Kent's Twelve Observations

IN PRACTISE ITS ALWAYS GOOD TO KNOW WHAT IS HAPPENING AFTER GIVEING HOMEOPATHIC MEDICINE .
DR KENT HAS GIVEN BEAUTIFUL PRESENTATION IN HIS 12 OBERVATION WHICH WE MUST UNDERSTAND AND IT WILL HELP US TO UNDERSTAND WHERE CASE IS PROGRESSING

I HAD TAKEN THIS ARTICLE FROM NET AND POSTING FOR ALL OUR HWC DOCTORS.

KENT’S 12 OBSERVATIONS

OBSERVATION	INFERENCE		WHAT TO DO?		REMARKS
1.Prolonged and final decline of the patient	Antipsoric--- deep Potency-----High Destruction—Established Case— incurable Prognosis—unfavourable		Antidote the medicine		Don’t give a deep remedy when organic diseases are present. In incurable and doubtful case give 30^th or 200^th potency
2.Long aggravation, but final slow improvement	Beginning of some very marked tissue changes in some organ Prognosis —favourable
3.aggravation is quick, short, strong with rapid improvement of the patient In acute disease- one hour after the remedy In chronic disease – during the first few days	Remedy—correct Reaction-vigorous Improvement-marked No structural changes prognosis—good		Not to disturb the action of the medicine		This type of action is very reassuring
4. No aggravation with recovery of the patient	Remedy and potency—exactly correct No organic disease or no tendency to organic disease The disease is not of great depth and belongs to the function of nerves Prognosis—in acute case good In chronic case—doubtful		Not to disturb the action of the medicine		Highest order of cure in acute affection Yet the physician sometimes will be more satisfied if in the beginning of his prescribing he notices a slight aggravation of symptoms.
5.Amelioration comes first and aggravation afterwards	Either the remedy was only a superficial remedy, and could act only as palliative or the patient was incurable and the remedy was somewhat suitable. Prognosis unfavorable.		Retake the case and a more similar medicine is to be prescribed.
6.Too short relief of symptoms		Has the patient done something to spoil the action of the medicine if not, the physician may suspect the following In acute disease presence of high grade inflammatory reaction of organs which are threatened by the process going on In chronic disease there is structural changes and the organs are destroyed or being destroyed or in a very precarious condition Prognosis- Bad		In acute disease medicine has to be repeated much often or a more similar medicine is selected In chronic case, if there is no interference of medicine more similar medicine is to be prescribed.
7. Full time amelioration of symptoms, yet no relief to the patient		presence of latent conditions, or latent existing organic conditions, which prevent improvement beyond a certain stage The remedies act favourably but the patient is not cured and never be cured. The patient is palliated in this instance. Prognosis- Bad				The patient can never be cured completely and is curable only to a certain limit. it is a suitable palliation for homoeopathic remedies
8.Some patient prove every remedy they get		Patient is said to have an idiosyncrasy to every thing The over sensitive patients are often incurable		Give 30^th and 200^th to cure their disease		Such oversensitive patients are good provers
9.Action of medicine upon provers		Proving always benefits healthy provers, if they are properly conducted.		observe carefully the constitutional state of an individual about to become a prover, write this down and substract them from the proving These symptoms will not very commonly appear during the proving, if they do note the change in them.
10.New symptoms appearing after the administration of the remedy		Medicine wrong Greater the appearance of new symptoms coming out after the administration of the remedy- wrong prescription. c. prognosis- bad		If the symptoms are of serious nature, antidote the medicine and select a more similar medicine after taking the case
11.When old symptoms are about to reappear		Medicine- correct Disease curable Symptoms are disappearing in the reverse order of its appearance		Medicine must be lat alone If old symptoms come back to stay, then a repetition of the dose is necessary		It is well to say to the patient that this is encouraging
12.Symptom take the wrong direction		Medicine- wrong Prognosis- bad		Medicine must be antidoted at once otherwise structural changes will take place in that new site. A similar medicine is to be selected and administered		There is a great danger in selecting a remedy on external symptom alone, ignoring all the symptoms and general state of the patient.

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Comment by Alias Azhar on February 11, 2010 at 2:45am: job well done wasalaman

Comment by Dr Muhammed Rafeeque on February 11, 2010 at 5:05am: Thanks for the information. I had a diagrammatic representation of kent's observations, but i kept somewhere. That diagram was very helpful to remember these 12 observations easily.

It will be easy to remember the observations in the chronological order by dividing them in to 4 sections, each sections including three observations.

Comment by Dr Ajay Yadav on February 11, 2010 at 5:08am: HI DR
please tri to post that also if u get it
thanks a lot dear

Comment by dr mital pranav joshi on February 14, 2010 at 11:19am: thanks for the diagramatic representation. i just wanted to know about your views on antidoting the remedy

Comment by Dr Ajay Yadav on February 15, 2010 at 1:28am: hi thanks dr mital joshi
antidode i always belive whenever things go wrong i must say u advise patient to take strong coffee to romove medicine effects ,or we can take help from remedy relationship chapter in boericke

Comment by Ranga Sai on February 16, 2010 at 2:59pm: Antidoting does not happen in all cases by sipping coffee.
The symptoms which have to be antidoted , are the guidance for the best antidote.

Comment by dr mital pranav joshi on February 19, 2010 at 12:14am: well i am a regular coffee drinker and i always take homoeopathic medicines, all of them act wonderfully.
thank you dr ranga, i agree with you.

Comment by DR SHARAN KHANNA on February 19, 2010 at 8:29am: a wonderful approach for providing information. thanx

Comment by Ranga Sai on February 20, 2010 at 9:54pm: How many of us actually use them in practise ?

Comment by Katalin J Cowan on March 5, 2010 at 11:15am: I need some help: I have a case where the aggravation was strong , lasted for a few days , then symptoms went back to their original intensity. Then sinus drainage especially down the back of his throat began - something he had had in the past -and which now is caused him to cough up "junk" as he puts it and causes rawness/roughness in his throat. Then another symptom which he had had in the past surfaced (nausea in the morning) and then a new symptom came and went (apthae-like bump on the tongue and inflammation of the papillae) and now he is left with a slightly milder intensity of original presenting symptoms of burning headache and pressure behind the eyes and the sinus drainage is still there with some coughing up phlegm.

I am thinking that the remedy has acted because of the slight improvement and the drainage but because of only a slight improvement, I am wondering whether to
1)leave it alone,
2)repeat the remedy
3)change the dose of the remedy (do I decrease or increase the dose?)
4)change the remedy because of a new symptom: the tongue

Anyone have any thoughts on this? Would appreciate the support and your ideas.

Katalin