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THE EASY WAY
(A Complete and Dependable Self-instructor on
Homoeopathic Practice)

Dr. V. KRiSHNAMOORTY

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international Institute of Alternative Medicines
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PREFACE TO THE FIRST EDITION

Homoeopathic science lies so seattered in a mass of
books that a beginner is not able to appreciate the use and
importance of a particular book. There is no single good
work covering all the aspects of homoeopathic system of
medicine to guide the beginner where to start reading the
subject and how exactly to apply theory in actual clinical
practice.
It is highly regrettable that the so-called books on
'Principles', 'Theory and Practice' "Beginner's Guide' and
'Text-books' do not explain the subject in any good order
They completely omit many important topics and tell ver •
little or nothing about the importance and use of Reper^
tories in practice. Such titles merely give the indications Of
a few polychrest remedies under various disease-headings,
which is more or less like allopathic treatment of diseases and
not homoeopathic cure of the patient in toto. The eager and
enthusiastic new-comer faithfully follows such books and
they meet with failures and thus he comes to his own, but
wrong conclusion that homoeopathy too has limitations such
as that it takes a longer time to produce effect or it would
suit only a certain type of persons and so on.
But in the present work the reader will find that homoeo­
pathy is a complete system and realise that there is lot of
differences between it and allopathy or for that matter any
other system. This book, therefore, is an attempt to present
in lucid language the laws ("and not principles as is incorrectly
thought by many) of homoeopathic system of medicine
and practice of homoeopathy in a compact and systematic
form and in a easily comprehensible style.

I have only made a sort of re-arrangement of what the
founder of homoeopathy, Dr. Samuel Hahnemann, has said
in his Organon ot Medicine and Chronic Diseases thus taking
the reader step by step to an overall picture of the science

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and art of homoeopathy. A rearrangement of the Organon
has become necessary because as Dr. Pemberton Dudley
rightly pointed out, 'Hahnemann has several peculiarities of
style, some of which are not at all common to English
polemical literature, among which may be
mentioned;
(i) his long, and often involved, sentences; (ii) his exceed­
ingly frequent employment of parenthetical clauses and
sentences, and his not infrequent use of the parenthesis within
a parenthesis; and (iii) his introduction of qualifying words
and phrases in certain peculiar and unusual connections
likely to escape the notice of the casual or careless readers,
but evidently intended by the author (Dr. Hahnemann) to be
taken at their full significance and
importance and to
constitute an essential element of the discussion. It may be
said, in passing, that the failure to note this last mentioned
characteristic of Hahnemann's method has occasioned much
misunderstanding of his doctrines.'
**
Besides the above, I have also illustrated the use of good
reference books by American authors so that the reader will
know what books to buy for study and reference, how to use
the various reference works in day-to-day practice while
treating acute and chronic diseases. In doing so, special
care has been taken to mention and illustrate the utility of all
useful authors, while no mention is made of books that have
little or no value in actual clinical practice.

One more point also needs mention. It may be asked
that while homoeopathy is a perfect, unique and superior
system, why has it not become popular. The answer is, as
that great American Homoeopath, Dr. James Tyler Kent, has
observed, "defective books as well as defective use of books
which abound in homoeopathic literature." This is the main
reason for the failure of many homoeopathic practitioners,
both in the past as well as at the present day. It would serve
no purpose to list such books and demonstrate to the reader
how misguiding they are. However, a review of one such
**Dudley, Pemberton, M.D. The Chronic Diseases. Their
Peculiar Nature and their Homoeopathic
Treatment
'•Editor's Preface"

in
book as sample is given at the end of this book just to
caution the reader not to be lured by catchy titles.

Homoeopathy is not taught and studied as it ought to be,
viz, from the Organon and Chronic Diseases of Hahnemann.
Books by less significant authors are used, with the result
that, looking at the present-day homoeopathy in the clinics
of many practitioners, books published on the subject, reports
of cases in journals and discussions at Association meetings,
we have to conclude that the typical homoeopathic practi­
tioner of today is like a person who, knowing nothing of the
art of drawing, enters the room of an artist and starts hand­
ling the various drawing materials. The present state of affairs
may be compared to the game called 'unconscious distortion.
In that game the participants sit in a circle, while onej
with a short story written out, beckons No. 2 outside and
reads it through to him. Then No. 2 beckons No. 3 outside/
and repeats the story as he remembers it and so on. Each one
unconsciously supplies the deficiencies in his own way where
his memory fails Ultimately the last to hear the story retells
it to the assembly. The original is then read out, proving,
amid roars of laughter, how widely it has been quite un­
intentionally distorted!

With us, 'children of larger growth but children still,' the
same thing obtains. Facts retold, wander about and get
inevitably distorted. Even those homoeopathic physicians
with many years of experience will find several things in this
book new to them—new, only because they have not read
The Organon and not learnt to use the Repertory.

It is after ten years of hard work—rigorous search
and study, practice, critical analysis and careful observation
of the methods of several practitioners that I felt the need
for this book, so that at least the future generations of
homoeopaths may not become victims of the undesirable
effects of descent as in the game described above.
It is in order to provide the earnest enquirer with an easy
introduction to the correct practice of Homoeopathy and also

to provide the teecher of Homoeopathy with actual data
instead of second-hand, or third-hand learning that this
attempt has been made. This book presents the actua
*
teachings of the founder of Homoeopathy,
Dr. Samuel
Hahnemann, not only the great law of healing, with the subsi­
diary laws it imposes, but also its extension to the difficult
realm of chronic diseases. (In part II of this book we shall
deal elaborately with the treatment of chronic diseases.)

After reading this book, a reader will get it clearly fixed
in his mind that homoeopathy is an exact system and not a
matter of 'principle' or 'concepts' but only based on eternal
laws that never fail and that has no exception and that homo­
eopathy will act on all individuals and under all circum­
stances.

Since the purpose of the present work is to deal elabo­
rately with the practical aspects of the art of homoeopathic
prescribing, little is said about the founder of the system or
how he discovered the laws of Homoeopathy.
After reading this book, for further studies on practice of
fiomoeopathy the reader is referred to the author's book
ADVANCED HOMOEOPATHIC PRACTICE.
22 Fourth Trust Cross
Mandavelipakkam
(Behind Admiralty Hotel)

MADRAS 600 028
March 29, 1985

V. Krishnamoorty

CHAPTER !
HOMOEOPATHIC LAW OF CURE AND ORGANON

As any new system of medicine is compared with the
existing systems of medicine, we shall now examine the
methods of Homoeopathy with those of allopathy which is
widely practised today.

in allopathy, according to Lister’s writings, the motto of
the doctor is to console always,
**
to relieve often and to cure
sometimes. Every patient wants cure which the allcpathic
doctor is able to effect only semetimes. And so, unable to
cure many cases, he merely tries to relieve the patient of his
trouble with sedatives. As this too is not possible in many
cases (not to speak of the side-effects of his crude drugs
which are graver than rhe original malady for which it was
prescribed) he always consoles the patient by telling him that
he will have to learn to live with it.

All this is owing to the fact that allopathy is still in an
experimental stage. Tbay have not yet discovered the lews o^
therapeutics and are still working on theoretical speculations.
A new drug comes out of their so-called research laboratories,
only to be discarded soon, after its side-effects ate revealed
to be harmful, some months or years after being given to many
patients. The methods and theories In allcparhy ere always
shifting and their discoveries are abandoned rapidly. They
themselves acknowledge these facts. They cannot say in
advance whether the patient will be cured with their prescrip­
tions. They will give quinine for malaria and only after
watching its reaction can they determine its severity. And

*Hay fever, asthma, and unbearable menstrual colic of
♦
unmarried girls are some of the examples. In the last men­
tioned case the allopathic physician consoles the patient
by saying that she will be all right after marriage! But
Homoeopathy cures the patient which is the only mission
of the physician.

only after treatment with a drug, la the efficacy cr otherwise
of that particular drug ascertained. If the patient is sensitive
to it, they will try to give it in injectible form. And, as
the patient should not become an addict, (since his medicines
only suppress and do not cure) he gives that drug with a
warning that the patient stould not take it continuously
beyond a certain period. Then there are the problems of
sequelae, the side-effects, the cost of drugs and their non­
availability I
Despite their sophisticated diagnostic implements and
costly research projects the allopaths are unable to tackle
even such a common disease as the cold. Their instrumen’s
are nothing but manifestations of their deficiencies and
shortcomings. They openly admit that there is no treatment
for certain diseases and are groping in the dark with a faint
but false hope that one day or other they will be able 'to find'
a remedy for cold, a cure for cancer, and so on. Their
methods are with full of uncertainties and theoretical specula­
tion based on mere assumptions.
**
What they claim today to be the best remedy has to be
discarded tomorrow, because of its dangerous after-effects.
Their diagnostic methods which claim to spot the cause of
the trouble make the patient a victim of graver diseases, e.g.,
x-ray causes ulcers and burns.
Contrary to popular belief, Homoeopathy is not an indi­
genous system of medicine; it was founded not by a layman
foreign to medical science but by one of the leading allopathic
physicians of Germany, Dr. Christian Friedrich Samuel
Hahnemann, M-D. Hence, the reader may know that homoeo­
pathy is not an 'indigenous' system of medicine, but a
system which is being practised at international level.
••For a correct assessment of what allopathy is, the reader is
referred To Bernard Shaw’s DOCTOR'S DELUSIONS
wherein he describes how he was cured of hydrocele with
homoeopathic drugs. To know what homoeopathy is,
every student should study James Tyler Kent's LECTURES
ON HOMOEOPATHIC PHILOSOPHY (please see the last
page for price list of books available with the author
for sale.)

s
Many readers will be surprised to know that even Her
Majesty the Queen of England takes homoeopathic treatment.
So, like allopathy, homoeopathy too is'English' or'Phorein'
and not 'Hindustani', 'Swadeshi' or indigenous. Thus, the
English-knowing Indian elites will realise that there is some­
thing worth knowing about Homoeopathy at least for the fact
that all reference books are in English by different American
authors each of them with doctoral degree in medicine.
For the life and works of Dr. Samuel Hahnemann the
reader is referred to the many biographies.1&"

It is sufficient to say here that Dr. Samuel Hahnemann
was born in Germany in the year 1755 and like any other
eminent physician of his time, studied medicine in Leipzic
University and in the year 1779 obtained his M.D. Degree. He
practised allopathy for nearly seventeen years and wrote
several articles. Being dissatisfied with the results of the
medical treatment prevalent in those days (and which is more
or less the same today) he realised that it was based on
assumptions, and
theoretical speculations. When the
Almighty caused diseases, Dr. Hahnemann thought. He must
have also provided for corresponding therapeutic agents
in Nature—an idea which is in consonance with the best
axiom of philosophy, viz., Nature constantly works towards
perfection. Therefore, Dr. Hahnemann made a searching
study of medical literature for twelve years and by strenuous
study and repeated experiments discovered the law of thera­
peutics—a law that is eternal. Eternal laws never fail and
they have no exceptions. Thus, Homoeopathy is not founded
on any'principles' but it is merely the discovery of eternal
law pertaining to therapeutics. Dr. Hahnemann summed up

'Bradford, T.L.,
NEMANN.

LIFE AND

LETTERS OF SAMUEL HAH­
—

‘‘Haehl, Richard SAMUEL
HAHNEMANN-. HIS LIFE
AND WORK. This book is the most authentic and com­
prehensive, as the author gave up his practice and travelled
far and wide for several years to collect data and materials
for his book.

J

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his fi ndings or rather discoveries in a book titled The Organon
of Medicine. Dr. Hahnemann did not enunciate any new
theories;' he only ditcovered a law, of which the following
is the basis;
Nature constantly works towards perfection. It provides
several substances in the vegetable, mineral and enimal
kingdoms, each of which when taken by healthy
persons in large quantities, produces signs and
symptoms exactly corresponding to a particular type of
sick-person.
Thus, for every sick person, there
is a corresponding disease-producing substence in
*
Nature.
Every substance brings about a change in
a healthy individual who tests it and every substance
does so in a different manner, which is called the
curative property of that substance.

According to the law discovered by Dr. Hahnemann, a
substance, when given in single dose in dynamized
**
form can cure any person having those symptoms which
the drug can produce in a healthy person when taken
in repeated doses. Such a cure will be gentle,
quick, permanent and without side-effects. As this is
an eternal law, there is no exception to this. There­
fore, the question of a homoeopathic medicine not
acting on a person or that it will suit only certain
persons is a misnomer. Also, the question of a
medicine yet to be “found out" for a particular patient
(say, with cancer) does not at all arise. Nature pro­
vides medicines for all types of sick individuals. It is a
grand ARRANGEMENT of nature.
Therefore, Homoeopathy is self-complete in its armamen­
tarium of drugs, and so does not require any research
to find 'new' drugs.

•Therefore, there is no need to change one pharmacopoeia
after the other, or, having some 'new' drugs incorporated
by throwing out some 'less modern' drugs.
**We shall discuss 'dynamitation' and ’potentisation' in the
following pages.

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"It is very rarely the case that among our remedies not
one is to be found which corresponds to the characteristic
feature of a case."
*
It is the judicious use of such substances (that is, giving
the substance in dynamised form and in single dose to a sick
person having exactly the same symptoms which that subs­
tance can produce if taken in large quantity) that Homoeo­
pathic practice aims at.
There is a wrong conception, even among homoeopaths,
that because of atmospheric pollutions, use of drastic pesti­
cides etc. (which were not in Hahnemann's time) we have
to change our Materia Medica which was written about
hundred years ago. This is not correct because even today
patients are being cured with the same drugs discovered
hundred years ago. The total picture of symptoms exhibited
by a patient even today points to the total picture of a parti­
cular drug, though discovered hundred years ago. Men have
not changed in their biology. He is still eating food through
mouth and perspiring through his skin. Unless there is a
biological change there is no need to alter our Materia
Medica.

Since the Homoeopathic system Is complete in respect of
her armamentarium of drugs, it was possible for Dr. Hahnemann
to lay down in the very first Section of his Organon that
"The high and only mission of the physician is to cure." In
contrast to Allopathy (the aim of which, according to Lister’s
writings, is always to console and sometimes to cure) the
motto of the homoeopath is always to cure the patient. If a
homoeopath has failed to cure a case it is because of his
inefficiency alone and not owing to the lack of sufficient or
effective drugs in Homoeopathy.
As Homoeopathy was discovered, not by a stranger te
medical science but by a leading allopath who was famous
for his writings on allopathy itself, it (Homoeopathy) is

♦See Kent's LECTURES ON HOMOEOPATHIC PHILOSO­
PHY "Lecture XXXVII" (p. 274)

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known ss the New School; and, since it overcomes all the
drawbacks of allopathy, Homoeopathy is also called Advanced
**
Allopathy.
We have said that Homoeopathy is the discovery of the
truth thet there is a variety of simple substances in Nature
each of which, when taken in large quantities or repeated
doses by a healthy person, produce symptoms exactly corres­
ponding to the symptoms of a sick individual on earth, and
the same substance can cure a person with those symptoms,
when given in minute quantity. So, on the one hand, we
have the symptoms of the patient and, on the other, the
symptoms of the drug, otherwise called disease-force and
drug-force respectively.

Now, when the remedy is edrrinistered, it produces arti­
ficial symptoms in the patient. According to the law discover­
ed by Dr. Hahnemann 'two similar forces nullify each other.'
This can be best illustrated by an example. Suppose, a person
is holding a spring door half-open by applying a certain force

**At this point, the reader will at once be tempted to ask if
Homoeopathy is superior to any other therapeutic llyoriented system why it has not become popular. An
st
wer is given to this by Dr. J. T. Kent when he rsma’
'Homoeopathy will not be universally adopted for man
centuries. It is not an easy grade to the pinnacle of pure
Homoeopathy or as it should be admissible to say to
Homoeopathy. The statement admits that there is a qua”
lity of Homoeopathy prevailing which is not strictly pure!
for the deception practised by pretenders in our own ranks
there can be no need for apology. They and their faults are
too well known, and the causes are:
First, the increasing demand for the genuine;

Second, the comparative infancy of the new system;
Third, the imperfection of the machinery of instruction all
over the world even till this day;

Fourth, to generalise, want of opportunity, capacity anddesire" (See Kent's LESSER WRITINGS : "An Addres
preliminary to the study of Homoeopathies."!

7.

with his hand. If a second person comes in and exerts more
pressure on the same spot and in the same direction on that
door, naturally the force exerted through the hand of the first
person cannot have any effect and so it falls down. Or, say
that a spring is stretched apart from both ends by some force.
If another stronger force comes in and pulls it, then the first
one loses its hold. Let the original force be the disease-force
and the second force an artificial medicinal force. When the
medicinal force (which is made stronger by a process of
potent isati on) takes hold of the vital force, then the disease
force loses its hold and so the patient is restored to health.
For this reason alone, a remedy capable of producing the
exact symptoms is employed. This is expressed by the phrase
simih'a similibus curentur. This was accidentally verified in

Though homoeopathy was founded by a qualified allopath
and promoted by leading allopaths only, who later on
becama converts, many of the later-day converts could not
grasp the basic teachings of Dr. Hahnemann (that run
counter to allopathy in many respects) Unable to realise the
important difference between the two systems they practised
homoeopathy on allopathic foundation, and could not get
success, and so they stood midway between allopathy and
Homoeopathy. Such doctors are called by the name of
mongrelists. To say that ninety per cent of even the presentday practitioners belong to this category of mongrelists is
no
exaggeration.
Even
during
his
lifetime itself
Dr. Hahnemann remarked: "Many of my followers, I am
sorry to say, are but half-converts." Therefore, homoeo­
pathy slowly diminished qualitatively while the quantity of
homoeopaths is on the increase.
Apart from the qualified allopath-converts many laymen
who started studying homoeopathy did not do it systemati­
cally but learnt it from hearsay. Even to day the reader can
find many practising homoeopaths who are prescribing
without the aid of any one of the reference works mentio­
ned in Chapter II. They are not to blame because from the
very beginning there have been no standard text-books
covering all the aspects of homoeopathy. The colleges are
no good; they do not have good teachers; the posts are
filled by appointing allopaths and mongrelists.

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many cures in old school treatment itself for which Dr.Hahnemann quotes many examples in the indroduction to his
Organon.

The second force, i.e., medicinal force, employed by the
physician has also to be removed; otherwise, the patient will
have the symptoms of drug or drug-disease in place of his
original malady.
For this reason alone, that apart from
making the madicine powerful (potentisstion), the medicine
is given in the least possible quantity. So, the reader need
not get mystified by thesmillness ofthe dose used in homoeo­
pathy. Smallness of dose that too to be given in single dose
only, is, therefore, not a matter of convention or tradition but
based on sound reasoning and repeated experiments.
To make the disease-force lose its hold the drug-force
should be slightly higher. This is accomplished by a process
known as dynamization. By another process known as
dilution the drug is prepared in such a way that the medicine,
while acting powerfully, is made to act for a short period
only.

In the case of substances from the vegetable kingdom the
whole fresh plant is collected during its flowering season,
then crushed and dissolved in spirit. (Double re-distilled
spirit is used for this purpose.) One part of this is mixed
with ninety-nine parts of spirit and the container is given one
hundred violent jerks.
(By giving jerks the medicine is made
to act with force.) This is called the first potency.
*
To
make it more and more powerful, one part of thia first potency
js again mixed with ninety-nine parts of spirit and the con­
tainer is given one hundred violent jerks. This is known as
the second potency.
**
By giving violent jerks, the drug is
made to act with much force.
*ln the case of mineral substances which do not dissolve
in spirit, they are first ground in a mortar with sugar of
milk up to a certain potency, say the 6th, and then dissolved
in spirit for preparing further potencies.
**Since we have taken one part of the previous potency and
added ninety-nine parts of distilled spirit, the material
content now becomes one hundredth. So, this is called

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The question arises why we should proportionately dilute
the drug as we go on increasing the potency. The answer is
simple. When the force is increased the quantity is to be
reduced proportionately to avoid prolonged action. This can
be made clear by an analogy. For a building constuction, if
one thousand man-days are required, to complete it in one
hundred days, then we need ten persons daily. If hundred
persons are employed daily, then the work can be completed/
in ten days. The ratio is inverse. So also, while increasing
the potency, naturally the material quantity of the drug is to
be proportionately reduced and this is accomplished by dilu­
tion. In other words, while increasing the force the process
of dilution helps to prevent prolonged action of the drug. This
is evidenced by the fact that Dr. Hahnemann adopted the
centesimal scale. The potencies are denoted by '2c' '3c' '6c'
etc. Normally, the letter 'C' is omitted. Medicines prepared
on the centesimal scale is widely being used in India.
Potencies manufactured in centesimal scale are in the
ascending order of 1, 2, 3, 6, 12, 30, 200, 1000, 10,000 (or
10M), 50.000 (or 50M), 100000 (ot CM), DM, MM, DMM
and so on.

In the decimal scale, for every successive rise of potency
one part of the first potency is mixed with nine parts of
distilled spirit and the container is given ten violent jerks.
This is denoted by 'lx' '2x' '3x' etc. (Thus it may be said
that'6x'is roughly equivalent to the 3rd pontency in the
centesimal scale). In the decimal scale too, medicines
are manufactured in lx, 2x, 3x, 6x, and so on, as in the
centesimal scale.

There is one more scale being followed by a small section
of homoeopaths. Dr. Hahnemann talks of this, only in the
sixth edition of The Organon. This is known as millesima
scale. Potencies prepared on this scale are called 0/1, 0/3
0/6 etc. For the beginner, it is sufficient if he uses the
centesimal scale potencies alone. (See also the chapter
"The Use of Various Potencies" in Vol. II of this
book)

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method of dilution only after he found prolonged drug effect
when large quantities of potentised drugs were prescribed.
*
This is all that has to be said as to what happens when
the process of dilution and dynamisation or potentisation are
gone through The drug is given in as small a quantity as
possible to keep the duration of action at the minimum so that
as soon as the disease-force loses its hold, the drug force may
also disappear. Otherwise there will be after-effects of drugs
as in aliopathy.

The student of homoeopathy will naturally be curious to
knowhowthe process of cure takes place when it is said that
''two similar forces nullify each other on the dynamic plane.''
Nature keeps her ways secret and it will ever remain a
mystery as to how cure takes place gently, quickly and
permanently under homoeopathic treatment. In Section 28 of
the Organon, Hahnemann says, "it matters little what may be
the scientific explanation of how it (cure) takes place and
much importance ,need not be attached to the attempts
made to explain it."
It is not necessary to know how the cure takes place
because we are physicians and not researchers. The patient
comes to us for cure which we are able to accomplish. "The
high and only mission of the physician is to cure..." and his
mission is not, however, to construct so called systems, by
interweaving empty speculations and hypotheses concerning
the internal essential nature of the vital processes and the
mode in which diseases orginate in the invisible interior of the
organism (whereon so many physicians have hitherto
ambitiously wasted their talents and their time); nor is it to
attempt to give countless explanations regarding the pheno­
mena in diseases and their proximate causa vyrapped in unin­
telligible words.

*See foot-note to Section 284 and also foot-note to Section
270 of the Organon ' the most powerful and at the same
time mildest in action .."

CHAPTER II

MATERIA MEDICA—REPERTORY—REPERTORISATION—
SIMELIMUM—INDIVIDUALISATION
In the last chapter we have studied that homoeopathy
discovered the truth that there is a variety of simple substances
in the kingdom of Nature—mineral, vegetable and animal—
each of which, when taken in large quantities by a healthy
person, produces artificial symptoms exactly corresponding
to a particular type of sickness, which can be cured by that
substance when given in dynamised form.
Before we proceed to treat patients we should have the
list of all the substances with their respective symptoms. To
find the symptomsof various substances they are being tested
on human beings only, because we are going to treat only
human beings with those drugs. Unlike allopathy which tests
medicines on animals which is not a scientific mathod, in
homoeopathy the drugs are tested on haalthy persons.
Allopathy which often uses the term 'scientific research'
should be ashamed for calling themselves to be 'scientific'
when they do not use human beings for their experimentation.
|t is only homoeopathy that aims at parfection and does
things exactly.

The person who is testing the drug by taking it in
repeated doses to find its effects upon him is called
the prover and the method is known as proving. \Ne
shall now study the conduct of the experiment on human
beings as the application of this method in practice.
The experiment is to create an iatrogenic illness, or
even a portion of it in order to bring out that part of
t e drug's pathogenesis which is reactive in nature. To
make the provings, the first step is to secure volunteers
because using "paid" provers is always subject to con­
troversy. The volunteers are given a reasonably thorough
physical and psychological screening. Naturally some will
be rejected for one reason or other in order not to
jeopardise the whole experiment. The rest of the partici­
pants are given drugs under strict control. Only one simple
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substance is used at a time, to discover its clear effects.
The identity of the drug is known only to the person-incharge or the Director of provings who decides upon
controls, the dose level, as well as the frequency of repeti­
tion. The provers are provided with day-books i . which
they record their symptoms in great detail. In order to
ensure the accuracy and completeness of every symptom,
ha Jiractor of provings interviews each prover from time
to time, noting the time of occurrence, the concomitants
the periodicity, than alternations of symptoms, modalities
and every other detail which may be relevant in final
'drug picture" of the drug in question.
Data obtained from these provings are useless unless
centralised, organised and systematized; Still, the first step
>n this procedure is to evaluate the symptoms themselves.
How to do that? Here is the technical side of it
Mental
symptoms when manifested, are of prime importance.
**
Then come the generals which refer to the provar as a
whole The p-overs use their own languages and expres­
sions, like "I feel burning", "I am cold all over', "I can't
stand the sight of food" etc. The symptoms next in value
are the particulars, such as "my eyes feel sandy," "I fee
cramp in my calves " These symptoms define the prover's
feeling in a part of his body. Next come the moda­
lities; firstly, the conditions which influence the mental
symptoms, then those which influence the general symptoms,
and in the third place the conditions which influence the
sensations of the particular part of the body.

Finally come the concomitants such as "cough with
micturition or defecation" etc. Periodicity of symptoms as
to hour, day, week or month, or season lends further
distinction in the same way as does the "sensation as if.”

Dr. Hahnemann has laid down guidelines for conduct­
ing the provings. The prover should ba a healthy individual.
If he has any disease the symptoms cf his disease may get
**For the importance of "mind symptoms" see the author's
book ADVANCED HOMOEOPATHIC PRACTICE.

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mixed up with the symptoms of the drug being proved by
him and thus we may not get a true picture of the drug
being proved.
Proving is not done on one individual alone; a group
of individuals take part and only those symptoms that are
observed on, or reported by a majority of provers are consi­
dered for recording, since, in the case of single prover, there
are chances for wrong interpretation, prejudices and also
the peculiar type of constitution of that single prover.
In proving, generally the symptoms that appear last are
given much importance. Every medicine has a primary as
well as a secondary action. Nux causes diarrhoea in the
first few hours cf taking it, but afterwards there will be
chronic constipation. The secondary symptoms, i. e. those
that appear last in the proving normally last for a longer
duration of time, which means that they have a powerful
hold on the prover. Tharefore, those symptoms which appear
last are given much importance for being recorded.

The symptoms of various drugs as expressed by the
prover, reported by others who are in association with the
prover, and as observed by the Director himself arg arranged
in an order, and a book containing the symptoms of all the
proved drugs is known as the Materia Madica. Provings
of various substances had been conducted by Dr. Hahnemann
and many of his followers,
**
in Germany, Austria, America
etc.

**Witn what painstaking accuracy Dr. Hahnemann proceeded
in the work of collecting and tabulating all the medicinal
effects discovered in the provings is shown not only in
his "Materia Medica Pura" and his own diagnosis charts
but also in his patients' registers.
If Dr. Hahnemann was to make a reliable basis for the
use of medicines at the bedside, he was bound first of
all to endeavour to investigate with depsndable accuracy
the powers of medicines. He had earlier made the disco­
very that all previous investigations and statements made
in this subject were largsly inaccurate, uncertain and
aven false. He had tharefore to set this research op. a

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Thousands and thousands of such experiments have
been conducted during the past two hundred years by a
small group of dedicated men without any reward other
than professional satisfaction. Almost all of them were
physicians with Master s Degree in Medicine.
Because of this meticulous work done by them we have
at our disposal a vast accumulation of data incorporated
into the Homoeopathic Meteria Medica based entirely upon
human experiments. Such a Materia Medica has definitely
more to offer than any other pharmacopoeia not always
based on human experiments The reaction to the drugs
evaluated in this Materia Medica will remain essentially the
same until the day when there is fundamental change in the
human biology. Therefore the stability of same speaks for
itself. There is no need to change one pharmacopoeia
after the other as in allopathy, or have some “new'
*
drugs incorporated by throwing out soma "less moden"
drug

new basis and he was obliged to do the proving work
himself With untiring devotion, at unknown personal
■ dangers and with large expenditure of time, this work
went on for whole decades, until at last he had succeeded
in completing one hundred provings. Medicine has noth­
ing in the whole course of har history which in any way
approaches tne accomplishment of Dr. Hahnemann. The
dependable accuracy accompanying tha gigantic task is
demonstrated by the later pravings of Austrian and
American followers whose efforts were made under far
more favorable conditions. Apart from details, the results
have completely coincided with Dr. Hahnemann's in the
essential characteristics of ;he medicines Such a state of
affairs became possible only by the conscientious pains
he took to check and compile personally the results
obtained by students and followers, before they were
published. Only by this means has it been possible
(and intelligibly possible) for the homoeopathic doctors
of today to use the sama medicines on the sick and
to rqly as confidently on them as their counterparts of
a' burrdr'ed years ago.
.
.

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Besides proving, symptoms obtained from other sources
have also been incorporated In the Materia Medica, such
as those that have been frequently observed to disappear
while the patient is prescribed a particular remedy, which
may not hava been observed in the proving.
(Eg., abor­
tion. chronic effects of masturbation, lung cancer etc. which
cannot be obtained by proving the drug.J

Such symptoms, not obtained in proving but observed
and verified frequently to disappear after administration
of a drug in the clinic, are called clinical symptoms of that
drug. Besides clinical symptoms, there are 'accidentel
proving' occasioned by poisoning by the crude drug by
old school overdrsing, etc.
Materia Medicas have been compiled
by
many
physicians. The reliable and most useful books are listed
below:
Pocket Manual of Homoeopathic
by Dr. William Boericke, M.D.

Meteria

Medica

The Guiding Symptoms of Our Materia Medica (19
Volumes^ by Dr Constantine Hering, M.D.

Materia Medica Pura by Dr. Samuel

Hahnemann, M.D"

Antipsoric Medicines (Being the Second part of the
book the Chronic Diseases, Their Peculiar Nature
And Their Homoeopathic Cure) by Dr. Samuel
Hahnemann. M.D.

Handbook of Materia
Medica and Homoeopathic
Therapeutics by Dr. Timothy Field Allen, A.M., M.U.,
LL.D.
Symptoms obtained by proving a remedy and also
verified to disappear in clinical practice are known es
clinical verifications. In Hering's Guiding Symptoms we can
find whether a symptom has been (i) frequently verified in
clinics, or (ii) obtained in proving but not at all verified, etc.
Materia Medicas that are most useful in day-to-day
practice are Hering's Guiding Symptoms of Our Materia
Medica and William Boericke a Homoeopathic Materia

Medics. The use of various Materia Medicas has been
discussed in cur book Advanced Homoeopathic Practice.
We have so far seen how the symptoms are found by
proving and recorded in lhe Materia Medica. We have also
seen that the symptoms of each and every substance corres­
pond to a particular type of sickness and every drug does so
,n a different manner.

When we come to deal with a patient we find that just as
not all the symptoms of a disease as clasified in the text­
books can be found in any given case of that disease, so all
the symptoms of a remedy as observed in the provings can­
not be found in any one case.

Therefore, when a patient is before us, we not down al’
the symptoms in him. Then, we have to know the remedy
whose provings exactly correspond to those symptomsWhile some symptoms of a drug may be found in seme other
remedies, not all the symptoms of a drug can be found in
another remedy. (Section 118 of the Organon). So, when
we try to find a remedy for the symptoms of a patient, we
have to take into account all the symptoms of the patient
which is otherwise called the “totality of symptoms "

We have read that a book containing all the remedies with
their respective symptoms is known as Materia Medica- It
is not possible to memorise all the symptoms ot all lhe drugs
When a patient is before us exhibiting some s^ n piontit
would be difficult to find a remedy for that patient iicm the
ocean of Materia Med'ca.
**
For exrmple, 'nausea' is noticed
in the provings of 274 remedies. 'Colic' is noticed in the
provings of 233 remedies.
Let us take a case of ma'arial fever with the following
symptoms :
Nausea, before chill.
Chill at 4 P.M.
Fever after chill, and
Headache with fever.
•♦Failures are because remedies are selected from a know­
ledge of the Materia Medica ^instead of from the Repertory.

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Suppose we have a list of remedies that have 'nausea
before chill', another list of remedies having 'chill at 4 P M.'
and so on
Then by process of elimination we will be able to
find a remedy common to all these symptoms.
A book giving in an index form various symptoms along
with a list of remedies under each svmptom (that was produced by those drugs) is called a Repertory.
A Repertory is an index of symptoms, arranged systemati­
cally. The system of arrangemant may be founded in turn
upon definite guiding principles; or it may be alphabetical
or schematic. A repertory has two definite purposes:
(i)

to se've as a reference and guide in looking up a
particular symptom that may indicate the remedy or
that may make the necessary distinction between
two or more similar remedies in any given case; and

(ii)

for careful study of all the symptoms that
appear in a case.

may

The use of the Repertory in homoeopathic practice is a
necessity if cne is to do work carefully. The institutionally:
qualified homoeopaths hsve many failures in their practice
because in the colleges Materia Medica is taught first instead
of the Repertory.
Our Materia Medica is so cumbersome without a Reper­
tory that the best prescriber must meet with only indifferent
results.

For reference in the clinic or at bedside, every practitioner
should have the following repertories.
*
(1)

Repertory of Hering's Materia Medica
by Calvin B Knerr. M D.

(2)

Repertory by Dr Oscar E. Boericke, M.D.

•For knowing the methods of construction and the use of
various Repertories, the reader is referred to the author's
book Advanced Homoeopathic practice.'

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(3)

Repertory of the Homoeopathic Materia Medica
with Word index by Dr. James Tyler Kent
M.D.

f4J

Sensations As If ...by Dr. Herbert A. Roberts,
M.D.

(5)

Homoeopathic Therapeutics by Dr. Samuel
Lilienthal, M.D.

(6)

The Accoucheur’s Emergency
Dr. W. A. Yingling, M.D.

(7)

Uterine Therapeutics by Dr. Minton M.D.

Manual by

The similimum: A patient has jaundice. What is the
doctor going to do? How is he going to find the remedy?
The patient has 'fear of death,' has 'white stool,' 'craves
pungent things' and complaints of stitching pain in the liver
region.' It is not humanly possible in the Materia Medica
to search a remedy that has all these symptoms, among the
800 and odd proved remedies. When we look up in Kent's
REPERTORY we find that 103 remedies are listed for 'fear of
death' under MIND
88 remedies are listed for ‘white stool'
under STOOL, and nine remedies for 'Desire pungent things'
under STOMACH. When these three lists are combined we
get three remedies only viz., ars., hep. and lac c. being
common to all the three symptoms. When we further consider
the remaining symptom "pain, stitching, in liver region," we
find Hepar is given among other remedies, while Ars. and
lac-c. are not given. Instead of 'jaundice', we consider the
symptoms of the patient. In the above case we find only Hep.
has all the four symptoms of the patient and there is no other
remedy with the four symptoms.

Whenever a patient has a complaint, the whole set of his
symptoms at that one time invariably agree with one remedy
only and not more than one. That remedy covering all his
symptoms is known as the similimum for this patient at that
time. As every medicine does affect the prover in a different
way, there cannot be more than one remedy at one and the
same time for a patient. In other words, there cannot be

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more than ora simlLirr.um at a time for the patient and, there­
fore, there are no surrogates in .homoeopathy. This,
Hahnemann details in Sections 118 and 1 9 of the Organon.

It is necessary that in every case of sickness the doctor
strives to find the similimum because only similimum can cure
gently, quickly and permanently and without side-effects.
The best remedy for the patient is the similimum indicated by
the totality-of symptoms. (S. 120 of the Organon).
For selecting the remedy for a patient, we work out the
case with the aid of the Rerpertory, which is called Repertorisation. Sometimes, after carefully repertorising a case, we
may arrive at more than one remedy seemingly agreeing with
all the symptoms of the case on hand. Here, by making
comparison between the two or more remedies in relation to
the patient we can decide one. In other words, we individu­
alise the drugs. This is known as Individualisation, to find
the one correct remedy.
The stages of homoeopathic prescribing arei
(1)

Collection of the symptoms of the patient, or
taking up the case.

(2)

Finding the remedy running through all the
symptoms (the similimum) by reference to
Repertory or Repertorisation, and individualisa­
tion.

(3)

The Administration of the similimum in a suit­
able potency, and

(4)

Follow-up of the case.

We shall study the above in detail in the following pages.

CHAPTER 1)1

TAKING UP THE CASE OR COLLECTION OF SYMPTOMS
Before studying "co'lection of symptoms" it is necessary
that the reader learns the definition and meaning of "symp­
tom" and also its value. For the value of symptoms we
shall discuss in detail in another chapter and here we shall
confine ourselves to the meaning of "symptoms."

In allopathy, medicines are given on the name o', disease'
e.g., cholera, headache, etc. Their method is stereotyped.
They will give pain-killer for headache and antibiotic tor fever
and so on. This method does not cure but only suppressesBut in homoeopathy, 'symptom' means the symptoms tha
point to the remedy. No prescription can be made on the
name "headache." Headache may be felt in the occiput or
forehead, etc., or it may be one side of the head only. Again'
the type of pain may be aching, splitting, stitching or
hammering. Again, pain in head may become worse while
stooping, or while going in sun or it may be better by heat.
One patient wants tight bandaging to get some relief and the
*
other wants complete rest which ameliorates the pain. So
we have to note the "type of pain", its "location",
"modality” and "concomitants."

One patient gets headache exactly at 9 A.M. while the
other gets it in the afternoon. The headache may be
increased by coughing; in the second patient it may be worse
by eyestrain. Then, there are mental symptoms. A patient
with headache dees not want to talk. In another case, he is
restless and the third is weeping. So, headache may have a
'modality' or a concomitant; 'headache with nausea' 'head­
ache during fever' etc.
When the headache is considered with its modality,
location and concomitant we call it a complete symptom.
Headache is found in more than 2C0 remedies, but "headache
worse sun" is found only in a few remedies. Again,
headache "worse in sun and better by tight bandaging"
reduces the list further.

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In allopathy the pain is merely suppressed and not
cured. Therefore, they simply give a pain killer which only
palliates and the suppressed headache gives rise to some
other trouble at a later date. But in homoeopathy we
want
the complete symptom to find the similimum.
The similimum alone can cure and also there cannot be more
than one similimum for a case at a time.
Again, we want those symptoms from which a remedy
can be selected. In the proving, pathological findings such
as blood test, changes in the internal organs etc. were not
recorded. In Chapter II we have seen that only those
symptoms as expressed by the prover, reported by other5
and also observed by the Director of provings have been
recorded in the Materia Medica. So also, while taking up
a case we have to consider only those manifestations as
expressed by the patient, reported by others (such as nurse,
wife or mother) and those observed by the physician
himself which are the only guides for selecting the similimum.
How to proceed to take up the case and note down the
symptoms? This, Hahnemann has described in clear language
■n Sections 84 through 98 of the Organon.

In chronic diseases especially, the physician will have to
put questions, and the true, complete picture and its
peculiarities demand special circumspection, tact, knowledge
of human nature, caution in conducting the inquiry and
patience in an eminent degree. So, when you take up a
chronic case it may take an hour or so to collect all details
and, if this is not possible in one sitting, more than one
sitting may be required.
*
In this chapter we shall confine ourselves to the treat­
ment of acuta diseases only. In acute diseases, we first
'isten to the patient.
In their anxiety to get symptoms many young homoeo­
paths put questions one by one. But this is not the correct
way.
*We shall discuss treatment of chronic diseases in Volume

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"...in acute disease, the chief symptciTts strike us and
become evident to the senses more quickly, and hence much
less time is required for tracing the picture of the disease
and much fewer questions are required to be asked."1*
"The patient details the history of his sufferings; those
about him tell what they heard him complain of, how he has
behaved and what they have noticed in him; the physician
sees, hears, and remarks by his other senses what there is o
*
an altered or unusual character about him... (the patient)
keeping silence himself the aPows them to say all they have
to say, and refrains from interrupting them - & 3.

"On the whole, the investigation of acute diseases...is
much the easiest for the physician ..he has much less to
inquire into; they are for the most part spontaneously detailed
to him."4

We hear from many uninitiated practitioners that they do
not get the symptoms in many cases. This only shows
that they are not able to select the remedy from the symptoms
presented. Or, the practitioner does not consider them as
symptoms because he is not able to appreciate the value and
meaning of a symptom. If there is no symptom, then why
should the patient come to the doctor ?

’S. 82 of the Organon (Copies of this book are available
with the author)
•SEvery interruption breaks the train of thought of the
narrators, and all they would have said at first does
not again occur to them in precisely the same manner
after that.
3S. 84 of The Organon

4S- 99 Ibid.

CHAPTER IV

PRACTICAL HOMOEOPATHY
Today the mind of man is not bent towards
thinking. May be they do not read, may be they do
not understand, the book. Mongrelism is fostered
by the schools that do not teach their students how
to apply the principles of Homoeopathy by clinical or
repertorial demonstration. Theory is good so far as it
goes; but he who can infuse the theory by illustra­
tions causes the student to assimilate the principles
and live in with, and for them, as he enters the field
of practice.
R. Del Mas
**

If at all cur journals publish any case report it does
not help a beginner to learn anything from it. Successful
cures are published with this or that remedy, but nowhere
does the author of such reports say how—on what basis—he'
had made the selection of the drug for a particu ar patient.
We give below some cases treated by us in our clinic. This
is in the form of a suggestion for the beginner ‘to start with."
Before proceeding further, a few words of explanation
would seem necessary in regard to the difficulty encountered
in writing case reports. It would be sufficient if we listen to
what our Master has to say in this connection:
' The request of some friends who are half way to
becoming proficient in this therapeutic method, to give
some examples of this treatment, is difficult to comply
with, and no great advantage can attend a compliance
with it. Every cured case of disease shows only how
that case has been treated. The internal process of the
treatment depends always on the same rules, which are
already known, and they cannot be rendered concrete

'•See PATHOLOGYvs. THE HAHNEMANNIAN HOMOEO­
PATH (Coplas are available with the author for sale)

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and definitely fixed for each individual case, nor can
they become at all more distinct by the history of a single
cure than they were already by the publication of these
rules. Every case of disease is peculiar and spacial, and
it is the special in it that distinguishes it from every other
case,1 that pertains to it alone, but that cannot serve
as a model for the treatment of other cases. Now, if it
is wished to describe a complicated case of disease con­
sisting of many symptoms, in such a circumstantial
manner that the reasons that influence us in the choice
of the remedy shall be clearly revealed—this demands a
multiplicity of details fatiguing at once for the describer
and for the reader."2
Case 1: A married lady of 42 came to my clinic
one morning saying *'l am having pain in the right thigh.
Last two nights I could not sleep due to the pain ?.cd it was
so intolerable that I was weeping. When I touch in that place
the pain is more. When I keep the thigh tightly bandaged
I get some relief." Though a layman or an allopath may say
that weeping is natural when the pain is severe, for a homoeo­
path this in itself is a symptom
From KENT'S Repertory3 I noted down the following:
MIND
WEEPING
Pains, wish the: Coff , mez . plat , Puls ,
11 his attitude of Hahnemann's is coming into its own today
when the following declaration is read in Professor Krehl's
PATHOLOGICAL PHYSIOLOGY, 921 (Page 689): "Only
then are we alive to the changing heterogany which
living nature presents to us as somathing never before
existent even though a most similar phenomenon may
have appeared previously. Good powers of observation
alone enable us to realise what is chiefly new in nature
and every process of disease incurred by man is something
completely new whatever may happen because every man
is a world in himself."
3MATERIA MEDICA PURA ' Preamble"
3KENT'S REPERTORY (pages 1423) is available with the
author for sale.
.

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EXTREMITIES

PAIN
THIGH
night; Aur., cham., cinnb., coff., dros.,
euph., ferr., kali-bi. lach., mag-s„ mere.,
mez., nux-v., sep., stry., sulph.

The two remedies viz., Coff. and Mez. are common to
both the rubrics. Then a reference was made to Boenninghausen'sTHt. SIDES OF THE BODY AND DRUG AFFINITIES.
Under LOWER EXTREMI TIES on RIGHT SIDE among other
remedies, Coftea and Mezereum are also given. To confirm
one out of the two remedies, these two remedies were studied
in Boericke's MATERIA MEDiCA and on comparison, Coffea
was decided on the symptoms 'Sensitive to pain,' etc. and
Coffea 30 one dose relieved the patient of the pain.

Case 2 A girl of eleven was referred for skin complaint.
(Allopaths told the patient it was eczema). I was shown
both the knee joints where there were eruptions on the
skin.
When asked if she was having it elsewere, she
showed both her elbow joints where also there were similar
eruptions.
We asked "How and when did this start?" To this
came the reply:
"Some six months ago- At that time we were in
Bombay: we used both internal and external medicines
prescribed by allopaths; but no effect "

"Where did it start first? In the knees or elbows?"
"It first appeared in the kn es After some months in
appeared on the elbows too " asked "is there anv itching or
burning sensation?" The girl replied, "Sometimes there is
itching."
I then examined all the four places. Beyond this
I could not get any other symptom. I decided to
repertorise on the above symptoms
**
and thought of re-taking
**"The study of the repertory alone will give the indicated
remedy" See Boericke's REPERTORY “Therapeutic index''

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tha case if I could not succeed in selecting a remedy on
the symptoms available now. It is worthwhile to quote
here what Boericke wrote in his REPERTORY under
"Therapeutic Index."
Any attempt to select the proper homoeopathic
remedy for any case except by the study of the totality
of symptoms must prove futile. In order to prescribe
homoeopathically, the essentials for so doing must be
observed, i.e., to let the characteristic symptoms of the
individual patient, largely independent of the pathological
nature of the case, be paramount in selecting the
remedy."

We referred to Boericke's REPERTORY, one of the
best clinical repertories Under the chapter "SKIN" we
went through all the rubrics and considered the follow­
ing. t

ECZEMA

Eczema, of flexures of joints—Aeth; Am. c.; Caust.,
Hep.; Kali ars.; Lyc.; Mang ac.; Nat.m.; Psor.; Sep.,'
Sul.
PRURITUS (itching of skin)
Pruritus, of bends and elbows, knees—Selen.; Sep.
I settled upon Sepia (common to both the rubrics)
and studied the remedy in Boericke's MATERIA MEDICA.***

J Some profess not to believe in this careful way of analyz­
ing the symptomatology, but if some easy method is
offered for a pretended mastery of it they wildly embrace
it only to return to their primitive, mental aversion
cryina out 'sour grapes.’ See Kent, James Tyler LECTURES
ON HOMOEOPATHIC MATERIA MEDICA "Preface to
First Edition "

**The Materia Medica can be learnt but not memorized
All who would memorize the Materia Medica must
ignominiously fail. The continuous study of the Materia
Medica by the aid of a full repertory for comparison is the
only means of continuing in a good working knowledge."
Ibid.

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ultimately effect a cure. If one takes a few doses of the
(emedy CHERRY PLUM within minutes of sustaining burn
'njury, there won’t be any after-effects of burns such as bleb
formation, peeling off skin, the burnt area becoming discolored,
hardening of the tissues etc. Housewives would do well to
keep a bottle of pills of CHERRY PLUM in the kitchen.

Affected persons can be cured even several weeks or
months after the accident. The victim of a burn accident
had tried various medicines and consulted doctors
of
different systems for about six months but as there was no
improvement he had lost all hopes of cure. For 'hopelessness'
(incurability of his complaints) there is a remedy GORSE in
this system. This was prescribed and a month later when he

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wa,s seen again there was lot of improvement. Discoloration
of skin, stiffness of joints affected by burns etc. were a thing
of the past.
Because they are so very effective, one would immediately
thiink that these medicines must be very costly. But it is not
sro. The remedies can be had from us in one-ounce plastic
pfhials, each phial containing about 600 pills. Two pills
anre given as a dose which can be taken dry on the tongue.

The price is uniform to all remedies.
oounce phial costs. Rs. 17-00.

Each remedy one

To get further details and acquire a complete knowledge
cof the sphere of the use of the thirty-eight Bach Flower
(Remedies in all bodily diseases and mental disturbances, the
ireader is advised to study the following books:
The Complete Guide To Bach Remedies
Practice
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Remedies
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Repertory of Bach Flower Remedies
20-00
Practice of Homoeopathy and Bach
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(All these books are part of our correspondence course.)
The above books can be had by V.P.P. from:
Dr. V. KRISHNAMOORTY
INTERNATIONAL SCHOOL OF ALTERNATIVE MEDICINES
DRUGLESS THERAPIES AND SPIRITUAL ENLIGHTENMENT
22, Fourth Trust Cross
(Behind Admiralty Hotel)
Mandavel i pakkam,
Madras-28

Extracts from our book THE COMPLETE GUIDE TO
BACH REMEDIES PRACTICE are given below to show the
effectiveness of the remedies and also the method of
prescription:

(1) STAR OF BETHLEHEM: Specific for all kinds of
shocks, mental as well as physical.
A lady received an
electricshock rendering her whole right upper limb useless.

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She came across a Bach Practitioner three days after the
accident. He gave her the remedy STAR OF BETHLEHEM to
be taken three times a day for a week.
After two days she
reported that her hand had become almost all right.
In
another instance, an old man received news of the death of
his son aged just twenty-one. On hearing the news, his whole
right side was paralysed. The doctors who examined him dec­
lared his case incurable. Bach Remedy STAR OF BETHLE­
HEM was given and in a few days he could move freely.
A Bach Practitioner came across a patient who had lost
the sight of his right eye several years ago after he received a
blow on his forehead while transporting heavy steel articles. He
consulted leading doctors and neuro-surgeons who could
not do anything in his case.

STAR OF BETHLEHEM was prescribed for the trau­
matic injury and in a week's time he noticed considerable
improvemen in his vision.
(2) It is hard to believe that there can be a medicine for
children to make them study their lessons well
A friend of a
Bach Practitioner was casually mentioning to the latter that
his elder son was obtaining marks in single digits, in spite of
tuition by different teachers for each subject CHESTNUTBUD
is the Bach remedy for slow learning which was given three
times a day to the boy and he started getting good marks
It
does not increase one's IQ., but simply removes the inatten­
tion which causes slowness in learning.
(3) To break habits which are undesirable.
The Bach
Remedy WALNUT halps one to easily give up coffee, tobacco,
alcohol etc. to which one is addicted. If a child falls into
bad company he need not be punished to make him give up
the bad company Give him pills of WALNUT and he would
himself give up the undesirable bad company. Many people
could give up their smoking habits after taking a course of
WALNUT. Many alcoholics have been enabled to give up their
addiction.
(4) Some people express surprise to hear that laziness,
lack of self-confidence etc. can be cured by Bach Remedies.
There is the Bach Remedy SCLERANTHUS for those who are
lazy, who have the habit of postponing things til! the last
moment and are always late in getting up from their bed.
SCLERANTHUS makes the person alert, active, busy and
brisk. He does things promptly and punctually!

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WHITE CHESTNUT
Examples of cases in which this remedy is required:

(i)

cases of mental derangements in which the patient
talks to himself; or, he talks repeatedly on one
and the same subject;

(ii)

unwanted thoughts
sessing the mind;

(iii)

actions that have become undesirable mannerism
such as constant twitching the eyelids; jerking
the head in a particular direction;

(iv)

always counting one to hundred etc.

(v)

making plans involving calculations, that never
materialises; 'plan is good; performance poor'.

(vi)

excitement and consequent nervousness; trembling
after excitement; excessive joy;

(vii)

sees ghosts, figures; delusions, hallucinations, hears
voices;

repeating themselves and ob­

There is the remedy HONEYSUCKLE by taking which
one is enabled to do things in such a way that he
won't lose any chance or miss any golden opportunities;
he will do things in such a way or utilise opportunities
when they come, in such a manner that whatever he
has accomplished will only mean happiness and satisfaction.
"A drug?” Some may have a defence against using
"drugs” for attaining happiness;
" Is it not artificially
induced” others may doubt or hesitate. But HONEYSUCKLE
is not a remedy manufactured by any peculiar process
by mixing various drastic chemicals in the laboratory; it
is simply one of the wild flowers called Lonicera caprifolium.
So, the reader will understand that HONEYSUCKLE is not a
'remedy' or 'drug' in the true sense of the term but merely the
flower is collected during flowering season, than floated in
water and exposed to sunlight for a few hours. After this.
the petals are lifted and thrown away and the water is then
collected in bottles.
(For convenience of carrying and
administering, sugar coated pills or globules are saturated with
the flower extracts.)

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Flower remedies are good teachers too. They never
misguide you even inadvertently because they have no
me conceived notions. They tell you what is best suited
For YOU-be it food, idea, thinking, goal in hfe taking
a decision during a crisis, to remove sufferings of the mind
and body.

For example, let us take the food. ONE MAN'S MEAT
IS ANOTHER MAN’S POISON. It is not the quantity of
food that matters so much, than the quality or particular
kind. E. g„ a small amount of potato causes flatulence and
ondigestion in one person whereas in another any amount
if it does not do him any harm. "How to know what
kind of food would suit me?" "Should I go to a food
therapist or dietician. No, not necessary. There is the
Bach Remedy WALNUT (sugar-coated pills simply saturated
with minute quantity of the extracts of the wild flower'
Juglans Regia)
Let us now examine what happens when one
taking WALNUT for a few days.

starts

One does certain things by sheer force of habit. E.g.,
bathing, smoking, taking more quantity of a particular item
of food than of others, e.g., drinking tea, coffee etc. If
WALNUT is taken, only those habits which are good for
him are continued; the ones that are not good or are
harmful to his health (but have been continued all along
merely because of habit) will automatically be given up by
him A patient was given WALNUT for breaking his coffee
habit. He started taking tea which never harmed him in
the past as he himself disclosed; " Several years ago I used
to take tea while living in North India and it never did
any harm to me. After returning to South, because probably
of coffee habit here, I had been taking it which did not
suit me but 1 had been taking it because of sheer habit.
Now, after taking your remedy, I have switched over to
tea and so no more trouble with the after-effects of coffee."

One man s meat is another man's poison " says a
proverb. A dietician may inadvertently tell you the unsui­
table diet But flower remedies are not; that is why we
say that flower remedies are regulators of the living human

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mechanism; they are LIFE. Bach remedies when taken
enables the particular individual to know whether tea is
suitable for him, but rejects the same beverage in the
case of another individual for whom it is not good.

Be it a major program or a minor event; flower
remedies can help any one and under any circumstances.
A pedestrtan was knocked down fatally by a speedirg
motorcar and he fell down unconsciously. A Bach practitioner
passing by put a few pills or the RESCUE REMEDY in the
mouth of the injured person and he latter got up and walked
away as if nothing has happened. What would otherwise
mean hospitalisation, prolonged medical treatment etc. was
cured by a single dose of the flower remedy. By shock
or fatal injury Nature never meant the human beings to
suffer by long hospitalisation, expenses etc
Nature's
ways are PERFECT). During travel in one's own vehicle, or
train or even air travel, a bottle of Rescue Remedy in one's pocket
is a valuable help in case of emergencies.
CRAB APPLE for physical fitness: A short person much
concerned about his height and desirous of increasing it or an
obese person needing to become lean or one feeling awkward
with his large belly, all can be benefited by taking CRAB
APPLE. It can increase the height of short persons. It acts
on the mind of the person to get the desired size of his body
To remove pimples on their face, young ladies can use this
remedy.

It also improves the 'complexion'. In short it removes all
unwanted things in the body—gray hair, baldness, loss of
hair; in fact all things that make a person feel himself to be
ugly or makes it uncomfortable to live with.
There are medicines in this system of Bach Remedies for
lack of self-confidence, inferiority-complex (Larch), changeable
mood (Scleranthus), anger, irritability (Cherry Plum), vexation
(Willow), superiority-complex (Vine) change of life-teething,
puberty, adolescence, menopause (’Z/afnuti, lack of creative
power or ideas (White Chestnut), difficult concentration,
indifference to iife, aversion to family members, to people
(Willow) etc.
Children who are always obstinate, wanting to be with
the mother always, or wanting to be carried, sulky, weeping
all can be cured by Remedies in this Bach system. Many
persons suspected to be possessed by the so-called witchcrafts.
evil spirits, black magic etc. were relieved a great deal after
being treated with Bach Remedies.

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VINE for dominating mentality. At a wedding, the bride's
father had not been able to provide his daughter with the
twenty-six sovereigns of gold jewellery which he had
promised. He had managed to provide seventeen sovereigns
only. On finding this, the boy's father in a threatening tone
said to his would-be in-laws; "Look here, if you do not
produce the remaining eight sovereigns immediately, the
function will stop. Whom do you take me for?”

A Bach Practitioner was present at the scene and he
knew the genuine difficulties of the girl's father in providing
the promised twenty-five soverigns immediately. He intervened
and succeeded in calming down the bridegroom's father
saying that the remaining eight sovereigns worth of jewels
would be arranged in an hour. In the mean time, he took
a glass of soft drink (in which he had =?cretly dissolved a few
pills of VINE remedy) and persuaded the gentleman to
drink it.
Within minutes of drinking it, his domineering attitude
slowly disappeared because VINE is for haughtiness, domina­
tion etc. Five minutes after this, the boy’s father came
to the bride's father and started telling in a polite tone;
"Please don't worry. After all it is a small matter. Let the
function go on. You take your own time to maxe up the defi­
ciency, or as much of it as you can, without too much trouble”

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