REMEDY REACTION

Dr. AMRITHA MOHAN

PG SCHOLAR
ORGANON OF MEDICINE
 OBSERVATION
• One of the first things required for a
Homoeopathic physician is that his powers
of observation shall be highly developed.
• First, that he may observe the patient in the
analysis of the symptoms and the selection
of the remedy,
• Second, remedy has been carefully selected
and administered. After the administration
of the simillimum some action should result.
• According to Hahnemann, the nearer similar
the remedy the more reaction we may
expect (Organon, 154, 155).

• If the exact simillimum is found we are apt

to get a slight aggravation before relief
comes.
• On the other hand, if no changes take place,
too long patient waiting is useless, for it is
evidence that the simillimum has not been
found.
 AGGRAVATION
• There are two types of aggravations
• There is the aggravation which is an
aggravation of the disease condition,
in which the patient grows worse.
• There may be a very different type of
aggravation, in which the symptoms are
worse, but the patient is growing better.
He will say, "I feel better”.
 FIRST OBSERVATION
• The first observation is often a prolonged
aggravation and a final decline of the patient
• Too deep an antipsoric administered and
it has set in motion the vital energy and
developed a destructive process.
• In these profound states of incurables the
vital reaction toward cure is impossible
• In such cases as these profound incurable
conditions we should avoid giving a high
potency of the remedy; by administering a
lower potency .
• Advanced cases of tuberculosis, where it is
never safe to give a very high attenuation of
the exact simillimum. It is probably wiser
not to use an antipsoric in these conditions.
 SECOND OBSERVATION

• Aggravation may be long and severe, yet

the final reaction and amelioration comes.
• Sometimes in these states the aggravation
may even last for weeks, yet improvement
in general is continually taking place and
then comes the amelioration and a slow
but sure recovery.
• In these borderline cases there has
already been established some marked
organic changes, and where pathological
changes have actually taken place the
period of aggravation will be longer, but
the general improvement in health in the
curable cases will be manifest.
 THIRD OBSERVATION
• The aggravation is quick and short and
strong, with rapid improvement of the
patient.
• No structural change of the vital organs.
• Superficial nature, such manifestations as
furunculosis or abscess formations on the
surface.
• No changes in the deeper organs, like the
kidneys, the heart, or the brain.

• Aggravation that is quick, short, and strong

is to be desired, because we know that
improvement will be rapid.
 FORTH OBSERVATION
• No aggravation
• There is no organic change; there is no
tendency to organic disease.
• it belongs to the functional conditions,
exhibiting its effects in the nervous
manifestations and the relations of the
patient to his surroundings and to tissue
changes.
• We do not observe any pathological
changes.
• In these cases the single remedy in a
moderate potency (say the 200th) will
probably complete the work.
• Potency and remedy is correct.
 FIFTH OBSERVATION

• Amelioration comes first and aggravation

coming afterward.
• This amelioration comes on to last usually
for three or four days; the patient seems
to be better but at the end of a week or
ten days all the symptoms are worse than
when he first came to you.
• Either we selected too superficial a remedy,
that could act only as a palliative.
• The case is incurable and the remedy has
been somewhat similar but not completely
so.
• we must examine the patient and find
out whether the symptoms related to
the remedy or to the disease.
• Sometimes remedy was in error
• Not cover the whole case, constitutional
state of the patient.
• we based our prescription on generals only.
• If symptoms often come back changed.
• Then we must wait, and this will require
patience on the part of the physician and
co-operation on the part of the patient.
 SIXTH OBSERVATION
• Too short a period of relief from the symptoms
• If the improvement continues for some time
and then suddenly comes to a halt,

• Find out if the patient has been doing

something that is against the rules of health
or has interfered with the continuation of
the curative action of the remedy.
• It is because ----- interferes with the action of
the remedy.
 Acute cases
• The action of the remedy is much more quickly
exhausted in the rapid pace of acute diseases
than in the more moderate progress of
chronic manifestations, and more frequent
repetitions of the remedy may be demanded.

• The most satisfactory amelioration in acute

cases is where amelioration comes gradually
and takes an hour or two after the
administration of the remedy before it is
markedly manifest.
 Chronic diseases
• If amelioration is too short in chronic
diseases it means that structural changes
are taking place and have destroyed or
threatened to destroy the proper functions
of the patient.
 SEVENTH OBSERVATION
• Full period of amelioration of the symptoms,
yet no special relief of the patient.
• Find out where you have structural changes.
• where the patient will improve on the remedy
for some time and then improvement will
cease.
• They can improve only to a certain point, and
then improvement can go no further.
• We meet these conditions where organs
like the liver or kidneys are partially
involved and can function only in part.
• The remedy may keep the patient
comfortable, however; and by careful
repetitions of the remedy at infrequent
intervals the patient may be kept
comfortable for a considerable period of
time even though you will not be justified
in expecting a cure.
 EIGHTH OBSERVATION

• They prove any remedy you may give them

and get an aggravation from it.
• Because of an idiosyncrasy for the remedy
or too sensitive reaction of the vital energy.
• It may be almost impossible to do anything
with them in a curative way, but it may be
of inestimable help in proving a remedy.
 NINTH OBSERVATION

• Old symptoms reappear

• Old symptoms reappearing we know to
be a step in the right direction.
• Condition is being solved in
Homoeopathic manner
 TENTH OBSERVATION
• Appearance of new symptoms
• New symptoms in one sided disease.
• Number of new symptoms, it is an
unfavourable sign.
• Group of entirely new symptoms
appearing after the administration of a
remedy is evidence that we have made a
decided step in the wrong direction.
• Diseased states are progressive, ever
developing deeper and deeper manifestations.

• Disease is destruction; cure is constructive

development.

• Cure is always centrifugal, as growth is always

centrifugal.