What Is Homeopathy? WHICH YOU NEED TO KNOW

In this article you will know What Is Homeopathy? and more detail about HOMEOPATHIC MEDICINE. 

What Is Homeopathy?

Medicine is the art and science of collecting,combining, compounding, preparing, preserving and  standardising  drugs  and  medicines  from natural  and  synthetic  sources.  It  also  include dispensing medicines.In  ‘A  Compound  of  the  Principles  of Homeopathy’ by Dr. W.M. Boericke, pharmacyis,  ‘The  art  of  preparing  drugs  for  use,  and dispensing them as medicines’.The word ‘pharmacy’ also implies the place where medicines are made and distributed.

HOMEOPATHIC MEDICINE

It  is  an  art  and  science  of  collecting,compounding, combining, preparing, preserving and  standardising  drugs  and  medicines  from vegetable, animal, mineral kingdoms and certain physiological substances and morbid substances,according to homeopathic principles (as given in  the  Organon  of  Medicine,  Materia  Medica Pura and Chronic Diseases), and also dispensing medicines according to the prescriptions of the homeopathic  physicians.

Genius of Homeopathic Pharmacy

•The  theory  of  dynamisation  is  the  basis  of homeopathic pharmacy.

•Preparing homoeopathic medicines is simple and  easy,  there  being  only  two  methods trituration and succussion

•Homoeopathic pharmacy preserves as far aspossible the healing powers of a drug.

•It has a philosophical background.

•It  treats  the  patient  as  a  whole  and  not  the disease  alone.  According  to  Hahnemann,“There  is  no  disease  but  sick  people”.Homeopathy  is  based  on  the  holistic  andindividualistic approach of disease.

•Homeopathic  pharmacy  is  a  specialised system of therapeutical art and science, with a   particular   mode   of   preparation,administration and modus operandi.

Homoeopathic Pharmacy Includes

•Collection: Gathering  or  procuring  therequired drug substances.

•Identification:Ascertaining the genuinenessand purity of the drug substance. It is doneby  macroscopical,  microscopical  andchemical studies.

•Qualitative  Analysis:  The  process  ofascertaining  the  presence  or  absence  ofcertain  substances  in  a  sample;  whatimpurities  are  present  or  confirming  theabsence of certain impurities, etc.

•Quantitative  Analysis:  Having  ascertainedthe  nature  of  the  constituents  of  a  givensample,  the  process  of  determining  howmuch  of  each  component,  or  of  specifiedcomponents,  is  present  is  quantitativeanalysis.

•Preserving: Drug substances have to be keptfrom destruction of their medicinal powers.

•Standardising: Medicines  prepared  should conform  to  the  official  homeopathic pharmacopoeia or any other authoritative textso  as  to  maintain  a  uniformity  in  thepreparation of medicines.

•Combining: Act  of  uniting  two  or  more substances   physically   (mixtures)   or chemically (compounds).

•Compounding: Act  of  uniting  two  or  moreelements  in  fixed  proportion  to  form  analtogether  new  product.  This  new  productwill have properties different  from those ofconstituents.  Calcarea  sulph.,  Magnesiummur., Natrium ars., etc. are all compounds.

Note: Combining and compounding is advocated  priorto potentization and proving. Law of simplex isconcerned  with  drug  proving  and  drugadministration in sick.

•Quality Control During Preparation: Mothertincture, mother solution, mother substanceand  their  potencies  are  prepared  accordingto the old method (Hahnemann’s method) andthe     new     method     (Homeopathic Pharmacopoeia of U.S.A.)

•Quality  Control:  It  is  to  ensure  that  drug substances  and  other  preparations  containessential compounds within a pre-determine dranage of composition and the impurities do not exceed certain specified limits.

•Dispensing: It means preparing and serving the medicinal  preparation as per the directionof a physician.

Uses of Studying Homeopathic Pharmacy

•Studying  pharmacy  provides  us  with  the knowledge of preparing the mother tincture and its dilutions.

•Knowledge of pharmacy helps us in selecting the  right  dosage  to  be  prescribed  to  the patient.

•Helps in writing a prescription.

.•Knowledge of drugs for external application.

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