Relationship of remedies -A Homoeopathic Study

Abstract

Introduction: The subject of the relationship of remedies is one of the most fascinating in homoeopathy and many aspects of it have not been developed in the literature. Long before Hahnemann, Paracelsus wrote much on the doctrine of signatures and the old herbalists determined the uses of their remedies partly from those suggested signs. A vast amount of work on the relationship of remedies to each other, rather than to symptoms, has been done by various stalwarts like Boenninghausen, Hering, Clarke, Gibson Miller, Kent, Guernsey, and Lippe. Most of this work has been done after considering one main line that of Complementary remedies, in other words those remedies which carry on or complete most successfully the action of other given remedies. Need of Remedy Relationship: Materia Medica is a systemic collection of various numbers of symptoms and in order to study relationship of this chaos of Materia Medica it will be necessary to adopt some plan of study. This creates a need to study this topic from different angles. Evolution of The Concept: Boenninghausen was having a master piece mind of a lawyer. He had given more weight age on comparative values of remedies in relation to particular symptom groups, evolved through years of experience. Each remedy had some of the qualities of the attributes of every other remedy to some extent. It would hardly be possible to select two remedies so different from each other that they would not touch at some point. They were having some symptoms which were common and some were differentiating fetchers. Thus the whole concept of relationship of Remedy in the form of comparative study of Materia Medica was evolved. Conclusion: On the basis of the concept of stalwarts we may conclude that 1. The whole subject of remedy relationship has grown out of clinical experience so there is always some difference of opinion in the practical application of it. 2. In the practical application of this concept Boenninghausen stands supreme as an unfailing guide. 3.The study of Remedy relationship create the internal relationship of the massive data and facts collected in the form of Materia Medica and in this way it has provided an opportunity of study an isolated drug to the level of comparative Materia Medica.