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PREPARATION OF HOMEOPATHY MEDICINES

In homeopathy practice, medications are prepared from different sources such as minerals, plants, animals, toxins, diseased parts etc. Medications are prepared from these substances by a special process called potentisation. Here the soluble substances are potentised by diluting with spirit and the insoluble substances by grinding (trituration) with mik sugar.

The crude drug extract is first mixed with a calculated quantity of spirit and water and kept for few days. From this mixture an extract is taken and is called mother tincture(denoted as Q). From this mother tincture dilutions are prepared by potentisation.

Potentisation is a mathematical process by which the quantity of original drug substance reduces but medicinal power increases. Depending upon the ratio of quantity of drug substance and vehicle( spirit or sugar of milk) there are different scales for this process.

Each scale has different potencies which indicate power of the medicine. Example in decimal scale the drug substance vehicle ratio is1/10 and the available potencies are 3x,6x.12x etc. In centismal scale the ratio is 1/100 and the available potencies are 30c, 200c etc, in LM potency the ratio is 1/50000 and the available potencies are 0/1, 0/2, 0/3 etc.

Potency is written after the description or name of every medicine Same medicine is available in different potencies. A suitable potency is selected according to so many factors such as severity, depth of disease, condition of the patient, nature of disease, ,type of symptoms, age of patient etc.

Some of the subjects studied in homeopathy History of medicine History & development of homeopathy Pioneers of homeopathy Organon of medicine Homeopathic philosophy Materia medica Homeopathic pharmacy & pharmacognosy Homeopathic repertory Homeopathic case taking Homeopathic therapeutics General medical subjects: Anatomy, physiology, pathology, microbiology, parasitology, toxicology, forensic medicine, social & preventive medicine, surgery, ENT, gynecology & obstetrics, opthalmology, dentistry, orthopedics, surgery,general medicine,pediatrics,dermatology ,psychiatry etc)

Homeopathic case taking and prescription. Cure by a homeopathic medicine is rapid, gentle and permanent if correct remedy in suitable dose is given. Just giving one drug for one disease (specific drugs) may not give good results. To come to a correct remedial diagnosis we should have the symptomatology of the person.

It is the total symptoms of a person which includes mental generals, physical generals, particular symptoms etc. All signs and symptoms (mental&physical) of the person should be taken in account. Knowledge about past illness, family history of diseases, food & bowel habits, notable causes, relation to climatic changes and constitution etc are noted down in a systematic order.

Mental symptoms Example: fear,anxiety,depression,anger,jealousy and etc….

Physical symptoms: Example: Body makeup, appetite, thirst, desires, aversions, bowels, urination, sleep, taste, nature of smell, discharges any abnormal sensations like pain, burning, climatic changes, thermal relations, etc.

Peculiar uncommon symptoms: This is the specialty of homeopathic system of medicine. For the selection of a suitable remedy these symptoms are very important. Common symptoms which are seen almost in all patients are least important. This is the reason for giving different medicines to different individuals suffering from same disease.

Example: Five people suffering from typhoid may get five different remedies because of changes of individual symptoms. Particular/local signs&symptoms: This include signs &symptoms related to body parts &organs.

Example: Part affected,any swelling,discoloration etc. Systemic examination: Different systems are examined in a systematic order. (Respiratory system , digestive system, nervous system, cardio vascular system and etc….) Vital signs, Pulse, blood pressure, temperature, respiratory rate etc are checked here.

General physical examination: Here body parts are examined from head to foot to find out any changes. Provisional disease diagnosis; Here probable diseases are diagnosed. In homeopathy disease diagnosis is not that much important for the selection of a remedy,but needed for general management and to know the prognosis.

Investigations : This includes lab investigations and other methods to find out any other major illnesses. Final disease diagnosis: After doing all investigations the disease is diagnosed.

Remedial diagnosis: This is the most important part as far as homeopathy is concerned. For this the selected symptoms are arranged in a systematic order on the basis of importance. Symptoms are analyzed to find out the importance of each symptom for the selection of a remedy.

Remedies are selected on the basis of similarity. Suitable remedies are diagnosed by a process called repertorisation. Here books called repertories are used. Repertory is the index of symptoms of materia medica(books which contain the symptoms of drugs).Nowadays computer softwares are used for repertorisalion. By this process we will get the remedies covering maximum important symptom of the patient.

Among this group of remedies the most suitable remedy is selected by referring various books and considering the life space investigation of the patient..The selected medicine is given in suitable potency & dose. ANTI MIASMATIC TREATMENT: The root cause of disease is miasms which should be eradicated using suitable anti miasmatic drugs. Every drug can eradicate the miasm if there is symptom similarity. There are anti psoric drugs, anti syphilitic drugs and anti sycotic drugs. After diagnosing the miasm suitable anti miasmatic drug has to be given to complete the cure.