Homoeopathy : The True Science of Health
Contents: Preface. Introduction: Hahnemann and his contribution. 1. Basic concepts. 2. How to prepare homoeopathic medicines and from what. 3. Drug proving. 4. Materia medica in practice. 5. How to select a homoeopathic remedy: treatment of the patient. 6. Homoeopathy: a scientific system. 7. Vital force and the person in health and disease: dynamic origin of person and remedy. 8. Environment, person and homoeopathy. 9. Susceptibility, idiosyncrasy: the dynamic influence on Miasms. 10. Making of symptoms. 11. Disease classification. 12. Miasms: nature’s true chronic diseases. 13. Nature’s true chronic disease: Psora (Miasm). 14. Nature’s true chronic disease: Syphilis (Miasm). 15. Nature’s true chronic disease: Sycosis (Miasm). 16. Nature’s true chronic disease: Pseudo-Psora (Tubercular Miasm). 17. Psora and Sycosis (combined). 18. Syphilis and Sycosis (combined). 19. Psora, Syphilis and Sycosis (combined). 20. Emergencies or acute exacerbations of chronic diseases. 21. Looking back: homoeopathic practice for restoring the sick to health. 22. Case taking: a fresh look. 23. The sick as a whole or in parts. 24. Analysis and evaluation of symptoms for individualization. 25. Why individualization is necessary for prescribing a remedy. 26. Correspondence of organs and direction of cure. 27. Natural course of disease and cure. 28. The first and second prescription. 29. Drug dynamization, dose and potency. 30. The question of repetition of dose in homoeopathy. 31. How to observe and judge the effects of a prescribed remedy. 32. Treating AIDS, cancer, tuberculosis or the sick as a whole. 33. Totality, personalization and Miasm vs therapeutics. 34. Of suppression, symptoms and side effects. 35. Prevention of disease, immunization: its reality and facts. 36. Dropsy, epidemic dropsy and homoeopathy. 37. Homoeopathic view of emotions. 38. Homoeopathic view of genetic disorders, e.g. muscular dystrophy, etc. 39. Clinical cases. 40. Homoeopathy in cases of hypertension. 41. Case reports. 42. Diet, management and remedies. 43. What homoeopathy can offer to the world. 44. Perils of imported authorities. 45. What ails homoeopathy. Select bibliography. Index (clinical cases).
"Homoeopathy today, by and large, is practised as allopathy. An average practitioner first gets a patient diagnosed allopathically via the route of tests, etc., and then prescribes medicines on the basis of the name of the ailment. (Tests, however, may be used to find the pathological condition of the sick.) This is partly because of the aggressive propaganda extolling the usefulness and benefits of ‘new instruments of science’ and partly as a shortcut method. Homoeopathy is essentially an individualised treatment. It, therefore, never makes use of, nor seeks specifics for, disease. Patent medicines or combinations have no place in a system based on ‘single remedy and minimum dose’.
The present work is an attempt to put homoeopathy in its proper perspective. It covers a wide area from explaining the principles of the law of cure, ‘Similia Similibus Curentur’, to the methods of drug preparation, proving, selection of a remedy and management of the sick and the disease. The three basic miasmas, their combinations, the necessity and the importance of individualisation are treated in great detail."
