50 Millesimal Potency in Theory and Practice

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CHOUDHURY H., 50 Millesimal Potency in Theory and

Practice (cdh2)
CHOUDHURY Harimohon
Theory and practice
What is organon
Hahnemann's Organon of Medicine is the book on which stands the edifice of the science and art of medicine which
explains the fundamentals by why and what' of Homoeopathy, which clearly defines a true physician with this duties
and responsibilities as a rational healer of the sick and preserver of health, who can free the ailing humanity from
diseases and, above all, gives clear hints to create a progressive, happy, prosperous and exploitation-free human race
providing it with a bright joyful life in thoroughly excellent health.
Editions of the organon

The foundation of science is based on observation and experimentation. It proceeds on the road to perfection trough
its application. That is why no scientist can claim perfection with his new discoveries right then. It is also a fact in
respect of the Organon on which stands the basis of the art and science of developing and application of Medicine,
specially of Homoeopathy.
The first edition of the Organon came out in 1810. To make it more perfect subsequent editions (i.e. the second, the
third, the fourth and fifth) came to light in 1818, 1824, 1829 and 1833 in succession. All the additions and
alterations in each edition were made by Hahnemann on the basis of his experiences derived from continued
observation, experimentation and application.
Fifth edition of the organon is beset with multifarious problems

Hahnemann had to face various problems when he started practice with medicines prepared according to centesimal
scale of potency as laid down in the Organon, fifth edition, Because the conditions of 'Ideal of Cure' as per aphorism
- 2 of the Organon could not be materialised with that potency, Dr. Hahnemann had to ponder over the mater for its
betterment.
The main difficulties are :
(i) Gentle and rapid cure is not at all possible by it or it takes a long time.
(ii) The undesirable medicinal aggravation comes even after the well selected medicine is administered.
(iii) Even a dose of high potency continues to act for a long time.
(iv) Repetition of doses is not possible even if there are remnants of symptoms of disease, in consequence of which the
patient suffers for a long time.
(v) The problems of administration of doses and potencies still create controversy and confusion.
The need for the revision of the whole subject arises in order to overcome the
above difficulties.
Although many of us are still satisfied with the fifth edition of the Organon even after 146 years of finishing the
manuscript of the sixth edition, the great scientist and lover of mankind Dr. Hahnemann was not. He devoted himself
to the laborious task of further observation even at the old age of eighty.
He worked hard for 5 years from 1838 to 1842 and complete the arduous task of revision, specially of the preparation
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and administration of medicine, and on the eve of his death on 2 July, 1843, he has given us "...new, altered but
perfected method", in the sixth edition of the Organon.
Copyright 2000, Archibel S.A.
The mode of preparation of medicine, its dynamization and application are novel. Hahnemann called it "the perfected
method", "the new dynamization method"; Herein lies the qualitative superiority of sixth over the fifth edition.
Name and sign of new method

Potencies, i.e. , Dilutions of this method go by different names and abbreviations, such as - Millesimal scale, 50
Millesimal scale, New potency, Newest potency, etc.
In the Western world it is designated as 1/0, 2/0, etc., in India and Bangladesh as 0/1, 0/2 and M/1, M/2, etc.
Hahnemann used to write it as 0/1 0/2. It would be more scientific and logical if we write LM/1, LM/2, LM/3, etc.
since 'L' stands for 50 and 'M' for Millesimal.
Evolution in homoeopathy
Evolution or gradual development is the characteristic of nature. It is so with science, Homoeopathy, being a medical
science, its development also has been and is being gradual and the credit goes to its founder, Dr. Hahnemann.
The discovery of a new finding negates that of the old. This is the case with the Organon on the basis of his new
findings. In this process his fifth edition of the Organon has been replaced by the new (sixth) edition.
Elevation of the fifth edition

But many of our physicians, willingly or unwillingly, or to avoid pecuniary loss, or merely due to prejudice have not yet
accepted "the new, altered but perfected method" although Dr. Hahnemann had discarded many of his formulations
of the fifth edition including centesimal scale of potencies (Footnote to Aph. 246 and 270). He solved the problems
cropped up in Homoeopathic science upto the time of publication of the fifth edition with his newer formulations
which were incorporated in the sixth edition of the Organon. He emphasised in this connection that, "...all these
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difficulties are wholly solved by my new, altered but perfected method". (Footnote No. 132, Organon, 6 edition).
Indifferent attitude of many physicians towards the sixth edition of the Organon defies all sense.
New concept for the new generation

We are to march forward to the truth inspite of the antagonistic attitudes of a section of the followers of the fifth
edition towards the sixth. We should never forget that in Homoeopathy Dr. Hahnemann is till the sole authority.
Dr. Kent said about him. "Let all men learn from him until they can do as he did, for he was, and still he is, the teacher
above all others".
So, as the fourth edition was not in used after introduction of the fifth, the same should have happened with the fifth
after the appearance of the sixth edition. Consequently the scale of potency, mode of administration of medicine
and mode of observation of patients should have been changed and modified advises of Dr. Hahnemann in this regard
incorporated in the sixth edition should have been followed.
Developed system should be hailed

When we have an improved system based on reason, whose methods of application have been scientifically
experimented and proved to be more effective, we should not stick to the old.
Prejudice and conservation are reactionary trends and retard evolutionary process. Physicians with rational outlook
should welcome the Master's latest innovations and findings which he claims to be nearly perfect and which have
been proved and effective through practical applications.
Reasons of delay in publication of the sixth edition

Previously it has been mentioned that from 1838 to 1842 Hahnemann was engaged in revising an recasting, experiment
and counter-experiment of his new findings in the sixth edition in all its aspects and finally completed the
manuscript in 1842. In a letter dated 20-2-1842 to Mr. Schaub, in Dusseldorf, his publisher, Hahnemann wrote, "I
have now, after eighteen months of work, finished the sixth edition of my Organon, the most nearly perfect of all".
We are sorry to state that inspite of his utmost desire, he could not publish it because of the bungling of his
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German publisher. Next year on July 2 (1843) the world lost Dr. Hahnemann and the great advancement in
Homoeopathy remained unpublished. The manuscript remained in possession of his second wife Madam Malanie. It
could not see the light of the day in her life-time because of her unexpected greed for money.
Hahnemann's close friend and relative, Dr. Boenninghausen and many other French, British and American friends and
admirers spared no pains for its publication. But all were in vain because of non-availability of the manuscript. At last
Dr. Haehl managed to procure the same and published it in original only in 1920 and Dr. W. Boericke published its
English version in 1921.
In 1920-21, though this last edition of the Organon saw the light of the day, its novel aspects, peculiarities and
specialities remained in the dark and beyond the knowledge of mankind. Even though one of its translators, Dr.
Boericke, published it, yet his world famous medical firm 'Boericke and Tafel' has not, even upto this day, prepared
medicines according to this new method. But unfortunately, like many others, that firm has taken the lead in the
preparation and selling of Alfalfa Tonic, Brain Tonic, Nerve Tonic and many other pseudo-violation of the
fundamental principles of Homoeopathy.
At last, in April, 1950 issue of The British Homoeopathic Journal, dr. Charles Pahud of Lozen, France drew the
attention of the world Homoeopathic physicians to the sixth edition of the Organon in his article, 'My Experience
About Hahnemann's 50 Millesimal Scale Potency'. Again from 1954 to 1956 Dr. Pierre Schmidt published his valuable
essays and other speeches about the new method of the Organon, sixth edition in The British Homoeopathic
Journal, The Journal of the American Institute of Homoeopathy and such other journals. In this way these two
learned and world famous Homoeopaths opened the door of the hidden treasure of the last edition of the Organon
for which we are very grateful to them.
Introduction of this system in india and bangladesh

Since 1957 our respected co-researchers, Dr. Debendra Kumar Roy, Dr. Khagendra Nath Bose and Dr. Bejoy Kumar Bose
started discussion on this new system in the Bengali Monthly Hahnemann and Hahnemann Publishing Co. (Private)
Ltd., prepared some medicines in pursuance of the 50 Millesimal scale of Potency. So India becomes the pioneer in
this respect.
Then since 1958 in Bangladesh (the then East Pakistan) venerable dr. Chandipada Chakraborty also started experiments
with this new method and wrote many articles in many Homoeo Journals. Dr. Chakrabarty is the introducer of this
system in Bangladesh. It is because of his labour and zeal that Bangladesh has won the second place in the world in
giving the shape to this new method. Lastly, Cosmopolitan Homoeo Laboratory and stores of Chittagong, started
preparation and distribution of medicines of new scale commercially since 1962.
Special features of 50 millesimal scale of potencies

It has already been mentioned that Homoeopathy was overburdened with problems upto the fifth edition of the
Organon, i.e. , upto centesimal scale of potencies. Imperfection is the problem and perfection (as far as practicable)
is the solution. The science and art of Homoeopathy, according to Hahnemann, was incomplete upto the Organon,
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fifth edition and has become almost complete in the sixth edition. In the preface of the Organon, 5 edition,
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Hahnemann stated that Homoeopathy was "so near to perfection". But about the 6 edition he wrote to his
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publisher that in comparison with the previous ones it was 'the most nearly perfect of all". Sot the 5 edition was
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near to perfection but not quite perfect, whereas the 6 edition is the most complete of all upto the time of
Hahnemann.
I cannot resist my eagerness to bring home to the readers another remark of Hahnemann regarding the rejection of
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the 5 edition with its centesimal scale. Hahnemann said, "What I said in the fifth edition of the Organon, in a long
note to this paragraph in order to prevent these undesirable reactions of the vital energy, was all that the
experience I then had justified. But during the last four or five years, however, all these difficulties are wholly
solved by my new, altered but perfected method". 1
From this statement of the Master we can easily understand that centesimal scale of potency brings undesirable
reactions of the vital energy, but it is wholly solved by the new method. Now the medicine does not assail the
patient but "touches all suffering parts curatively". 2
Medicinal aggravations which are the common features of the centesimal scale no longer exist in the new method. "Such
increase of the original symptoms of chronic disease can appear only at the end of the treatment when the cure is
almost or quite finished". 3 So, the question of "...furious, even dangerous, violence" 4 of centesimal scale does not
arise in 50 millesimal scale.

In comparison with the medicine of centesimal scale, this new method "produces medicines of highest development of
power and mildest action". 5
To cure a patient with the medicine of centesimal scale would take longer time. We find, if we discuss the different
types of cases records of patients by many leading homoeopaths, including Dr. Kent, that they would sometimes have
to take 2 to 6 years' time to bring some patient round. So abnormally long period in healing is one of the grave
defects of the old method.
But, on the other hand, new dynamization method diminished this period to "one half, one-quarter and even still less, no
that a much more rapid cure might be obtained". 6
During the action of one dose of medicine of centesimal scale, the second dose cold not be repeated inspite of the
presence of disease symptoms in the organism. But, "the same carefully selected medicine may now be given daily
and for months, if necessary in this way, namely, after the lower degree of potency has been used for one or two
weeks in the treatment of chronic diseases, advance is made in the same way to higher degrees". 7 Hahnemann
further states, "...every correctly chosen homoeopathic medicine, even those whose action is of long duration, may
be repeated daily for months with ever increasing success". 8
After application of the medicine of centesimal scale, both the physician and the patient cannot remain apart from the
influence of medicine, both of them are arrested in the hands of medicinal force. But in respect of new method both
are free. Medicines can be used as and when necessary. In case of 50 Millesimal, anti-doting of any remedy is seldom
required.
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Above al, the problem, of potency and dose are greatly debatable up to the 5 edition. But the sixth edition paves the
way for solution. "In the treatment of chronic diseases, it is best to begin with the lowest degrees of dynamization
and when necessary, advance to higher, ever more powerful but mildly acting degrees". 9
Thus we can see that the conditions of "highest ideal of cure" as laid down in Aphorism 2 of the Organon have been well
accomplished in the Organon, sixth edition only. For this reason I should like to say - As Homoeopathy is a revolution
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in the field of medicine, so is the Organon, 6 Edition in Homoeopathy.
Preparation of 50 millesimal scale

The mode of preparation according to the new method has not yet found any place in any Homoeopathy Pharmacopoeia.
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We think that the actual cause of it is to try to discredit tactfully the 6 edition of the Organon also the new and
improved method. We have nothing to bother for that, because Hahnemann himself clearly enunciated about the
mode of preparation in the Aphorisms 270-271 and their footnotes (NO. 150 to 157) of the Organon.
Incidentally, it is also to be noted that there is no conformity between the ode of preparation of centesimal and 50
Millesimal scale of potencies. The new one is absolutely new and different.
The mode of preparation is given below in brief since the details can be had from the Organon (sixth) itself :
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We should prepare three successive triturations (i.e. 1 , 2 and 3 trituration) from the original substance (or
mother substance) The ratio of each will be 1:100.
Take one rain from 1 rd trituration and dissolve it (by necessary shaking) in 500 drops of a solution having 100 drops of
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alcohol and 400 drops of distilled water. This is the 4 stratum. We call this stage. The mother Potency of the New
Method. The ratio is 1:500.
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One drop from this 4 stage is to be mixed with 100 drops of alcohol. This is to be succussed 100 times. This is the
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1 potency (or M/1 or 0/1 or 0/1 or LM/1, etc.) of the new method. Proportion is 1:50.000
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With one drop of this 1 potency (i.e. LM/1) 500 globules (of which 100 weigh one grain, i.e. , No. 10 globules) are to
be soaked. Then put one such medicated globule in a one drachm vial and put in it one drop of distilled water for its
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dissolution. Then put 100 drops of alcohol in the vial and success it 100 times. This is the 2 Potency (i.e. LM/2) of
the new method. The ratio of it s 1:50.000 or more.
In this way the dilution may be raised from LM/3 to LM/30 or as needed.
In this new process of potentisation or dynamization ('succussed dilution' may be the correct term) six steps are to be
crossed from original substance (or mother substance) to LM/2.
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1 : Original substance - 1 drop (1 grain) + 100 grains of sugar of milk + 1 hour trituration by grinding, pounding,
scrapping etc.
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This is 1 trituration = 1/100.
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2 : 1 trituration 1 gr. + 100 gr. sugar of milk + 1 hour trituration = 2 trituration.
= 1/100 X 1/100 = 1/10.000
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3 : 2 trituration 1 gr. + 100 gr. sugar of milk + 1 hour trituration = 3 trituration.
= 1/10.000 X 1/00 = 1/10.00.000
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4 : 3 trituration 1 gr. + 500 drops of the solution (100 drops alcohol and 400 drops distilled water).
= 1/10.00.000 X 1/500 = 1/50.00.00.000
we call it mother power of new potency.
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5 : 1 drop of the 4 solution + 100 drops of alcohol + 100 succussions = LM/1. the 1 potency.
= 1/50.00.00.000 X 1/100 = 1/50.00.00.00. 000
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6 : One No. 10 globule soaked with LM/1 + 1 drop of distilled water + 100 drops of alcohol + 100 succussions = 2
potency.
or LM/2 = 1/50.00.00.00.000 X 1/50.000 = 1/2. 50.00.00.00.00.00.000
In this way, LM/3 onwards will have to be prepared and potentized.
In the centesimal scale the proportion of medicine and the vehicle is 1:99 in the first potency and in the new method it
is 1:50.00.00.00.000 in the first potency (i.e. , in LM/1). The material part of medicinal substance has been more
decreased in the new method but grinding, pounding and succussions, etc., have been much more increased. As a
result the latent and indwelling essence of material substance develops to its fullest extent and also the qualitative
change reaches its highest form. In short, we may confirm that this new method of the Organon, latest edition,
goes through much more contradiction in long 3 hours trituration and 100 succussions in each stage and so gains
much qualitative change which was not possible in the old centesimal scale of potency. When a matter (e.g. medicinal
substance) comes into unity and contradiction with its opposite matter (e.g. vehicle), it creates a new thing, it
transforms into a wholly new matter (unity contradiction of opposites) and it changes qualitatively (qualitative
change). These are the fundamental principles of Dialectical Materialism. This qualitative change may further be
confirmed if we take into account the 'Law of Reaction' which states. "To every action there is equal and opposite
reaction". In this new method, every time the medicine goes through 100 times of succussions which impart kinetic
energy to the molecules of the drug and vehicle resulting in its qualitative change. This is why medicines according to
50 millesimal scale are much more dynamic and in action also much more gentle, curative and rapid than those of the
old centesimal scale.
We earnestly hope this discussion will remove all doubts and misapprehensions from the minds of our colleagues. But to
our great misfortune, we still stick to the medicines of centesimal scale. We do not care to keep ourselves informed
of this scientific and more improved invention of Master Hahnemann. We also do not care to put it into practice
though we might be aware of it. Is it not our negligence towards suffering humanity?
Is it only so? Even today many of us unscrupulously use patents, ointments, tonics and other pseudo-homoeopathic drugs
manufactured by many so-called Homoeo Laboratories. Still now many of our colleagues have been using mixed
medicines, mother tinctures, medicines of decimal scale, etc., in the name of great Homoeopathy. Some of our
brothers prescribing 2 to 6 potentized homoeopathic medicines serially within a day. These are what is going in the
name of Homoeopathy. It would not be out of place to mention here that Hahnemann called these sorts of
Homoeopaths a mongrel sect' and did not hesitate even to curse them in anger and sorrow. 10
Crude matter cannot unfold its properties. They remain latent. But the more it is broken and divided, the more it will
be brought into contradiction with things of opposite nature, the more it will release its properties and it will be all
the more dynamic and active.
Hahnemann has given similar explanation about the potentisation of medicines in his 'perfected method'. "It becomes
uncommonly evident that the material part by means of such dynamization (development of its true, inner medicinal
essence) will ultimately dissolve into its individual sprit-like (conceptual) essence. In its crude state, therefore, it
may be considered to consist really only of this undeveloped conceptual essence". 11
In our humble opinion, those who cannot accept this scientific truth, have no right to be Homoeopathic physicians to
play as they like with human life and health. So, with a view to understanding this mode of dynamization of
Homoeopathy we must be aware, to some extent, of modern science and dialectical materialism.
Negligence is a crime. Due to that, many a time we do not realize that we are misusing the medicine and by that we are
doing great harm to ourselves, to sick humanity and to our noble science. Electricity is a great weapon of human
development, but its misuse can play havoc to the millions of people and to our civilization. Hence, potentized
medicines should be used properly, so that we may fulfil our mission and reach our destination easily.
Mode of administration of medicine of 50 millesimal scale

Hahnemann is the authority
From the discussion above, we could realize that Hahnemann, the father of Homoeopathy, had struggled hard,
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throughout his life, to make it perfect. The 6 edition was in the press in 1843 wen he was in throes of death. Dr.
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Boenninghausen has remarked (in his Lesser Writings) that the 6 edition was not only improved and more
complete, but its printing was started in his life-time when he was living in Paris. But owing to his sudden death, his
wife took the materials along with the so far printed manuscript away from the press and the publication of the
same was held up.
We understand that no scientific theory or fact becomes complete as and when it comes to light. It requires laborious
researches and experiments to establish the theory. Hahnemann, a life-long fighter and great scientist, had
completed it as far as possible by prolonged experiments. Thus he handed over to us an almost perfected scientific
theory, so far as Homoeopathy is concerned, in the sixth edition of the Organon. To give an almost complete shape
to a science in the span of one's life is a rare phenomenon is human history. But Hahnemann, by virtue of his
erudition, is the singular example in the field of knowledge. That is why he could boldly say before his expiry. "I did
not live in vain".
Unworthy successors
It is our bounden duty, as his followers, to keep intact his fundamental principles and to pave the way for the all round
advancement of Homoeopathy at par with modern science. That would be acceptable to all concerned also. As ill luck
would have it, we failed to do so for more than a century and a half. Even upto this day we could not accept his latest
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and final scientific contributions in the Organon, 6 edition and realize them in practice still now. We adhere to the
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principles of the 5 edition and use the medicines of centesimal scale. It would no longer he proper to hesitate in
adopting and giving shape to this perfected method. It would relive the suffering mankind easily and rapidly from
the cruel clutches of deadly diseases. Let us proceed with an unprejudiced mind right now.
Science is meaningless without application

Theory is meaningless unless it is substantiated by practical application. Though late, we are now in possession of the
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6 edition of the Organon with its almost perfected method. We are now acquainted with the medicine prepared
according to 'new dynamization method". Medicines of this scale are quickest in action than those of centesimals.
Medicinal aggravation is nominal and that to is controllable. Those are applicable as and when necessary. This 50
Millesimal scale of potency is the highest advancement in the science and art of Homoeopathy up to this day. So it is
most precious contribution of the Master, However, precious it may be, it cannot give better result unless properly
utilized. So we must be thoroughly conversant with the proper administration of this new scale of potency.
Otherwise we would fail to achieve the expected result in our practice.
It is safe to learn from the organon

Hahnemann has narrated the mode of administration of 50 millesimal potencies in aphorisms 245 to 248 and their
footnotes. The learned readers are requested to take lesson from the Organon. They need not depend on what some
others say in regard to administration of medicines. Because the English or Bengali books published in the meantime
on the new method are full of defects and are not in conformity with the teaching of the Organon. the so-called
authors, willingly or unwillingly or out of ignorance, have distorted or recorded wrong findings about their mode of
application. Danger of incorrect or imperfect learning in the field of medicine is irreparable as it concerns human
life. So to rely on Hahnemann and his Organon is safer in all respects. Till today he is our greatest authority.
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We note below the mode of application of medicine of 50 millesimal scale potencies in conformity with the Organon, 6
edition. It is also to be pointed out that along with Hahnemann's directives we have presented our personal
experience to our learned colleagues for their information in the light of my practice exclusively with the 50
millesimal potencies for more than 25 years to the full satisfaction of all concerned.
Classification of diseases
In the aphorism 248, diseases have been classified into three categories :
(i) Very urgent or dangerous cases.
(ii) Acute cases.
(iii) Chronic cases.
The cases of the first category advance to ultimate end, their vitality faces extinction every moment.
They are attacked by these kinds of diseases when their vitality is very weak. Cholera, Pox, Titanus, etc., fall into this
category. Generally half-acute and fixed miasms are responsible for these diseases. The patient may succumb to
death within a few hours. So with the onset of the diseases, the physician should try his level best to treat with the
well selected medicine and make speedy arrangement for proper management. Death is inevitable if the patient is
not recovered immediately.
The patients of the second category proceed to deterioration slowly and gradually, day by day, hour by hour. Acute
miasms are responsible for these diseases, but exciting (and sometimes maintaining) causes create these conditions.
The vital energy diminishes slowly. Diarrhoea, Dysentery, Malaria, Typhoid and such other similar diseases come
under this category. Proper treatment in proper time is necessary. Death may come if cure is not ensured within a
reasonable period of time.
The patients of the third category travel the road to death very slowly, day after day, month after month. Asthma,
Rheumatism, Skin diseases, Ulcer, Cancer, Hypertension, etc., fall into this category. Cure is not possible without
proper anti-miasmatic treatment. These diseases are acquired or inherited from chronic miasms. As these disease
develop very slowly, cure also comes slowly. Much time is necessary for cure than is required in the cases of acute
diseases.
Administration of medicine i also different in three categories

In aphorism 248 it has been said that :
(i) In very urgent cases (i.e. , cases of the first category) well selected medicine is to be administered every hour or
oftener (i.e. , In these cases we may apply medicine every 5, 10, 20 or 30 minutes as necessary. - Author).
(ii) In general acute cases medicine is to be applied after every two to six hours.
(iii) In long lasting diseases, i.e. , in chronic diseases daily or every second day.
These are the general laws of application of medicines of 50 millesimal scale.
Hahnemann says. "On the other hand, should there appear during almost daily repetition of the well indicated
homoeopathic remedy, towards the end of the treatment of a chronic disease, so-called (Aphorism 161)
homoeopathic aggravations by which the balance of the morbid symptoms seem to again somewhat increase (the
medicinal) disease, similar to the original, now alone persistently manifests itself). The doses in that case must then
be reduced still further and repeated in longer intervals and possibly stopped several days, in order to see if the
convalescence need no further medicinal aid. The apparent symptoms (Schein-Symptoms) caused by the excess of
the homoeopathic medicine will soon disappear and leave undisturbed health in its wake". 12
There will be almost no medicinal aggravation in chronic cases if doses are applied in proper smallest size. At the end of
the treatment when it appears that there is still no need of further medicine, aggravation comes. If aggravation
comes at the start of the treatment, we are to realize that the doses of medicine have been too large or selection
of the remedy is wrong. In this way we are to follow up of the case after application of every dose of selected
medicine.
In place of one dose, now many divided doses

The well selected medicine of this new method, may now be given daily and for months in gradually higher potencies and
changed doses. 13 In chronic diseases, every correctly chosen homoeopathic medicine, even those whose action is of
long duration, may be repeated daily for months with ever increasing success. 14
In the centesimal scale, medicines cannot be applied repeatedly inspite of the presence of disease symptoms. But in the
new method medicines are to be used again and again. And the vitality is able to extinguish or assail the diseases
quickly by being assisted by the frequent doses of medicines. This is why cure comes quicker than expected in
one-fourth or lesser period of time than it does in the former method. As if both the doctors and the patients were
imprisoned under the influence of the medicine of centesimal scale after its administration because both of us could
do nothing till the expiry of stipulated/expected period of action of medicines was over. Under the new method,
both of us are free.
Reason for application of medicine in many doses instead of single dose

One small (No. 10) globule soaked with medicine, if placed on the tongue, touches only a few nerves. But a similar
globule, crushed with some sugar of milk and dissolved in a good deal of water and stirred well before every
application, will produce a far more powerful medicine for use of several days. Every dose, no matter how minute,
touches many nerves, on the contrary. 15
How long first prescription will continue

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The dose of medicine (of the 1 prescription) that acts without producing new troublesome symptoms is to be
continued while gradually ascending, so long as the patient with general improvement, begins to feel in the mild
degree the return of one or several old original complaints. 16
Only potency is to be changed

But in this case only the potency of medicine is to be changed from low to high i.e. , from LM/1 to LM/2, LM/2 to LM/3
and so on. There is no leap or jump in this method. 17 In any case treatment is to be started from 'The lowest
degrees of dynamization', i.e. , with any potency from LM/1 to LM/6.
Diseases, especially chronic, do not aggravate suddenly, but gradually and slowly. It is the nature of chronic diseases.
So the potency of the medicine should not be suddenly increased. It is to be increased gradually by degrees. Ant the
cure also comes gradually and slowly. It is the nature of real cure, so to-say, homoeopathic cure. Previously medicines
would have been applied with long gaps, i.e. , from 30 to 200, 200 to 1000 and so on. So there was no similarity of
the disease state with that of the medicinal state. It was and is illogical and unscientific. But the mode of
administration of medicine, according to new method, is quite compatible with the progress of the disease stage. So
it is more scientific.
Proper time of 2nd prescription

"For if this happens, if the balance of the disease appears in a group of altered symptoms then another, one more
homoeopathically related medicine must be chosen in place of the last and administered in the same repeated doses,
mindful, however, of modifying the solution of every dose with thorough vigorous succussions, thus changing its
degree of potency and increasing it somewhat". 18
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So, we should continue the 1 prescription "so long as the patient experiences continued improvement without
encountering one or another complaint that he never had before in his life".
What should be the potency of the 2nd prescription

It is really a problem to us. This is to be solved scientifically. The Organon is not definitely clear in this respect.
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Suppose all the symptoms of Sulphur (of 1 prescription) disappeared after a patient took Sulphur from LM/1 to
LM/3 successively. The totality of Medorrhinum or Calcarea appeared. Now the question arises which potency of
either of these remedies is to be applied. Shall we start afresh from LM/1 or LM/2 or LM/3 or LM/4. Yes, the
newly selected medicine also is to be started from 'the lowest degrees of dynamization'. The reason is that the
patient absorbed upto LM/3 of Sulphur but not so of either Medorrhinum or Calcarea. So it is reasonable and
scientific to begin afresh from the lowest degrees of potency, i.e. , with any potency from LM/1 to LM/6 in cases of
any new medicine. This is the safest way also.
From what potency to start

Treatment of any patient, both acute and chronic, is to be started from the lowest degrees of dynamization and
advance is made in the same way to higher degrees, as and when necessary, in gradually ever more powerful but
mildly acting degrees. 19
Hahnemann has cleared our misapprehension or misconceptions about potencies with his latest method in the Organon,
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6 edition.
But to our utter regret, we observe that with 50 millesimal scale of potencies also, we differ with one another. We see
that some of us start from LM/9, some from not below LM/12, some others apply LM/30 again and again. Organon
does not approve it. It is not scientific also. In good many cases it is most harmful to patients. The misunderstanding
about selection of potency will be cleared if we remember one thing in this respect. To cure the patient in a most
harmless way is one of the conditions of the ideal of cure.
We have not yet been able to discover any instrument to ascertain which potency is acceptable or disagreeable to the
vitality of the morbid body. So it is safe, reasonable and scientific to start from the lowest degrees mentioned in
the Organon.
Applicability of medicine in descending scale in lieu of ascending scale demands

attention and experimentation
Reconsideration in respect of applicability of Homoeopathic medicine in ascending scale is felt necessary in the light of
the great Hahnemann's observations made in his Chronic Disease (pp. 84 and 157) in super-cession of his directives
made in the Organon (vide aphorisms - 161, 201, 247, 280 - 281 etc.). For a long time I have observed that some
patients of weak vitality, hypersensitivity and destructive diathesis continue their experience of weakness, loss of
weight, discomfort, etc., or medicinal aggravation (drug disease) even after their recovery from natural diseases by
LM scale. It is also a fact that after application of the simillimum, disease state becomes weaker, the patient feels
improvement both mentally and physically. Usually, at this weaker state of disease, stronger and higher scale of
medicine is applied. Naturally, dissimilarity between disease and medicinal state arises as a matter of consequence.
This is not at all desirable in Homoeopathy, being a science of similarity. So, application of medicine in descending
scale is more logical and scientific.
I started my experimentation on this subject since 1986 and have been getting very satisfactory results almost
without injurious medicinal aggravation or side-effects. The result of my experimentations have been published in
different Homoeopathic journal and books. I have also put it in several scientific seminars in India and Bangladesh.
In consequence, some learned Homoeopaths in both countries are also applying medicines in descending scales with
their utter satisfaction.
Now, from what scales of potency to start with? This is to be assessed on the basis of the vitality and susceptibility of
the patient. The present condition (subjective and objective symptoms), reports of laboratory tests, physical
examination, etc., of the patient help us in determination of the same. According to the present state of the patient
treatment may be started with LM/5, or LM/8, or even with LM/10, as the case may be and gradually descends to
lower scales. But where the vitality is too low/weak, the patient is extremely hypersensitive, only LM/1 is to be
repeatedly applied. When the patient will regain his vitality to some extent after taking 2-3 courses of LM/1, then it
can be raised to LM/3 or LM/4 and after that again gradually to lower scales.
Administration of medicines in descending scales demands correct assessment, as far as practicable of the vitality of
the patient. Otherwise there will be undesirable aggravation creating dangerous injury to the patient. We should be
cautions.
In fine, it may be mentioned that the aforesaid observations were not incorporated by Dr. Hahnemann in his Organon,
probably due to his senility and heavy burden of other more important assignments.
Unscientific argument about potency

Some followers of the new method argue that this process would delay the cure; it takes a long lime and is disgusting to
the patient. Is not a delayed cure more desirable and acceptable to the patient and the physician than to put the life
of the patient in danger and throw him into the deep, dark dungeon of death!
So it is safe to start our treatment with one f the lowest potencies from LM/1 to LM/6 as per sensitivity of the
patient to bring about gentle cure without compelling the patient to face trouble. In case of second and third
prescription also the same procedure should have to be followed. It has also been well supported in the Case Records
of Hahnemann. Wrong application is most harmful.
Our medicines cure or eliminate these similar symptoms or diseases which they can produce in healthy organism
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according to the Homoeopathic principle, i.e. , 'Similia Similibus Curantur'. In regard to potency also the same
principle is active. So the destructive power of the medicine lies inherently in its curative power. As its judicious and
proper administration wonderfully saves the life of a patient, its injudicious and improper application destroys the
life of the patient. Dr. Kent rightly said, "It heals as well as it kills".
It is surprising that there are Homoeopaths who believe that Homoeopathic medicines do not causes any harm to the
patient if administrated wrongly and/or excessively. The very kernel of Homoeopathic science is that drugs produce
symptoms (of disease) and cure like symptoms of a disease. So the notion that drugs creating disease symptoms do
no harm, is a naive thinking - a layman's thinking. It denies the basic principle of Homoeopathic science. In reality
the medicine, though beneficial, does harm if it is misused. In comparison with other branches of medical science,
medicines, being crude and less potentized, the probability of reaction by the potentized Homoeopathic remedies is
much greater. Crude medicines act mainly on the physiological plane, but the potentized medicines act both on the
physical (objective) and psychological (subjective) plane of the organism. So reaction is also the same.
The latest method is safer

In this method we can produce 'medicines of highest development of power and mildest action, which, however, if well
chosen, touches all suffering parts curatively. 20 So, period of action (and reaction) of these medicines is much less
and limited than that of the old one. Hahnemann observed that the period of action of only 30 potency of centesimal
scale continues from 40 to 100 days or more. As such he said (as regards the centesimal scale of medicine) that
these potencies "...act almost immediately, but with furious, even dangerous, violence, especially in weakly patients
without having, a lasting mild reaction on the vital principle" (Italic is ours - Author). That is why Hahnemann, the
great lover of ailing mankind, had been compelled to reject it.
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In this connection, my humble question to all Homoeopaths, especially to those who still do not follow the 6 edition :
Is the furious remedy applicable to ailing human beings for their cure? Can a medicine having destructive character
be used as a safer weapon for the gentle cure?
The limitation of potencies in the new method

The Organon has recommended potencies from LM/1 to LM/30 only. 21
Vitality of human body is limited. So Hahnemann has put a limit to the medicine upto 30 for treatment of sick human
beings.
It should be noted here that in case of centesimal potency also Hahnemann did not approve beyond 30, even though in
his time potency upto 1600 was prepared by Jenichen. There was evidence that he himself experimented with 1000
and 1600 potencies, but afterwards he rejected the potencies higher than 30. 22
In the new method also he has set a limit upto 30. Its support is found in many of his different essays :
(i) There must be some end to a thing, it cannot go on to infinity.
In 1833 he speaks more favourably of the higher attenuations.
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(ii) Such as both, 150 and 300 dilutions (Organon, 5 Ed., Footnotes to Aph. 287) ascribing to them more rapid
and penetrating, but likewise a shorter action.
(iii) Homoeopathic physicians may be able to assure themselves of uniform results in their practice. 23
If aggravation is found during treatment

If there is any aggravation during the course of treatment we are to decide whether the aggravation is :
(a) Similar.
(b) Dissimilar.
(a) Similar aggravation : It may be termed as similar if the aggravation corresponds to the totality of symptoms found
at the first prescription. Skin disease aggravated in the patient's suffering from it. Asthma in Asthma patient,
fever in patient suffering from it. In those cases it must be definitely taken for granted that the doses were
altogether too large. Aggravations due to these sorts of large doses appear from the first dose. It will be so in
every subsequent dose. 24
Aggravation due to large doses will disappear gradually if the medicine is stopped for a day or two or three at best. The
doses in that case must then be reduced still further. 25
(b) Dissimilar aggravation : Aggravation due to appearance of new symptoms which were not found in the patient
previously may be termed as dissimilar aggravation. If it happens we are to realise that :
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(i) There is no need for the medicine of first prescription.

(ii) The first prescription was wrong.
(iii) If such be the cases history of the patient is to be recorded afresh.
(iv) On the basis of the totality of symptoms for the second time medicine is to be selected.
(v) If there is violent and unbearable aggravation first of all an antidote is to be applied followed by the well selected
medicines.
(vi) If the aggravation is tolerable, a newly selected medicine is to be administered without delay. 26
(c) Acute disease : If during the treatment of chronic disease any acute disease (such as - measles, chicken pox, small
pox, cholera, etc., especially during epidemic period) breaks out, the medicine of chronic disease should be stopped
and new well selected medicine for the acute stage is to be applied. After recovery from the acute ailment
treatment is again to be started for the chronic disease with the well selected medicine on the basis of the present
totality of symptoms or with the medicine of first prescription if symptoms agree, as the case may be.
The phenomenon of aggravation should have to be discussed very carefully because we have to face odd circumstances
very often. Due to these aggravations sometimes patients abandon us and go in for other school of medicine for
treatment. It is a disgrace to Homoeopathy. This happens more at time of treatment of chronic diseases than of
acute ones. That is why it is dangerous to treat chronic patients with the medicines of centesimal scale. This
undesirable reaction of the disease condition does not come with the medicine of 50 millesimal scale. If there is any
such reaction, which very rarely, we are to realize that this is either for :
(a) Large doses.
(b) Wrong selection of medicine.
This mistake is forthwith to be corrected by replacing the big dose with the smallest one and the wrongly selected
medicine with the right and proper one.
First prescription should be continued so long as the patient experiences continued improvement without encountering
one or anther complaint that he never had before in his life. In these cases the potency of medicines is to be
changed to higher gradually. 27
If new symptoms appear, "if the balance of the disease appears in a group of altered symptoms then another, one more
homoeopathically related medicine must be chosen in a place of the last and administered in the same repeated
doses". 28
(d) Aggravation at the end of the treatment : "But where medicines of log action have to combat a malady of
considerable or of very long standing, where no such apparent increase of original disease ought to appear during
treatment and it does not so appear if the accurately chosen remedy was given in proper small, gradually higher
doses, each somewhat modified with renewed dynamization (Aphorism 247). such increase of the original symptoms
of a chronic disease can appear only at the end of treatment when the cure is almost or quite finished". 29 The
doses in that case must ten be reduced still further and repeated in longer intervals and possibly stopped several
days, in order to see if the convalescence need no further medicinal aid". 30
(e) Antidote during aggravation : "It must, therefore, either, if the aggravation be considerable, be first partially
neutralized as soon as possible by an antidote before giving the next remedy chosen more accurately according to
similarity of action; or, if the troublesome symptoms be not very violent, the next remedy must be given
immediately, in order to take the place of the improperly selected one". 31
In this connection we should bear in mind that. "The well informed and conscientiously careful physician will never be in
a position to require an antidote in his practice if he will begin, as he should, to give the selected medicine in the
smallest possible dose. A like minute dose of a better chosen remedy will re-establish order throughout". 32
We hope the reasons of aggravation and steps to its prevention during the period of treatment are now clear to the
learned readers. For avoiding this harmful and injurious situation we must be more careful and conscientious.
Perseverance, hard labour and love for the oppressed and the sick are the only prerequisites to be a rational and
dynamic physician.
(i) Other causes for aggravation : Environment, atmosphere, ecological hazards, irregularities, indiscriminate taking of
food and drink, etc., are the other reasons for aggravation. If these are the causes, the way of life shall have to be
changed, as far as practicable, to help cure. Food, drink and other ways of life shall have to be well-regulated as far
as possible, so that all the obstacles to recovery may be removed.
Conditions for applications of medicine

In aphorism 246 Hahnemann has given the following conditions for application of medicine to the patients :
(i) That the medicine selected with utmost care should be perfectly homoeopathic.
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(ii) It should be highly potentized according to the Organon, 6th edition.

(iii) It should be dissolved into water.
(iv) Every doses should be the smallest as far as possible.
(v) Every subsequent doses (mixed with water) must be higher/lower than the previous dose.
((vi) It should be administered after each definite period of time.
If these conditions are fulfilled, a much more rapid cure must be obtained. These are the latest scientific
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Preparation of medicinal solution

Excepting 'a moderate recent case of illness' 33 the medicine of 50 millesimal scale cannot be administered in a dry
condition. Undivided dose of a dilution is not to be applied because it will touch a very few nerves. That is to be
divided into many doses. A medicinal globule crushed with some sugar of milk and dissolved in a good deal of water
(Aphorism 247) and stirred well before every application will produced a far more powerful medicine for the use of
several days. Every dose, no matter how minute, touches, on the contrary many nerves. 34 It is not to be applied in
drops, nor even in big globules. Poppy-seed like small globules, i.e. , No. 10 globules are necessary in this scale of
dilutions. No. 10 globules are to be soaked with medicine, then put in apiece of blotting paper (present day blotting
paper (present day blotting papers contain many types of chemicals. So it is not advisable to dry up globules on it Author) to get it dried there on and then put it in the vial. From this vial one or (though rarely) several No. 10
globules are to be dissolved in water and divided into 7 doses.
Solution
Take a 4 oz. new vial with cork and cleanse it properly. Old or used up work and vial should not be used. Full up 3/4th
parts of the vial with purified or distilled water. Put therein 15 to 20 drops of alcohol for preservation. Put 7 equal
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marks on it. Now put therein only one No. 10 globule of 1 potency (LM/1) or 2 or 3 potency (i.e. , LM/2 or
LM/3) of your selected medicine, crushing it with sugar of milk. Now this medicinal solution is ready for use.
Direction for application of medicinal solution

The aforesaid medicinal solution of 7 doses of the lowest degrees of dynamization is to be well succussed 8, 10 or 12
times as necessary, before use. Then take one dose in a clean glass and put again 4 oz of pure drinking water in it
and stir it well with a tea-spoon. Then take one dose (one or several tea-spoonfuls) out of it. This is the first dose.
Throw away the rest. All subsequent doses are to be taken in this way.
If aggravation with such a dose

If the patient is "unusually excited and sensitive, a tea-spoonful (a dose) of this solution may be put in a second glass of
water, thoroughly stirred and tea-spoonful doses or more be given. There are patients of so great sensitiveness that
a third or fourth glass, similarly prepared, may be necessary. Each such prepared glass must be made fresh daily".
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After completion of the said first course of medicine (of the KM/1 or LM/2 or LM/3 dilution), the next higher potency
will have to be prepared in the same manner. The vial and cork must be new every time. In this way medicinal
solutions for other potencies (LM/4 to LM/5, etc.) should be prepared.
The well selected medicine for the second prescription should also be started from the lowest degrees (i.e. , one of the
potencies from LM/1 to LM/3) and the medicinal solutions should be prepared as above.
In the Organon, it is advised to succuss the medicinal solution for 8, 10 or 12 times. So we advise 8 succussions in case
of a very sensitive patient, 10 for a less sensitive one and 12 times for the least excited and sensitive patients. We
also advise to put a dose of the solution after necessary succussions in a glass containing, 4 oz of pure water and ask
the patient to take one or two spoonfuls each time after stirring well.
As regards aggravation, one thing we must take into account. The weaker or more sensitive the vitality of the patient,
the more will be the aggravation. The patients with normal vitality do not feel aggravation many a time by the large
doses of medicine. That is why some of our friends in the profession like to say that the centesimal scale of
medicines do not always aggravate. It is not a fact, I hope it is now clear to us. I do not have the courage to say that
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Hahnemann was wrong in his statements. He has clearly stated that the medicine of centesimal scale brings
aggravation, especially in weak patients. 36
It has been discussed that a dose of medicine from the solution taken after (8/10/12) succussions will have to be
mixed with 4 oz of distilled or pure water. From the medicinal solution a dose of one or two teaspoonfuls to be taken
and the rest is to be thrown away; If still there occurs any aggravation, a second, third or fourth glass, similarly
prepared, may be necessary.
It has also been discussed that the solution is to be prepared with one of the potencies from LM/1 to LM/3 and
continued gradually from it to LM/2, LM/3, LM/4 and so on to higher potencies after the use of 7 doses in each
potency.
Over and above, a dose from the solution is to be administered in the following manner :
(a) Every hour or oftener in very urgent cases.
(b) Every two to six hours in acute diseases.
(c) Daily or every second day in chronic diseases.
If the patient cannot tolerate these prescribed doses and if the aggravation appear at the end of treatment, then
doses are to be applied at longer intervals. Otherwise we shall be deprived of expected results from this new
method.
Exceptions to the smallest or minutest doses

So long we have discussed about administration of smallest doses which is one of the basic principles of Homoeopathy.
But there are exceptions also, Hahnemann says. "The rule to commence the Homoeopathic treatment of chronic
diseases with the smallest possible doses and only gradually to augment them is subject to a notable exception in the
treatment of the three great miasms while they still efflorescence on the skin, i.e. :
(a) Recently erupted itch.
(b) The untouched chancre (on the sexual organs, labia, mouth or lips, and so forth).
(c) The figwarts.
These not only tolerate but indeed require, from the very beginning, large doses of their specific remedies of over
higher and higher degrees of dynamization daily (possibly also several times daily)". 37 Here also we should see if
the patient continues improvement, if the patient can tolerate the large doses. If not we are to adjust the doses as
necessary or to apply them after longer interval.
External application
Out of above three kinds of diseases, only in cases of figwarts Hahnemann says. "But the figwarts if they have existed
for some time without treatment, have need for their perfect cure, the external application of their specific
medicines as well as their internal use at the same time". 38
In this case further considerations may be necessary. I have seen in many cases of figwarts that without external
application they have been cured. Over and above, this statement of Hahnemann is not consistent with his other
statements.
However, we should not think of Q or 1x for external application. The diluted medicine (prepared according to new
method) for internal application will have to be administered externally also, where it is necessary. It is unscientific
and unreasonable to take internally LM/1 or LM/2 (of the new method) and to apply Q or 1x externally.
In cases of ulcer, bloodshed, puncture of veins or arteries, etc., due to accident or burns, the potentized medicines
prescribed for internal application will have to be applied externally. (We should be cautions about Arnica, as it is
said that if Arnica is applied externally in open wounds, it may cause sepsis).
What parts of the body are more or less susceptible to the influence of the
medicines
There are four methods of administration of medicine to the patients :
(i) To apply by mouth.
(ii) To apply (through nose or mouth) by olfaction.
(iii) To massage on the body along with oral application with a view to expediting rapid and lasting cure. External
application has been recommended only in the case of figwarts.
(iv) To apply through the breast milk of the mother or of the nurse in case of babies. 39
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Oral administration
We have already discussed as how to prepare medicinal solution for oral administration, how to administer the same and
the interval between the doses for oral use according to category of patients.
Method of olfaction
This is a mode of administration of medicines by smelling.
It is not only a fact that our medicines are to be administered orally, the well selected medicine may be applied by
olfaction also. The patient who are unusually excited and sensitive may be treated by medicines administered by
olfaction to void undesirable reaction or medicinal aggravation.
Mode of preparation of medicinal solution for olfaction

Put one No. 10 globule of selected medicine in a new vial of 1 oz. Again put therein a drop of distilled water. The globule
will be dissolved in a minute. Then fill 3/4th part of the vial with alcohol. The vial s to be succussed well 8/10/12
times as are necessary before smelling. On opening the vial it is to be put near the one nostril of the patient for only
a second or so. Then close it again with the cork. The processes of succussions will have to be repeated and smell for
about a second before every subsequent application. Olfaction may be done with mouth if the nose is for any reason
closed. 40
The Organon says that medicine is to be applied by olfaction every two, three or four days for chronic patients.
Nothing has been mentioned regarding the interval of olfaction in acute patients. I have been able to cure cases by
only one olfaction of LM/1. In acute cases olfaction may be done as repeatedly as is required in oral application.
Though it has been mentioned to apply each dose after every second, third fourth day in chronic cases, we have been
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compelled to take recourse to smelling in some cases on 7 , 10 day and even on 30 day (towards the close of
the treatment). Aggravation, even violent aggravation in some cases has been noticed if the period of intervals is
shortened.
Our experience as regards application by olfaction is that medicines act very quickly and the patients come round more
safely and rapidly. The probability of aggravation becomes much less. There is no trouble in application. It is also
less costly. Above all, those oversensitive patients who are unable to tolerate the minutest dose of medicines orally
can tolerate in good many cases the action of olfaction and do not face any trouble due to medicinal aggravation.
Should we have any doubt about the cure by olfactory method

We should not have any doubt about the action and cure form this method. We humbly request those who entertain any
doubt about it to make use of this process and see how wonderfully it acts upon the patient. A little thinking will
make us realise that it is not immaterial at all. In our day to day life we see that some of us fall ill in come ways or
tend to vomit if we go to a place full of obnoxious odours. We become sick in a place where foul smell prevails. We
feel comfort and elation in a beautiful and charming environment saturated with the smell of enchanting flowers.
As we feel uneasiness and discomfort (or vice-versa) at the sight or smell of bad or obnoxious things, similarly we feel
easiness and comfort at the sight and smell of good and attractive things. As we may fall sick by only sight or smell,
so also we may come round by only sight or smell. Our dynamic medicines act through nerves. So it is all the same
whether you put the medicines at the nerve ends of the tongue or of the nose (olfaction).
Application through rubbing

Chronic diseases are cured rapidly if the medicinal solution is rubbed or massaged in the healthy skin during the course
or taking medicine internally. The solution should not be rubbed in the disease or unhealthy parts of the body. Many
physicians have observed that such a kind of massage speeds up the cure. 41
We have already discussed the method of external application.
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"The power of medicine acting upon the infant through the milk of the mother or wet nurse ifs wonderfully helpful.
Every disease in a child yields to the rightly chosen homoeopathic medicines given in moderate doses to the nursing
mother and so administered, is more easily and certainly utilised by these new World Citizens than is possible in
later years". 42
Proper time for application of medicines

Time, space and dimension are always to be considered in all branches of science. So, it is important in Homoeopathy
also.
The well selected medicine, if not applied in proper time, might cause unnecessary aggravation. The life of the weak and
precarious patient any be at stake. So medicines (except in urgent cases) should not be administered at any time
without proper consideration. 43
Regarding application of medicine in cases of fevers, Hahnemann says. "The most appropriate and efficacious time for
administration of the medicine in these cases is immediately or very soon after the termination of the paroxysm, as
soon as the patient has in some degrees recovered from its effects, it has then time to effect all the changes in the
organisms requisite for the restoration of health, without any great disturbance or violent commotion; whereas the
action of a medicine, be it over so specifically appropriate, if given immediately before the paroxysm, coincides with
the natural recurrence of the disease and causes such a reaction in the organism, such a violent contention, that an
attack of that nature produces at the very least a great loss of strength, if it does not endanger life". 44
A little thinking will make it clear to us that there is a definite period of aggravation of the disease in acute or chronic
cases and that is not the suitable time for the application of medicines. The troubles of syphilitic patient, for
example, aggravate at night. So nigh should be avoided as far as possible for employment of medicine to the persons
suffering from syphilis.
Similarly, there is also a period for medicinal aggravation (which is also the period of aggravation of the patients of
these medicines) and that is not the proper time to apply medicines, Arsenic Album aggravates from 12 P.M. to 2
A.M. and 12 A.M. to 2 P.M. , Nat. Mur., aggravates at 10 A.M. , almost all the medicines of Kali-group aggravated
from 3 A.M. to 5 A.M. , Lycopodium from 4 P.M. to 8 P.M. (in some cases from 4 A.M. to 8 A.M. ) and Sulphur
between 10 A.M. and 11 A.M. Many other medicines have also definite periods of time for such aggravation. Such
time of aggravation does not favour administration of medicine.
In this way other two points (i.e. , space and dimension) are also to be considered in health and in disease.
An exception to the administration of homoeopathic medicine and palliative is

allowed
"Only in the most urgent cases, where danger to life and imminent death allow no time for the action of homoeopathic
remedy - not hours, sometimes not even quarter hours, and scarcely minutes - in sudden accidents occurring to
previously healthy individuals - for example, in asphyxia and suspended animation from lightning, suffocation,
freezing, drowning etc. - it is admissible and judicious at all events as a preliminary measure, to stimulate the
irritability and sensibility (the physical life) with a palliative, as for instance, with gentle electrical shocks, with
clysters of strong coffee, with a stimulating odour, gradual application of heat etc." 45
One single simple medicinal substance to be administered at one time

"In no case under treatment it is necessary and, therefore, not permissible to administer to a patient more than one
single, medicinal substance at one time... it is absolutely not allowed in Homoeopathy, the one true, simple and natural
art of healing, to give the patient at one time two different medicinal substances". 46
L2 Homoeopathy does not recognise any specific, mixture, tonic, ointment, injection, etc.
It is not only that these pseudo-homoeopaths are prescribing specifics, tonics, ointments, etc., they are also
recommending mixtures of medicine (Chamo + Cina + China or, Bell. + Nux. + Ars. together, etc.) in the name of
Homoeopathy. The greedy so-called researches and now the so-called homoeopaths also say, "the mixture acts well".
Our humble request to our friends is that this mixture (of homoeopathic medicines) acts as Allopathic, ayurvedic.
Unani medicines act. Not only medicine but every matter has got its action and reaction. The homoeopathic medicines
are not for action, not even for palliation or suppression of diseases at all. It is only to be judged whether the
patient comes round according to homoeopathic principle, i.e. , Law of Direction of Cure.
Quinine (if not on similia basis) relieves malaria, our well selected medicine also does os. In this case we are to consider
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- which palliates or suppresses and which radically cures malaria. The same principle also apples to patents, tonics,
ointments, mixtures, etc. These may act, these may palliate, these may suppress but these cannot cure any diseases
radically. These pseudo-homoeopathic drugs manufactured and marketed following in the footsteps of Allopathy, are
concocted with the purpose of destroying the principles of Homoeopathy and making money by malpractice. These
are not and cannot be homoeopathic at all. We know for certain that a medicine which has not been diluted, has not
been proved on healthy human beings and has not been applied on the principle of 'Similia', cannot be a
Homoeopathic Medicine.
Playing as you like with the diluted medicines

Even in this age of advancement (?) of Homoeopathy, we see that two or three or more different kind of medicines are
being applied in different potencies.
Even today many prescribe Nux Vom. at night and Sulphur in the morning. Though we are sure, to administer the
remedy of the same potency in more than one dose is against principle, still some one prescribes Ars. Iod. 2x, 1
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drachm, 3 doses a day for 15 days, 8 doses of 30 potency. 4 doses of 200 potency with sugar of milk (i.e. , in dry
doses). Some of the renowned physicians are seen to prescribe Cuprum 6, 2 drachms, 4 doses a day and Passiflora Q.
1 drachm, 10 drops at night, even today.
There is no limit to the number of experts of this nature growing like mushrooms day bye day in our society. They do
not hesitates to apply 1M after every seventh day. C.M. after a fort-night, D.M. or M.M. after every month. They
have not the least conception as regards Homoeopathic medicine and its scale of potency.
These are all about the expert followers of now rejected centesimal scale that we hear or know. But what we hear
regarding the followers of 50 millesimal scale is not also at all satisfactory. It is learnt that some are making se of
these medicines according to their whims. Some os our friends are prescribing 4 to 6 doses of LM/30 (i.e. 0/30) in
sugar of milk and are claiming to have cured thousands of patients applying medicines of the new method in sugar of
milk. Again some other are applying LM/6, LM/12, LM/18, LM/24, LM/30 successively. Some are again administering
LM/2, LM/4, LM/6 and so on while others are making solution in 1/2 or 1 oz. vial. It is no exaggeration to mention
that his kind or preparation of medicinal solution or administration of 50 millesimal potencies is not recognised by
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Homoeopathic guide book, our Master's Masterpiece - Organon 6 edition. These are not scientific also. In
consequence of this we cause harm to our beloved patients or put obstacle to their recovery in some cases, if not in
all. Regarding theses sorts to users Dr. J.N. Kanjilal states, "... none of these advantages are available to these
modifiers of Hahnemannian method, who claim to used the 50 millesimal potencies in their own improvised way, viz.,
single dose in powder form in the same way as the older method with the other scale of potencies".
Hahnemann is the most supreme

There is no scope of administration of medicine of 50 millesimal scale of potencies in a jumping or galloping manner.
According to the Master, we are to administer these potencies orderly, continually, starting from "the lowest
degrees of dynamisation" as stated before. Any sort of misapplication creates confusion among the Homoeopaths
and their patients. At times, it causes immediate loss or harm to the patient. So the experience of Hahnemann
should be valued and his directions in the Organon must be followed exactly. The conclusive decision of Hahnemann
still guides us like the pole star and points to our deliverance. The transformation of material part into its
qualitative change and its moderate, limited application to the sick are the wonderful contributions of Hahnemann.
The laws of modern science could not prove false the decision of Hahnemann in the least. Hahnemann was well ahead
of the scientific inventions of is time by about 200 years. Science and history will perhaps assert that he will be
installed on the bright altar as forerunner for many more years. He could in all probabilities have discovered the
theories of atoms and molecules two hundred years ago if he has made research in applied science instead of keeping
himself engaged in research in the theories of potentisation and their administration for the cure of the suffering
mankind. Of course, we must remember that no scientific discovery is or can be final.
Selection of medicine
We have s far discussed the preparation and administration of medicines. But none can be a true physician if he is only
acquainted with these theories. Selection of most appropriate, most simillimum medicine is one of the principles of
Homoeopathy. We cannot ensure ideal of cure for patients if we fail to select the most appropriate medicine on the
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basis of totality of symptoms and other important factors.

We must have sound knowledge about human organism, i.e. , anatomy, physiology, biochemistry, etc., on the one hand and
on the other hand about the Organon, Chronic Diseases and Materia Medica (i.e. , Knowledge of disease, medicine,
selection of medicine and their proper application and obstacles to recovery which I term as
socio-economic-environmental environmental factors).
We must record complete history of each patient with his characteristic symptoms according to the direction of
Aphorism 83 to 104 with their footnotes together with our personal experimental experience. In case of acute
diseases a brief history may suffice. Only recording the long history of the patient for long 3 to 6 hours will not do,
we must be careful in taking note of "the most striking, singular, uncommon and peculiar signs and symptoms of case
of disease". 47 The record wil be so prepared as will dictate to the wise physician "Apply this medicine to your
patients. "this is what we need. For this arduous task the physician has to undergo much labour, he has to be a
persevering man of dedication.
To crown it all, relations of self-interest between the patient and the physician is not at all desirable but a closer,
brotherly relation is to be established. Without this com-radely relation between the patient and the physician we
shall fail to collect all necessary symptoms from the innermost core of the mind and organism of the patient.
Without this totality of characteristic symptoms of the patient we shall not be able to ensure perfect road to
recovery to our patient with the application of well selected medicine. Our only mission is to restore the sick to
health will not be fulfilled if we cannot do it perfectly. Our duty to select proper medicine - rests on proper
case-taken. On the basis of the proper case record the selection of correct medicine would be easier. So this is
most important.
Hahnemann said, "...that the most suitable homoeopathic remedy for each morbid condition does not spontaneously fly
into their mouth like roasted pigeons, without any trouble on their own part". The task of selection of appropriate
medicine is "laborious, sometimes very laborious". 48 But in reality, what do we notice in most of the cases? We
write down only the name and age of the patient with the name of medicine in the register of patients and the
compounders in the meantime are hastily giving him good-bye with medicines before the patient could finish
narrating his portrait of sufferings. The so-called experienced physician is writing prescription for 100, 200, 300
patients daily. The names are being recorded in the register and forthwith medicines come into their hands within
three minutes. The scene is the same as is noticed into the outdoor department of Govt. hospitals. That is the exact
of disposal of a red mixture by the compounders. The same thing is also done if any chronic patient comes to the
chamber of any of these experienced hands out of either compulsion or charm or mistake. No history of the
symptoms of acute patients or chronic ones is recorded.
A rational physician takes at least 2 to 3 hours time to record the history of a chronic patient. It may be that he has
to devote even more time for the complicated chronic patients. But so-called renowned doctors of Rs. 32, 64, 128.
Rupees consultation charges record the history of the patient no doubt, but the history does not exceed even a page
and they spare not more than 20 to 30 minutes. He is too busy with a great number of patients. How can he manage
his family with the additional expenditure he is to incur for his cars, buildings, travel, etc., if he cannot examine at
least 50 chronic patients daily?
Of course, there are very very few physicians in India and Bangladesh (also elsewhere in any other country of the
world) who abide by the direction of Hahnemann and do not entertain more than two or three new chronic patients a
day. Really these few rational physicians who are faithful to the principle of Similia, have still kept the torch of
Homoeopathy illuminating. The students and other learners must bear in mind that a physician cannot do justice to
the patient and so to the selection of proper remedy if he prefers to attend many patients, feels delighted in
finding them waiting in a queue or in seeing a crowd of patients in the chamber or is attentive only to earn a lot of
money. A true Homoeopathic physician does not allow more than two to three new chronic patients, daily. It is no
Homoeopathy if diluted medicine is administered from homoeopathic medicine chest. So we must labour hard to
ensure the ideal of cure with well selected medicine for every patient and thus to earn real fitness for the most
salutary service like that of the preserver of health.
Beware of administration of medicine

From the above discussion we come to the conclusion that medicine is to be applied :
(a) Every hour or oftener in very urgent cases.
(b) Every two to six hours in acute cases.
(c) Daily or every second day in long lasting (chronic) diseases.
It has been observed that in many cases of acute diseases (according to their stratum and depth) one full course
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medicinal solution of 7 doses (of LM/1 or LM/2) is not generally required. In some cases only 1 to 3 doses of the
solution is sufficient to control the acute condition. Then 1 or 2 doses of complementary medicine (according to
totality of symptoms) will restore the patient to health.
In these cases if the patient takes the full course of the medicinal solution without necessity he will become the prey
of medicinal disease or medicinal aggravation and his vitality will be weaker. So we should be careful as regards
over-dose of any medicine in any patient. Let us have an example :
Suppose, you have prescribed Ars. Alb. - LM/1, 7 doses, to be taken every 2 to 6 hourly, as is required, for one of your
patients suffering from malaria. The temperature of the patient is coming down after the first dose and the fever
did not appear at the due time next day also after his taking 3 to 4 doses. Then one dose a day. There was no
appearance of fever on the third day. The patient is well only with the 5 doses of medicinal solution of LM/1 - Ars.
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Alb. So, no question of prescribing the patient with Ars. Alb. - LM/2, 2 course. He is to be advised not to take the
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remaining 2 doses of the 1 course. After this, if necessary and if symptoms agree one or several doses of
complementary medicine of Ars. Alb. especially doses of complementary medicine of Ars. Alb. especially Thuja, may
be administered. That will restore the patient to perfect health. This advice is to be followed in all acute cases.
Now let us discuss the matter with chronic diseases. In theses cases we know that medicine is to be applied daily or
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every second day. But in some cases it s observed that the patient cannot endure the daily doses even from the 3
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or 4 glass. Then the smallest dose is to be continued every second day. But from the second course it is seen that
it also reacts, the patient cannot tolerate this also? Your selection of medicine is right. What will you do? In that
cases medicine is to be applied in much longer gaps within the tolerance limit of the patient. That is why the phrase
"If necessary" has been mentioned in the Organon. We do not care to take into account this phrase, "If necessary".
And so we observe and face aggravation in the patient even by the well selected medicine of 50 millesimal scale of
potency from the very beginning of administration. You can successfully ensure the ideal of cure safely without any
disturbance and according to your expectation with the new method, especially in case of weak and oversensitive
patients by applying subsequent doses after such intervals of time as the action of every dose continues. If we can
apply and continue medicine in this way, the patient need not be afraid of any troublesome symptoms due to
medicinal aggravation. Of course, the application of medicine will continue every day or every second day as needed
if the patient can endure it, if he feels better gradually and if no medicinal aggravation is noticed. Otherwise cure
will be delayed for nothing.
It will not be out of place to mention here that some of my old oversensitive and weak patient left me as I did not take
such precaution and some have been victims of medicinal aggravation. We must be careful in administering every
dose of Homoeopathic medicine, the dynamic one, though properly selected. Then we shall be successful in having
the expected results.
Diet and regimen

Proper attention should be given to diet and regimen of both acute and chronic patients. Diet uncongenial to the action
of medicine and he mode of life detrimental to cure should be avoided. 49 In short, cure is not at all possible by any
kind of treatment if socio-economic environmental condition of patients are hostile. Favourable conditions always
help the ideal of cure.
How to avoid medicinal aggravation of 50 millesimal scale of potencies *

Medicine of this scale also aggravates!
Some of our colleagues complain about aggravation by 50 Millesimal Potencies also. Some other colleagues also have
complained about this in their speeches and articles. A reputed practitioner, a writer of many books on
Homoeopathy, has mentioned in one of his books that there was aggravation by new potency. When the same
medicine of centesimal potency was applied, there was no aggravation at all and the patient was said to be cured.
This is a serious complaint against 50 millesimal potency. Had this been so, what was the necessity on the part of
Hahnemann to revise and re-write the fifth edition of the Organon and bring out the sixth edition. Hahnemann could
very well remain satisfied with the fifth edition itself.
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Unscientific application of medicine is responsible for aggravation

Hahnemann says, "...no such apparent increase of the original disease ought to appear during treatment and it given in
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proper small, gradually higher doses modified with renewed dynamization" (ref. Apho 161, Org. 6
Ed.). If we hold
that there is aggravation, we are to assume that Hahnemann's findings were wrong. Now the question is, who is in
the wrong - we or Hahnemann? Why we alone, even Dr. Kent also sometimes thought that Hahnemann might have
been wrong in his findings. But, in the long run Dr. Kent himself proved that his contentions were wrong and
Hahnemann was right. Here it is not at all my intention to contend that Hahnemann was never wrong, that he might
have committed no mistake at all.
We must have to find out who is n the wrong - Hahnemann or we ourselves? The only clue to the solution of this
problem lies in our thorough experimentation. Improper application of medicine must lead to wrong conclusion. There
are physicians who assert that the new potency causes aggravation in chronic diseases. But we must see whether
their application of medicine is right and proper. In most cases, even in my own, two things are evident :
(1) The potency is higher than necessary.
(2) The dose is large, i.e. , medicine was not applied as per the directives of the Organon. So the onus of the mistake
lies neither with Hahnemann, nor with the Organon, nor with the new method. We make tall claims to be the
followers of Hahnemann, but in practice we do not follow specific directives laid down by Hahnemann himself. So
Hahnemann has advised his so-called licentious followers of the 'Mongrel sect' to give up Homoeopathy. There are
physicians who at the very start of their treatment, administer medicine in LM/3, LM/6 or LM/12 potencies. There
are also some practitioners who start it with the highest potency in this scale, i.e. , LM/30. Moreover, they apply
the medicinal solution directly without diluting it in water as per specifications. Now it is quite clear that improper
application is totally responsible for this sort of aggravation.
Hahnemann specified four causes of aggravation

In chronic diseases :
(i) Largeness of the dose (ref. Apho. 282. Org. 6
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(ii) Over-susceptibility or over-sensitivity of the patient (ref. Apho. 281 and Foot-note to Apho. 248, Org. 6 Ed.).
(iii) Over dosage of medicine to a patient at the end of treatment when the cure is almost or quite finished (ref. Apho.
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161. Org. 6 Ed.).
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(iv) There may be slight homoeopathic aggravation during the first hours (ref. Apho. 158, Org. 6 Ed.).
The new potency may or may not cause aggravation in the four above mentioned cases of both acute and chronic nature.
But, if we take the trouble of making in-depth observation of the patient, we can easily avoid such aggravation.
Firstly, we can control the first cause of aggravation by administering a minute dose of medicine from the second or
third glass of water instead of the first glass from the second dose of the medicinal solution.
Secondly, in cases of over-sensitive patients there is not the least possibility of aggravation. If it is observed that the
first minutest dose also causes aggravation, then from the second, dose medicine should be administered from the
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third or fourth glass or by olfaction. In those cases on or two doses of medicine should be applied every 7 , 10 ,
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15 day as the patient can stand it instead of applying it everyday or every alternative day. In this way we can
easily control the second cause of aggravation.
Thirdly, there should not be any case of aggravation due to the third cause if we apply one or two doses of medicine
only at a longer interval at the end of treatment when the patient is cured or almost cured.
Fourthly, the problem of slight homoeopathic aggravation during the first few hours, due to the fourth cause, can be
easily solved in acute cases also if the minutest possible dose of medicine is administered at the very outset.
The new method has thus opened to us new vistas of liberty in matters of controlling aggravation in a scientific way.
This is beyond imagination in cases of medicines of centesimal scale of potency of the Organon, fifth edition. We as
well as our beloved patients were so long imprisoned in the dungeon of the medicine of the old scale of potency. Now
we are totally free from the bondage of medicinal aggravation.
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The highest ideal of cure can be achieved with the help of medicine of 50
millesimal scale of potencies only
The medicine of centesimal scale aggravates the diseases, specially in cases of over-sensitive and weaker patients. At
times, aggravation is os such serious nature that it goes beyond the tolerance of the patient. Moreover, it requires
long period of times to effect the cure. For these very reasons, the highest ideal of cure can rarely be materialised
with the medicine of centesimal scale of potencies. That is why Hahnemann had to give up the medicine of centesimal
scale of potencies of the Organon, fifth edition and evolve the medicine of 50 millesimal scale of potencies in the
sixth edition. He asserted that the imperfection of Homoeopathy has achieved near perfection and all the problems
related to it have even thoroughly solved. He brought about this revolutionary transformation in Homoeopathy on
the basis of his life-long experimentation. We learn from The life and Works of Hahnemann by Dr. R. Haehl and Life
and Letters of Hahnemann by Dr. Bradford and from a letter to Dr. Boenninghausen written by Dr. Crossario, the
closest and most intimate follower and student of Hahnemann and from many other historical proofs like this that
towards the end of his life Hahnemann treated his patients most successfully with the medicines of 50 millesimal
scale of potency.
The followers of new method in different parts of the the world are extremely happy with the curative effect of the
medicine of this scale. IN our sub-continent also the users of this method are appreciating for it. Some or our
colleagues are of the opinion that, had they not had this scale of medicine, they could not have combated the
so-called ultra modern allopathic drugs. As a result they would have had no other alternative but to give up their
practice.
Here is what dr. j.n. kanjilal, one of the most leading homoeopaths of
international reputation, says
In a letter written to the the author (ref. No. 333/A/eq/75, dated 22-7-75), he says :
1. "Medicine of centesimal and decimal scale of potencies will cause aggravation at the the first part of treatment and
then it will be followed by amelioration but medicines of 50 millesimal scale of potency will cause amelioration first
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and then it will be followed by aggravation only towards the end of the treatment (ref. Apho. 248. Org., 6 Ed.).
2. As soon as there is the slightest aggravation after application of one dose of medicine or doses with succussions of
the medicinal solution (ref. Chronic Diseases, Hahnemann, 1838) of centesimal scale any repetition of medicine shall
have to be stopped then and there. So long as there is observed the slightest indication of action of the medicine
applied, application of medicines is to be totally stopped (ref. my article "Second Prescription", H.G. , Feb., 1971).
On the other hand, medicines of 50 millesimal scale of potency are the be gradually continued with due succussions and
at necessary interval so long as there is aggravation towards the end of the treatment. Medicine is to be
administered at longer interval or stopped totally, till the aggravation is over.
3. The sole object of the new method is :
(a) To hasten the process of cure by frequent repetition of medicine.
(b) To avoid medicinal aggravation, or to bring it under of control of the physician. As aggravation appear only at the
end of the treatment, the physician can easily control it by administering medicine at longer interval or by totally
stopping it..."
The above comments of our illustrious teacher Dr. Kanjilal is of so tremendous significance that it demands our
attention and commands through appreciation.
While applying medicine, the phrase 'if necessary' used by hahnemann (ref.
foot-note to aph. 246) should be seriously considered
To hasten the cure of a chronic disease, Hahnemann advised us to administer medicine every day or every alternates
day If necessary. But we, the users of the medicine of the new method do not get the desired result or gentle cure
from this scale of medicine only because of the fact that we do not attach due importance to the implication of the
phrase, "if necessary". At the initial stage (1961 to 1966) of using the medicines of this method we committed
innumerable blunders like this. We made our patients suffer. But as a result of regulated and accurate application of
medicine in minutest possible dose, and by totally stopping the medicine when not necessary or by applying it at
longer interval at a gradually higher scale, we find that the cases of aggravation have been reduced almost to
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insignificance. Even then, under the new method also, the ratio of aggravation is not so insignificant in cases of
chronic itches and psoriasis. In cases of most over-sensitive patients, even the minutest dose administered daily or
every alternate day, causes aggravation. If one or two minute doses are applied at intervals of 7, 10, 15, or 20 days
aggravation can be avoided to a large extent. It has been observed that only one olfaction has acted for 30 days. We
should never forget that in most cases psoric patients are subject to over-sensitivity and over-excitement. While
treating a chronic disease, we should always remember. "Such increase of the original symptoms of a chronic disease
can appear only at the end of treatment when the cure is almost or quite finished" and at no other times will the
aggravation occur. Keeping this in mind, we can very accurately decide the time, the minuteness of a dose and
interval for repetition of medicine. The medicine of the new method has been so much qualitatively developed and
dynamised that the action of every minute dose (by oral administration or by olfaction) can easily be perceived
externally by means of the senses by the patient as well as by the physician. If there is no aggravation of symptoms
and the patient also improves mentally and physically, then only administration of medicine can be continued daily or
every alternate day. Any deviation from any one of the above conditions will, of course, necessitate the
administration of medicine in a different manner. Use of medicine daily or every alternate day will no longer do. Now,
medicine should be administered at longer intervals as the case may be, keeping in view the gentle ideal of cure. In
case of medicinal aggravation due to largeness of the dose, the physician should observe the susceptibility of the
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patient by administering a more minute dose (ref. Footnote to Apho. 248. Org. 6 Ed.). If it is not properly
understood and applied accurately by merely repeating the medicine at a longer interval, the physicians will uselessly
delay the process of cure.
In this context, we should never forget that medicine should be applied as and only when necessary in order to fulfil
our mission of the highest ideal of rapid and gentle cure. Only by doing so, we can preserve the sanctity, serenity
and speciality of the new method as well as of the Organon, sixth edition.
To avoid aggravation, minimisation of the dose is a must

For the last 22 years out of 28 years of my medical career I have been acquainted with this method. During the first 4
years of the 22 years of my acquaintance with the medicine of this scale of potency, I had to make only limited use
of the medicine because of its scarcity. Notwithstanding it, for the last 18 years, I have been treating my patients
exclusively with the medicine of this scale. My observation regarding minimisation of the ratio of aggravation caused
by the medicines of this scale of potency during my research and experiments for the last 22 years are as follow :
(i) In any case, acute or chronic, we generally start the treatment with one of the potencies from LM/1 to LM/6 as per
susceptibility of the patient. Then we continue from the next higher potency of the applied medicine gradually (i.e. ,
LMM/2, LM/3, LM/4, LM/5, LM/6, LM/7 and so on). We select one of the lowest possible potencies (i.e. LM/1 or
LM/2 or LM/3, etc.) of a judiciously selected medicine in case of the second prescription also.
(ii) In the first phase of the treatment we observe that chronic patients with almost normal vitality can tolerate,
without much aggravation, the potencies from LM/1 to LM/4, once daily or every alternate day (after 8, 10 or 12
succussions, according to the sensitivity of the patient, one dose of the medicinal solution is to be mixed with 4 oz
of distilled/drinking water in a glass, stirred well and then one or two teaspoonfuls are to be taken and the rest
thrown away). Potencies from LM/5 to LM/8 are generally tolerable if one dose in taken at the interval of 2-3 days
from first or second glass, as the patient can stand it. Medicine from even the third or fourth glass may be
necessary in cases of oversensitive patients. But potencies from LM/9 to LM/10 should generally be applied only 2
doses a week to sensitive patients, and two subsequent doses at the interval of 15, 20, 30, days or by olfaction at
the interval of 3, 6 or 10 days to oversensitive once. Next potencies are also to be applied to sensitive patients very
cautiously so that they can stand them. This will lead him towards ideal of cure without medicinal aggravation.
(iii) The physician should be cautions from the very beginning of the treatment of chronic patients with weak vitality,
structural changes and over-sensitivity. In these cases, it is safe to start the treatment with LM/1 and that too
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should be applied from the 2 , 3 , or 4 glass as the patient can stand it.
(iv) Every chronic patient should be advised to stop medicine for the time being, if there is aggravation inspite of
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taking the medicinal solution from the 3 or 4th glass or even by smelling. After the aggravation is over, medicine is
to be continued in more minute doses and at longer intervals.
Neither a potency, nor even a single dose should be used unnecessarily. For this reason, we should be more cautious
about the phrase "If necessary". If the medicine is bearable and if physical and mental improvement is there, it is to
be continued at required interval of time.
We can easily avoid medicinal aggravation following this new method, if the gap between two doses be measured
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depending upon susceptibility and sensitivity of the patient and intensity of the disease condition.
Even if there be any medicinal aggravation due to wrong application or big or repeated doses, it generally lasts for 2 to
5 days. This new method is less harmful than the centesimal method even if the selection of medicine is wrong, or
applied in large or repeated doses. So there is no fear of "Furious, even dangerous, violent" reaction. This method
"produces medicines of highest development of power and mildest action" (ref. Footnote to Aph. 270).
Some brief case records, which will help us to ascertain the curative power of medicine of this new scale of potency,
are given below :
(i) Medorrhinum was selected on the basis of totality of symptoms for a rheumatic patient. Starting from LM/1, there
was no aggravation upto LM/2. During the course of LM/3 when aggravation was reported, the medicine was stopped
and 7 days placebos were given. Within this period the aggravation was reduced and the patient improved in all
respects. After this, from LM/4, limited doses were applied and gradually the patient came round.
(ii) For a diabetic patient having gangrene in the leg, aged 50 years Ars. Alb. was selected and LM/1 to LM/6 were
applied, one dose daily, afterwards on dose every alternate day from the first glass, with gradual improvement in all
respects, followed by severe aggravation with LM/7. The patient was kept for 15 days without any medicine. Then
fromLM/8 medicine was continued in more minute dose from third glass and at longer interval and she was finally
cured.
(iii) A girl, aged 8 years, having chronic fever with otorrhoea, was given Thuja LM/1 to LM/3 with marked improvement.
Temperature reduced from 105F to 100F. But Thuja LM/4 again resulted in the rise of temperature upto 103F.
Stoppage of taking medicine for seven days relieved the patient from both the sufferings. After this LM/5 to
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LM/10 were given twice a week (one dose at the interval of three days from the 2 glass) and the patient was
cured.
(iv) A tubercular asthma patient, aged 50, years suffering for long 18 years was prescribed Bacillinum LM/1 two doses,
once in the morning consecutively for two days, from first glass. The patient was well for two months. No further
medicine was required. After this two doses from LM/1 were given with 25 jerks. No medicine was required for the
next 90days. Then the patient reported slight respiratory trouble. Again two doses from LM/1 after 50 jerks were
given from first glass. But mild aggravation was noticed for next three days and the patient became normal
afterwards. So it is clear to us that if it was applied from the second glass or through smell, this sort of mild
aggravation also could be avoided.
(v) A 10 years old eczematous girl, probably of hereditary origin, was prescribed Bacillinum LM/1 in tow consecutive
doses, from first glass. It kept her well for 120 days. Then again LM/1, two doses after 25 jerks was applied. No
further medicine was needed. Eczema disappeared, the patient improved mentally and physically.
My younger brother, Dr. Chandra Shekhar Das observed that Bacillinum LM/1-2 doses, applied on two consecutive
mornings acted for a long period of 45 days. For want of space many such cases could not be cited here. Inspite of
that, I think, every physician will get a clear idea from the few cases cited above, regarding the application of
medicine of this scale of potency;
Solution of potency problem

The Organon, sixth edition, not only solves the problem of controlling medicinal aggravation and paves the way to
materialise the highest ideal of rapid and gentle cure, but many controversial questions like potency of medicine,
from what potency to start treatment, etc., have also been given a scientific solution.
Hahnemann advised, "to begin with the lowest degrees of dynamization" (ref. Footnote to Aph. 246 and 270) in any
patient. He did not apply centesimal potencies of those medicines which he had prepared according to the new
method. In the last phase of his life, Hahnemann used to treat almost all patients following the new method. Before
his death medicine chests of Hahnemann were found to be full of 703 phials of me of medicines of centesimal scale
of different potencies (6,9,12,18,24 and 30 etc.) whereas there were 1716 phials of medicines of 50 millesimal scale,
mostly from LM/1 to LM/10.
We generally start the treatment of any patient with one of the potencies from LM/1 to LM/3 as the case may be, but
mostly with LM/1. We have not yet been reported by any patient that LM/1 did not act; Thousands of physicians of
India and Bangladesh who are using medicines of this new method did not yet report any failure with LM. 1 or LM/2.
Apart from our experience, following the experience and mode of application of medicine by Hahnemann, we see that
most of the medicines of this scale serve the purpose within LM/10 potencies. Well selected medicine of first
prescription generally changes the totality of symptoms of the patient within LM/5 to LM/6 or LM/9 to LM/10
succussed dilutions when second prescriptions is needed. Selected medicine of second prescription is also to be
applied generally from any of the potencies from LM/1 to LM/3 and then to be continued from the next higher
potency gradually. Practically, what we have seen from our experience is that any physician can treat uninterruptedly
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with the short-acting medicine from LM/1 to LM/6 and long-acting medicine from LM/1 to LM/10. So, the problem of
potency from which the treatment should be started is solved by Hahnemann. This has been thoroughly
experimented by myself and by my other friends in the profession for more than 20 years.
But it is a matter of great regret that some physicians are engaged in useless debate regarding the degree or scale of
medicine knowingly or unknowingly; they even thy to misguide others. So homoeopaths desirous of curing sick human
beings, rapidly and gently, following the sixth edition, should be cautious in this regard. Otherwise we will not only
be deprived from the benefits of the revolutionary contribution of the Mater, but diseased persons will also be
deprived by us.
Some physicians start treatment with LM/3 LM/6, LM/9 or LM/12; some others start with LM/30, in dry condition
with sugar of milk and the same dilution is repeated time and again. Some respectable physicians advise us to start
from LM/6 or LM/12 and to continue the treatment with LM/9, LM/12, LM/15 and so on, in a galloping way.
But these sorts of application go against the directions of Hahnemann in the Organon. These are not scientific also.
Moreover, these are not supported by many renowned physicians who have been persistently following this new
method in practice.
In Homoeopathy, even today, Hahnemann is our greatest teacher and guide. We are ashamed to admit that, specially in
matters of potency, we could not even reach upto him. So to follow Hahnemann in regard to application of dynamised
homoeopathic medicine is safer for us and for our beloved ailing patients. If we engage ourselves in arguing and
creating confusion among homoeopaths regarding potency of medicine that has been judiciously solved earlier by the
Master, further advancement of Homoeopathy will be in jeopardy.
Even though limitation of potency has been extended upto LM/30, if majority of patients proceed towards ideal of cure
within LM/10, there is no reason to apply higher potency unnecessarily. On the other hand, in some other cases, we
may be in need of potencies much higher than LM/30.
Conditions for rapid and gentle cure

Our struggle for creating a healthy, happy and prosperous new world will be at least partly crowned with success, if the
following conditions, as my humble experience dictates me, are properly and meticulously observed.
(i) Selection of medicine must be homoeopathic as far as practicable.
(ii) Treatment must start from the lowest degrees of potentisation (i.e. , with any one of the potencies from LM/1 to
LM/3) and advance to gradually higher, as necessary, in any patient, either chronic or acute.
(iii) Each dose of medicine must be changed to a higher dilution by succussions than the previous one.
(iv) All obstacles to recovery must be removed as far as practicable, i.e. , socio-economic environmental conditions must
be favourable for restoration and preservation of health.
(v) Medicine of this new method must be applied in water. Please take one 4 oz new phial with cork. Three-fourth part
of it is to be filled in with pure drinking/distilled water, 15 to 20 drops of rectified spirit are to be added to it for
its preservation. Then one No. 10 globule of the selected medicine of lowest degrees of dynamization is to be put in
it. Mark the phial in 7 doses. This is the first course of medicinal solution ready for application. Now, according to
the susceptibility of the patient, after 8, 10, 12 jerks, one dose should be taken in a well cleaned glass of pure water
(containing about 4 oz). Then after stirring it well, one spoonful dose or more should be given and the rest thrown
away. Each dose from the medicinal solution of each potency is be applied in the same manner.
(vi) If there is any aggravation by taking the medicine in the aforesaid way, we are to understand that the patient is
sensitive, or the dose is larger than needed. Then "a teaspoonful of this solution may be put in a second glass of
water, thoroughly stirred and a teaspoonful dose or more should be given. There are patients of so great
sensitiveness that a third or fourth glass, similarly prepared, may be necessary" (ref. Footnote to Aph. 248 . If the
patient cannot tolerate the medicine daily or every alternate day, gap between the two doses may be more extended.
If still there is any aggravation, medicine should be applied through smell. Medicine should be applied after such
hours, days and weeks as the patient can stand it and continuous improvement follows. If we can apply medicine
according to the above directives of the Master, there will be no aggravation of the chronic cases, such aggravation
"of the original symptoms of a chronic disease can appear only at the end of treatment when the cures is almost or
quite finished" (ref. Aph. 161).
(vii) When we observe that there follows no further improvement by the medicine of the first prescription so that
necessity of that medicine comes to an end, we should record the case afresh and medicine as per second
prescription should be applied. Administration of that medicine must also be started from the lowest degrees of
dynamisation.
(viii) In very urgent cases medicines is to be "applied every hour or oftener", i.e. , at the interval of 5, 10, 15, 20, 30
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minutes as necessary.
b) In acute diseases medicine is to be applied "every two to six hours" as necessary.
In both the above cases medicinal solution is to be prepared in the previous manner. 8, 10, 12 succussions must be given
before use of every dose according to susceptibility of the patient.
If we can administer medicine of the new method according to the directives of Hahnemann, we can easily avoid
medicinal aggravation. Thus it becomes easier and safer for us, as well as for our ailing patients, to materialise the
rapid and gentle ideal of cure by the medicine of the new scale than by that of old centesimal scale of potencies.
Cure
Any patient, acute or chronic, will come round gently and rapidly, if treatment is accomplished in conformity with the
conditions stated above. The history of Homoeopathy of the last two hundred year is on its forward carrying on the
bright and glorious banner of its achievements.
Testimony of the clinic
Two cases from hahnemann's note-book 1

Case I
Julie M., a country girl; fourteen years old; not yet menstruated.
Twelfth September, 1842 - a month previously she had slept in the sun. Four days after this sleeping in the sun, the
frightful idea took possession of her that she saw a wolf, and six days thereafter she felt as if she had received a
great blow on the head. She now spoke irrationally, became as if mad; wept much; had sometimes difficulty in
breathing; spat white mucus; could not tell any of her sensations.
She got Belladonna 2 weakened dynamization, in seven tablespoonfuls of water; of this, after it was shaken, a
tablespoonful in a glass of water, and after stirring this, one teaspoonful to be taken in the morning.
Sixteenth September - Somewhat quieter; she can blow her nose, which she was unable to do during her madness; she
still talks as much nonsense, but does not make so many grimaces while talking. She wept much last night. Good
motion. Tolerable sleep. She is still very restless, but was more so before the Belladonna. The white of the eye full
of red vessels. She seems to have a pain in the nape of the neck.
From the glass in which one tablespoonful was stirred, one teaspoonful is to be taken and stirred in a second glassful of
water, and of this from two to four teaspoonfuls (increasing the dose daily by one teaspoonful) are to be taken in
the morning.
Twentieth - Much better; speaks more rationally; works a little, recognises and names me; and wished to kiss a lady
present. She now begins to show her amorous propensities; is easily put in a passion and takes things in bad part;
sleeps well; weeps very often; becomes angry about a trifle; eats more than usual; when she comes to her senses she
likes to play, but only just as a little child would.
Belladonna : A globule of a higher potency : seven tablespoonfuls shaken in two glasses, 6 teaspoonfuls from the second
glass early in the morning. 3
Twenty Eighth - On the 22nd, 23rd and 24th very much excited day and night; great lasciviousness in her action and
words; she pulls up her clothes and seeks to touch the genitals of others; she readily gets into a rage and beats
every one.
Hyoscyamus X : Seven tablespoonfuls, and c., one tablespoonful in one tumblerful of water; in the morning a
teaspoonful.
Fifth October - For five days she would eat nothing; complains of bellyache; for the last few days less malicious and
less lascivious; stools rather lose; itching all over the body, especially on her genitals; sleep good.
Sacch. Lactis : For seven days, in seven tablespoonfuls, and c.
Tenth - On the 7th, fit of excessive anger; she sought to strike every one. The next day, the 8th, attack of fright and
fear, almost like the commencement of her illness (fear of an imaginary wolf); fear lest she should be burnt. Since
then she has become quiet, and talks rationally and nothing indecent for the last two days.
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Sacch. Lactis, and c.

Fourteenth - Quite good and sensible.
Eighteenth - The same, but severe headache; inclination to sleep by day; not so cheerful.
New Sulphur (new dynamization of the smallest material portion) one globule n three tumblers; in the morning one
teaspoonful.
Twenty Second - Very well, very little headache.
Sulphur, the next dynamization in two tumblers.
She went on with the Sulphur occasionally until November, at which time she as an sill remains a healthy, rational,
amiable girl.
Case II
O - t. and actor, 33 years old, married, 14th January , 1843. For several years he had been frequently subject to sore
throat, as also now for a month past. The previous sore throat had lasted six weeks. On swallowing his saliva, a
pricking sensation; feeling of contraction and excoriation.
When he has not the sore throat he suffers from a pressure in anus, with violent excoriative pains, the anus is then
inflamed, swollen and constricted; it is only with great effort that he can then pass his faeces, when the swollen
haemorrhoidal vessels protrude.
On the Fifteenth January, he took, in the morning before breakfast a teaspoonful of a solution of one globule of
Belladonna X then the lowest dynamization, dissolved in seven tablespoonfuls of water, of which a tablespoonful was
well stirred up in a tumblerful of water.
Fifteenth - In the evening aggravation of the sore throat.
Sixteenth - sore throat gone, but the affection of the anus returned as above described; and open fissure with
excoriative pain, inflammation, swelling, throbbing pain and constriction; - also in the evening a painful motion.
He confessed having had a chancre eight years previously, which had been, as usual, destroyed by caustic, after which
all the above affections has appeared.
Eighteenth - Merc. viv. one globule of the lowest new dynamization I, (which contains a vastly smaller amount of mater
than the usual kind), prepared in the same manner, and to be taken in the same way as the Belladonna (the bottle
being shaken each time), one spoonful in a tumblerful of water well stirred.
Twentieth - Almost no sore throat. Anus better, but he still feels the re-excoriating pain after a motion; he has,
however, no more throbbing, no more swelling of the anus, and no inflammation; anus less contracted.
One globule of Merc. viv. (2/0, the second dynamization of the same kind; prepared in the same way, and taken in the
morning.
Twenty Fifth - Throat almost quiet well; but in the anus raw pain and severe shootings; great pain in the anus, after a
motion; still some contraction of it and heat.
Thirtieth - In the afternoon, the last dose (one teaspoonful). On the 28th the anus was better, sore throat returned;
pretty severe excoriation pain the throat.
One globule in milk-sugar for seven days; prepared and taken on in the same manner.
Seventh February - Severe ulcerative pain in the throat. Bellyache, but good stools; several in succession, with great
thirst. In the anus all is right.
Sulphur 2/0 in seven tablespoonfuls, as above.
Thirteenth - Had ulcerative pain in the throat, especially on swallowing his saliva, of which he has now a large quantity,
especially copious on the 11th and 12th. Severe contraction of the anus, especially since yesterday.
He now smelt here Merc., and got to take as before Merc. v. 2/0 one globule in seven tablespoonfuls of water, and half
a spoonful of brandy.
Twentieth - Throat better since 18th; he has suffered much with the anus; the motion causes pain when it is passing;
less thirst.
Milk-sugar in seven tablespoonfuls.
Third March - No more sore throat; On going to stool a bloodless haemorrhoidal knot comes down (formerly this was
accompanied with burning and raw pain), now with merely itching on the spot.
To smell acid. nitri. and then to have milk-sugar in seve.
Almost no more pain after a motion; yesterday some blood along with the motion (an old symptom). Throat well; only a
little sensitive when drinking cold water.
Olfaction of acid nitri. (Olfaction is performed by opening small bottle containing an ounce of alcohol or brandy where
one globule is dissolved, and smelt for an instant or two).
He remained permanently cured. 4
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Acute cases
Inflammation of the breast

(mastitis)
Case
15th March, 63 Mrs. Mahamuda Khutan, wife of Mr. Abedin of Takpara, Cox's Bazar, Chittagong, age thirty five. It has
been known from her husband that the right breast if as hard as stone. Sensitive to touch, great burning pain day
and night. Pale appearance, no abatement either by heat or cold. No sleep due to pain. The six months old baby
cannot suck the breast. Body feverish, temperament gentle. Now-a-days a bit fretful. No irregularity of stool or
urine. Fair, short, gouty constitution. Thirst regular, tongue red.
Suffered from chicken pox and tonsillitis. Vaccination twice or thrice in her life-time.
15th march, 1963. Treatment - Phyto LM/1, only one number 10 pellet mixed with three ounces of filtered water in a
four oz. vial marked eight doses with ten drops of alcohol. Five doses to-day every two hours. Succussion 8 times for
each dose. Then one dose i to be mixed with four ounces of water which is to be stirred and a dose of two
teaspoonfuls to be taken. To report on the third day.
18th March, 1963. The husband reported, "Your medicine has worked miracles. On the first day the patient felt better
after use of 5 doses. Yet the remaining three doses have been administered on the next day. I did not inform you
yesterday as I thought no more medicine would be required. She is better".
Remarks : A deep-acting medicine like Phytolacca was used at short intervals and the patient came round within ten to
twelve hours without any medicinal aggravation.
Tonsillitis
Case
Ahmed, aged eighteen, Cox's Bazar. Thin, dark complexion. Left tonsil swollen, severe pain in swallowing. Aggravation in
cold bath and cold air.
"Temporary relief with mild heat and by gurgling with tapid water. Pain runs upto ear".
"I could not eat anything hard for the last three days", the patient said.
Other Symptoms : Ulcers in the mouth for the last one year. Saliva in great quantity, pillow becomes wet with it at
night. Bad smell in the mouth. Blood comes out from the teeth now and then at the time of cleaning. It is painful to
lie on the right side. Stool hard and constipation a bit. Urine normal. Much sweating with bad smell.
Treatment - MERCURIUS SOL. : LM/1 : A solution of eight doses in a vial of four oz. Before use succussion for eight
times and a dose of medicine to be again mixed in a glass, full of four oz. of water. Two spoonfuls to be taken after
stirring the solution. The rest is to be thrown away, two doses daily for the first day followed by one dose from the
next day. After ten days the father of the patient came and told me that the tonsil was no more.
Fever
Case
9th June, 1970. Tapan, aged 16. Dewanjeepukur. Chittagong, attacked with fever from 11 a.m. yesterday. Temperature
today is 99,4 at 9 a.m. There was burning sensation in the eyes and the body at time of the onset of fever. There
is gripping pain all over the body. Head whirls, tongue yellow. No thirst. No passing of stool today, only once
yesterday. Mouth bitter.
Medicine : Natrum Sulph-LM/1, eight doses to be taken after every four hours. Before use there should be succussion
of ten times every time and one dose is to be taken mixing it with four oz. of water in a clean glass. Then two or
three spoonfuls are to be taken after stirring well and the rest to be discarded.
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11 June, 1970. The patient is well. No repetition of medicine.
Whooping cough
Case
13 June, 1970. Master Mansur, aged two and half years, Boalia, Chittagong, suffering from whooping cough for the last
fifteen days. The coughing lasts for three to four minutes. Eyes and face become ruddy. Sputum comes out now and
then, face swollen. Coughing increases towards the close of the night. Thirst normal. Tongue clear, stool frothy,
stringy, bad odour, two or three times a day.
Medicine : Kali Carb. - LM/1, 8 doses in 4 oz. vial, succussion for ten times before use. Three doses a day to be taken
after every eight hours.
17 June, 1970. Swelling of eyes and face less, bad smell of stool less. Cough trouble is less than before.
Medicine : Kali Carb. - LM/2. Preparation as before and two doses daily to be used. One dose to be taken in a glass
after succussion for eight times. To mix it with four oz. of pure water and stir it well with teaspoon and to take two
teaspoonfuls from it, the rest to be rejected.
22 June, 1970. Almost well. Coughing once or twice now and then.
Medicine : Same as before, LM/3, one dose daily. Cured.
Fever
Case
15 June, 1970. Osimeah, aged 30, Chittagong.
Suffering from fever for three days. No remission, increases in the evening upto 104 and comes down to 99.8
catarrha. Coughing, sputum comes out, sneezing at intervals. Tongue a bit white, thirst normal, tasteless. No stool
for two days.
Head heavy, eyes heavy, painful to open. The patient feels better to lie down with eyes closed for a long time. No
sweating.
Medicine : Gels. LM/2, eight doses, ten succussions before use, after every two hours.
16 June, 1970. No fever. Head a bit heavy. NO other troubles.
Medicine : Gels. LM/3, as before after every six hours.
18 June, 1970. Came all-round. But a bit bad smell in the stool.
Medicine : Psorinum LM/1, eight doses. One dose after ten succussions to be mixed with four oz. of water and two
spoonfuls to be taken after stirring the solution well and the rest to be avoided, one dose daily. The patient came
round.
Bradycardia in high fever

Case
6 September, 1969 Mrs. Chowdhury, aged thirty, Dewan Bazar, Chittagong. A close relative of the patient came to my
chamber just like a shooting star and called out in a bewailing tone and said. "A patient of mine has lost
consciousness. You are to attend her. Please come just now". I went there and saw the room full of people. The floor
of the room was flooded with water. There was whispering. Will the patient survive? Some of them said,
"Homoeopathy can do nothing. Please call in that F.R. C. S".
The patient was almost senseless. Temperature 105.2. The pulse beat is only 56. I was startled. Heart was sinking, the
beatings of the heart were rapidly going to be decreased. Fever commenced five days before. NO remission. The
temperature ranged from 101-105. Today's condition is very serious. Another homoeopath was conducting the
treatment. He prescribed Gels.
The patient laid on bed as one dead. I opened her eyes and found them as red as a Chinarose. No passing of stool for
the last four days.
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No diet. Senseless four hours, senses could not be restored, even after much shouting. I pushed her hand and asked
her how she felt. She opened her eyes but could not give any reply. She shut her eyes within a moment. Thirst
normal, sweating at intervals. She was silent with her eyes closed. So my friend prescribed Gels.
A professor of Zoology asked me as I was taking time to collect the symptoms. "Can you do any good? Shall I call in the
Doctor mentioned before"?
I answered, please see, the condition of the patient is very serious. She may succumb to death if the beatings of the
heart cannot be restored. I do not think you would get opportunity for further treatment by calling in a doctor at
such and hour of the night. You will find improvement within half an hour if our medicine starts to act.
As regards selection, the dissimilarity between fever and the beating of the pulse, redness of the eyes, constipation,
senselessness came to my help. Specially the pre-death situation owing to the poisonous action of opium flashed
before my eyes.
Medicine : Opium LM/2, one number 10 globule in two oz. vial along with ten drops of alcohol. After succussion for
twelve times I took a dose into a glass. I put four oz. of water therein, stirred it well and passed 2 teaspoonfuls into
her mouth with great difficulty. A very small quantity went in, much of it has fallen down. Opening the mouth of the
vial I managed smelling of it for two seconds. It was about 11.15 p.m. A similar dose in the same manner at 11.25 p.m.
This time she devoured almost all the medicines. The third dose in the same way at 11.45 p.m. Temperature 104,
pulse beat 80, I plucked courage. Truly the pulse came from 56 to 80 within half an-hour. The temperature went
down by 1.5after every dose of medicine. It continued after every half-an-hour Temperature 100 at 1 a.m. , pulse
110. I said. "We have overcome danger, we are now out of danger". Medicine after every hour. It was 3 a.m.
temperature 98.4, pulse 84. The patient opened her eyes. Eyes are more clear. She urinated. Took a diet of barley
with milk.
The professor was seated there all along. He said to me "i see what miracles Homoeopathy can do? We did not look at
homoeopathy in this garb. In case we would have availed of the services of an allopath today, the patent would have
been finished before he could diagnose". I answered, "Brother, Homoeopathy is a science. Homoeopathy is in trouble
when in the hands of unscientific quacks. If it is in the hands of real scientists it brings or will bring cure of the
patient miraculously". I returned to my quarters.
7th September, 1969. 9-00 a.m. Temperature 97.4, pulse 76. Weak, tongue white. Passing of stool once. A bit dry
cough. Still feels a bit pain to open eyes, a bit pan in the head.
Medicine : Opium Lm/3, eight doses, ten succussions every time before use. A dose is to be mixed with 4 oz. of water
and to be used two teaspoonfuls, after every four hours.
Diet : Rice well boiled with soup, plenty of milk.
9th September, 1969. The patient is sound. Moving slowly from yesterday. There was smile on the face. There seemed
and awakening of the sign of life. Opium speeded the cure to bring to life a patient within two hours already in the
grip of death. She took diet of rice after twelve hours. That gentleman is a professor of Chittagong city College, the
greatest one in the city. Still today he speaks admiringly of that wonderful cure whenever we come across.
Chronic cases
Hepatic trouble
Case
10th April, 1966. Mrs. Karim twenty two, wife of some S.D. O., C. and B. of Cox's Bazar. The husband himself called me
into his quarters at 9-30 p.m. It was really pathetic what I saw there. The patient is writhing in pain. She lies for a
time and sits and wallows in the next moment. At times she gave out loud stricks. She has been carrying for the last
five months. Over and above she is in this great trouble. Every body in the family apprehends abortion;
Constitution : Fair, lean and thin, and slender. Hair thin, nose high, chest flat, nails healthy, tongue deep yellow-white.
Temperature 99.4. Eyes yellowish, body is also so, appearance pale and anaemic.
Present Troubles : (a) No motion for the last five days. She was under treatment of the Medical Officer of the Cox's
Bazar Hospital and local M.B. B.S. Besides, she had been under treatment of a renowned doctor of the Chittagong
Medial College Hospital for the last two months. The present physicians prescribed new and recent medicines
following the prescription of the Doctor of Chittagong Hospital. There was no clearance of bowels. No alleviation of
the symptoms except aggravation.
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(b) Flatulence in the stomach like an empty drum. Lower part stiff. Aching of the stomach spreads upwards beginning
from the region of the liver. Rise and fall oscillate when the ache is acute, taking of a small quantity of tepid water
brings in temporary relief, but it tends to aggravate from 4 p.m. to 8 p.m.
(c) Fever for the last six days without remission. It rises up to 101 and comes down to 99 irregularly.
Though I should have known more symptoms, yet it was not possible for me to procure them under such circumstances.
At 10.30 p.m. I prescribed Lyco. LM/1, one course. In a bottle of four oz. twelve drops alcohol mixed with three and
half oz. of distilled water- a single No. 10 globule of the remedy, six doses, one dose is to be used every alternate
hour. After eight succussions one dose is to be mixed with a cup of water and stirred and then one teaspoonful of it
is to be taken. The rest is to be rejected. The five doses in this way during the whole night and one dose in the
morning. But if the patient falls asleep, she should not be awakened for administering medicine.
Diet : Drink prepared of sugar-candy.
At 1 a.m. the peon of the C. and B. Office awoke me. ON my query he said that his officer told him that the patient
was running high fever. I assured him that there was no cause of worrying. The fever will subside by itself. I might
be informed in the morning.
They did not wait for the sun-rise. At 5 a.m. early in the morning they appeared before my door on a car and asked me
to attend the patient immediately. I rushed there without doing the routine morning duties and wanted to know the
present condition of the patient. Her husband replied. "Please see her and say for the last time whether she will be
cured. Let us take her to Chittagong and try our fate for the last time. We are ready with bag and baggage. The
local M.B. B.S. doctor will accompany us".
"What is the effect of my medicine"? I asked, "She passed stools thrice within the night after the use of your
medicine". The Allopathic mixture and the antibiotic tablets came out during the first time. Watery stool during the
second time and during the third time few hard pellets and loose odorous stools. But at 12.30 a.m. fever rises upto
104 and subsides after 1.30 a.m. During fever she was very weak and could not speak. Now temperature is 98. "So
much progress is within 8 hours only, why are you so impatient"? I asked, "Please see, se is carrying lest something
untoward should happen". "There is no cause for anxiety, she will get round fully from our treatment. There is no
danger of abortion. Let us take another doctor on our way". He agreed and we reached the bungalow of the S.D. O.
at 7 a.m. with Dr. Fauzal Kabir, one of the prominent physicians of Cox's Bazar.
We found the patient sitting on a sofa quietly and comfortably. Her diet is being prepared. The medicines have cooled
seriousness of yesterday within a few hours. A sign of physical and mental coolness is in the face of the patient. She
was given forth with a diet of sago with sugar-candy and we get the following picture in her own words :
"No temperature. No flatulence, no pain in the region of the liver, a little pain on the right side of the abdomen. No
biting pain. I feel mentally well, I hope I shall be free. The allopathic medicines did not work well. The famous
doctors also could do me no good". Then why do you want to go to Chittagong"?
"No, I do not wish to go, they (the members of the family) have been struck with fear. They intended to take me to
town".
"There is burning in the soles. The palms and the head are hot, I have leucorrhoea, pain in hip and a bit griping pain in
the muscles.
Mind : "It seemed to me now and then that I would die. I shall not be free from the disease. Of course, today my
worries are much less".
"I possesses good merit and power of memory. I am fond of music. I am not disgusted in travels. I like company. I
prefer neatness and cleanliness and a sense of adoptiveness and decorativeness".
Stool : I passed stools four times last night and once in the morning. Stools are offensive.
Urine : Yellowish - Less in quantity.
Thirst : Normal but I like to drink hot water.
Sweat : Less in quantity. No bad smell in it.
Sleep : I could not sleep for the last five nights and I have become much fatigued due to sleeplessness.
Hunger : No hunger for many days, I take food wilfully, foods must be fresh and hot. I cannot tolerate milk. I can't eat
sour things and dal; I cannot tolerate bread also. Salt and pungent foods are natural to me. I do not like bitter
things.
Past Ailments : I suffered from jaundice once in childhood. Once from griping stomach pain like this. Taken vaccine
many times. Once three was burning sensation in urinating. Suffered from scabies and itches in childhood.
Climate and Temperature : I like open and free air. Doors and windows must be kept open. I bathe in cold water always.
I like covering in my body. Winter and spring are preferable.
Family History : Mother suffered from leucorrhoea and puerperal fever. Father from gout. Husband has warts. There
is now a nodule in the testicle. The first infant, aged one year and ten months, has been suffering from stomach
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disorders. There is no history of anybody in my husband's or paternal sides suffering from destructive disease.
Treatment : 11 April, 1966. Chelidon LM/1. One course, eight marks (doses), prepared according to the previous
process, to be used four marks daily, after succussion for eight times, before every use one mark is to be mixed
with four ounces of pure water and then stirred well, out of which two spoonfuls are to be taken and the rest to be
discarded.
13 April, 1966. Much burning sensation in the feet. Feels feverish always. Motion once yesterday, yellowish-offensive.
Griping pain in the legs last night. There is slight pain in the liver.
Medicine : Medo. LM/1. One course, eight marks, three marks daily after eight succussions each time.
15 April, 1966. Leg burning is less. No fever, no pain in the leg, a little pain in the liver, motion once daily.
Medicine : 20 April, 196. Medo. LM/2, Six marks, twice daily. All round improvement. Weakness a little.
There is no mental trouble. No sign of yellow colour in the body.
Medo. LM/3. One course, eight marks, once daily.
29 April, 1966. No further troubles, no weakness.
Medo. LM/4. One course, eight marks, once daily.
7 May, 1966. Patient is well. She feels pain sometimes in the hip and legs.
Medo. LM/5. One dose daily.
25 May, 1966. No trouble.
Psorinum. LM/1. One course, one mark daily.
4 June, 1966. Quite well.
Psorinum. LM/2, One mark daily.
After this she has to go to her village. It has been known from her husband that she has given birth to a male child at
proper time. Both the mother and the baby are keeping well.
Remarks : This patient being unsuccessful in Allopathy takes shelter of our Homoeopathy. Her serious and almost fatal
condition subsided only within seven hours.
Long acting medicine like Lyco. has been used at short intervals in the new potency and the patient was on the road to
cure without medicinal aggravation. The Chelidonium was used temporarily followed by Medorrhinum, that also thrice
daily. A complicated and chronic patient came round in less than two months' time. Because of its being new potency,
all deep and long acting medicines could be used at short intervals without any medicinal aggravation. NO antidotes
were necessary. Over and above, the patient came round in less time than she would generally have taken under
potencies prepared according to decimal or centesimal scales. So it is no exaggeration to say that the great
Hahnemann had to invent the new scale of potency for the relief to the suffering humanity, to make the incomplete
medical science complete, as far as possible, by giving practical shape to all the conditions of the ideal of cure
according to the second aphorism of the Organon.
A patient summoned by death and left by all other schools of

therapeutics
Case
11 July, 1968. - Barua, aged 23. A bit dark, oily complexioned. Strong and flabby constitution. Hair thick, black and
curly. Appearance pale, nose a bit flat. Eyes reddish but rather turbid, chest flat, nails healthy.
He was admitted to Chittagong Medical College Hospital seven days ago. He was put on a bed fenced with iron railings.
Inspite of this precaution he leapt out during fits. Fits last for fourteen to sixteen hours between twenty four
hours. He shouts - 'my head is gone', when consciousness revives. Drowsy sometimes. He did not pass stool even once
during the last seven days. He passed red and odorous urine twice or thrice. Sometimes he sweats, but fever does
not abate. The sweat smells foul. Fever does not come down below 101 and goes up to 104.4. Rise and fall of
temperature are irregular. We get 103.2 at 8 p.m. The pules beat is 126. The heart beat is so too. Lungs are clear.
Sometimes he sights deeply even while in drowsy condition. As regards diet, juice of fruits, water of sugar candy
have to be forced in. Lower part of the abdomen is hard and painful. Great flatulence in the belly. Tongue flabby and
white, dry, thirst seldom, but he takes two oz. if he drinks at all. Covering is unbearable, throws away the cover.
Restlessness and quite silence alternately. I collected the above facts when I attended the patient at 8 p.m. at the
call do Dr. Mutsuddy, an old and experienced allopathic doctor of Chittagong.
We saw the Discharge Certificate, received from the Medical College Hospital. There was written on it, "Cranial
Tumour, advised to consult Jinnah Medical College Hospital for further investigation". It was learnt that fourteen
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times X-rays of the head, chest and stomach of the patient were taken. The M.R. C. P's and F.R. C. S's among the
authorities of the Medical College met thrice in the Medical Board.
No treatment was advised except glucose injection. The doctors told the relatives of the patient with this remark in
the Discharge Certificate : Such one case is not found even in a Lac. Patients do not generally survive under such
conditions. Moreover, brain operation is not executed in our country. He will not lie even if he is sent to West
Pakistan. There is some hope if he could be taken to Jurich, but he will succumb to death before arrangement is
made to send him there. The doctors told the guardians of the patient all these in front of him. They thought that
he was unconscious. But he was not so except that his eyes were closed. So his condition became worse knowing of
his sure death.
The cry of 'my head is gone' has been explained by the foreign qualified doctor as such - The patient shouts because
of acute pain due to tumour in the cranium and loses his consciousness, when the pain becomes intolerable. The
causes of 'losing sense' for the greater period of the day is the excruciating pain of the tumour.
I told Dr. Mutsuddy after the collection of these datas. "Dear brother, how does the patient sleep if the state of
senselessness comes from pain due to tumour? Please see now that he is in sound sleep". The doctor did not give any
reply to my query. It seems to me that there is one tumour in the mind of the patient and another one in the
cranium. That's why he leave a deep sigh before the revival of consciousness. So it is suspected to be a case of
globus hysteria. The doctor kept silent.
Then we came to learn form the guardians that he got a tremendous shock when all his properties were stolen. In
addition to this his mother scolded him and advised him to work hard for his livelihood. Then he left the house. "I
produce corps with the sweat of my brow. Where is the justification to carry on cultivation if I am not allowed to
enjoy the food earned with my strenuous labour"?
To crown all, many of his mates, being educated, are engaged in service. He would express his unwillingness, on many
occasions, to carry on cultivation (within their knowledge). Leaving home, the patient visited many places from
Rangunia to Unkhia, Teknaf, Cox's Bazar and other places. He did not see his elder brother out of anger and sorrow;
Being unsuccessful, he came back to Chittagong and took the job of a bus assistant. On 4th July, he went to Dhum on
bus on the day of his appointment. On his return from Dhum when petrol fell short in the car, he frank some petrol
at the time of drawing it with a plastic tube. At dead of night on that day, the bus driver left him at the residence
of his maternal uncle in the town. On the next day (15 July, 1968) he was admitted of Chittagong Medical College
Hospital. He was released today with the summon of death stated before.
Next I learnt from the wife of his elder brother that he loved an educated girl, daughter of a rich man of his village.
He squanders money to please the girl on the one hand and moves with charming dresses on like a rich man. At last
when the father of the girl came to know of it, he took her to Chittagong Hill Tracts, because he could not agree to
his daughter's marriage to such an illiterate boy. Besides, friends of the locality informed him that it was in vain to
run after the girl as her father would, under no circumstances give him the daughter in marriage. The patient was
depressed after he dad come to known of it; The incident of theft, the behaviour of his mother and swallowing of
petrol on the very first day of his appointment and at the top of everything, the blow he received from his
disappointed love affairs led us to declare unhesitatingly to all including the Allopathic Physician present there "This patient will surely come round (though from the first report i was not sure of success). Because he is haunted
more by the mental tumour than by the tumour in the brain, the tumour in the brain will not exist if that of the mind
is gone. Please don't lose your patience".
The from the early history of the patient I gathered that he had suffered once from Chicken Pox, once from Malaria,
was vaccinated twice. Still his health was on the whole good, since boyhood. From family history it was known that
the father suffered from rheumatism and mother from Leucorrhoea.
Mind : The patient was very active when he was in health, jolly, wayward and self-conceited. He remains neat and clean
but careless. He is fond of mates and songs. He prefers bath for all the year round. I could not gather anything
special by questioning the patient. He only points to his belly and head. His eyes become full of tear if anything is
asked of him. It seems he is hopeless of his life. I then told all to convince him. "You had been attended to by the
famous doctors of the city. The doctors of the Medical College failed to diagnose your malady. You have no tumour
inside the head. You will be cured within three or four days". I also said to him "This girl will be yours. She will be
brought here for marriage with you after your recovery. We shall send men tomorrow morning to bring the girl down
here from the Hill Tracts". We noticed that the eyes and face of the patient beamed with gushes of joy when he
has heard me. His relatives were a it assured.
Wit a view to further observation, I put eight doses of Placebos to be in four oz. vial for the day and the day following
to be taken after every three or four hours after succussion for ten times.
The medicine for consolation went on. "You have no disease. We shall arrange marriage of that girl with you".
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Here I am glad to inform to my learned readers that from that day on improvement was noticed with the Placebo only.
On the 4th day the temperature is only 100. Fits are only four hours in place of fourteen hours. Deep sighing at
loner intervals for twenty hours, and more cheerful than before.
13 July, 1968. Ignatia - LM/6, eight doses? 10 succussions, to be taken after every six hours. Sorrowfulness,
hopelessness, mental shock with long sigh, etc., are the main symptoms of this medicine.
15 July, 1968. No fever. Stool and urine normal, mental improvement is constant. Ignatia LM/7 after every seven hours.
18 July, 1968. More relieved, body painful, stool little constipation. Natrum mur.-LM/2, two doses daily, eight
succussions.
23 July, 1968. Round in all directions. Smiling attitude. But fever comes at 10 a.m. and subsides at night, again fever
this morning at 10-30 attended with shivering, blisters on the lips. No stool for two days. Thirst great, tongue dry.
Pain in head less.
Medicine : Natrum mur. - LM/3, two doses a day, eight succussions.
27 July, 1968. Rheumatic pain. No other trouble. No more fever from the day before. Thuja LM/4, one dose daily.
Thuja helps to cure Rheumatism, bad effects of vaccination and hereditary sycosis.
After the use of Thuja upto LM/11 itches full of pus appeared on the body of the patient. On the basis of totality of
symptoms I gave Sulphur from LM/1 to LM/4. The patient is in health upto the present time, i.e. , upto 18-3-71. No
further trouble. His marriage ceremony was solemnised on the 16th February, 1971 and I was invited to enjoy.
Homoeopathy thus cured a patient on the "Throes of death".
Jaundice
Case
22 August, 1972 Janab Rashid, aged 33. A slightly dark and short statured. Fatty. Face yellowish. Hair black, spare.
Eyes yellowish. Nose a bit big in size. Chest flat. Nails healthy. Calm and quiet to loo at. Temperature 96.4. Pulse 88.
Tongue yellow coated. Liver painful and enlarged. Suffering from jaundice for more than a month last.
Present troubles (in the language of the patient) : Mouth feels bitter at all the time. Body yellowish. Urine yellowish.
pain in the body. Itching in different places are different times. There is weakness in the waist. Head heavy. Food
comprising fats is unbearable. Stool watery, Acidity, appetite weak. Thirst much for the last two days, it was normal
before, cold water preferable, feel better when I take hot tea. I like to take a slightly hot food. I cannot take cold
food. Meat, fish, egg. sweets are my favourite food, but I cannot tolerate meat and egg. I feel worse after 5 or 6
p.m. , after at night and at midnight.
Eructation plain, but becomes sour when acidity forms. I feel better after belching and flatulence, feel worse if they
are obstructed. Stomach and chest urn now and then after an hour of taking food and last for an hour.
Stool watery on many occasions, twice a day, yellowish odorous. Feeling of pressure in the stomach, I have to pass stool
after any kind of food taken.
Urine : Yellowish for some days, once at night. four or five times in 24 hours. Smell normal, sweating plenty, all over the
body. Bed wet with sweating. Hand and feet sweat now and then.
Sleep : Less at present. Eyes swollen for two days. Burning, I like to sleep on the left side. I feel uncomfortable to
sleep on the right side or on my back.
Climate and Weather : Spring preferable. Rain uncomfortable. Prone to coryza. Cover all the body for the whole year,
catarrh is much in winter. Yet winter cannot prevail over me. Sensation of burning in the body. Feeling of aching in
the body. Feeling of heat now and then through the vertex. Bathe throughout the year. I do not feel comfort if I do
not bathe.
Past History : I was lean and thin in my childhood but the abdomen was big. Suffered once from jaundice. Disturbed by
the worms sometimes.
Misuse of Quinine because of suffering from malaria. Suffered from typhoid a few times. Coryza oftener. It generally
attacks in cold after heat, or heat after cold. Suffered from urticaria. There was scurf (dandruff) on the body,
suffered from itches and scabies in boyhood, boils during college life. Sexual debility. Vaccination many times.
Mind : Merit and memory normal. Temper cool. Desire to take revenge but abstain from it. Desire for coition much
sometimes. Prodigal in expenditure. Fond to be neat and clean and of decorative nature. No anxiety for any suffering
from diseases. Dream of water and travelling in unknown places. No mental shock.
Family History : Mother suffered from acidity, father from skin disease and great-grand mother from asthma.
Treatment taken : Allopathy - unsuccessful.
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Present Treatment : Chelidon - LM/3, eight doses on two oz. phial, six drops of alcohol, one No. ten globule. Ten
succussions before use. One dose from the solution to be mixed with four oz. water and stirred well and only two
teaspoonfuls to be taken one dose daily.
4 September, 1972. Head heavy. Head and body hot in the morning. Feels better after bath. Yellowish colour of the
urine is much less. The colour of the eyes is clearer than before. Body itches. Bowels are not clear. Chelidon - LM/4
as indicated before, one dose daily.
11 September, 1972. Head felt heavier from 4 p.m. to 8 p.m. or from 4 a.m. to 8 a.m. Sleeplessness, pain in the waist
while trying to stand erect. Eructation in the morning. There is a little pain in the liver. Urine and eyes almost clear.
Lyco. LM/2, one dose daily.
19 September, 1972. Eyes clear. Urine a bit yellowish sometimes, tongue clear. Thirsty, sweating much. No aggravation
from 4 to 8, little pain in the liver still left. Sulph. LM/3, one dose daily.
25 September, 1972. Heart palpitates from labour. There is slight pain in the liver. The colour of the skin and urine
normal. The yes do not seem to be clear, salty taste in the mouth in the morning and in the evening. Bowels are not so
clear, sleep sound. Itching less. Sense of burning is not acute.
Sulph. LM/4.
2 October, 1972. Improvement in all respects.
Stool passes one at 3 p.m. Palpitation of the heart for five to seven minutes in the afternoon. Sweating plenty
There is itching but less for two days last, sleep for a long time.
Calcarea Carb. LM/5.
9 October, 1972. I am well. Calcarea Carb. LM/6.
18 October, 1872. I feel better No trouble. Calcarea Carb. LM/7, one dose after every day or every two days. No
trouble is being marked upto this time.
Remarks : A chronic patient recovered within a short time without any medicinal aggravation.
Case records of patients treated by smelling method
Blood dysentery
Case
I January, 1969. (At 11-30 a.m. ). Janab Quazi, aged 40, Dewan Bazar, Chittagong, politician, reported suffering from
dysentery for last three days, purging 20 to 28 times day and night, more at night, he has to remain sitting for
great tenesmus. Less blood, mucus more. Tongue pale. Thirst great. Sweating plenty, odorous.
Medicine : Merc. Sol. LM/1. One number ten globule in a vial of one dram with a drop of distilled water and half a dram
of alcohol when it is dissolved in a minute.
Smelling for a second opening the mouth of the vial after succussion for eight times.
Report through telephone at 4 p.m. No passing of stool even for a single time, at 8 p.m. also no stool.
3 and 4 January, 1969. No stool, no other trouble, no bellyache.
5 January, 1969. Stool once, no blood, no mucous, but the bowels are not fully clear. And it was so even upto 9 January,
1969, but started being clear since 10 January, 1969.
No further smelling in the meantime. The medicine was acting. The patient was astonished. It is really a matter of
great wonder to be cured by a smelling of medicine for a second only.
Remarks : He was in Chittagong Jail as a political prisoner because of his participation in the language movement of
1952 where he was attacked with this serious illness. He was under allopathic treatment for a fortnight without any
effect. At last in the jail he came round under indigenous treatment and he was fully free now with a single smelling
of Merc. Sol.
Diarrhoea
Case
15 January, 1969. Master Sangram, aged 4. Dewan Bazar.
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Passing of stools thrice between 4 a.m. and 5 a.m. , colour white, coming out like a gunshot, profuse-about a seer each
time, very offensive. Rice water stools. Face and eyes sunken. Thirst at intervals, tongue juicy.
Smelling of Podo. LM/2, at 5-30 a.m. No passing of stools for the whole day after smelling.
16-1-69. From the report it has been known that he is quite well.
Acute toothache
Case
16 March, 1970. Mrs...32. I went to attend her at 10 p.m. and saw that she had been writhing with pain since yesterday
from acute toothache, saliva was coming out incessantly. Mouth is odorous. Ulcers at the root of the teeth. Pus
gathered there. She could not eat anything since morning on account of pain. Pain was increasing with the advance of
the night. She had great thirst before but to-day she was unable to drink water. Profuse sweating with offensive
odour.
Medicine : The patient is of Merc. Sol. The time was night and in the grip of severe aggravation. Fearing that
aggravation might be severe with the application of medicine at night, I gave Merc. Sol. LM/1 for smelling, as per
process indicated before. It was being observed after the elapse of four minutes that the aching pain was non the
wane. She fell into sleep within five minutes. I came back giving her a few Sac. Lac. with direction not to administer
any medicine after awakening her from sleep.
17 March, 1970. Well from all sides, there was a little pain at the root of the teeth. Feels a bit trouble to take food.
Placebo, eight doses after every three hours.
18 March, 1970. All right. Saliva little. Bad odour in the mouth.
19 March, 1970. Well. No pain at all. A little saliva with a little bad smell.
Medicine : Merc. Sol. LM/1 for smelling for a second, after succussion for ten times. Placebo, eight doses twice a day.
22 March, 1970. No trouble. She was all right.
4. CHRONIC AND COMPLICATED SKIN DISEASE.
25 January, 1968. Janab...Rahman, aged 40, a businessman. Fair short statured. Hair black and thin. Nose, eyes black.
Chest round, Face full os pots of skin diseases, looking like spots of small pox at first sight. Nails healthy.
Lying in bed for the last two years on account of skin diseases. He lost his trade. He did not neglect treatment by
specialists of skin diseases from home and abroad. He had lost all his money, trade, business, health, etc. But it was
not possible for him to be restored to health. Now he is trying of homoeopathy-the last resort of all for his
recovery.
Myself with two other brothers in the profession tried for a year to bring about his cure. We made use of medicines
short or long acting, without success. Placeboes prepared with alcohol also bring aggravation. During the period of
one year his troubles sometimes go up and sometimes down but to no permanent relief. Being out of all treatments,
the patient had patience and we could avail ourselves of this opportunity. We took the history of the patient again
on January 7, 1969 and started our treatment afresh. But this time we used the smelling method with one No. ten
globule of the selected medicine mixed with distilled water only because diseases aggravated even when he smells
unmedicated alcohol. So oversensitive a patient I had not had before. The reason might be the uses of excessive
medicines. He was allergic even to R. Spirits.
Record of the Patient : 7 January, 1969. His present eczema has been continuing for the last three years.
The eczema of right leg looked like a ring worm. It would once subside and would appear again at another place. It
spreads all over the body. Body smelled and became fatty. Homoeopathy ten months, aggravation first, took the turn
to lessen, but re-appeared in the back and the chest. Again allopathy, relief first but turn again as before.
A few suppurate, others dry. Water oozed sticky, thick, no smell. Itching is much during rest, aggravates at rest, at
bare body in the cold and at night, ameliorated by application of hot water and hot fomentation and when the patient
is absent minded. Burns after much itching. It is difficult to move onward using the top and bottom of the right leg.
Eyesight is defective, requires spectacles.
Teeth : Black, gums black. The black teeth take no other hue as much as he might try to cleans them. Saliva now and
then, odour increases and decreases. No other trouble at present.
Past History : Great trouble at the time of teething, painful ulcers, itches - on the head and all over the body, still
there are spots. Kala-azar at the age of fourteen. Malaria once. Coryza at times without impressionable troubles.
Once a low n the hand and fingers. Measles once. Vaccination twice. Eruptions like condylomata, warts once.
Mind : Memory weak, cool tempered. Sometimes I feel angry but I do not give went to it. I manage to suppress it.
Desire for sex natural, becomes excessive at times. Brain sharp. I like to remain clean. I am of neat and clean habit.
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I do not like to remain alone. I like company. Earnestness in study. No taste for games and sports, fond of music. But
I am not afraid of any thing. Feels heaviness in the hand while walking, relief after sleep. Despair, and
discouragement doing daily duties, but afterwards everything goes right.
Climate and Weather : Like bathing all the year round. I fell worse in cloudy weather and in the summer. I do not like
abnormal cold. I feel no burning in my body.
Other Symptoms : Stool, twice daily, clear. Blood dysentery once, but still now I have to suffer with it. Very
constipated before marriage. Colour yellow, white, stinking. Sometimes sour. Has to remain seated if mucus is seen.
Urine : Clear, once felt pain in left kidney, then there was burning in urine and it was reddish. Smell natural; Sweat profuse, odorous. Head also sweats, uneasiness while sweating. Sweating while awakened. Sleeps sound, comfortable
on the left side, dream - reflection of thought. Hunger-acute, digestion good - can eat much, no discrimination of
foods; dry shrimp fish, undesirable; beef and hilsha fish; unendurable; fond of pepper, salt and sour things. No taste
for bitter things, fond of sweets. Thirst much - much more in heat. Food mild hot and drink cold favourable.
Family History : Mother - suffering from ophthalmia, swelling of the lids, almost always of defective sight, chronic
dysentery.
Father : Chronic dysentery and costiveness.
Wife : Suffering from leucorrhoea, malaria two times.
Treatment
7 January, 1969. Medicine : Staphi LM/2. One number ten globule in one dram vial with a drop of distilled water. One
minute after its dissolution, 40 drops of distilled water (cannot tolerate alcohol). Smelling after eight succussions
for one second.
14 January, 1969. Progress is on the way.
17 January, 1969. Staphi. LM/2. Smelling for the second time, eight times succussions before smelling.
2 February, 1969. Condition better upto 31 February, 1969. Itching less - no oozing out of water but again it was seen
from yesterday. Staphi LM/3 was not tolerated. So From the third time the interval of taking medicine by olfaction
was after every seven days.
1 March, 1969. The condition of the leg was two-third better. He could walk. But swelling and pain at the top of the
nose and the attack of skin disease were greater there. The black spot of the teeth is on the wane, bowels not so
clear.
Staphi. LM/4. Smelling after every seven days.
18 March, 1969. Scabies in the lower part of the foot have been dried up but not so inside. Water oozes out now and
then. There was no swelling or pain on the nose, but itching was present. Right leg sweat much.
4 April, 1969. Coughing for the last few days-increases at night, sweating much; the wounds under the feet aggravate
by walking. Tuber. bacillinum LM/2-smelling after every six days.
16 May, 1969. Ulcers raw, itch, corns like ulcers under the feet, stool normal, urine yellowish. Profuse sweating, great
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thirst, coughing subsided after the 1 , smelling.
Tuber. bacil. LM/3. After every seven days.
25 June, 1969. The condition of ulcer is better, stays on the eye-lid.
Staphi. LM/4.
29 July, 1969. Aggravation of the skin disease from yesterday, a little water oozes out. No smelling for the last twenty
days.
Staphi. LM/5. Single smell.
4 August, 1969. Tonsils swollen. Pain to swallow. Saliva in the mouth, bad smell. No other affections. Skin disease is
almost gone.
Merc. sol. LM/1. One selling.
12 August, 1969. Ulcers on the leg almost absent.
No tonsil but gums swollen. Odorous saliva present, teeth bleed at intervals, itches on the writs with pan, stool and
urine normal. Mental condition good.
Merc. Sol. LM/2. Smelling.
1 September, 1969. Ulcer in the leg at a place measuring about the size of a rupee (con) full of fissures, water
oozes-sticky, pain present. Nose red with a little pain. Itches. Sleep sound, idlish, dreams of thieves. Stool and urine
normal, mental condition good, improvement is much remarkable, immediate cure is expected.
Staphi. LM/6 smelling.
4 September, 1969. Dry skin diseases. On the day of the smelling the ulcers open within fifteen minutes of the smelling
and water oozes-last for twenty four hours and this subsides slowly-I feel better and itching recurs after eight to
ten days. Then I feel the necessity of medicine and so take smell again. I could not just realise why ulcers appear on
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the leg and water oozes within fifteen minutes of smelling. Then one day, in the meantime, he proved his statement
by taking smell of medicine in my presence. I was astonished to see the miraculous action of smelling.
At present - ulcers on the foot are much more less, there are black spots only but mouth is odorous. So also the saliva
and the sweat to a greater degree. Thirst great. Dry scales on the body here and there, itching increases at night.
Merc. Sol. LM/3.
17 October, 1969. Eczema is limited at a place of the size of a pice (metallic), increases now and decreases then. Water
oozes out when it is on the increase and scales are formed when on the decrease. A little itching, there are some
itchings in the nose.
Black spot on the teeth is negligible. Saliva, blood, sweat negligible. Ars. Iod. LM/3.
1 November, 1969. Feels better after smelling but for a time only. Alcohol is being tolerated for the last there to four
months. So the medicinal solution for smelling is being mixed with alcohol as usual.
There are a few scaly eruptions, more at a little space, water oozes. Ars. Iod. LM/4.
15 November, 1969. All round improvement in all respects. Ars. Iod. LM/5.
18 December, 1969. When eruptions subsided from the legs a little, they appeared on the nose. In the meantime the
leg was free to a greater extent. Ars. Iod. LM/6.
27 December, 1969. No scaly eruptions on the head. No itching on the body, there are spots on the places where the
skin was diseased. Odorous saliva in the mouth, physically weak. Burning pan in the urine, quantity less. Blood
Dysentery for the last three days, three times on the first days, 12 times yesterday, 6 times to-day, bad smell and
mixed with blood and mucus. No desire to leave the latrine when I once go there; More colic pain-Blood and stool
when strained, colour pale-red, Merc. Sol. LM/3. One smelling at twelve noon.
9 January, 1970. I did not smell the last medicine. For I had no stool for two days after its administration. Now stool is
normal but of putrid odour. sleep natural. Thirst natural, sweating normal with less odour, but from today morning at
a little spot of the ulcer water is coming out, a side of the anus is swollen, pus is passing.
There is itching, pain a little, blood if pressed hard, Merc. Sol. LM/5 smelling after every twenty days.
6 February, 1970. A little space is raw. Water a little, no other trouble. Merc. Sol. LM/5 smelling after every 30 days.
20 March, 1970. Well except a little crack in place of the ulcers. Skin almost clean, Merc. Sol. LM/6.
17 July, 1970. Well. No trouble.
25 March, 71. When the Pakistani Army of Yaheakham, the blood hound of the imperialist started barbarous attacks on
the unarmed and innocent people of Bangladesh and indulged in mass slaughter. I was compelled to leave my
fatherland for India in the month of May, 1971.
21 January, 1972. After independence I came back and saw that the patient was all round. No skin disease. But his
health broke down because of want of food and shelter during the period of Pakistan Army onslaught. Of course
many progressive minded people of Bangladesh not only lost their lives but those who survived lost their health and
vitality. Still today my patient friend is free from re-attack of any disease.
This type of chronic disease has been cured through administration of medicine of the newest dilution by the smelling
method.
Conclusion
From the thorough discussion of the above and case records of patients we may come to the decisive conclusion that
Hahnemann had completed his life-long experiment of medical science in the sixth edition of the Organon. The
advancement of homoeopathy is nicely reflected in the last edition of the Organon till his death. The preparation
and administration of medicine as per method indicated in this edition may be pursued for the sake of prompt and
gentle cure of the sick humanity and finally for the progress of homoeopathy. Its previous editions have now become
obsolete.
There is no scientific reason to cling to the fifth edition with its centesimal scale out of self-interests or prejudice.
But at the same time we must remember that science is always dynamic, it can never be static. So Hahnemann or
sixth edition of the Organon cannot be the final say. The medical experts will lead it to more perfection for the
sake of human beings. Hahnemann also had hinted at it like a true scientist and called the Sixth Edition of the
Organon". ...the most nearly perfect of all". the word 'perfect' may be acceptable to the idealist but no to the true
scientist. There is no truth that is 'perfect' or 'complete'. Truth is relative.
Let us pursue the scientific way more deeply, engage ourselves for the salvation of mankind and thus lead homoeopathy
to more and more perfection.
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CHOUDHURY H., Indications of Miasms (cdh1)

CHOUDHURY Harimohon
Hahnemannian doctrine of miasms

Introduction
The morbific agents which are causally connected with production of diseases, were designated by a general term
"miasm or miasma", during the time of Hahnemann. It was the word loosely used in his time to express the morbific
emanations from putrescent organic matter, animal or vegetable and some times the effluvia arising from the bodies
of those affected by certain diseases. Hahnemann picked up the term which was current in the medical literature of
this time but he adorned the word with a special connotation and denotation and used it accordingly.
Like "The Doctrine of Vital Force", "The Doctrine of Chronic Miasms", is another controversial subject in Homoeopathy.
The spiritualist and idealist Homoeopaths (like Drs. J.T. Kent, 1J.H. Allen, 2 J. Paterson, 3 H.A. Roberts 4 etc.)
defined the miasm asa "condition, state, predisposition, dyscrasia and diathesis". But Homoeopaths of more
scientific bent of mind, who are known as materialists, could not be satisfied with the above concept. Amongst them
the names of Drs. C. Hering 5, R. Hugues 6, S. Close 7, G. Boericke 8, Margaret Tyler 9, P. Speight 10, and B. K.
Sarkar 11, etc., are worth mentioning. Instead of regarding miasms as "dyscrasiae" they included several of " the
dyscrasiae "among the morbid conditions and diseases caused by miasms.
It will not be out of place to mention here that the concept of the latter is more akin to that of Dr. Hahnemann.
"Hahnemann was the first to perceive and teach the parasitical nature of infectious or contagious diseases, including
syphilis, gonorrhoea, leprosy, tuberculosis, cholera, typhus, and typhoid fevers; and the Chronic Diseases in general,
other than occupational diseases and those produced by drugs and unhygienic living, the so-called drug diseases" 12.
Hahnemann emphatically stated", All Chronic diseases of mankind, .....show such a constancy and perseverance, that
as soon as they have develop and have not been thoroughly healed by the medical art, they evermore increase with
the years, and during the whole man's life time; and they can not be diminished by the strength belonging even to
the most robust constitution. Still less can they be overcome and extinguished. Thus they never pass away of
themselves, but increase and are aggravated even till death. They must therefore, all have for their origin and
foundation constant Chronic miasms, whereby they parasitical existence in the human organism is enabled to
continually rise and grow 13. And we know that, "Only living beings grow". For that reason Dr. B. K. Sarkar rightly
said, "He used the terminology of his day which he qualified to suit his purpose and thus made it clear that by the
word 'Miasm' amplified by descriptive terms "infectious, contagious, excessively minute, invisible, as living
creatures" applied the cholera poisoning agent he must have meant previously what we mean today when we use
terms of modern Bacteriology to express the same idea. In fact, the idea of "ontagium Vivum" orginated with
Hahnemann and he can be hailed as the father of Bacteriology 14. (italics are ours).
Today it is our foremost duty to perceive the doctrine of miasms scientifically and put the same into day-to-day
practice for the recovery of ailing humanity. If we heartily want to do so we should be free from all prejudices
including idealistic fetters. Dr. Phyllis Speight very rightly says", Any homoeopathic prescriber who ignores the
miasmatic theory cannot eliminate deep- seated diseases".
Miasm
"Miasma" is a Greek word. It means stain, pollution, defilement. In general, "Miasm" means : (i) a heavy vaporous
exhalation or effluvium formerly believed to cause disease, (ii) obnoxious influence or atmosphere, (iii) an
unwholesome exhalation, (iv) polluted material, (v) putrid vegetable matter, (vi) contagion effluvia from human body,
(vii) infective material, (viii) the maggots- the larvae from a fly.
The great Shakespeare also said, "Miasms are the maggots that are born within the brain" (Maggot - grub, worm, the
larvae from a fly).
Another great Homeopath said, "By miasm, hahnemann means germ of disease." 15
Dr. P.S. Ortega also very rightly says, "This source or germ of suffering and death is positive, demonstrable, and
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perfectly recognizable. He (Hahnemann - author) called it the MIASM. 16

"When we say 'miasm' we mean 'causes', the aetiology of acute and chronic diseases." 17
In this connection we would be deceived if we do not hear what Dr. Stuart close says, "A misunderstanding of the sense
in which Hahnemann uses the word "miasm" has deceived many. It was the word loosely used in his time to express
the morbific emanations from prutrescent organic matter, animal or vegetable and sometimes the effluvia arising
from the bodies of those affected by certain diseases, some of which were regarded as infectious and others not."
Bacteria
Bacteria means :
i) microscopic organisms,
ii) micro-organisms,
iii) microbes,
iv) schizomycetes or a group of micro-organisms,
v) a class of microscopic unicellular or filamentous plants, saprophytic, parasitic or autotrophic agents in putrefaction,
nitrogen fixation, etc., and the cause of many diseases.
Moreover, miasms or according to modern terminology, micro-organisms, those are belonging to the vegetable
kingdom--- Bacteria, Fungi, and Viruses, or animal kingdom - Protozoa, Helminths, etc., are regarded as the proximate
cause of many diseases. In short, we may call all these as "disease producing agents", in one word "pathogen".
Whatever the dictionary meaning of the term 'miasm' may be , Hahnemann had clearly specified the meaning as
"parasites", "germs", "viruses" and "minute living bodies", etc. in different chapters in his epoch making books"
Chronic Diseases" and "Lesser Writings".
History of Bacteriology
The past history of bacteriology is not only essential but very much interesting also. Since long time the attention of
the scientists were more centered to the different diseases that bacteria might cause disease rather than to find
out what they were. First of all the name of Fracostorius of Verona should be remembered. It is he who put forward
his conception of "Contagium Vivum" as the cause of infective disease in the year 1546. Then in the year 1659
Kircher recorded the presence of minute germs in the blood of plague patient, Von Plenciz believed that diseases
had some bacterial origin.
The medical profession bow their heads to the memory of Dutch scientist Leeuwenhoek for his invention of
'Microscope' in the year 1676.
This is called primitive microscope. From this period medical profession steps towards the world of objectivism from
the world of imagination.
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In the middle of 19 Century the development of bacteriology started with the revolutionary works of Louis Pastur
(1822-1895) and Robert Koch (1842-1910), Koch discovered the comma bacillus of Cholera only in 1882.
Although Hahnemann had no microscope but more than 50 years before Koch's discovery he was the first to perceive,
teach and discover the parasitical nature of all infectious diseases and the Chronic Diseases in general in the year
1827 before publication of his famous book "Chronic Diseases". It is all the more significant that Hahnemann
recognised the presence of bacteria in epidemic and acute diseases in 1818, more than sixty years before Koch
isolated the tubercle bacillus. But the irony of the medical history is that his name was totally omitted from the
history of bacteriology. Alas ! this is probably the best reward of this ungrateful medical world.
Long time before the so-called modern medicine could even imagine, Hahnemann classified all the diseases in two groups
: (1) Acute and (2) Chronic.
According the Hahnemann, acute diseases are divided into three parts - (a) individual, (b) sporadic and (c) epidemic. He
had also given hints of endemic and pandemic character of acute diseases.
Hahnemann divided chronic diseases in two parts :
(a) Diseases with fully developed symptoms and (b) Diseases with very few symptoms. He again divided chronic diseases
of category "a" in two parts - (i) Non- miasmatic and (ii) Miasmatic.
Non-miasmsatic diseases are again sub-divided into three groups : (i) diseases from bad hygienic conditions of living, (ii)
diseases due to continued application of non-homoeopathic drugs in crude forms or drug addictions, (iii) occupational
diseases.
Miasmatic chronic diseases are also sub - divided into two parts : (i) Single disease by Psora-Sycotic, or Syphilis and (ii)
compound Disease by Psoric- Sycotic, or Psoric-Syphilitic, or Syco-Syphilitic or Psoric-Syphilitic-Sycotic. These are
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also of three different types, i.e. , (i) continued, (ii) Intermittent and (iii) Alternating.
Miasmatic chronic diseases with few symptoms are also divided into two parts :
(i) One-sided diseases which are sub-divided two groups, i.e. , (a) diseases with only mental symptoms, e. g., Mania,
Insanity, etc., and (b) Diseases with only physical symptoms, e.g. , backache, headache, etc.
(ii) Local diseases which are also sub-divided into two groups, i.e. , (a) Surgical and (b) Non-Surgical.
This classification of diseases was the first in its character in the history of medicine which is of paramount
importance for treatment and management of diseases. And this is one of the greatest contributions of Masters
Hahnemann.
Acute miasms
Hahneman has clearly that acute, half-acute, half spiritual and fixed miasms are mainly responsible for all acute
diseases.
He has more clearly that miasm are "germs", "virus", "animated living beings", "living creatures", "excessively minute,
invisible, living creature", etc. 18
It is evident that Hahnemann's miasms are nothing but bacteria and other micro-organisms according to modern
terminology.
Dr. Kent defined nature of acute miasm very nicely : "An acute miasm is one that comes upon the economy, passes
through its regular prodromal period, longer or shorter, has its period of progress and period of decline and in which
there is a tendency to recovery".
Acute Miasms are of two types :
1. Recurring type - Those acute miasms which recur in the same manner more than once in a life-time of a particular
person in known as recurring type of acute miasms, e.g. , Cholera, Plague, Yellow Fever, etc.
2. Non-recurring type - Fixed miasms are those acute miasms which attack persons only once a life - time, such as Small Pox, Whooping Cough, Scarlet Fever, etc.
Half-acute Miasm - The micro - organisms of Rabies or Hydrophobia are called half-acute miasms.
Half-Spiritual Miasm - The living agents of measles, pox, scarlet fever, etc., are also called half-spiritual miasm. After
completing their parasitical existence in the organism for sometimes they die out leaving the organism to recover
soon if the patient survives by that time.
Chronic miasm _ psora

Psora
Although the acute diseases were rapidly and completely cured by application of well selected medicines but it was
observed that chronic diseases always had a tendency to replace in a more or less varied form with new symptoms.
It was also seen that in some cases they had reappeared annually with an increase of complaints. This apparent
failure after discovering and practising Homoeopathy for about 30 years (1790-1820 A.D. ) Hahnemann had ponder
over this matter seriously which led him to discover the theory of Psora as well as of Chronic miasms. It took more
than one decade of Hahnemann's life for invaluable experimentation on this subject. He said, "I spent twelve years
in investigating the source of this incredibly large number of chronic affections in ascertaining and collecting certain
proofs of this great truth which had remained unknown to all former or contemporary observers, and in discovering
at the same time the principal (antipsoric) remedies, which collectively are nearly a match for this thousand-headed
monster of disease in all its different developments and forms". 19
Regarding the treatment of chronic diseases at the former stage Hahnemann stated, "Its start was pleasing, the
continuation less favourable, the outcome hopeless". He further thought that the following five reasons may be held
responsible for this failure :
1. The law of similars might not be law of universal application.
2. The number of drugs hitherto discovered were too few to cover all types of diseases that afflict human beings.
3. There might be some defect in application of the law of Similars.
4. There might be some omission in ascertaining the totality of symptoms on which the Homoeopathic treatment is
based.
5. There might be some obstacles overlooked, the presence and non-eradication of which prevented lasting recovery.
Hahnemann took up the discussion in detail and found that out of above five points first four were not mainly
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accountable for obstacles to lasting recovery of non-venereal chronic diseases. At last after prolonged observations
and laborious experimentations he could realise that the above fifth point is the root of all evils. It was clearly
evident to him after innumerable factual observations of himself and other physicians that an eruption of itch
suppressed by faulty practice or one which had disappeared from the skin through other means, was evidently
followed in persons otherwise healthy by the same or similar symptoms. He gave a general name to the obstacle
retarding cure as "Psora". By it he meant the "internal itch disease" with or without eruption on the skin.
The dictionary meaning of the word Psora are as follows :
1. The itch or some similar skin diseases.
2. The itch-mite (Sarcoplas, Scabii, Sarcoptes hominis or Acaris Scabii).
The derivation in Latin and Greek, but it is rather Hebraic in origin, coming through the Greek and Latin. The original
Hebrew word Tsorat, means :
"A groove, a fault, a pollution, a stigma, after applied to leprous manifestations and the great plagues". 20
According to Hahnemann Psora is the only fundamental cause and producer of all (acute and chronic) diseases of
non-venereal nature. It is the most ancient miasm which produces seven-eighths of all chronic diseases for which it
becomes most universal mother of chronic diseases. It is most infectious of all chronic miasms. That is why
Hahnemann says, "Psora is that most ancient, most universal, most destructive and yet most misapprehended chronic
miasmatic disease which for many thousands of years has disfigured and tortured mankind..." 21
Development of psora
The development of Psoric pathogen or miasm may be described as under :
1. Mode of infection
The fluid in the itch vesicles contains the Psoric organism.
If that fluid comes in contact with the general skin the itch mite gets an entry in the organism. The disposition of
being affected with it is found in almost everybody and under all circumstances.
2. Internal development
From the moment of touching the skin they remain no more local. No eruption or itching will be seen on the skin during
first few days. It remains unchanged and apparently healthy. After a few days when those have received their
complete internal development in the whole organism the local symptoms break forth.
3. Manifestations of external diseases
Psoric miasms are generally manifested in the following three ways :
a) Primary manifestations - After completion of the internal development the itch miasms try to alleviate and soothe
the internal disease through local symptoms on the skin, the itch-vesicles. The incubation period of psoric miasms
generally varies from 6 to 14 days. After elapse of this period a slight or more severe chill in the evening and a
general heat, followed by sweat in the following night, the itch vesicles come out. At the beginning they are fine, as
if from miliary fever, but gradually spreading on the skin. At first they appear in the infected region. These
eruptions are accompanied by a voluptuously trickling itching which compels the patient irresistibly to rub and
scratch the itch vesicles. There sorts of rubbing and scratching render temporary relief followed by severe burning
for a long period. The itching is frequent and more unbearable in the late evening which continues up to mid-night.
In the beginning theitch vesicles containing watery fluid which quickly transforms into pus and fills up the tips. Violent
rubbing breaks up the vesicles making the fluid pressed out and furnishes much quantity of material for infecting
the surroundings of the patient and also other healthy persons. As long as this eruption remains in it s natural form
the internal Psora and its secondary manifestations can not break forth. In this state it remains slumbering and
latent. These troublesome eruptions act as representative for the internal disease and keep the patient free from
secondary ailments. In this stage, the disease can easily be cured by internal application of well selected
homoeopathic medicines.
Latent and secondary manifestations of psora

But if instead of doing so it is allowed to progress in its own peculiar course without administration of internal curative
medicines and various ointments applied externally to drive away the eruptions, then the whole internal disease
speedily aggravates and increases. As a result of suppression of primary manifestation of Psora by local application
or by non-homoeopathic internal medicines it is forcefully driven in wards and remains in a dormant state which is
dangerous. It is called Latent Psora. On the other hand if it is exposed to some, exciting or maintaining causes like
pox, whooping cough, measles or grief, vexation, shock, fall, trauma and burns, etc., the latent psora, slumbering in
the organism awakens and breaks out as numerous severe chronic diseases of Psoric character. It is termed as
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Secondary manifestation of Psora which is much more dangerous to human life. In this way, due to suppression or
palliation of Psoric skin diseases by external or internal treatment with Pseudo-homoeopathic drugs the seat of the
disease which was concentrated in the external comparatively non-important organ like skin has been forcefully
driven to much more important vital organs like brain, heart, lungs, liver, spleen, kidney, especially the central
nervous system, endangering whole of the human health and life. Dr. Phyllis Speight very rightly says, "Psora spends
its force when suppressed upon the nervous system largely, or upon nerve centres often producing nervous and
mental phenomena of a serious character, all ameliorated when an eruption is thrown up on the skin."
Symptoms of latent psora

(according to Hahnemann)
Head
Perspiration on the head, in the evening after going to sleep. Frequent one sided headache even from moderate
emotional disturbances.
Frequent falling out of hair of the head, dryness of the same, many scales upon the scalp.
Eyes
Frequent inflammations of the eyes.
Nose and smell

Epistaxis with girls and youths (rarely with older persons), often very severe. Frequent or tedious dry or fluent coryza
or catarrh or impossibility of catching a cold even from the most severe exposure, even while otherwise having
continually ailments of this kind. Long continued obstruction of one or both nostrils.
Ulcerated nostrils (sore nose).
Disagreeable sensation of dryness in the nose.
Predisposition to catching cold (either in the hole body or only in the head, the throat, the breast, the abdomen, the
feet), in a draught (persons not afflicted with Psora, though draughts and damp cold air may not be agreeable to
them, do not suffer any cold or evil after-effects there from), (usually when these parts are inclined to
perspiration), and many other, sometimes long continuing ailments arising therefrom.
Face
Paleness of the face and relaxation of the muscles. Frequent flushes of heat and redness of the face, not infrequently
with anxiety.
Mouth
At night or in the morning dryness in the mouth. Bad smell from the mouth, frequently or almost constantly, especially
early in the morning and during the menses, and this is perceived either as insipid, or as slightly sour, or as if from a
stomach out of order, or as mouldy, also as putrid. Sour taste in the mouth.
White, or at least very pale tongue; still more frequently cracked tongue.
Throat
Frequent inflammation of the throat, frequent hoarseness. Much phlegm in the throat. Swelling of the cervical glands
(Scrofula).
Chest
Frequent attacks of dyspnoea.
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Stomach and abdomen

Sensation of emptiness in the stomach (H). Now insatiable hunger, then again want of a appetite. Nausea, in the
morning. The abdomen is often distended (H).
Cutting pains in the abdomen, frequently or daily (especially with children), more frequently in the morning (H).
Desires and aversions

Repugnance to cooked, worm food, especially to meat (principally with children).
Repugnance to milk.
Bowel, rectum and stools

Mostly with children - Frequent discharge of ascarides and other worms, unsufferable itching caused by the latter in
the rectum.
Venous knots on the anus, passes of blood with the stools. Passing of mucus from the anus, with or without faeces.
Itching on the anus.
Stools
Hard stools, delaying usually more than a day, clotted, often covered with mucus (or nearly always soft, fermenting
stools, like diarrhoea).
Urine
Dark urine.
Extremities
Usually cold hands or perspiration on the palms (burning in the palms). Cold, dry or ill-smelling sweaty feet (burning of
soles). The arms or hands, the legs or feet, are benumbed by a slight cause. Frequent cramps in the calves ( the
muscles of the arms and hands). Painless subsultus of various portions of the muscles here and there in the body.
Twitching of the limbs on going to sleep.
Swollen, enlarged veins on the legs (swollen veins, varicose).
Pains as of corns, without any external pinching of the shoes.
Disposition to crack, strain or wrench one joint or another.
Cracking of one or more joints on moving.
Predisposition to strains, even from carrying or lifting a slight weight, often caused even by stretching upwards and
reaching out the arms for objects which are hung high (so also multitude of complaints resulting from a moderate
stretching of the muscles, headache, nausea, prostration, tensive pain in the muscles of the neck and back etc.).
Drawing, tensive pains in the neck, the back, the limbs, especially, also in the teeth (in damp, stormy weather, in
north-west and north-east winds, after colds, overliftings, disagreeable emotions, etc.).
Sexual organs, female

Amenorrhoea, irregularities in the menses, too copious, too scanty, too early (too late), of too long duration, too watery,
connected with various bodily ailments.
Sleep and dreams

Weariness early on awaking, unrefreshing sleep. Uneasy, frightful, or at least too vivid dreams.
Perspiration
Perspiration in the morning in bed.
Perspiration breaks out too easily during the day time, even with little movement (or inability to bring out perspiration).
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Skin
Predisposition to erysipelas now and then. Chilblain and pains as from chilblains, even outside the severe cold of winter.
Unhealthy skin; every little lesion passes into sores, cracked skin of the hands and of the lower lips.
Frequent boils, frequent felons (whit-lows).
Dry skin on the limbs, on the arms, the thighs and also at times on the cheeks.
Here or there a rough, scaling spot on the skin, which causes at times a voluptuous itching and after the rubbing, a
burning sensation.
Here or there at times, though seldom, a single insufferably pleasant but unbearably itching vesicle, at its points
sometimes filled with pus, and causing a burning sensation after rubbing, on a finger, on the wrist or in some other
places.
Modalities
Renewal of pains and complaints while at rest and disappearance of the same while in motion.
Most of the ailments come on at night, and are increased with a low barometer, with north and north-east winds, in
winter and towards spring.
Secondary symptoms of psora

Mind
Hypersensitive and hyperactive. That is why Psora is called Sensitizing miasm.
'The mind is hypersensitive and hyperactive to slightest stimuli, both endogenous and exogenous, but produces nothing.
Full of ideas but no tendency to materialise any of them. A psoric subject may be called a sterile philosopher' (J.N.
K.).
Disturbances of the mind and spirit of all kinds (H).
Melancholy, anxious, mania. Sad.
Weeping mood, this often palliates weak memory (P.S. O.).
Extremely restless. Always in a state of hurry. Quick.
Times passes too fast or too slow.
Irritable. Weakness makes the patient irritable.
Fearful. Easily frightened.
Timidity, want of self confidence, helplessness (P.S. O.).
Fear- manifested by anxiety is Psoric, manifested by anguish is Syphilitic and when manifested by outward expression
is Sycotic. Fear of fire, of being alone, of apoplexy, of becoming insane, of darkness, of illness, of death.
Moody. Sudden change of mood. Sudden transition from cheerfulness to sadness.
Full of imaginations, emotions and sensations without any objective basis.
Sudden anxiety with palpitation of heart.
Thoughts vanish while reading or writing.
Delusions of all kinds (P.S. ).
Sadness.
Dissatisfaction, grumbler. Fault finding.
Disinclination to work.
Bad effects from grief, shock, emotions and fear.
Malignant cases have all the miasms present (P).
Weakness of memory indicates Psora, forgetfulness indicates Syphilis and absent mindedness indicates Sycotic.
Patients are better by Psoric attacks of all kinds -- diarrhoeas copious urination or perspiration.
Sensorium
Vertigo and reeling while walking (H).
Vertigo with roaring in the ears.
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Vertigo when closing eyes (H).

Vertigo on turning over in bed or on closing eyes.
Vertigo with frequent eructations (H).
Vertigo on riding in a boat or at sea, with nausea and vomiting or when riding in a street car or in a carriage.
Vertigo of various types.
Dizziness; inability to think or to perform mental labour (H).
The open air causes dizziness and drowsiness.
Her thoughts are not under her control.
Head and scalp

Headache of various types - frontal, temporal, tempoparietal and sometimes on the vertex. One sided headache.
Morning headache. Grow worse as the sun ascends and decrease as it descends.
Headache with red face and throbbing. Ameliorated by hot applications, quiet, rest and sleep (R).
Headache as a result of suppressed or repelled eruptions.
Great hunger before or during headache.
Feeling of contraction in the skin of the scalp and the face (H).
Severe itching of scalp with dryness (P.S. ).
Dandruff. Dry eruptions on the scalp with itching. The scalp is full of dandruff, with or without itching. Scales upon
scalp.
It always looks unclean.
The hair of the head as if parched and dry (H).
Hair of the head frequently falls out, most infront, or the crown and on the top of the head; bald spots or beginning
baldness of certain spots (H).
Hair falls out generally worse after acute fevers or diseases, after abdominal or chest diseases or after parturition.
Hair dry lustreless, tangles easily, breaks and splits. Cannot comb hair until it is wet or moistened as it is so dry.
Hair becomes white in spot.
Hair comes grey too early (P.S. )
Rush of blood to the head (H).
Heat in the head (H). Cannot bear much heat on head.
Cold pressure on the top of the head (H).
Eruption on the head, tinia capitis, malignant tinia with crusts of greater or lesser thickness.
Roaring noise in the brain, singing, buzzing, humming, thundering, etc. (H).
Scalp dry, rarely perspiring.
Dry eczematous eruptions. Aggravated in open air, evening, heat of bed.
Ameliorated by scratching but burning and itching follow. These eruptions do not suppurate but dry down and become
dead. Scales (R).
Eyes and vision

Eyes are most sensitive to day-light; They are pained by it and close involuntarily (H).
Psoric eye troubles are always accompanied by itching and burning (B).
Cannot edure daylight or sunlight. Photophobia. Aversion to light. Of course, Photohpbia is more marked in Tubercular
and Syphilis patients.
Eyelids, especially in the morning are as if closed; he cannot open them (for minutes, even hours); the eyelids are heavy
as if paralysed on convulsively closed (H).
Psoric pains are better by heat and worse morning, when the sun rises towards the meridian (P.S. ).
The canthi are full of pus-like mucus (eye-gum) (H).
Inflammation of eyes of various types (H). These are accompanied by itching and burning of the lids with great desire
to rub.
Edges of eyelids full of dry mucus (H).
Great dryness, itching and burning of the eyes to be found frequently under Psora (P.S. ).
Cannot look long at anything, else everything flickers before him; objects seem to move (H).
Before the eyes there are floating as it were flies, black points or dark streaks or net works; especially when looking
into sun (H).
Spots before the eyes, this is the characteristic of Psora (R).
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Sensation of cold in the eyes (H).

Yellowness around the eyes and of the whites of the eyes (H).
Dim, opaque spots on the cornea (H).
Dropsy of the eye (H).
Obscuration of the crystalline lens, cataract (H).
Squinting (H).
Far sightedness, he sees far in the distance, but cannot clearly distinguish small objects held close. Short sightedness,
he can see even small objects by holding them close to the eye, but the more distant the object is the more
indistinct it appears; and at a great distance he does not see it (H).
False vision; he sees objects double or manifold, or only the one half of them (H).
The eyes seem to look through veil or mist; the sight becomes dim at certain times (H).
Night blindness; he sees well in day time but in the twilight he cannot see at all (H).
Blindness by day; he can only see well during the twilight (H).
Amaurosis; uninterrupted dimness of vision increased finally even to blindness (H).
Ears : hearing
Running from the ear of thin, usually ill-smelling pus (H).
Hearing is excessively irritable and sensitive. She cannot bear to hear a bell ring without trembling; he is thrown into
convulsion by the beating of a drum, etc. many sounds cause pain in the ear (H).
There are stitches in the ear outwardly (H).
Deafness of various degrees, even upto total deafness, with or without noise in ears; occasionally worse according to
the weather (H).
Swelling of parotid glands (H).
Various sounds and noises in the ear (H).
Crawling sensation and itching in the ear (H).
Dryness and pulsation in the ear (H).
Usually of a reflex origin or of a nervous character (P.S. ).
The nostrils as it were stuffed up (H).
Sensation of dryness in the nose, troublesome even when the air passes freely (H).
Sense of smell acute, increased.
Sense of smell weak, lost (H).
Cannot endure odours of any kind. Odours produce nausea, headache and vertigo.
Polypi of the nose, usually with loss of power of smelling; these may extend through the nasal passages into the fauces
(H).
The Psoric cold begins with sneezing, redness, heat sensitive to touch when blown for sometime; discharges are thin,
watery, acrid. Boils, vesicles and pimples, etc., in the septum which are painful.

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Encyclopaedia Homeopathica

CHOUDHURY H., 50 Millesimal Potency in Theory and

Theory and practice

Editions of the organon

Fifth edition of the organon is beset with multifarious problems

Name and sign of new method

Elevation of the fifth edition

New concept for the new generation

Developed system should be hailed

Reasons of delay in publication of the sixth edition

Introduction of this system in india and bangladesh

Special features of 50 millesimal scale of potencies

arise in 50 millesimal scale.

Preparation of 50 millesimal scale

Mode of administration of medicine of 50 millesimal scale

Science is meaningless without application

It is safe to learn from the organon

Administration of medicine i also different in three categories

In place of one dose, now many divided doses

Reason for application of medicine in many doses instead of single dose

How long first prescription will continue

Only potency is to be changed

Proper time of 2nd prescription

What should be the potency of the 2nd prescription

From what potency to start

Applicability of medicine in descending scale in lieu of ascending scale demands

Unscientific argument about potency

The latest method is safer

The limitation of potencies in the new method

If aggravation is found during treatment

(i) There is no need for the medicine of first prescription.

Conditions for applications of medicine

(ii) It should be highly potentized according to the Organon, 6th edition.

Preparation of medicinal solution

Direction for application of medicinal solution

If aggravation with such a dose

Exceptions to the smallest or minutest doses

Mode of preparation of medicinal solution for olfaction

Should we have any doubt about the cure by olfactory method

Application through rubbing

Application of medicine through mother's milk or milk of wet nurse

Proper time for application of medicines

An exception to the administration of homoeopathic medicine and palliative is

One single simple medicinal substance to be administered at one time

Playing as you like with the diluted medicines

Hahnemann is the most supreme

basis of totality of symptoms and other important factors.

Beware of administration of medicine

Diet and regimen

How to avoid medicinal aggravation of 50 millesimal scale of potencies *

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Unscientific application of medicine is responsible for aggravation

Hahnemann specified four causes of aggravation

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To avoid aggravation, minimisation of the dose is a must

Solution of potency problem

Conditions for rapid and gentle cure

Testimony of the clinic

Two cases from hahnemann's note-book 1

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Sacch. Lactis, and c.

Inflammation of the breast

11 June, 1970. The patient is well. No repetition of medicine.

Bradycardia in high fever