I have seen doctors saying to their patients that your disease is a complex disease and I need to select a constitutional remedy for you.

My question to my honourable members is, what is the criteria to select a remedy on constitutional ground and for which diseases this method of prescription is recommended or applicable?

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Homeo Dr. Rasheed Khan,
M.A (Pol Sci), M.A (Islamiat), M.A (History), DHMS (4 years)
Registered Homeopath in NCH, Pakistan
Member of P.H.S, PHDA, HPCA & PHMA.

In general, a 'constitutional' remedy is a similimum that is selected on more than the first aid or current acute symtoms, i.e., a chronic case.

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Shirley Reischman

Can we select & find a remedy for both of these types cases? We can inherit some symptoms at birth & can also aquire some chronic(not acute) symptoms after birth. Both can be chronic cases/symptoms. Then, which are to be considered under chronic case/symptoms as you mentioned above?

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Homeopathic & Biochemic system existed because Drs.Hahnemann & Schuessler thought differently.
Successful people don't do different things, they do things differently..S.Kh.

You shouldn't mix the SXs of a first aid or true acute case with those of the chronic. First aid cases are pretty clear, but acutes less so. For instance, an allergic flare up is really a chronic, although the patient may consider it an acute; whereas a very virulent flu that has closed all the local schools should be treated as an acute. A cold that someone has and that is not 'going around' may be a mix.

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Shirley Reischman

So there is confusion in first deciding a case for constitution prescribing or simple prescribing?

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Hafeez
Forum Pk

SR, What will be the differance between a constitutional & simple treatment? Similimum is to be selected in both cases. Don't we mix acute,first aid & chronic symptoms for selecting a similimum based on simple/non-constitutional treatment?

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Homeopathic & Biochemic system existed because Drs.Hahnemann & Schuessler thought differently.
Successful people don't do different things, they do things differently..S.Kh.

shirley,

just a quick thanks for very concise, clarifying statements. i love it when something is easy to read ... and hard, but profitable, to think about.

bach

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"The need to perform adjustments for covariates...weakens the findings." BMJ Clinical Evidence: Mental Health, (No. 11), p. 95.... It's that simple, guys: bad numbers make bad science.

Kayvee,
Chronic treatment can be simple and acute treatment can be difficult, so I'm not sure what it is you want me to compare.
Yes.
No.

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Shirley Reischman

You says, we don't mix acute,first aid & chronic symptoms for selecting a similimum based on simple/non-constitutional treatment? Do you mean to say that any treatment which include/base chronic symptoms is a constitutional treatment & which don't include is a simple/non-constitutional treatment? Chronicity can be a aquired manifestation after birth OR a inherited manifestation by birth. Do we differanciate & consider these aquired or inherited manifestations seprately while considering a "constitutional treatment"?

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Homeopathic & Biochemic system existed because Drs.Hahnemann & Schuessler thought differently.
Successful people don't do different things, they do things differently..S.Kh.

IMO - inherited manifestation does not come under this category of constitution. It should be considered seperately.

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Homeo Dr. Rasheed Khan,
M.A (Pol Sci), M.A (Islamiat), M.A (History), DHMS (4 years)
Registered Homeopath in NCH, Pakistan
Member of P.H.S, PHDA, HPCA & PHMA.