Learn The Homoeopathic Medicine Through The Nature and Character of Their Sources

It is the relation between the external physical properties of drug substance & the sign, symp. Present in patient. Doctrine of signature is one of the source of mat. media. This present in few drugs & by this we can remember & learn m.m. of the that drug up to a certain extent.
This can be observed from the general therapeutic study of drug since olden days i.e. from the discovery of drug, we know their medicinal properties.

Here it deals with the doctrine of signature e.g.
 The drug prepared from the plants flowering in summer season produced
 The drug prepared from the yellow flowers of gels. act well in jaundice.
 All red looking plants or red extracts of plants act on blood.
 Tarantula His is prepared from the Spanish spider which is sensitive tv drum beats, similarly pt. is oversensitive to music.
 There are some Remedies whose sympt. We can learn on the basis of their external feature.
Aloes.

Plants & His characteristic –
The pulp of leaves is mucilageneous & having a bitter taste.
We can learn Symptoms
Stool with mucus & taste of mouth is bitter & sour.
AESCULUS Hip
Plants and his characteristics
Fruit is round in shape & his outer covering is rough & hormy.
We can learn the Symp.
Rectum
It is good medicine for piles. Where the sphincter like sensation with pain.
Chelidonium
Plants and his characteristics- The flower of this plant having yellow colour & a yellowish colour secretion execrate out by this plant.

Symptom
Pt. having yellowish skin & jaundice. This medicine is useful in liver & G.B. complaints.
Euphrasia
Its flower having a black spot which resemble like eye.
It is a very good medicine for eye & its complaints.
Apis mel
The queen of honey bee jealous organism in nature so the patient of Apis m. is also jealous & suspicious in nature.
Carbo. Veg
It is prepared from wood by burning & known as charcoal.

Doctrine of signature
 When charcoal is burning the fumes go upward, likewise - The gas accumulation in the upper side of the abdomen of patient.
 Vegetable charcoal is blackish in colour likewise – Patient looks bluish & balckish due to cyanosis.
 The ash is collected on outer surface & externally it looks cold but heat is present internally - like wise pt.
 Veg. Charcoal requires fanming from very close distance to ignite like wise-pt.wants fanming from a very close distance.
 While prepairing charcoal the burning wood is devoid of O2 like wise – pt. do not got good supply of O2 & hence a cycenosed.

GELSEMIUM
The yellow of the flowers of gets can be related to jaundice as there is
 Yellowish whitish coating on tongue.
 Yellowish colour of stools
 Deep yellow leucorrhoea
 Moist yellow skin
 Yellow face & yellow saliva.

PODOPHYLUM
The fruits of plants ripen in sept. The tincture is prepared from root gathered after the fruit has ripened. In united state it is summer during sept. like wise – it acts best for complaints that appear during summer. THIS SHOWS how nature has provided a unique link between the drug pathogensis & the human biology.

THUJA
It is prepared from the tree of life. This plant has a pedenculated wart like growth at the junction of branch & the stem or between two branches so. – It is best medicine for pedenculated wart.

LYCOPODIUM
It is prepared from the spores of club moss. The spores are externally hard but once broken intevnally they are very soft. Like wise – The patient does not give full co-operative, similarly while giving a speech his speech is not fluent in the beginning but after a while as the speech continues it become more fluent.

LACHESIS
Doctrine of Signature
 When tongue of snake is out it is not steady Similarly – Trembling of tongue when protruded & patient is loquacious.
 Snake moves in Zig – Zag manner. Similarly – patient thinking is never straight but a always in Zig-Zag manner.
 Snake remains curled & silent in winter. Similarly – all symptoms disappear in winter season.
 It is said that the snake is revengeful. Similarly – patient is vindictive.
 The snake starts moving in spring similarly – the symp. Reappear in spring.
 The snake always protrudes its tongue – Similarly patient mouth always remain open & protrudes his tongue.
 Snake does not tolerate anybody coming near similarly – patient is hyper sensitive.
 The stools of snake are black & offensive similarly – all discharges are dark & offensive.
 During summer snake remains in cold places similar – patient likes to have indirect fanning from longer distance.

BRYONIA

RESEMBLANCES BETWEEN CHARACTERS OF PLANTS AND REMEDY

PLANT REMEDY
 Grows in wet places depicting
 The root & stem are Succulent (Juicy)
 Root is firmly anchored in the ground
 The fresh root contains the active material-analkaloid Bryonicin
 Contains two glycosides Bryonin & Dryonidin
 Hairs on the leaves protect the plant from excessive perspiration
 The succulent long stems are not able to hold the plant erect.
 Spiral tendrils of the plants are sensitive to touch
 Tendrils coil to make a hold secure
 The plants dries out its environment with great energy for survival serve his own needs.  Increased thirst to redeem biological thirst off dryness.
 Thirst for large quantity to maintain the moisture.
 The person seeks stability in life perseverant.
 ‘Dryness’ observable through & through
 Craves sweets, ice cream
 Wants to hold a ‘secured’ position in life
 The person will learn on, grasp finely & drain & dry out its environment to

PULSATILLA
RESEMBLANCES BETWEEN CHARACTERS OF PLANTS AND REMEDY
PLANT REMEDY
 The plant is small & delicate
 It has flexible stem
 The stem bends according to the direction of prevailing wind (pulsating with wind)
 Always found in the groups as if seeking company
 The plant grows on dry sandy soil & has little need for water
 The plant appears early, thriving in cold air of first spring & is protected against chill by FINE SOFT HAIR
 Enormous variety. More htan 100 subspecies of the species pulsatilla are available.
 Some species of puls. prefer soil rich in calcium others avoid it.  Type more in women & children, Delicate, pretty, fair complexion.
 Flexibility of body & mind.
 Changeful, ‘no’ ‘say’ of her own Easily led & persuaded
 Wants company & sympathy
 Thirst less can go for long c drinking
 Loves cool air but needs to be covered during chill, warmth, summer;
 Changefulness, emotional symp. Change Sadness, changes into laugther mildness into anger
 Changeable flow of menses circulation – unstable.

BIBLIOGRAPHY
-M.M. by Dr. J.D. Patil.
-M.M. by Dr. Tarkas.
-Hindi Magazine-Hahnemann Disha.
-Pharmacy by experienced teachers.

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Comment by Dr. Gary Weaver on October 10, 2010 at 11:19am: This is a very dangerous area of learning the remedies to be promoting. And extremely misleading.

§ 110
I saw, moreover, that the morbid lesions which previous authors had observed to result from medicinal substances when taken into the stomach of healthy persons, either in large doses given by mistake or in order to produce death in themselves or others, or under other circumstances, accorded very much with my own observations when experimenting with the same substances on myself and other healthy individuals. These authors give details of what occurred as histories of poisoning and as proofs of the pernicious effects of these powerful substances, chiefly in order to warn others from their use; partly also for the sake of exalting their own skill, when, under the use of the remedies they employed to combat these dangerous accidents, health gradually returned; but partly also, when the persons so affected died under their treatment, in order to seek their own justification in the dangerous character of these substances, which they then termed poisons. None of these observers ever dreamed that the symptoms they recorded merely as proofs of the noxious and poisonous character of these substances were sure revelations of the power of these drugs to extinguish curatively similar symptoms occurring in natural disease, that these their pathogenetic phenomena were intimations of their homoeopathic curative action, and that the only possible way to ascertain their medicinal powers is to observe those changes of health medicines are capable of producing in the healthy organism; for the pure, peculiar powers of medicines available for the cure of disease are to be learned neither by any ingenious a priori speculations, nor by the smell, taste or appearance of the drugs, nor by their chemical analysis, nor yet by the employment of several of them at one time in a mixture (prescription) in diseases; it was never suspected that these histories of medicinal diseases would one day furnish the first rudiments of the true, pure materia medica, which from the earliest times until now has consisted solely of false conjectures and fictions of the imagination - that is to say, did not exist at all.

Comment by Dr. Gary Weaver on October 10, 2010 at 11:23am

Comment by Dr. Gary Weaver on October 10, 2010 at 11:31am: How does the doctrine of signatures account for this?

Comment by Dr. Gary Weaver on October 10, 2010 at 11:57am: Dr.RAVINDRA SARSWAT

In your well meaning attempt to describe the character and action of a remedy, and quoting from other well meaning authors, the simple fact is that this had been addressed very clearly by Hahnemann in aph 110 as to WHAT needed to be studied to ascertain this information and how.

There are NO shortcuts to learning the character of a remedy. Regardless of what may appear helpful in the fallacious Doctrine of signatures, it is not. Comptom Burnett and Boger along with Roberts all made the same mistake in ascribing some value to the concept.

Homeopathy is hard work. It took me a year to understand the actual character and usefulness of Arnica and Pulsatilla alone. Whilst part of the action of Pulsatilla is specifically for diseases of women in certain phases of their cycle.... My colleagues and I prescribe Pulsatilla more for men on disease symptoms than women.

This is WHY we use the Therapeutic Pocket Book as approved by Hahnemann. It covers the proving symptoms and matches them with the patients disease exactly. Hahnemann emphasised the EXACT matching where possible...and where to look for the symptoms and what to look for. Clinicians in affiliated clinics in the USA, Slovakia, Israel and Australia have been and are undergoing intensive training in case taking and case management according to the Organon and are seeing the results as Hahnemann expected them to see.

We cannot cure everyone. I have some cases that have resisted many types of therapy and are not swayed by judicious applications of the medicines. Some of these cases will have to be given remedies as indicated until the disease state breaks. Hahnemann again explains all this in the Organon and in Chronic Diseases.

Here is a task for you. Open MMPura and exclude the mind provings. Now find the character of the remedy and main areas of affection... once you understand these... you will see far more than a "personality" based on a synthesis of the mind symptoms.

Comment by Alias Azhar on October 10, 2010 at 12:24pm: i have to agree with Dr gary on this one,
peace wasalaman

Comment by Binay krushna sahu on October 11, 2010 at 4:52am: As a learner till death i too agree with the comments posted by Dr. Gary Weaver, who relies exclusively on the hahnemannian concept.
At last i congrat u on ur precious efforts.

Comment by Dr Ravindra Saraswat on October 11, 2010 at 12:52pm: Respected, Dr. Gary Weaver,
Sir, Doctrine of sigature is also a source of M.M.Pura which is written by our master.

Homoeopathic Materia Medica is a compilation of various symptoms collected mainly from proving from healthy human beings and from other sources.

The sources of homoeopathic materia medica.
1. Proving on healthy human beings
2. Proving on healthy animals
3. Clinical observation
4. Accidental source
5. Toxicological source
6. Chemical source
7. Empirical source
8. Proving on plants
9. Doctrine of signature

Sources of Materia Medica Pura –
(1) Proving on Healthy Human being – Dr. Hahnemann has obtain sign & symptoms of Homoeopathic medicines by proving them on healthy Human beings. This is the real & scientific way of getting sign & symptoms of the medicines. It was very good sources to build up the materia medica.

(2) Proving on Healthy Animals – In this we can get few objective symptoms up to some extent. By proving on lower animals we can also get a knowledge of the pathological changes occurring in the animals body.

(3) Clinical observation – After application of medicine to the patient Dr. Hahnemann can observed come new symptoms produced by medicine.

(4) Chemical source – Dr. Hahnemann get some clue of sign & symptoms of the drugs by studying its chemistry i.e. Physical & chemical properties. He gets idea of its action the body.

(5) Empirical source – It is a traditional source. This can be Observed from general therapeutic study of a drug. In olden days therapeutic value of many drugs where known.

Construction of Materia Medica Pura:
After testing the Homoeopathic medicines on healthy human beings, carefully and faithfully recording all altered function experienced by the prover and observing all subjective and objective symptoms; can build up a real Materia Medica Pura.
Thus Materia Medica Pura is a storehouse of each & every action of drug in a healthy human being.

Dr. Hahnemann called its Materia Medica Pura because it consist of the symptoms written in the unaltered language of the provers themselves and admits no misinterpretations with changing medical terminology, altered biological conceptions and never scientific attitudes.

Dr. Hahnemann followed an anatomical schema from Head to foot in recording the positive drug effects and under each heading he collected & put all the symptoms from as many provers as there where in each case. Dr. Hughes does not agree with Hahnemann’s schematic methods & in writing his Materia Medica comments. “Its is an unnatural and artificial arrangement of the features of many allied morbid portraits, as through an artist should paint a family group arranging all the eyes of all the members of the family in one part of the picture, all noses in another; the ears all together and so on.”

Thus with various permutation and combinations of disease – elements as recorded in the Materia Medica Pura; the adaptability of it may be increased to a great extent in the art of finding a similar remedy for natural diseases.

(6) Doctrine of signature – It is the relations between the external physical properties of drug substance & sign and symptoms present in patients / drug. Doctrine of signature is one of the source of Materia Medica Pura. This is present in few drugs & by this we ca remember & learn Materia Medica Pura of the drug upto a certain extent.

Eg:
1) The drug prepared from the plants flowering in summer season produces aggravation in summer.
2) The drug prepared from the yellow flowers of Gelsemium work well in Jaundice.
3) All red looking plants & red extracts of plants act on blood.

Construction and Concept of Dr. Hahnemann for Contribution of Materia Medica Pura
The Materia Medica Pura was written by Dr. Samuel Hahnemann. It has six volumes.

In all volumes Hahnemann own observation are put 1st & by themselves & separately numbered. He proved approximately 99 drugs in his life time, on himself, friends colleagues, disciples and relatives of different ages and both sexes. What ever the sign and symptoms i.e. Subjective & Objective observed and experienced by himself have been written in this book. So in a true sense all the symptoms are pure that’s why the book was named Materia Medica Pura.

it helps to study Materia medica in a literal style and to compare and remember some symptoms thereby making the subject more interesting. It is now clear that the doctrine of signature helps us for the study of materia medica and not for the practical application of materia medica. As we know that there is no short cut in medicine, drugs selected on the basis of similarity with the totality of the case is the only way to cure.
Thanks a lot.

Comment by Dr. Gary Weaver on October 11, 2010 at 2:16pm: Dear Dr RAvindra

Having read your articulate response to the discussion, and considering the beginnings of Hahnemanns comprehension of the law of similars, and given his written footnotes when translating the Materia Medica by Cullen, along with his disagreement with Paracelsus' reasoning on why a medicine works, not forgetting his detailed explanations as recorded by Hale and Bradford, there is NO evidence to suggest or endorse your view that the doctrine of signatures is helpful in any way in the practice of homeotherapeutics.

There is NO helpfulness in ascribing a "signature" to a remedy based on an aide memoire or resembling of a human part, colour or whatever for the following reasons.

1) The drug prepared from the plants flowering in summer season produces aggravation in summer.
2) The drug prepared from the yellow flowers of Gelsemium work well in Jaundice.
3) All red looking plants & red extracts of plants act on blood.

These may or may not be relevant to the symptoms a patient exhibits, or indeed to a PROVING symptom that is pertinent to the case. If a practitioner has spent time learning "doctrine of signatures" he or she could have spent time learning useful symptoms that actually resemble the action of the remedy in question. If a practitioner has "learned" that based on doctrine of signatures that Pulsatilla is changeable like the wind flower its action is culled from, the remedy will be dismissed from mind when faced with a stubborn single minded willful determined character who is resolute in action.

Doctrine of signatures is a man made fancy and as directed by Hahnemann it has NO part in Homoeopathy. aph110:

"....and that the only possible way to ascertain their medicinal powers is to observe those changes of health medicines are capable of producing in the healthy organism; for the pure, peculiar powers of medicines available for the cure of disease are to be learned neither by any ingenious a priori speculations, nor by the smell, taste or appearance of the drugs, nor by their chemical analysis, nor yet by the employment of several of them at one time in a mixture (prescription) in diseases;..."

So given these facts.... The doctrine of signatures has No part in homeopathy.

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Comment by Dr. Prabhat Kumar Dasgupta on October 12, 2010 at 4:03am: Dear Homoeopaths...
'Learn The Homoeopathic Medicine Through The Nature and Character of Their Sources'
was the BASICS of Homoeopahthy , when we were students.
It is like , when you want to search some ones home , you generally ask for any land-mark to make search easy. It is like that. If you want to know more about Nat.Mur- then just visit any Sea side and seriously analyse the Ocean's nature & then you will never forget Nat.Mur. & will be easy for selecting as a similimum.
So many cut & paste, so many examples & it makes things more complicated....
Here so many people are using Book languages. Kindly use own language with experiences to make things easy & some thing different.If Master was alive, He Himself starts doing this...

Comment by Dr. Gary Weaver on October 12, 2010 at 7:41am: Dr Dasgupta

say what you will, repeat what the teachers told you without checking.. "If Master was alive, He Himself starts doing this... "

what the Master said...:

"for the pure, peculiar powers of medicines available for the cure of disease are to be learned neither by any ingenious a priori speculations, nor by the smell, taste or appearance of the drugs, nor by their chemical analysis".