When it comes to any type of
pain, it is really hard to bear. One can bear anything and live life happily
but when it is pain, al happiness seems to go haywire and person perceives only
misery through any experience. That is why when patients come to us with the
severe joint pains (arthritis), we often tend to cater them as a priority.
Rather, arthritis is one of the faculties I can say that busts a myth about
homeopathy, that homeopathy does not act fast enough to relieve the pain of
arthritis. Rather, when aptly applied the principle of homeopathy, remedy found
relieves arthritic pain more rapidly than even the best of analgesic.
Whether it is rheumatoid
arthritis or osteoarthritis, homeopathic treatment as with any other disease
revolves around the signs, symptoms, and constitution of the patient. Miasmatic
background must be understood by the homeopathic doctors before they prescribe
to such patients.
What homeopaths need to know about arthritis of the patient?
The patient’s history is of
paramount importance when it comes to arthritis. The patients must describe-
(1) Since
when the pain has started
(2) What
is the nature of pain (throbbing, dull, aching, excruciating etc)
(3) Does
anything aggravate the pain?
(4) Does
anything ameliorate (lessen) the pain?
(5) In
what position does the patient feel comfortable?
(6) Is
there anything characteristic about the pain?
(7) Are
there any concomitant symptoms along with arthritis?
The above mentioned points are
just about the arthritis. But to understand the totality of symptoms, doctor
must ask the patient about his mental symptoms or behavioral tendencies, his
emotional vulnerability, his psychological and intellectual built up, other
physical symptoms, and all the things you feel you need to understand the
patient fully.
It may seem the tedious job
initially but after one gets accustomed to the art of case-taking, one can
easily navigate through these questions and perceive what is important to us.
Homeopathic treatment revolves around these questions and answers to be frank. And
that’s why homeopathy is a life-long learning process. With every new case, we
tend to comprehend some special features of our vast material medica that we
use for treating the sick. Surely it’s an amazing experience to match the
disease symptoms with drug symptoms or do self-proving in order to completely
understand what is described in material medica.
Arthritis is one of the problems
that revolve around all three miasms, psora, syphilis, and sycosis. But with
good history taking skills, and differentiating ability, one can find perfect
simillimum in order to attain perfect cure. Certainly with homeopathic
remedies, arthritis patients can find pain relief, reversal of bone pathology,
halting the progress of disease, and consistently improve the condition with an
overall well-being.
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