CASE TAKING IN HOMOEOPATHY

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• CASE TAKING IN HOMOEOPATHY
• Dr. KENTS DIRECTIONS
• Art of interrogation differs but the collection
• of data is same In all patients
• Do not words in the mouth of the patient or
• Bias his expressions
• Not to hurry a patient
• Question the patient, question the relatives
• and observe for yourselves
• Say as little as you can and keep the patient
• do all the talking
• Keep him talking about his disease /
• symptoms alone, if he goes astray bring him
• back quietly without disturbing him

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• What the patient says
• What the people around him say about his symptoms
• his behavior and what they have observed
• After their statements have been recorded, the
• physician then notes his own observations
• Use his own wordings in the record
• Enquire about the origin, duration and progress
  of each symptom
• Ask co-lateral questions for getting location,
• extension, sensation, modalities and
  concomitants

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• Examination must be with due respect to the
  nature
• of sickness (For the disease diagnosis0
• Examination must be with due respect to the
• homoeopathic materia medica (For the remedy
  diagnosis)
• Symptoms are to be weighed Common /
  Characteristics / Generals
• What the state of patient resembles Expressions
• Well rounded case covers all these aspects
• Get the image of sickness on paper

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• Maintaining and exciting causes
• Fundamental cause
• Life and living of the patient
• The symptoms most covered up by the observation
• of the physician are often the things guiding
  to the
• remedy
• Guiding symptoms Trivial, obscure, least
  important
• in the eyes of the patient
• Patient pays least attention to lesser important
• symptoms which are the characteristics of the
  case

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• Use the key-notes to examine whether generals are
  
• also covered by the remedy
• Simple language of symptoms in the homoeopathic
• materia medica
• Any colouring by the patient or by the physician
  will
• result in failure
• Physician must put his patient at ease

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• Circumspection
• Tact
• Knowledge of human mind and heart
• Prudence
• Patience of immense degree
• Conversant with his science
• Man of honor
• Man who may be believed and respected as a candid
• man

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• To enable him to form the true and complete
• image of the disease in all its details

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• Acute and chronic symptoms must be separated
• Make acute prescription on the acute symptoms
  first
• Make the chronic prescription on the chronic
• symptoms next after the acute have subsided
• Sequelae of the acute diseases must be treated as
  
• chronic disease by the constitutional remedy
• Acute and chronic diseases do not form complex or
  
• compound diseases
• It is two chronic diseases that form a complex
• disease

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• Better the acute disease is treated lesser are
• the sequelae
• Do not prescribe the constitutional or anti
• miasmatic remedy to prevent sequelae as
• long as the acute phase is present

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• Have no remedy in mind when examining the patient
  
• except symptoms and signs present
• Have no diagnosis in mind when examining the
• patient except the signs and symptoms present
• Fit the remedy in the patient and not the patient
  in the
• remedy
• Treat the disease as a new and unknown and study
  it
• from its foundation upwards

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• Physician must have much knowledge of
• disease and
• Much knowledge of homoeopathic materia medica
• He must have much knowledge of signs and
• symptoms than the knowledge of pathology or
• nosology,
• He will learn easily about them if he has
• knowledge of signs and symptoms

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• Think of human race as an enormous leper (psoric)
• Add to it the state of syphilis A Bad matter
  worse
• Then add to it the state of sycosis and you have
• The grand picture of all the chronic diseases
  and the
• entire extent of human sickness