no other immediate cause than Psora,
Sycosis and Syphilis, and has on the
contrary, a tendency to continue.
▪ There is only one disease in one man and that
is either Psora, or Psora + Sycosis, or Psora +
Sycosis + Syphilis.
▪ It is only the difference in the proportion, in the
strength of the three different miasms in their
combination in different persons that furnishes
the explanation for the differences in the
expressions of diseases.
1)Facts of reason:

▪ The disorder of the mind is naturally thrown on the body

in the shape of itches. Not only does this process-which
is the inevitable process of nature-ease the mind, but it
also helps the process of cure. When the disease is
coming to an end, it comes outward on the surface, but
when the disease is increasing, its course is inward, into
the interior
▪ If, therefore, you only turn the itch inward by
application of ointment, and not cure the whole man,
the whole man continues to be affected-and affected far
more than before, because the more important and
more delicate organs than the skin are attacked this
time. And as a result, various diseases of various names
ensue.
 2. Facts of evidence

❑ During the course of the treatment of a chronic case, it

happens that the old symptoms of the patient re-appear
(and then disappear) in the reverse order of their coming,
that is to say, in the order opposite to the order in which
they came. Homœopathic medicine in high potency,
brings back the old symptoms (that had not been cured
but only suppressed by unscientific treatment) in the
reverse order of their coming-the itching eruption, which is
the manifestation of Psora coming last of all.
❑ various diseases are relieved of their suffering, suddenly
enough, when some eruptions on the skin have appeared.
This also shows that the eruptions latent in the system
were the main thing in their cases.
Suppression
❑ the most common is that by external application
of ointment for itches & suppression of primary
manifestation of sycosis & syphilis(gonorrhoel
discharge & chancre) by local treatment.
▪ Besides the suppression of the primary
manifestations of the miasms and of the
manifestations that appear on the suppression of
those primary manifestations, there is a third type
of suppression, and the effects of these are more
dangerous still. It is the suppression of the
manifestations of two or more miasms in
combination.
❑ Suppression by indiscreet use of the surgeon's
lancet. Surgical instruments have their scope of use;
a mechanical way of treatment as it is, it should be
resorted to only in local affections of a mechanical
nature. It has absolutely no use in cases where the
whole man, the whole system, is concerned. The
removal of the disease-product will be the only
thing accomplished, while the processes at fault will
continue to do their work-if not there on the same
place, certainly, in some other
❑ A third type of suppression results from the use of
strong chemicals, like quinine and arsenic etc., in
material doses.
❑ There may be as bad suppression from
Homœopathic medicines, when there is no
Homœopathicity between the medicine and the
case, and as such the application of the medicine is
unhomœopathic here. If there is only a partial
similarity between the medicine selected and the
case in hand, the symptoms covered by the
medicine may be removed, but a removal of the
symptoms is not necessarily cure. The mischief is
generally far less than in the other forms of
suppression.
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▪ "Cure" is not the mere disappearance of the
disease symptoms.
▪ Symptoms are only the expression of the disease
and that they are not the disease itself.
▪ All other pathies only care for removing the
disease, and therefore, they understand cure as
such. But Homœopathy aims at restoring the sick
man to health.
▪ Cure, true cure, therefore, consists in bringing the
sick man to health and not in removing the
disease. If, however, in any case the removal of the
disease is actually a restoration of the sick man to
health, it is, of course, a cure.
▪ Man is an organism, and any disorder in any part of
him is not confined to that part alone, as a disorder
or derangement in a clock or an engine. Any
disorder in any part of the man is a disorder of
the whole organism, and that disorder can be
corrected only if the whole organism is corrected.
What is there in man that makes him an organism,
and not an automaton, like an engine or a clock?

▪ It is the mind, and it is the mind that represents the man.

▪ The body is only a reflection of the mind, and disease begins in the
mind, and is then reflected in the body, and it is this physical
reflection that is commonly recognised as disease.
▪ Cure, therefore, must begin in the mind, and the disease, the
physical reflection of it in the body, will then automatically
disappear.If the disordered mind is brought into order, no further
disorder is transmitted to the body .
▪ In a case of Rhus Tox or Arsenicum, the patient is first quieted in
the mind, and the physical calmness gradually follows.
The beginning of cure

▪ If this does not happen, that is to say, if the

patient himself does not feel ease and relief,
it is to be understood that no cure is
coming, however much the physical symptoms
may improve.
▪ If there is an improvement in the mental
condition, it is certain that the process
of cure has commenced.
▪ Cure is a "rapid, gentle and
permanent restoration of health.“
▪ If the process is slow, or if it is
ungentle, i.e. violent, or if the
restoration to health is not permanent,
it is not cure.
▪ If you remove the tumour by operation, the ring-
worm by a strong acting ointment, or the fever by
strong doses of quinine, it is no cure,
▪ The process of cure is a process of the life
force and not a process of medicinal action.
▪ The medicine in the potentised form only gives a
start to the normal process of the life force that
has unfortunately become abnormal.
▪ Homœopathic cure is always gentle, quick and
permanent, and it is always a process in which the
medicine is not opposed to the life flow but is in
harmony with it.
▪ The cure has to be effected by the application of
medicines on principles, definite, natural and easily
comprehensible.

▪ The definite laws of Nature, according to which

true cure is effected:-
(1) The law of similarity,
(2) the law of potentised dose,
(3) the law of only one medicine at a time,
(4) the law of using medicine at the end of
an attack, instead of during its course, and so forth.
▪ Cure relates to the "patient" and not to the
"disease". It is not a "disease" that is cured but it is
the "patient". that is cured.
▪ The individual symptoms of a disease have no
significance without reference to the individuality,
and it is therefore the "individuality"-the
"personality" that has to feel the cure first of all.
▪ The process of cure-true cure is always from the
mind to the body, from the centre to the
circumference.
▪ If the external application of some ointment
alongside Homœopathic medicine is given
internally, then the Homœopathic medicine
prescribed on the natural laws of cure is trying to
cure the patient from the centre to the
circumference throwing off all the morbidities on
the surface, while the external ointment is polishing
up the surface driving the malady towards the
centre.
▪ Confusion is likely to be created in the system by
such "Dualism". Such silly dualism in medicine
should be avoided
The symptoms of true cure.

▪ The first and the foremost, indication of an

approaching cure is the beginning of
improvement in the mind of the patient and
its gradual manifestation in the body.
▪ The second thing about true cure is, that the
improvement of the mental condition must be felt
by the patient himself.
▪ True cure is first felt by the patient in the mind.
He feels an internal ease and comfort, and if the
physician can perceive that this has been the
case after the administration of his medicine, he
is safe to conclude that his medicine has been
homœopathic to the case and that true cure is
coming.
▪ The third thing in a case of true cure, is the
gradual improvement of the physical
symptoms; and in this improvement of the
physical symptoms too, the process is the same-
from the centre to the circumference,-that is to
say, from the internal to the external, from the
brain, heart and lung to the skin.
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The examination of the patient and record-keeping

▪ In Homœopathy, it is the "Diagnosis of the patient"

that is necessary, because Homœopathy has to
treat the patient and not the disease-the external
manifestations of the patient's condition.
▪ It is the patient, therefore, that he must examine,
study up and understand, and if he is to do this
successfully, he must have a thorough-very
thorough knowlege of all the anti-Psoric, anti-
Sycotic and anti-Syphilitic drugs of the Materia
Medica.
▪ His knowledge regarding the materia medica of
these drugs must be so thorough and clear, as
their very names may conjure up before his mind's
eye, living pictures of these drugs.
▪ Examination of the patient again, is a far more
difficult business than one might seem to think.
▪ It is a business that has to be done with care,
patience and close attention.
▪ It is no hasty, off-hand process. The maximum
number of such cases that you can possibly do in a
single day is hardly two or three .You may,
therefore, charge high fees, but never do cheap
hasty work.
 Difficulties in taking a c\c ds

Treatment of acute cases is far easier and far less laborious

than the treatment of chronic cases.
▪ In the former, the patient feels his sufferings acutely, and
as such, he can describe his condition with accuracy and
precision, but in the latter, the patient is unable to do this,
as having been long used to his sufferings, he gradually
seems to think that the condition is his normal condition.
It therefore, happens at times, that the most important
symptoms for a correct prescription, are ignored,
overlooked and left out by the chronic patient, while
giving his history.
▪ Certain symptoms in chronic patients appear at
intervals, and the patient himself does not know if these
will be considered as belonging to the same or different
groups of symptoms.
▪ There are other symptoms which have a periodicity in
their appearance, e. g. dysentery in the rainy season and
rheumatism and cold in the winter. The patient never
knows that there is anything of importance in this
periodicity of symptoms, and he, therefore, leaves it out
of account, thinking these symptoms as so many separate
diseases, and thus makes his case doubly difficult for his
physician.
▪ While taking up a chronic case, you must begin with a
written record of the history and symptoms.You
must not begin the treatment of a chronic case,
without first making a written record of it.
▪ A bound book; the left hand page should be used for
recording the symptoms, the right hand page being
kept blank. You should write out the symptoms
separately one from another and leave sufficient
space between the lines.
▪ While recording the history and symptoms of a
case, you must have a free mind-free from all
bias and prejudice, for or against any particular
medicine; and most of all, you must not be
thinking of any particular "disease."
▪ Your aim throughout will be to examine the
"patient" and not the "disease".
▪ Note the patient's name, sex, address, occupation, age
etc. on the top of the left hand page. The date should be
noted in the left hand corner of the page.
▪ In the patient's own language. You must write down the
symptoms separately in different lines. Do not interrupt
him at all, unless it is absolutely necessary for keeping him
to his subject.
▪ The condition, demeanour, movements and temper and
attitude of the patient, if you can correctly grasp them by
careful observation while recording the case, will help
you to make out a correct picture of it
▪ Obtain from the patient by interrogating him
further details, that is to say, the "particulars" of the
symptoms already noted, and record these details
on the right hand page, against the symptoms to
which they relate. "The particulars" in respect of
each of the generals should be obtained from him
and the picture made out more vivid, sharp and
well defined.
▪ Proceed to ascertain from the patient's friends,
guardians, and nurses, his temper and nature etc.
▪ Ascertain the cravings and desires of the patient-his
aversions, likes, dislikes, etc., what he prefers, what he does not
prefer and so forth; whether he likes cold or heat, whether
there is any difference in his desires for cold and heat in the
different parts of the body, (e. g. one patient wants cold in the
head and warmth in the chest)
▪ Periodicity in the patient's sufferings, and that with all details
of amelioration and aggravation.
▪ Record whatever changes there may have been in the
functions as also in the structures of the various physical
organs. For this purpose, a physical examination of the
patient-of his liver, spleen, heart and lungs etc. is necessary.
▪ And in examining your case, you have to complete
the record you have made, by ascertaining which of
these miasms is or are in your patient and which of
them has the preponderance.
▪ For this you have to record the history of the patient
from his childhood or from as far back as possible.
The ills and ailments the patient had in his past life
and the treatment he had; whether the parents or
their parents, on any side (father's or mother's), had
any miasmatic disease
▪ Advise your patient to stop the use of any
medicine that he may have been taking.
▪ Tell your patient to be without any medicine for
about a week and to report after that any change
that he may feel in his condition.
▪ If he reports any such change, you have to re-adjust
your record, as it will be understood that this new
condition is the correct picture of the case.
▪ The prescription will always be based on those
symptoms only that are permanent-permanent in
the sense that it is they alone that have made the
case as it is i. e. "chronic".
▪ The acute symptoms and the drug symptoms that
may have intervened in the meantime are only so
many "reflexes", and they do not belong to the
individuality of the patient. As such, they have no
bearing on the prescription.
Analysis of symptoms (1)

It is really very very difficult to get such a complete

picture, and the difficulty is, in most cases, attributable to
two things-
❑ the callousness of the patient due to a long course of
suffering, which renders him gradually used to his
uneasy sensations and feelings and on account of
which he considers those sensations and feelings as
usual and natural for him, and
❑ want of thorough knowledge of the physician in the
Materia Medica.
▪ The object of the recording is to paint out a picture of
the patient, but in the whole array of symptoms, there
may be some symptoms that do not help the painting of
the picture.
▪ Just as in a tree, there may be parasites that are in no
way part and parcel of the tree, similarly in the group of
symptoms that have been recorded, there may be some
symptoms that have not any bearing on the picture
drawn.
▪ These symptoms have in fact no connection with those
symptoms that go to make up the patient, and as such
they have no utility in the process of prescribing.
▪ The history of the patient from his birth as also the
history of the parents as recorded by you, will show
when and how "Psora" the prime disease came to be
implanted on him, and how this "Psora" gradually
manifested itself in this shape and that, until at last it
assumed its present shape.
▪ If you can trace out the gradual growth of Psora in your
patient in this way, from its first manifestation to its
present multifariousness, you will find that there are
some symptoms that have not thus grown out.
▪ Few symptoms have come somehow to be in the
patient and that they have remained there without any
subsequent development.
▪ And these are the symptoms that are
unconnected with the main malady, or more
correctly, with the patient as you have painted out
his picture in your record. And you have to leave
them completely out of your account, while making
your prescription.
▪ Select the right medicine ignoring these superfluous
symptoms, and when your patient will be improving
under it, these superfluous symptoms will disappear
quite of themselves, as the patient gradually
improving, there will be no suitable soil for their
existence in him. No new prescribing for the
removal of these parasitical symptoms is ever
necessary.
▪ These parasitical symptom are first and foremost
is due to allopathic medication. Though we know
that, allopathic medicines have not the power of
curing the patient, they possess the power of
creating new symptoms.
▪ The second cause of such superfluous symptoms is at
times, an intervening acute disease.
▪ When there is an acute disease breaking out in a chronic
patient, the chronic symptoms are suppressed for the
time being, and they re-appear only when the acute
symptoms have passed off.
▪ If the record of the patient is prepared before the
disappearance of the acute disease, the acute symptoms
may seem interwoven with the chronic symptoms.
▪ But in reality, they have no connection with the chronic
condition of the patient. If you wait for some time in
such cases and allow the acute symptoms to pass off,
you will find the chronic symptoms standing out again in
all their prominence.
▪ In the same chronic patient two or three chronic
pictures appear alternately. Eliminate those
symptoms of a superfluous and parasitical character.
It is this elimination that proclaims a Homœopath.
▪ If your chronic patient for whom you have selected a
particular remedy is a picture of the proving of that
remedy, your selection is absolutely correct,-there is no
mistake in it and it must cure your patient.
▪ Thus, the medicine which you are selecting for your
chronic patient to-day, would have been the medicine
for him 10 years ago when the first disorder in him
began, and it will be the medicine for him 10 years
hence, because he has only been proving the same
medicine from the beginning and if there be any such
symptoms, as do not belong to that medicine they must
be only side-issues i. e. superfluous symptoms. As more
days are passing the more symptoms of the same
medicine are only coming out in their details
▪ The physician who finds in the record of his case,
from the beginning to the end, the picture of the
proving of a particular medicine, in spite of
superfluous symptoms and in spite of complexities
due to knotty combination of miasms, is the true
seer and true Homœopathic physician.
▪ The greatest difficulty in effecting real cure is
however experienced in many cases, but the most
trying are those,
(1) in which there are combinations of
miasms and
(2) in which the patients are not patient but
are constantly in the habit of changing physicians
at short intervals
Analysis of symptoms-2

▪ Symptoms may be divided into two classes,- (1)

those felt by the patient himself- subjective, and
(2) those perceived by the physician and
others around the patient-objective.
▪ The subjective symptoms again are of two classes
(1) Personal or relating to the whole of the
personality of the patient e.g. , "I like to sleep in
the open air," "I am feeling thirsty", and
(2) Local or relating to only certain localities of
the patient's body, e.g. , "There is a pain in the liver"
▪ Purpose of prescribing, the subjective symptoms
are more important than the objective, because
they (the subjective) relate to the mind.
▪ And again, amongst the subjective symptoms, the
personal subjectives are more important than the
local subjectives, because they (the former) relate
to the whole patient.
▪ The objective symptoms are thus of the lowest
class.
 THE FIRST PRESCRIPTION

▪ It is Psora, Sycosis and Syphilis that interfere with

the normal flow of the life force and lead to
abnormal results, and the only way of restoring the
life process to its normal course is by
administration of a deep acting drug according to
the law of similarity.
▪ First classify the whole array of symptoms into
different miasmatic groups.
▪ Then you will have to ascertain as to which of the
several miasmatic groups of symptoms or in other
words, which of the several miasms is causing the
most troubles to your patient at the time of your
prescription.
▪ In making your prescription you will have to deal
your first stroke to the miasm that is predominant
at the time(apply anti-miasmatic medicine based
on the totality of symptoms of the most
prominent miasm)
▪ The miasms are made predominant one or the
other, according as the exciting cause is capable of
exciting their manifestations; and it is an inevitable
law, that only one miasm is predominant at a time,
while the others lie dormant.
▪ And you must select the medicine indicated by
the symptoms of the miasm that is predominant
and not by the totality of the symptoms of the
whole case.
▪ There are no hard and fast rules for arriving at the
potency, as this depends on various circumstances, and as
such, it is always different in different cases.
▪ The potency to begin with in a chronic case must be
high. Chronic cases, having run on for long periods and
having been bungled with all sorts of suppressive
treatments, are ever made more and more complex.
▪ If cure is at all to be effected in such cases, the miasms
or rather the suppressed manifestations of them, must
be made to re-appear, and this re-appearing of
suppressed conditions is not possible without the use of
high potencies. Low potencies cannot effect this; they
are not so deep-acting.
▪ You must be especially cautious in making your first
prescription. It is a weighty business, and there
must be no mistake in it, because any mistake may
not only fail to cure the patient but also do some
grievous mischief to him.
▪ If a medicine can do you some benefit when used,
it may also do you some injury when abused. It is
not an inert substance. It is a highly powerful
something or it could never cure any disease at all,
and as such, it may injure you if it is wrongly used.
▪ Before the administration of the medicine so carefully
selected by you for the chronic disease, the patient
happens to have some acute manifestations, or if the
chronic manifestations even happen to have an
aggravation like an acute disease, then the medicine
selected for the chronic disease should not be used at
once.
▪ In such cases some superficially acting medicine as called
for by the symptoms should first be used and the acute
manifestations or the aggravated condition of the chronic
disease, as the case may be, controlled.
▪ A deep-acting miasmatic medicine in high
potency, when used during the course of an
acute disease or during the aggravation of a
chronic disease will cause severe aggravation.
▪ Regulation of dose has to be decided by the
sensitiveness of the patient's mind and physique.
▪ If the patient looks likely to have re-action from a single
dose, there should be no repetition at all, as this may
cause severe aggravation.
▪ But in cases where the patients are not sensitive enough,
and as such there is likely to be delay in re-action, it is
better to give a few repeated doses and then stop as
soon as re-action is perceived to have commenced.
▪ In repeating doses like this, Hahnemann has advised in
the sixth edition of his Organon that every succeeding
dose should be of a slightly higher potency, and the
method of increasing the potency in such cases has also
been laid down there.
▪ Cases in which the patient is very weak, the
potency to be used should be comparatively low
and the repetition of the dose should also be
carefully avoided.
▪ The main thing that should be borne in mind is,
that your object is to obtain a response from the
patient to the medicine used, and if you gauge that
one single dose is enough for this purpose, you
must wait for a reasonable time and you must not
repeat the dose until you perceive the response.
▪ If however, you think that several doses will be
necessary, you may repeat until you get the
response.
▪ Must not repeat the dose when there is re-
action, and that you must repeat the dose, even
if it be at the rate of one dose daily, when
there is delay in re-action, because all these
repeated doses when given before the setting
in of the re-action, will act like one single dose.
▪ In acute cases, the action of a medicine is perceived
in a few minutes (eg., in cholera etc.) or at the
utmost in a few hours, but such is not the case in
chronic cases.
▪ The first symptoms of the action of a medicine in
a chronic case are hardly seen in less than 5 or 6
days, while in certain cases it may take even 3 or 4
weeks or more.
▪ Appearance of new symptom: If after the
medicine used, there is a development of such
symptoms as the patient has never experienced
before in the whole course of his sufferings, it is
to be understood that the selection has not been
correct
▪ In such a case however, some antidote has to be
used if the suffering is severe.
▪ If however, the suffering of the patient is not so
severe, it is better to wait and allow the action of
the wrong medicine to pass off completely, before
a fresh prescription for the chronic disease is
attempted.
▪ But, if this freshly selected medicine happens to be
an antidote to the wrongly used medicine, then it
should be given at once without any waiting for the
passing off of its bad effects, as waiting in such a
case
Study of the effect of the first
prescription

Re-appearance of old symptom:

▪ If the old symptoms re-appear in the reverse order,
that is to say, the last symptom in the patient will
re-appear first and in this way all the old symptoms
one after another and last of all the oldest
symptom. If this is the order of the re-appearance
of the old symptoms, then it should be recognised
at once as the true process of cure
▪ The mere similarity of the symptoms of the drug
with the totality of the symptoms of the case is not
enough. The strength, that is to say, the potency of
the drug must also be similar to the strength or
the potency of the disease which you want to
cure. There is a "plane" in which the disease is, and
your medicine also, must be fine and subtle
enough to reach that "plane". Want of re-action
from the use of the correct medicine, in spite of a
reasonable waiting should indicate that the correct
potency has not perhaps been used.
The observation of the patient after the use of the first
dose:
▪ If repeated doses of the first medicine have been given as
prescribed by Hahnemann in the sixth edition of the
Organon, then the medicine must be stopped, directly
re-action begins to appear, there must be no more
repetition of doses when there has been some change in
the symptoms of the patient. And we must consider all
the several doses that have been repeated to be as
good as one single dose, because, though in number the
doses have been so many, the effect is cumulative, and
as such, it is the effect of one single dose in fact. There
has been only one single stroke dealt to the life-force.
▪ We are to expect some changes e.g. ,-aggravation
of disease symptoms or their amelioration, or their
disappearance, or even a disorderly re-appearance
of the old symptoms as distinct from their orderly
re-appearance
❑ There may be an aggravation of the symptoms
but the patient may yet feel better in his
interior-in his mind. It is a homœopathic
aggravation and that the patient is therefore
improving. This aggravation is only an unmasking
of that portion of the malady that was masked
(suppressed), and is therefore, to the benefit of
the patient, and you must not be unnerved at it.
▪ Make sure that the patient has vitality enough to
stand the homœopathic aggravation that will
follow. Because, unless there is sufficient strength in
your patient to bear the sufferings of a temporary
homœopathic aggravation, he may altogether
succumb under your first prescription.
▪ In cases so deplorable, no attempt should be made
for curing the patient, and therefore no such deep-
acting medicine as only can cure him should be
given. Such cases are cases for palliation only, and
superficially acting medicines as may be called for
by the symptoms in hand, should only be used
here
▪ You must be cautious enough to avoid the mere
palliation of a case in which there is yet vitality
enough for a cure. In such a case it is advisable to
begin with a low potency like the 30th or
200th(the patient, though unable to stand a high
potency like 1000th or more is yet able to stand
the 30th or 200th.) then increase the potency as
the patients vitality improves.
▪ The aggravation that is at times seen in acute cases
due to the repeated use of lower potencies is
generally considered by many, as homœopathic
aggravation. But this is a tremendous mistake. In
acute cases, there should be absolutely no
aggravation.It is an aggravation of both the physical
symptoms of the patient as also of his internal
condition. It indicates that the dose of the
medicine has been materially large for the case,
and that a still finer dose should have been used.
▪ Homœopathic aggravation is always due to the
fineness of the dose, while the aggravation in
question is always due to the largeness of the
dose, and it is for this reason that it is called
medicinal aggravation.
❑ The aggravation is perhaps very severe, but it is
lasting for a very short time only. And after this
severe but short-lived aggravation, there is a
mental improvement of the patient, and this
mental improvement continues for a long time. In
such cases any other medicine is not generally
required, as the mental improvement continues and
it then results in an all round cure of the patient.
The prognosis is certain cure.
❑ In cases in which the chronic disease has not progressed
very far and has caused only functional derangements
in the organs without yet bringing about any
derangements in their structures, there is absolutely no
aggravation after the use of the selected medicine but
pure improvement resulting gradually in an all round cure
of the patient-body and mind. This type of cure generally
takes place in acute cases and it is very very rare in
chronic cases. The selection of the medicine as also of
the potency was perfectly correct and that the remedy
fitted the case point to point. This may therefore be
called a high class cure.
❑ Amelioration in the beginning, but it is soon followed
by an aggravation. These indicate that the amelioration in
the beginning was only the result of the superficial
action of the medicine and that the medicine has not
acted deeply enough. This is certainly due to wrong
selection, wait until the aggravation passes off and the
patient presents his original picture again. And then you
have to make your prescription afresh. If however, the
aggravation continues and the original picture of the
patient is not presented, but on the contrary, only a
condition of complexities comes up, you cannot wait
longer yet. You should then prescribe on the picture of
complexities as you find it.
▪ When there is amelioration followed by aggravation as
above, it should not be invariably concluded that the
prescription was wrong. If on retaking the case,the
remedy was seen to be correct, the probable inference
would be that the prognosis in the case is
unfavourable. It is the depleted condition of the
patient that is not allowing the action of the medicine to
be permanent. It must be that some organ of the patient
has been so damaged as not to admit of any repair. This
is the only reasonable inference that we can make from a
case in which amelioration is quickly followed by a lasting
aggravation, and we may hold that the prognosis in such
a case is undoubtedly unfavourable.
❑ Amelioration lasting too for a long time. But there is
only an amelioration of the external symptoms-the
external disease-manifestations, without a corresponding
improvement of the "internal" of the patient. In it, the
disease-manifestations disappear but the patient does not
feel better. The prognosis is that the patient is incurable.
The failure of the deep acting medicine to do anything in
the mental plane of the patient (or he would have felt
better) indicates a highly depraved condition-so
depraved that it is refusing to be manifested outside.
Such patients have, therefore, to be palliated only, and
more serious endeavours, namely the use of still higher
potencies for bringing out the latent depravity in such
cases should not be made, as that might result fatally.
❑ There is neither aggravation nor amelioration but
on the contrary some new symptoms are
developed-new symptoms, such as have never
before been experienced by the patient. Such cases
would indicate that the prescription has been
wrong . a fresh selection should be made correctly.
If, however, the new symptoms brought on by the
wrong medicine do not pass off completely in spite
of sufficient time having been allowed but on the
contrary mix up with the original state of the
patient and present quite a different picture, then
the fresh selection will have to be made so as to fit
this new picture .
❑ The external symptoms are ameliorated, but some
internal part of the patient is attacked. This has been
certainly due to the whole patient (his external and
internal) having not been taken into account while
making the prescription or due to the prescription
having not been miasmatic.
▪ In the above case, the medicine acted, but in a wrong
way owing to the defect in selection, and the flow of the
action was from the outside to the interior-just the
reverse of the true process of cure, which is always from
the interior to the outside. This sort of flow of the
disease from the external to the internal is called
"Metastasis".
❑ There are some patients who are remarkably
sensitive. They do not tolerate even potencies like
500th or 1000th., and when you try any such
potency on them, they begin to prove the remedy
instead of running on to a course of cure. It is
difficult to cure such patients, and as such, their
symptoms can only be palliated for a time with low
potencies like the 30th or 200th at the utmost.
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The second prescription

❑ If, after the amelioration obtained from the use of the

first prescription, the original symptoms return, that
is to say, if the original picture of the patient on which
the first prescription was made, is presented again in
the same form or in a milder form, it is to be
understood that the potency used has not been high
enough for effecting a total cure, and as such the
disease force was only partially controlled and is
showing itself up again. In such a case the same
medicine will have to be repeated in a higher
potency
▪ If instead of the original picture, a new picture consisting
of some new symptoms is presented, it is to be
understood that the first prescription was not altogether
correct. At times, it is the symptoms of the first medicine
that appear, or in other words, the patient appears to be
proving the remedy. In such a case, one single group will
have to be made of the whole array of symptoms now
available, that is to say, the original picture of the patient
plus the drug symptoms brought on by the erroneous
selection will have to be considered as presenting one
picture, and a fresh selection made
▪ If in spite of the appearance of some new
symptoms the patient seems to be more at
ease in the interior, then there should be no
interference with a second medicine so long as
this internal improvement of the patient lasts,
merely on account of a few new symptoms
having made their appearance.
▪ Wait for a return of the symptoms on which
the first prescription was made. If they do not
return at all, and if the patient is also ceasing to
feel the internal ease and improvement, there is
no other help than to resort to a second
prescription.
❑ Some deep-acting complementary remedy is necessary
in cases where superficially acting remedies only have
been used and where they have failed to effect a
complete cure. A deep-acting remedy straight, where a
more superficial remedy is called for by the symptoms
in hand, is apt to cause a severe aggravation and
endanger the patient's life. It is advisable to reduce the
strength of the disease force by superficial and short-
lived remedies when they are called for by the
symptoms, and even to make a gradual trial of higher
potencies of them. Then some deep-acting
complementary will have to be used, to avoid the
possibility of a relapse in the future.
❑ A third class of cases for second prescription are
those in which one, two or even three remedies
are called for in a cycle after the action of the
first remedy used is exhausted. As for example,
Sulphur is at times required after Sepia, then Sepia
and then Sulphur, and so on several times. Then
again, for example, Nux, Sulphur and Calcarea, or
Nux, Sulphur, Calcarea and Lyco. It must however
be noted here, that this cyclic use of
complementary remedies is never arbitrary, but is
ever compulsory, as it is the symptoms that call for
these remedies one after another.
❑ Second prescription in the cases in which there is
a combination of several miasms. Treat the
prominent miasm first.
The peculiarities of chronic treatment

▪ There are many peculiarities in the treatment of

chronic cases.
▪ They are patience, time, and correct selection of
the medicine and its potency, and last of all-
observation.
▪ But, of all "patience" is the most
important-"patience" for the patient and
"patience" for the physician.
Obstacles in the way of chronic
treatment

▪ Ignorance of the mass. This is almost an

insurmountable obstacle and it can only be
mitigated by a gradual educating of the people.”
It has therefore been my policy always to
explain the method to the patient and his
guardian before taking up his case. And if I find
that there is not the required patience on their
part, I do not take up the case at all.
▪ Recording the symptoms so as to make out a
picture is by no means a mere clerical work.
Just as the painter draws the sketch of his
subject with some lines, similarly, the
Homœopathic physician also will have to paint
the picture of his patient with the symptoms.
The lines are the language of the painter and
the symptoms are the language of the
Homœopathic physician.
▪ The second thing is the selection of the medicine.
This is also a very very difficult business, and it
demands a thorough knowledge of the Materia
Medica.
▪ The third thing is the selection of the potency and
it is even more difficult than the selection of the
medicine. Homœopath who ventures to take up
chronic cases must have at least the following
potencies:-30; 200; 500; 1,000; 10,000; 50,000; and
c.m.
Selection of potency

❑ In cases where the patient is sensitive physically or

mentally (e.g. where he is easily vexed or agitated in
mind, or is subjected to some illness on the slightest
provocation), low potencies, should always be used
whether in acute or in chronic ailments. For acute
ailments 6th, 12th, and 30th are low potencies here,
and for the chronic, 30th, 200th or 1,000th at the
most are low potencies.
❑ Where however, the patient is not sensitive as
above, the 30th potency and not below this,
should be used in acute cases. Neither should
potencies above the 200th be used. It is safe to
begin the treatment of acute illnesses of such
patients with the 30th and to gradually go up to
the 200th. In chronic cases of the patients of this
type, potencies below the 200th, should never be
used. Treatment of such chronic cases should
almost always be begun with the 200th, and the
potency should only be gradually increased to
1,000th, 10,000th, 50,000th, and c.m. Etc.
❑ Really homœopathic action of drugs is seldom
available from potencies below the 200th. Every
endeavour should be made to begin chronic cases
with the 200th potency and not lower than this.
That is to say, that unless there is anything positive
to point to a lower potency, either in the shape of
the sensitiveness of the patient or in the shape of
lack of vitality, the 200th and not any other lower
potency should be preferred for beginning the case.
❑ In extreme cases, where the vitality of the
patient may be very low, it is safe to begin with
potencies as low as 6th or 12th. In such cases,
potencies higher than these should be used with
caution and gradually only.
❑ In cases of suppression, e.g. , of some discharge or some
eruption, and where these have to be brought back for
effecting a cure of the patient, the 6th or 12th potencies
are worse than useless, because no suppressed eruption
or discharge can be brought back with them. The 30th
also is useful in very rare cases. The 200th generally may
bring back such suppressions. But when the case of
suppression is a very old one, The potency in such cases
is always in proportion to the chronicity of the case.
The older the suppression, the higher is
the potency required for bringing it back.
❑ In incurable cases, which have therefore to be
palliated only, very low potencies should be used.
The 6th and 12th only are generally suitable in such
cases, and the 30th even should not be resorted
to in most cases.
❑ If any medicine is required to be given to
pregnant ladies with the object of freeing the
child in the womb from the miasmatic affection
of the parents, it should not be given below the
c.m. potency, provided the condition of the
mother's health does not indicate otherwise.
The stage for repeating the dose

▪ There should be no second dose unless it is called for by

the indications of the case.
▪ Occasion for a second dose may be there only when
the first prescription has been correctly made and when
as a result of that, the patient has made some response
to the medicine.
▪ So long as condition of "change and turmoil" continues,
that is to say, so long as the condition of the patient
does not settle down into a definite state of quietness
indicating that the action of the first dose has been
exhausted, there should be no interference with a
second dose.
▪ For giving a second dose, the return of the symptoms
on which you made your first prescription is
necessary, and when these have returned, the second
dose should be given at once without any further
waiting.
▪ The time taken for return , is however always in
proportion to a large number of factors, e.g. , the
age, the vitality and the susceptibility of the patient,
the chronicity of the case, the potency of the
medicine used and so on.
▪ Where there is no change even after a long waiting
(after first prescription) repeat the dose every day or
every alternate day slightly increasing the potency, as
advised in the 6th edition of the Organon, and stop the
dose as soon as some action of the medicine is
perceived.
▪ This will avoid the risk of losing time unnecessarily,
which may happen in case only one single dose of the
medicine is used and in case when there is no re-action
from that and yet you wait long enough.
▪ The repetition of the dose in increasingly higher
potencies will accelerate the action, while stopping it
simultaneously with the setting in of the re-action will not
make all the several doses so many different units of
action, but a single unit cumulated.
▪ If there is no sign of re-action even after such repetition of
doses, the mental condition of the patient should be studied
at that stage, as it may be possible that there has been some
improvement in the mind though it has not yet been
reflected in the physical body.
▪ If there is some improvement in the mind, it is to be
understood that the medicine has been acting, and in that
case there should be no more doses and the action should
be allowed to continue until the fleeting changes gradually
appear and pass off and until there is a "calm" indicating the
occasion for a second dose.
▪ If from a study of the mental condition no improvement is
perceived, it would become necessary to consider the
correctness of the potency used, and you should then go
higher up if the potency appears to have been too low.
▪ When there is a stage of no symptoms, there
can be no prescription too, because, as a
Homœpath, you cannot prescribe without
having a totality of symptoms to prescribe upon.
THANK U
Some important facts

▪ Record-keeping- "Recording" is the most important

and the most difficult work.
▪ The first thing when a patient comes to you for
chronic treatment, is to ask him to make a statement
of his sufferings. He should be asked to state slowly,
so that you may take down your notes; and he should
be allowed to state out in his own language, and
there should be no interruption.
▪ The book selected for the purpose should be a
bound book of foolscap size, and there should be five
columns.
 1 2 3 4 5

Statements Modalities, Nature, Name of Date of

made by showing temperament the medicine using
the patient how the etc. of the used, the
different patient, as with medicine.
symptoms studied out by potency.
recorded in the
Col. 1 are physician while
aggravated taking
and down the case.
ameliorated.
(Particulars
of the generals
recorded in Col.
1.)
The mystery of homœopathic selection

▪ While proceeding to make a prescription, it is

necessary to arrange the symptoms in order of their
importance. The mental symptoms come first in
respect of importance. Then come the physical
symptoms i.e. , those relating to the whole of the
patient's body, and last of all, the local symptoms i.e. ,
those relating to particular localities of the patient's
body.
▪ Now, for the purpose of prescription, all the
symptoms should be classified and arranged as
above,according to their importance and usefulness
for the purpose of prescription:-
I. Mental Symptoms

▪ (a) Affections, as morbidly deranged.

▪ (b) Intelligence, as morbidly deranged.
▪ (c) Memory, as morbidly deranged.
II. Physical Generals

▪ Physical symptoms relating to the whole of the

patient's body:-
▪ (a) The whole patient, as he is affected by heat and
cold.
▪ (b) His desire for motion or rest.
▪ (c) As he is affected by the open air.
▪ d) As she is affected before, during or after
menstruation.
▪ (e) As he is affected before or after eating.
▪ (f) As he is affected before or after evacuation.
 III. Physical Locals

▪ Symptoms confined to particular localities in the patient's body.

These are the symptoms for which the patient has come to be
treated.
▪ Now, the symptoms falling under I are the most important for
the purpose of prescription, the symptoms falling under II are
next in importance, and those falling under III are the least in
importance. And if the symptoms under I and II lead you to
one remedy straight, there is no need of considering the
symptoms under III, and it will cure the case even if the
symptoms under III do not agree with it. If, however, these too
agree, so much the better. Then again if the symptoms under I
and II suggest more than one remedy, then you have to
consider the symptoms under III, to reach the correct remedy.
▪ Patients that have clear symptoms of the classes I
and II can be quite easily prescribed for and cured,
while patients that have a lot of local symptoms
(symptoms under class III), without any under classes I
and II, are hard to cure. This explains why cancer,
phthisis, tumour etc. are so very difficult to cure, The
fact is that in these cases symptoms under I and II are
almost totally absent. If there are no symptoms to
point to the remedy, the mere disease-product, as
expressed in certain localities of the patient's body,
cannot enable anybody to cure him.
External auxiliaries - auxiliaries or obstacles ?

▪ Before he commences the treatment he should invariably enquire if

the patient is taking any auxiliary measures either in the shape of
internal medicine or in the shape of external use or application for
the temporary relief or amelioration of his sufferings. Because, as a
matter of fact, these auxiliaries have no power of curing but of only
suppressing or modifying the manifestations of the disease. And, if
there are any such auxiliaries, they will necessarily obstruct the
Homœopathic medicines that may be given, in their action, and may
also, at times, make the selection of the correct medicine difficult and
even impossible. It is therefore essential that such auxiliaries are
entirely stopped and discontinued before the administration of the
Homœopathic remedy, nay, before the preparation of the record,
because, unless they are removed, the whole case may not stand out
in its own natural form of expression, and as such, the record and
therefore the prescription may be altogether wrong.
Auxiliaries that are generally resorted to by the patient :

▪ In dyspepsia, Soda or Bisurated Magnesia is often taken in daily doses;

in rheumatism, colic and diarrhœa, opium habit is formed; in
prolapsus of the uterus in females, pessaries, in hernia, truss, and in
orchites, inhalation of Eucalyptus oil for cold, smelling salt for fainting
fits and occasional purgatives and douches for constipation, and so
on.
▪ It is however to be admitted that petty auxiliaries are, at times,
necessary in certain extreme cases, but those cases are cases of
exception and not of rule. If you find in a certain case of hernia that
without a truss the protrusion becomes so severe as to endanger
the patient's life, of course a truss has to be used and it should not
be stopped all at once, but gradually as the Homœopathic medicine
brings on improvement and as the patient grows able to go witho
▪ Symptoms are the language of Nature that call for the
particular remedy required in a given case, and more
symptoms you find, the easier becomes the task of
selection. As a matter of fact, it is even necessary in cases
of paucity of symptoms to develop the latent symptoms
to their fullest extent, so that the physician may be able to
find out remedies to fit them. But the use of auxiliaries
interferes with the manifestation of symptoms, and as
such, the language of Nature is rendered mute, and this
makes the task of prescribing difficult and even
impossible at times.
▪ Then again, owing to the extraneous assistance that
is rendered to the system for a regaining of its
normal condition, the system itself gradually ceases
to make its own endeavour for it. And if the system
itself lacks the endeavour for arriving at the normal
condition, medicines cannot accomplish the task of
cure. So long as there is this extraneous help to the
system, medicines will not do much, and even if they
do anything at all, there is no means of knowing what
they have done and to what extent.
Directions to the patient during the course of treatment

▪ Such diets as are likely to aggravate the suffering should always be

stopped, e.g. , pepper and chillies for patients having burning while
urinating; ghee and things difficult to digest, for patients suffering from
dyspepsia and liver troubles.
▪ Those things that aggravate the condition in the medicine will most
probably aggravate the patient's sufferings. For example, Lachesis-
aggravated by acid food and drink; Arsenicum- aggravated by milk.
Lycopodium patient must take no food in the afternoon and no acid
food
▪ Things and habits of luxury should also be stopped, as for example,
drinking and opium habit etc. Of course, there should not be any
unnecessary interference with the freedom of the patient. We have
seen that, some physicians even direct the stoppage of smoking etc,
during the course of treatment, and I am afraid this is going too far.
Such directions only put the patient to a large amount of trouble and
privations while they serve no useful purpose.
The homœopathic remedy and the plane of action:

▪ Homœopathic medicines are not material substances. There is no "Matter" in any

Homœopathic remedy in its potentised form beside the alcohol and the sugar globule.
But these last-the alcohol and the sugar globule-are not the medicine. They are only the
vehicles in which the medicine is stored up. The medicine itself is only an abstract energy,
a dynamis, and it is stored up in the material vehicle of the alcohol or sugar .All other
medicines e. g., allopathic etc. are material substances, and as such, they are capable of
acting on the material plane only just as food and drink.
▪ These medicines act on the plane of "Matter", and they are quite unable to reach the finer
plane of "Spirit" or "Energy", because "Matter" can act only on "Matter", it cannot act on a
thing like "Spirit" which is so much finer and subtler.
▪ Unless the medicine is on the same plane as the plane on which the disease is-on which
the systemic vitiation has taken place, there can be no cure. And disease is always on the
plane of the spirit-mind. The physical expression of the disease is thus not the disease but
its effect, and this material effect of the immaterial disease, which is in the mind, is not the
object of cure.
▪ The real disease is only an abnormal functioning of the life-force. The life-force is too fine
and subtle to be reached and acted upon by does of medicines that are as coarse as
"Matter".
▪ This is why Homœopathic medicines are potentised. It is by potentisation that the
material substance-say Nux Vomica-is rendered finer and finer, until in the 200th or 1000th
potency, it ceases to have any of the properties of "Matter." And when it reaches this
immaterial condition, that is to say, when it becomes something like a spirit-like power-a
dynamis, it aquires the capacity of curing disease. All Homœopathic medicines in their
different potencies are only so many "powers"-"dynamic agents" of different grades. The
higher the potency, the greater the power-the dynamic force, because, more is it spirit-
like. This explains why Homœopathic medicines are so very quick, far-reaching and deep
and lasting in their action. It is not "matter" beating against "matter" but "Subtlety" acting
with "Subtlety". The potentised remedy corrects the abnormal functioning of the life-force
and brings it to its normal functions, and the material expression which is ordinarily
recognised as disease-tumour, rheumatism and gout-disappears automatically.
The chronic patient and change of climate

▪ Cure is normalising the abnormal life-force, and we cannot possibly

expect to accomplish this superhuman business by a mere change of
climate-of air, water, scenery and society. In order to bring the
abnormal life-force back to its normal condition, it must be necessary
to introduce something into the system, which is as immaterial and
spirit-like as the life-force itself. As Homœopathic medicines in their
potentised forms are such spirit-like agents, it is they alone and not a
change of climate only that can accomplish this work. It is, therefore,
all silly and useless to advise change of climate, before the life-force
has been brought back to its normal condition by means of deep-
acting potentised drugs. If however, change of climate is effected
alongside the type of curative treatment referred to above, the
matter is different, as this might help the process of cure to some
extent if the new place happens to be more suitable to the patient.
Psora, sycosis, syphilis - how to recognise them

▪ In treatment of acute disease,it is very convenient and even

necessary to know, first of all, the general symptoms of the disease.
If the general symptoms of the disease are once grasped, it becomes
easy to treat any patient having that disease, because, it remains then
only to find out the particular symptoms in the case of the particular
patient and to choose the remedy that has those particulars.
▪ Likewise in the case of the chronic miasms, it would be easier to
frame your conceptions of general symptoms, from a study of the
three classes of miasmatic remedies. Hahnemann made his studies
and framed his first conceptions of these miasms from the study of a
large number of patients. It was by a close scrutiny of patients that he
discovered three general differences between different groups of
patients, and named these three different groups-Psoric, Sycotic and
Syphilitic. The miasms always make themselves known, by the
character of their symptoms.
The chronic miasm -Psora:

▪ Symptoms of latent Psora: They are not the expression of any particular diseased
condition. But when these symptoms are there, it is only to be understood that Psora is
also there, and that it will some day break out in disastrous shapes, and it is then only that
its existence will be recognised.
▪ The worm symptoms of children. They have a tendency for this parasitical growth in their
intestines causing itching in the anus, irritability of temper and tearfulness.
▪ (2) Unnaturalness of appetite-either a complete want of appetite or canine hunger.
▪ (3) Mental disquietude for no apparent cause-moroseness; want of courage and energy;
fearfulness.
▪ (4) Pallor of the face; want of usual lustre in the eyes.
▪ (5) Epistaxis in children and youths and the very tendency for frequent epistaxis.
▪ (6) All kinds of unnaturalness of sweat, e. g.-excessive sweat in particular parts only, like
forehead, hands and feet, face and rectum; or complete want of sweat; or, fetid sweat, etc.
etc.
▪ (7) Running of the nose on the slightest or no cause; or no running of the nose even from
excessive exposure; or there are other kinds of illnesses but no running of the nose.
▪ (8) Stuffy nose, compelling respiration by the mouth.
▪ (9) Crusts in the nose, and a tendency to dislodge them with the finger.
▪ (17) Unnaturalness of sleep, want of sleep, broken catnaps, startling during sleep, sleep full
of dreams-dreams of fear; sweating during sleep; evacuations during sleep; crying, grinding
of teeth during sleep; various kinds of sounds in the mouth during sleep; sense of
suffocation during sleep; snoring during sleep; restlessness and constant change of sides
during sleep; laughing during sleep; salivation during sleep. Excessive sleepiness is also a
Psoric symptom.
▪ (18) Various kinds of coating in the tongue; fetid smell; dirty gums; salivation out of
proportion.
▪ (19) Vomiting and tendency for vomiting in the morning; waterbrash; dryness of the tongue;
varities of tastes in the tongue e. g., sour, bitter, salty etc.
▪ (20) Craving for or aversion to particular things.
▪ (21) Unnatural constipation; constipation and diarrhœa alternately; diarrhœa from the slightest
irregularity of diet.
▪ (22) Various kinds of pain in the stomach, which are aggravated or ameliorated by particular kinds of
food, or at particular hours.
▪ (23) Various kinds of pain and sensation in the rectum; bloody or other kinds of discharge with stool;
Hæmorrhoidal growths.
▪ (24) Ulceration in the feet and between the fingers in particular seasons.
▪ (25) Corns in the toes; pain in the corns.
▪ (26) Various kinds of sounds like gliding of bones, during eating, during walking, while standing up from a
sitting posture or while sitting down; such sounds particularly in the bones of the feet while walking.
▪ (27) Aggravation and amelioration of all kinds of pain in particular seasons; during walking or sitting or
lying down.
▪ (28) Tendency for boils and abscesses in various, parts of the body. Itches, ringworm or rhagades in
particular seasons.
▪ (29) Harsh, irritable temper; want of affection for any body; tendency to do evil to others.
▪ (30) Excessive sexual appetite.
▪ The Psoric mind is restless. restless in thought, feeling and will, and this leads to
restlessness in action. There is an all round restlessness.
▪ He is never satisfied with the existing state of things. He thinks, he is not rich
enough and tries to acquire more riches. He is never satisfied with his married
wife and therefore seeks gratification in other women, and thus he acquires
gonorrhœa and syphilis.
▪ There is no calmness, no peacefulness of mind; no quietude.
▪ It has a keenness of intelligence, & sensitivity- is power of understanding things
easily. But this power of understanding or keenness of intelligence of Psora is of
no use to the world, because it is perverse.
▪ Fearfulness: He fears every thing. He fears darkness; he fears to be alone; fears
an ordinary ailment and thinks that something serious would come of it. He fears
undertaking even ordinary physical works; fears what will happen in the future.
▪ Unnatural appetite :It comes on at an unusual hour, it comes on even
immediately after a full meal;-his appetite is never satisfied. He sweats while
eating, and the abdomen is full of wind immediately after a meal. He likes sweet
and sour tasting things. He likes those food that will do him harm. Unnaturalness
of craving. He has a craving for chalk, clay, pencil and all these indigestible things.
▪ Ear- There is only an unbearableness of noise and sound
▪ Nose- accentuated power of smell. Unbearableness of the smell of food or of
cooking and consequent vomiting ,vertigo and a dislike for food.
▪ Mouth-In the mouth, the Psoric patient has a sour, bitter or sweet taste.
▪ Abdomen- Wind, rumbling, hunger before midday, hunger in the morning, hunger
during sleep, hunger before headache, sour eructation after meal, eructation
smelling of the food taken, etc., etc. A sense of emptiness in the stomach or in
other parts, as if there is nothing there-all vacant.
▪ Respiratory system: Patient has a slight cold or cough and is yet very
anxious for it. If patient has a fatal cold and cough and yet no anxiety,
but on the contrary, a decided hope of surviving the attack, we
should take it that there is Syphilis besides Psora. Syphilis against a
Psoric background means a tubercular condition. Such patients get
severe, very severe colds and coughs and even phthisis,yet no
anxiety.
▪ Heart: Various symptoms with anxiety beyond all proportion.
▪ Two greatest characteristic of psora:
▪ 1)Sensitiveness.
▪ 2)want of structural degeneration- only disorders of function.There
are two condition necessary for structural changes.a)time .b) Sycosis
or Syphilis, or both, against a Psoric background.
Sycosis

▪ Of all the miasms Psora is the most widespread, but Sycosis is the most insidious
and dangerous. Peculiar tendency for making a secret of everything. Sycosis is
ever anxious lest his secrets are out, lest he is found out, as it were.
▪ Again, just as he is himself anxious to keep his mind from others, he thinks that
others are also of the same mentality and are trying to keep things from him.
Thus, he is necessarily suspicious. He suspects that others are not plain enough
towards him. If he is ill, he would go to several doctors one after another and yet
he would not be satisfied. If he places himself under one doctor, he would
change him in a few days and go to another.
▪ If he makes a statement of his symptoms, he would have it corrected repeatedly,
as he thinks that the correct idea has not been expressed. If he writes something
he would read it over and again and make changes every time. He always
suspects that the idea has not been correctly laid out.
▪
▪ In the second place, Sycosis has a tendency for brooding over things.
If he is ill, he is ever thinking of it. If he has done anything, he is ever
thinking of it. He cannot shake off the tenacious thought from his
mind.
▪ Sycosis is again, the most mischievous of all the miasms. He is ever
bent upon mischiefs and misdeeds. The Sycotic mind is so grossly
debased. Sycosis makes the victim devoid of all sense of
righteousness. It makes him a liar and a vicious scoundrel; makes him
destitute of all love and affection for others; makes him mean and
selfish. All the vicious individuals on earth-thieves, robbers and
murderers are the products of Sycosis. It makes a beast of a man.
▪ The memory also does not escape the brunt of this miasm. It makes
the memory, weaker and weaker, particularly in respect of names
and dates.
▪ To sum up, the mentality of Sycosis is-suspicious, mischievous, mean, selfish and forgetful.
▪ Condylomatous growths of various sizes and colours. Some of them are often like
cauliflowers. Some of them exude an offensive discharge, and are dry at times. Besides
these growths, all kinds of tumours and tumourous growths also are Sycotic, and in fact any
unusual fleshy growth in any part of the body is Sycotic. Piles is also a Sycotic manifestation.
▪ The temper of Sycosis, is extremely irritable, and this irritability of temper again, is worse
on the approach of, or during a storm or rain. There is another very important symptom
which is also most noticeable at that time, and it is the tendency for frequent urination.
As soon as a storm or rain is approaching or has set in, the Sycotic feels repeated calls for
urination. The increase of mental irritablity and the increase of urinary calls on the
approach of rain and storm is a variation in keeping with the atmospheric temperature,
and it has actually led some of our leading Homœopaths to give to the Sycotic, the title of
a "Living Barometer." Besides these variations in mentality and urinary call, there is another
important symptom noticeable, and it is a desire to move about during rain and storm,-as
if he cannot keep still.
▪ Sycotic is unable to collect his thoughts, or he is unable to decide
which would be the most appropriate word, and hence the slowness
in speaking and writing. In the Psoric, the case is however quite the
reverse. Because when he (Psora) speaks or writes, he does it very
quickly; there is such a flow of thought that he can hardly follow it
with his tongue or pen.In the Sycotic there is a poverty of language
and thought.
▪ Inflamation of the testes; hydrocele; orchites; rheumatism; cold and
catarrh in any part of the body e. g., nose, throat, lung, stomach,
intestines, uterus etc; anæmia; emaciation in any part of the body; all
urinary troubles. Of urinary troubles there are many classes, e. g.-
diabetes, hæmaturia etc., etc. All uterine and ovarian troubles of the
females are Sycotic. Teething troubles of children, sweating of the
head, sour diarrhœa, infantile cholera are also Sycotic in origin.
Syphilis:

▪ The chief manifestations of Syphilis are-malignant

abscesses and boils, buboes, fetid sweat and a thick
flabby tongue with a white coating and imprints of
teeth round the margin. The breath is fetid like the
sweat, and the sweat instead of relieving the
troubles of the Syphilitic, only aggravate them. There
are severe pains in the bones, and they are the
severest at night, in the heat of the bed. Syphilitic
troubles, whatever those troubles may be, are always
worse at night, worse from the heat of the bed.
▪ The skin troubles of Syphilis are always
characteristic in that they are absolutely non-itching,
while Psoric skin troubles are always itching. The
typical Syphilitic skin troubles are a kind of copper
coloured eruptions without any itching. Syphilis may
have an intolerance of both heat and cold, or at times
it may have an intolerance of heat only. If however, the
Syphilitic is an old man, he often acquires an extreme
susceptibility to cold, but the Syphilitic susceptibility to
cold can easily be distinguished from the Psoric, by
the absence of anxiety
▪ Syphilis is decidedly weaker in sensation than either of them.
Syphilis has never his internal organs-head, liver, kidney, spleen
and lungs etc.,-in natural normal condition. There is always
some abnormality in their structures.
▪ Mind-Syphilis is very deep and insidious in its action .Its
characteristic way of expression here is an imbecility. This
imbecility or idiocy is a slow, gradual process. Let us remember
that Psora makes the mind over-active, Sycosis mal-active and
Syphilis under-active. Psora is quick, Sycosis is bad, and Syphilis
is slow. Psora is intelligent, Sycosis is mischievous, and Syphilis is
idiotic. It destroys the very balance of the mind, as it were, and
renders it practically destitute of sharpness.
▪ The night is the worst time for the syphilitic, because it is at night, particularly
when in bed, that he has an aggravation of all his sufferings. It is also at night that
his mental condition too (described above) is worse, like the physical. He feels an
irresistible impulse for committing suicide and thinks only of possible means for
realising that impulse. He thinks that his life is a burden and that the sooner he
closes it, the better.
▪ Man knows by nature that his own life is the dearest to him, but so grossly is the
man unmanned by Syphilis that he is made to forget all love for life. This is
however, only one of the aspects of the Syphilitic deterioration of the mind.
There is the other aspect of idiocy. All quickness of thought is gone and there is a
gradual incapacity for understanding things, and this again makes him morose. It
so comes about in course of time that his mind fails to travel from subject to
subject-a quickness that is so prominent in Psora. Thus, he grows into one
wanting in attention and comprehension. If he reads a line, he cannot understand
its meaning, and he has therefore to read it over and again. The mind grows
slow-as if paralysed.
▪ Aggravated at times by the usual excretions of sweat, urine and
stool etc. At least he is never ameliorated by these. We may
compare here, that Psora is invariably ameliorated by these and
Sycosis is also ameliorated at times.
▪ Head-The Syphilitic headache is always worse at night. It runs on for
the whole night in the heat of the bed and it disappears in the
morning. Or even if it does not totally disappear in the morning, it is
at least much less at that time, as also during the whole day. The
aggravation begins in the evening and it increases as the night
advances, and decreases with the gradual approach of morning.
better from cold, walking about in the open air, and before sleep.
Besides the headache, the Syphilitic head has profuse sweating, and
this sweat is invariably fetid smelling.
▪ The eye symptoms are also aggravated at night, in the heat of the
bed, from heat, from lying down and from sweat, and they are
ameliorated during the day, from cold, from rest and from washing.
Ulcerations in the eyes, ears and nose etc., are in most cases
Syphilitic. Syphilis has a decided aversion for meat and he prefers
food and drink cold. He does not like warm food and drink and
animal food, and he tolerates them neither. Amongst animal foods, he
has some liking for milk only, but he does not tolerate it so well.
▪ Psora, sycosis and syphilis - their combinations. rickets, scrofula,
struma, pseudo-psora, tuberculosis: When, however, Psora combines
with any one of the other two miasms, there is a further condition
for complexities created, and when it combines with both the other
two miasms, there is a still further condition for complexities.
▪ Sycosis and Syphilis combine with Psora the very moment
the infection is caused, because they can be radically
cured before any combination takes place, and the system
thus rendered immune from further mischiefs due to
them. And there can thus be no time for mischievous
combinations. But what actually happens every day of our
life is that these infections, Sycosis and Syphilis, that is to
say, their physical manifestations are quickly removed, and
as this is not cure, they continue in the system
unperceived, and it is in course of time only that they
gradually undermine the even flow of the life-force and
combine with the primary miasm-"Psora."
▪ It is the suppression of disease manifestations
and combination of miasms, and their number in
the said combination that lie at the back of all
complexities in disease. When these miasms
exist in the system not merely in number
(uncombined), but also in combination, there
are still more disease complexities, and these
complexities vary according as the combination
is of two or of more miasms.
▪ There are further variations in complexities according as the miasms are acquired or inherited. As for
example, Psora and Sycosis or Syphilis acquired, is one kind of it, while Psora and Sycosis or Syphilis
inherited is another. The latter is always a far more complex combination than the former.
▪ In the very extensive literature of the old school, there is absolutely no analytical study of miasmatic
combinations and the various complexities due to them. It however, only appears from their books that
various titles have been given to all those complex manifestations, e. g.,-Scrofula, Struma, Tuberculosis .
But these names of theirs seem to have some conventional significance-e. g., by Scrofula, Rickets and
Struma they understand the systemic condition expressed by those children who do not grow well but
suffer off and on from cold and fever and diarrhœa etc. And again, by Tuberculosis they mean the
systemic condition that pre-disposes the victim to phthisis and consumption. These are some of the
generalisations that have been made by the most learned and experienced of their school, and no
explanation for differences in disease manifestations between individual and individual appears to have
been attempted. But Homœopathy, the great Philosophy of disease has laid bare the very root of the
vicious Tree (of disease), and you must be armed with a thorough knowledge of that Philosophy as also
of the Philosophy of the potentised drug. You must find the root out with your Eye of Reason and you
must blow it out with the arm of Potentisation, because this alone is true cure of chronic disease.
CONCLUSION:

▪ Homeopathy is truth, and an attainment of that truth

requires absolute freedom from prejudice and untiring
zeal. "Indolence, love of ease and obstinacy preclude
effective service at the altar of Truth." It is only by a careful
study and thorough analysis of the Great Truths laid down
in Hahnemann's Organon and Chronic Diseases, and in
Kent's Philosophy, that one can expect to have a grasp of
the subject of chronic treatment; and the explanation of
the subject that has been attempted in this little book, is
by no means intended to take their place, but is expected
to serve as an introduction to higher studies, such as
those masterly works contemplate.
▪ Besides a thorough study of the philosophy of
Homeopathy on the lines indicated above, a practical
application of it is an indispensable condition for an
acquirement of this Art to any useful extent. And this
suggests the necessity of a very thorough study of materia
medica of drugs-the very weapons to be wielded against
"Disease". The study of the Materia Medica is by no means
a memory work, as Kent has stated. It is an attempt for
finding out in each drug, that which makes that drug that
drug and none other. there is not a medicine in the
Materia Medica that can serve the purpose of any other.
Each one is absolute in its own sphere.