Unprejudice Prescriber Neither Classical Nor Non Classical
NATIONAL JOURNAL OF HOMOEOPATHY 1999 Nov / Dec VOL VIII NO 6.
Dr Gaurang D Dave

Controversies create candlelight in darkness. Darkness is nothing but covering of the truth of nature. Homoeopath as a true healer has to find his way through this darkness to arrive at similimum for every case.

So many different routes to success are taught by seniors, that they confuse a new Homoeopath. Classical or non-classical? I have never found an author describing classical & non-classical approach in Homoeopathy. Hahnemann himself, very clearly writes in §: 83 that "This individual examination of case of disease, for which I shall give only general directions, of which the practitioner will bear in mind only what is applicable fir each individual case, demands of the physician nothing but freedom from prejudice and sound senses, in observing and fidelity in tracing the picture of the disease.

He was very open on the subject. He knew that every Homoeopath may have his own individual way of arriving at the similimum. If he uses the comprehensive principle of nature, then there is no question of classical and non-classical approach. There is a belief that to prescribe on mental generals, repertorisation, to prescribe single dose with less frequent repetition, falls under the category of classical and all other are non-classical.

I think this a wrong perception of the Hahnemannian approach. It is an art to make exact portrait of diseases or to arrive at similimum. No portrait painter is so careless as to pay no attention to marked peculiarity of what he is going to paint. No naturalist ever wants to work in a wrong fashion to describe any nature production. So to get ideal portrait to treat, we should have nothing in front of us. Plain paper or 'Kora man' helps the artist to draw whatever he sees. Physician's mission is to draw the portrait of sick to heal them as early as possible. The way he accomplishes this is the classical approach of Homoeopathy - a natural system based on law of similimum.

Following are possible ways to prescribe:

1. Treatment Based On Mental Generals:
   • Innermost of personae- to which supreme Importance has been given by all authors from time of Hahnemann. But they are only worthy when not a result of Physician's imagination and delusive thought.
   • They should be based on pure attentive and unprejudiced observation.
   • They are difficult to get on very first interrogation correctly. It also depends upon skill of physician to get patient into confidence to tell about their innermost.
   • Helpful when there is real purity of symptoms in chronic disease.
   • Helpful both in acute and chronic disease.
   
   
   
2. Treatment Based on Physical Generals:
   • Every Materia Medica highlights these symptoms.
   • They are easy to get from patient.
   • They are helpful in easy differentiation eg if you want to differentiate Sulph, Psorinum thermal modality and desire/aversions are sufficient.
   • One of best way for beginners.
   • Helpful both in acute & chronic cases.
   
   
   
3. Treatment based on Causative Approach:
   • Most important for acute disease.
   • Also helpful for chronic cases. But patient may forget exact origin due to prolonged illness.
   • Best results without failure.
   • Cuts short the time of physician.
   
   
   
4. Treatment on Repertorial Analysis:
   • It requires skill in order to convert language of patient in rubrics.
   • Mechanical process. We cannot depend alone on this approach; helpful when combined with other approaches.
   • It may lead to group of polychrest drugs.
   
   
   
5. Treatment On Keynotes:
   • Experienced Homoeopaths utilize them with confidence and get best result.
   • Cuts short the time of the physician.
   • Easy to differentiate a drug of similar symptoms.
   • Helpful in both acute and chronic cases.
   
   
   
6. Treatment Based On Miasmatic Approach:
   • It should not be applied alone.
   • It is helpful in both acute and chronic cases, when best selected remedy fails to produce good result.
   
   
   
7. Treatment Based On Miscellaneous Approach
   • ie Organopathic, rare remedy, specific remedy, concomitant symptoms, particular characteristics symptoms.
   • These all approaches having their own limitations. They cover only limited cases.
   • They are either helpful in palliation or removal of that particular symptoms.
   • But concomitant and rare symptoms may help to get best result.
   • They must be combined with other approaches.
   • They help physician to arrive at final similimum out of few similar drug.
   
   
   
8. Treatment Based On Group (Family) Symptoms:
   • New approach followed by most of Homoeopaths and claiming great success.
   • But they should be based on physical generals only of fully proved drugs. Is more a product of analytic mind.
   • Second combined salts proving are not thoroughly done. Only few physical general are available and described in Materia Medica.
   • Finally it restricts physician only to limited family and this biased mind may miss other similar remedy which do not belong to some group.
   • Mental general of groups scattered in few Materia Medicas. There is no authentic proving done on this subject. So it is not applicable.
   • So, Homoeopathic physician has to discover natural portrait of sick as well as natural similimum to that portrait.

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