In the previous article, ‘Individualism and Homoeopathy’ we saw how every person in health and in disease is unique. We understood how in homoeopathy we focus on uniqueness of each disease which is different for each individual. Depending on that a specific remedy suitable to that person, is selected. Hence people suffering from the same disease don’t necessarily require the same remedy.
Today in the medical system, the main focus is to treat the specific disease rather than the person suffering from the disease. For example a person suffering from joint pains is labelled arthritic after inquiring about the joints and every person suffering from arthritis is given the same medicine. In short, the disease is considered to be affection of a part, separate from the rest of the healthy body.
Plato had written almost 2,400 years ago:
“As you ought not to attempt to cure the eyes without the head, or the head without the body, so neither ought you to attempt to cure the body without the soul; and this is the reason why the cure of many diseases is unknown to the physicians of Greece, because the part can never be well unless the whole is well.”
According to WHO, “Health is a state of complete physical, mental and social well-being and not merely an absence of a disease or infirmity”.
Holism is a philosophy which believes complete healing occurs only when the whole person is healed at the level of the mind, body and spirit rather than treating only the specific illness.
Disharmony at the level of mind, body or spirit leads to a disease. The belief is that the disharmony at any of these levels affects the whole person and not just the particular part of the body.
In Homoeopathy, Dr Boeninghausen gave the theory of ‘Grand Generalization’ which says ‘What is true for a part, is true for the whole.’
When a patient comes to a homoeopath with a particular disease, the homoeopath tries to understand the problem at all the three levels. He inquires in depth about the chief complaint – understanding the exact location, all the sensations experienced, aggravating and ameliorating factors and other modalities. He also inquires about the nature of the person in detail- how he feels about his disease, his childhood, his likes and dislikes, his food cravings, perspiration, thirst, his sleep, his dreams, his family environment, his job or any other detail which is important and specific to the patient and which helps to individualize him. A specific remedy which is suitable to the patient, covering his problems at all levels, is selected and prescribed. Once the patient is given the correct remedy he will not only improve in his chief complaint but overall feel a general sense of well-being in every other sphere of his life. The medicines help correct the underlying imbalance that triggered the problem and helps stimulate the body’s natural ability to self-heal.
Dr. Sujit Chatterji had a case of a 57-year-old lady, who was in a very bad state and was suffering from rheumatoid arthritis since a long time before she approached him. The severe pain caused inability to work efficiently and one of her main fears always was that she would be abandoned by her family, unless she was capable of working. She felt she would be treated as a recluse. After studying her case and the various facets to her nature, she was prescribed a homoeopathic remedy from the mineral kingdom, Gallium Metallicum. Within days after prescribing the above remedy her pain completely went away. The confidence level improved markedly. Her fear of being treated as a recluse too improved. The depressive state through which the patient was suffering too improved simultaneously. This is an ideal example where we see, Homoeopathy treating not only the complaint, but the person as a whole.
BIBLIOGRAPHY
www.studentpulse.com
http://www.holistic-health-homeopathy.co.uk/
http://www.homeopathyschool.com/
World Health Organization
Newsletter- Case studies of Arthritis-case of rheumatoid arthritis by Dr. Sujit Chatterjee
By Dr. Sujit Chatterjee
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