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Monday, 09 August 2004
Most of the times when we are taking a case the patient wonders that when I have came to the doctor for a complain like migraine why is the doctor asking me about my dreams, my fears, my likes & dislike for food. Is there any connection ? Are all the complaints of our body interrelated ? In Holistic approach the answer is YES!Are all the complaints of our body interrelated ? Most of the times when we are taking a case the patient wonders that when I have came to the doctor for a complain like migraine why is the doctor asking me about my dreams, my fears, my likes & dislike for food. Is there any connection ? Let me illustrate an example. This is a case of 1 & 1/2 year old child who was brought for Eczenaa on her ear. The mother said that it started 2 months back with a tiny spot behind her ear. But in last 15 days it had increased and become worse. It was oozing, the skin was racked and bleeding. When we asked her to tell us something about her daughter's personality she said - She is a happy baby. She is not the type who will demand anything or cry or throw tantrums. She is not possessive about her things nor does she have any sibling rivalry. Even regarding her food she has no likes or dislikes. She eat whatever I feel her and makes no furs over it. she is not seared of anything. she sleeps very well at night. We observed that during the completed 1 & 1/2 hr. of interview this child was just sitting quietly. She never arid. When we how this skin complain bothered her ? The mother said that the child is fine. It doesn't bother her at all. There is itching or pain. She never scratches it nor does she cry. When we saw the child her ear lobe was swollen, red, with lot of oozing and just information. The skin was cracked and was bleeding. One would expect the child to be Crying, Howling, screaming. But she was not reacting at all. She was not even complaining about it. The same thing was observed in her - she never complained about thing at all. Her state was reflected both at the mental as well as physical level which was that this girl was not reacting. A remedy was chosen based on this & with that within a month her eczema was a lot better. This case shows that all the ailments of our mind as well our body when understood at a deeper level have a common thread running through them. It is the whole state of a person which is expressed both at the physical as well as the mental level. So we don't treat you in parts but we treat you as a whole as an individual. If homoeopathy treats you as a whole, how does it isolate the ailment from the person to bring about improvement ? We do not not isolate your physical complain from your as a persona. Because mind and body are not separate. They are not isolated but one whole entity. Our body is born as one, it functions as one, react as me & dies as one. It's a unity and when affected by a sickness it reacts as whole. So is Homoeopathy are do not have separate medicine for head, nose ears, throat etc. We give one single medicine which affects the patient as a whole and removes all this troubles. There is no medicine for any particular disease but there is medicine for the patient who is suffering from the disease. How is it that in Homoeopathy different complaints are tackled by the same medicine. Let me tell a case A 58 year old male patient came with a complaint of pain in the chest: a year. It would become worse esp. when he would climb stairs. His ECG should Ischemic changes. He also had diabetes - blood sugar level 304 post lunch and his cholesterol was 283. Originally he was living in Bombay and was posted to Delhi as a chief accountant. He was given the responsibility of handling a lot of money, something which he was not accustomed to. He became tensed and since then he had developed this chest paint. He was then transferred back to Bombay and is not so tense but still the chest pain continues. He is a very religious person and he likes music. On observation we saw that he had early baldness. He was neat in his appearance and punctual. He had his medical papers neatly filled. He spoke humanely. After understanding him we gave him the remedy Arum which is prepared from good . After few months his cholesterol level was 250, Blood sugar level was 141, Post Lunch and his chest pain was much less. This shows that a single remedy chosen on the basis of holistic approach treats different complains of the same person. Every individual has within him an energy which we call as life force. Which maintains the harmonious function of the body and mind. And this life force has a lot of healthy prover within itself. A 65 year old man who had developed reticulum cell sarcoma - It is a type of a cancer whose cur rate is extremely low. He was sure that he was going to die. He said to himself, "All right now, this is the most worst thing that could have happen to you but there are two ways you can handle this. Either you can go around feeling like the most unfortunate candidate on the death row & whimper away a year or you can try to squeeze as much as from life now as you can. He chose the latter because he was a fighter. Then a strange thing happened . A year went by, then two, then three, and look what happened. If turned out that he was that fortunate exception. In today's would the medicine has gained so much power over disease that we have forgotten about the potential strength within ourselves. And it is This Potential strength my friends - the healing power within us which differentialities. The human body from a machine. Remember the last time your child came home crying e a deep cut & you immediately rushed to a near by physician who stitches were removed and the had healed. Have you ever questioned yourself how it had healed ? Would tying a cloth around a broken rubber tube and removing if after 6 days repair the rubber tube for good ? No, never ! Friends only the human body has this energy, the life force which helps its the healing process. But this life force which helps the body to carry on its functions is difficult to be seen or felt directly. Physiologists assume that there is an underlying principle because the body continues to live, think, eat, digest, reproduce and move. When the body fails to do these thing are consider a person to be dead. So what is the difference between being alive and being dead. Homoeopathis believes that as long as you are alive there exists within you a living, intelligent energy that is responsible for healing and maintaining balance in your body, mind and emotions. The defence mechanism of our body is just an aspect of this life force - that help our body to repel the invading organizations and prevent illnesses. An illness a disease only occurs when there is disturbance in this life force. And when there is disturbance it is manifested in the form of sign and symptoms for e.g. a sore, throat, aches, pain and in the mental sphere in the form of phobias, loss of memory etc. These symptoms are just a reflection of the disturbed life force. Homoeopathic medicine aim to correct the disturbed life force thus enhancing the power of the body to hear itself. Thus homoeopathy is not a cure for specific illness. We do not aim at removing the symptom of the parts affected but we treat the cause and restore health. |
