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    The key takeaways are that homoeopathic materia medica is constructed differently than other systems by proving drugs on healthy humans and collecting a large number of subjective symptoms. This allows it to treat diseases at the pre-nosological stage and combat new diseases.

    Homoeopathic materia medica has the advantages of drug provings on healthy humans of varied constitutions, a large number of collected symptoms, treatment at the pre-nosological stage, and recording of vast subjective symptoms. These make it possible to fully understand drug actions and find similar remedies.

    Symptoms are collected through drug provings, which involve administering substances to healthy volunteers and recording any changes in sensations, functions, and behaviors. This provides a picture of the medicinal agent's effects before disease develops.

    Scope and Limitations of

    Homoeopathic Materia Medica

    BY
    DR SABIR AHMED
    MD(HOM)-PART II
    [email protected]
    Homoeopathic materia medica is constructed
    differently as compared to other materia
    medicas. Homoeopathy considers the study of
    the action of drugs on individual parts or
    systems of the body or on animals or their
    isolated organs, only a partial study of life
    processes under such action and that it does not
    lead us to a full appreciation of the action of the
    medicinal agent.
    Essential and complete knowledge of the drug
    action as a whole can be supplied only by
    qualitative synoptic drug experiments on
    healthy persons and this alone make it possible
    to view all the scattered data in relation to
    psychosomatic whole of the person to whom the
    knowledge of drug action is to be applied. In
    this way the homoeopathic materia medica
    provides a great scope in the field of medicine.
    Scope Homoeopathic Materia Medica
    1. DRUG PROVING ON HEALTHY HUMAN BEINGS:

    The homoeopathic materia medica has been built up by


    the symptoms which are collected by proving the drug
    on healthy human beings of both sexes, different ages
    and various constitutions. These recordings of drug
    proving form the only reliable knowledge of medicine
    which are very essential to treat disease
    homoeopathically.
    This method of proving is not found in other systems of
    treatment. Hence the homoeopathic materia medica has
    an upper hand in this aspect.
    2. LARGE NUMBER OF SYMPTOMS:

    There are large number of drugs in homoeopathic


    materia medica. Each drug has a large number of
    symptoms. Our homoeopathic materia medica contains
    thousands of symptoms. Hence in any disease, it is
    possible to find a similimum without much difficulty.
    3.TREATMENT AT THE PRE-NOSOLOGICAL STATE:

    In drug proving, the medicine is withdrawn before it


    starts producing any organic change. The altered state
    of normal sensations and functions is purely functional
    because we get a picture of a pre-nosological state.
    Hence with the help of homoeopathic materia medica,
    we can treat diseases even before any pathological
    changes take place or before diagnosis is made.
    4. VAST NUMBER OF SUBJECTIVE SYMPTOMS:

    The subjective symptoms are recorded in great detail.


    The homoeopathic materia medica is the only materia
    medica amongst all the pathies which has the largest
    number of subjective symptoms. They are collected by
    providing the drug on healthy human beings.
    5. IT COVERS SUFFICIENT NUMBERS OF SIGNS &
    SYMPTOMS TO FACE THE CHALLENGE OF NEW DISEASES:

    As soon as a new disease is discovered, the allopathic


    physicians go after the research work to find the suitable
    medicine. In this process a valuable time is lost, during
    which the disease spreads to other individual or parts of
    the body. But this is not problem with homoeopathy.
    Homoeopathic materia medica covers innumerable signs
    and symptoms to combat any variety of diseases. There is
    no need to search for a new remedy everytime we are
    exposed to a new disease.
    E.g.: AIDS and Hepatitis
    REFERENCES

    2.SCHOLAR’S MANUAL OF HOMOEOPATHIC MATERIA MEDICA


    BY
    DR. AZAD RAI

    2. GEMS OF HOMOEOPATHIC MATERIA MEDICA


    BY
    DR. J.D.PATIL

    3. TEXT BOOK OF HOMOEOPATHIC MATERIA MEDICA


    BY
    PROF. DR. NIRANJAN MOHANTY

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