What is Vehicles in homeopathy? USES OF VEHICLES

What is Vehicles in homeopathy

In this article you will know What is Vehicles in homeopathy? and also USES OF VEHICLES and many more important information.

             The term ‘vehicle’ implies, “Means of conveyance or transmission”. In homeopathy, vehicle is a substance, in which medicines are prepared or mixed and given for their internal ad-ministration either by oral route or by the olfaction method and for external application of medication. 

            These substances are therapeutically int as such but develop the therapeutic activity of the medicinal substance. 

            They are the medium for purification, preparation, preservation, internal  administration  and  external  application  of drug substances or medicines.

FORMS OF VEHICLES

There are three forms of vehicles:

1.    Solid.

2.    Liquid.

3.    Semi-solid.

AN IDEAL VEHICLE

1. It must not have any medicinal property of its own.

2. It  should  be  chemically  neutral;  neither acidic nor alkaline in medicinal effects. They must not undergo any change or decomposition.

3. The above two specific properties are more applicable  to  those  which  are  used  in potentised medicines.

4. It must be harmless regarding its action on human  organisms.  The  pharmacological medicinal action of the original drug should not be disturbed in any way

5. It should be capable of carrying the dynamic powers of drugs into the interior of the human organism to fight the disease force.

6. It should be edible and palatable.

7. It must preserve the drug substance.

8. It should have a sterilizing property.

USES OF VEHICLES

1. Vehicles  are  used  in  the  preparation  of mother  tinctures,  mother  solutions  andmother powders from crude drug materials,and without any vehicles these preparation could not be made.

2. It  is  used  for  further  triturations  and  in-creased potentisation from the mother preparation so that the pharmaceutical message is easily carried on and the therapeutic values are retained of the particular drug substances.

3. Used as bases for preparing external applications of medicines.

4. For  dispensing  medicines  or  remedies  ac-cording to the prescriptions of physicians.

5. Vehicles  like  olive  oil,  vaseline,  glycerine,etc.  are  themselves  applied  externally  as  a mechanical aid only.

6. As  a  preservant  of  certain  medicines,  ve-hicles  like  alcohol  are  mixed  in  a  certainpercentage with the freshly expressed juices of plants (Vide Organon of Medicine, Apho-rism 268, footnote).

7. Used as ‘Placebo’ or ‘Phytum’ in between the administration of two doses of medicines or remedies, especially in cases of chronic diseases and where long acting remedies areused. Dr. Kent holds, “Second best medicinein our materia medica in Placebo”, which is given to the patient to please.

8. Sick  babies  who  could  not  tolerate  fats,sugar of milk is given as a diet.

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