Posted: Jun 22, 2010 4:31 am
Dr. Nancy Malik wrote:DST70 wrote:Dr. Nancy Malik wrote:DST70 wrote: *snip*
Dr.Syed Ahmed (SFA) have an example to illustrate this
1- Hot days, loose motions, water, several times a day with pains. (call it diarrhea).
2- Hot days, loose motions with severe cramps coming in waves.(call it diarrhea too).
3- Travelling man, never without watery stools that want him to rush to the utility. (diarrhea again)
Now for an effective homeopath, it never mattered to call it diarrhea or xyz. As the symptoms are varying to an extent that the remedies are changing - every condition must have been different is some respect.
Carefully selected remedy would clear the complaint quickly.
Thanks Nancy. This is a useful point to illustrate cases where the disease state is not best viewed as a single discrete entity, which presents problems for a reductionist science.
For the Homeopath , disease is not pathology , but a state of being. Absence of organic pathology does not mean absence of disease. Experience shows that all beings have a state inside , which is a precursor to organic pathology, besides being a cause for dis- ease within the person.
“An important aspect of many concepts of disease has been the tendency to ascribe disease to a “bad” influence, usually something external which gets into the body. This theme characterizes most primitive and pre- scientific views of disease and has reappeared in various guises in the scientific era.”
Engel; Perspectives in Biology and Medicine