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THE DANGERS OF HOMOEOPATHIC PRESCRIBING The greatest danger of any homoeopathic physician is that he shall not be a true Hahnemannian homoeopath. Mongrelism defeats not only the doctor and the patient but the cause of homoeopathy. The specific pitfalls most frequently met are as follows:  1. Homoeopathic philosophy: The physician does not bear in mind his homoeopathic philosophy. 2. Improper Casetaking:  He fails to take a complete enough case, from which to deduce the true remedy. He omits the mentals, the profoundly important generals, or fails to elicit the modalities of the particular symptoms.  3. Lacks patience:  Having given the remedy he forgets that he must WAIT and WATCH. He te peats the remedy, in unwise zeal, before the definite slump comes after the improvement which has followed his remedy. More of a good thing does not mean a better thing in homoeopathic prescribing. 4. Hearing's law: He fails to look for the action of Hering's three Laws o...

Aphorism 33 Medicinal power is superior to that of natural disease or miasm.  As natural disease act conditionally and medicines act unconditionally so, Dr. Hahnemann says that all experiences are in accordance to the fact that living organism is much more disposed having liability to be acted upon, thereby deranging its state of health by medicinal powers rather than by natural diseases or miasms.    ► In footnote Dr. Hahnemann gives supportive evidences to his statement by citing that during 1801 Smooth Scarlatina of Sydenham, which used to occur epidemically among children, it generally attacked all the children who had escaped the previous attack of epidemic; but in similar epidemic which Dr. Hahnemann witnessed in Konigslutter, he saw that all the children who had taken small dose of Belladonna in time remained unaffected by highly infectious infantile disease. So, Dr. Hahnemann says that if the medicine can protect from diseases, then they should have va...

Aphorism 32 Medicines acts unconditionally.  Medicines in contrast to those of diseases unconditionally, following are characteristics of medicines -   1. Medicines are called artificial morbific agents as they are capable of producing symptoms of sickness in healthy person resulting him to look sick.  2. Real medicines are those that act -     a) At all times.     b) Under all circumstances. Circumstances can be only two as meant here -  i.Circumstances in which health prevails.     ii. Circumstances in which disease prevails.           c) On all human beings.      3. If the medicinal dose is large enough, it produces distinctly perceptible symptoms peculiar to it. Thereby, every living organism is liable to be effected by medicine without pre requisition of any conditions, which is quite opposed to that of natural diseases.