Are Mother Tinctures Homoeopathic Medicines?
NATIONAL JOURNAL OF HOMOEOPATHY 2002 Jan / Feb VOL 4 NO 1.
Dr Satish Kumar Rana
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Homoeopaths often claim to have cured patients suffering from very serious diseases with mother tinctures, that too "rapidly, gently and permanently". They claim it only because they are followers (so-called) of Master Hahnemann who taught us: "Our vital force, as a spirit - like dynamis, cannot be attacked and affected by injurious influences on the healthy organism caused by the external inimical forces that disturb the harmonious play of life, otherwise than in a spirit - like (dynamic) way............"
In like manner, Dr Hahnemann has claimed that diseases cannot be removed by any other means than by a spirit-like dynamic-which is nothing else than a potentized homoeopathic remedy only: Master Hahnemann continues, ".......all such morbid derangements (diseases) cannot be removed from it by the physician in any other way than by the spirit - like dynamic (virtual) alternative powers of the serviceable medicines acting upon our spirit - like vital force......."
Further, Dr Hahnemann tried to explain how dynamic medicines act through nerves of the organism. He wrote thus: "........which perceives them through the medium of the sentient faculty of the nerves everywhere present in the organism, so that it is only by their dynamic action on the vital force that remedies are able to re-establish and do actually re-establish health and vital harmony, after the changes in health of the patient cognizable by our senses (the totality of the symptoms) have revealed the disease to the carefully observing and investigating physician as fully as was requisite in order to enable him to cure it". Now the question arises had Dr Hahnemann advocated the use of Crude Physiological Doses (Mother Tinctures), he must have had explained that how the crude medicines (Mother Tincture) go to the stomach and therefrom, after assimilation in blood get distributed to different parts of the body through the blood circulation. But this was not the case with this great genius. To stress the point further, in footnote to § 16 he gives a beautiful example: ".........Most severe disease may be produced by sufficient disturbance of the vital force through the imagination and also cured by the same means..........."
If Hahnemann is right and his discovery is infallible, then the claims made by so-called homoeopaths are false. There is no other way to cure except through dynamic influences, be it a potentized (Dynamic) remedy or any other form of dynamic energy. And I would like to declare for the knowledge of our colleagues in particular and for the professionals in general, that all that what has been claimed as cure is not cure but suppression. This is the sole reason why Dr Praful Vijayakar says: "All that Glitters is not Gold and All that Vanishes is not Cure."
Dr Praful Vijayakar who has explained suppressions caused by medical profession in general and homoeopaths in particular in his books - Theory of Suppression. The reader finds in it the real parameters and definition of cure and suppression. I have tried to reflect his light through the issues of the Similitude. Readers can go through these pages to get benefit. Mother Tinctures are not Homoeopathic Medicines-they are Crude agents.
