Book Review
NATIONAL JOURNAL OF HOMOEOPATHY 2004 Mar / Apr VOL VI NO 2.
Reviewed by
Dr (Mrs) Rajni K Gwalani
Title: Accurate Homoeopathy Hahnemann's Directives and its Application.
Publication: Krupa Publications A-402, Brentwood, Hiranandani Gardens,
Powai,Mumbai-400076
Editor: Dr Sanjay Modi
Price: *********
Edition: 1st
Pages: 220
I always welcome an encounter with a homoeopathic book like that of Dr Sanjay Modi's, aptly named - Accurate Homoeopathy, which represents pure essence of how to select the right remedy.
He has stressed, and rightly so, the responsibility of the treating physician through Aphorism I. "The physician, high and only mission is to restore the sick to health, to cure" and to achieve this goal, he has guided through various aphorisms and taken us through the book as a journey, to the approach of the case, its understanding and finally to deriving the similimum in the right potency and the right repetition.
In this book, he discusses the following factors:
- While taking a case, be completely empty to start with,be receptive, thorough listening, empathy, and communication with the patient, have no prejudgment (judgmental attitude) only once you have fully taken the case, synthesize it.
- Then he discusses synthesis in detail, by using our knowledge, laterality, using intellect and wisdom.
- Then comes analysis and evaluation. He says that the approach to totality of symptoms and analysis and evaluation go in opposite direction.
- He stresses that Hahnemann would like physicians, not only to prevent disease but also to maintain health. This has to reflect in their approach to selection of right remedy.
- Next he discusses exciting and fundamental causes, nature v/s nurture, interpretation, guide to individuality, impure sources of disease, susceptibility of the patient which make to decide the potency and commitment of the physician.
This book is indeed good as an aid to students in their study and practice of homoeopathy.
The author has made a very positive effort to systemize the matter from various sources into a coordinated whole, for the benefit of students to follow the study of Homoeopathy. He has mentioned the references of each chapter, which is Unique in itself and will allow the student to go to the source book for indepth study.
It is indeed, a book worth reading to help reinforcing the physician to act rightly and be committed while treating the case in a holistic manner.
