Presentation of Vedic Literature First-Aid Specifics of Homoeopathic & Biochemic Treatment

Some homoeopaths will question the advisability of writing a book on Specifics in Homoeopathy. Homoeopathy does not believe in specifics. It believes in symptomatic treatment, and as any remedy may be administered in any disease, provided the symptoms of the disease and the proved symptoms of the remedy correspond, hence there could be no specific remedy for any disease. Dr. Kent has said that whichever remedy covers the symptoms of the patient at the bedside, that alone is the specific at that time of that patient only. That is the philosophy of conservative homoeopaths who strictly follow the teachings of Dr. Hahnemann and of Kent. 1 Hence, the method of homoeopathic treatment as taught by the masters and advocated by teachers of homoeopathy is to centralise, organise, systematise and repertorise the symptoms and to evaluate them to find out the correct remedy. This is called going by ‘Totality of symptoms’. A technique has been evolved to find out the correct remedy through grouping together the total symptoms by Boenninghausen, a contemporay of Hahnemann. He said that the symptoms should be classified in four categories: Locality, Sensations, Conditions of Aggravation and Amelioration and Concomitant symptoms, for arriving at ‘Totality of symptoms’. This technique has been further developed by giving (1) Priority to Mental symptoms, after that (2) General Symptoms, (3) Particulars, (4) Modalities, (5) Conditions, (6) Concomitants, (7) Periodicity of Symptoms as to hour, day, week, month, season, etc. The overall credit in prescribing goes to (8) Characteristics, i.e., the rare, strange, unique, peculiar, unusual, unexpected symptoms.