Antidoting the first prescription: when and why did you do it?

The sick individual should be the aim of the physician; his whole concern should be centred upon the sick to determine whether he is improving or declining with the treatment or unknowingly he is making proving of the medicine. The whole future of the patient depends upon the conclusions that the ph...

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Publicado en:Homoeopathic Heritage Vol. 50; no. 3; pp. 7 - 11
Autor principal: Niturkar, Yogesh Dhondiraj
Formato: case study editorial tables/charts Journal Article
Publicado: B. Jain Publishers Pvt. Ltd. Jun2024
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Sumario:The sick individual should be the aim of the physician; his whole concern should be centred upon the sick to determine whether he is improving or declining with the treatment or unknowingly he is making proving of the medicine. The whole future of the patient depends upon the conclusions that the physician derives from his observations during case taking, case processing and follow up assessment which further directs the action i.e. first and the subsequent second prescription. Based upon the action of the first prescription, the next second prescription can be a placebo, repetition of the same medicine, change of medicine, anti-miasmatic remedy or an antidote. This case based editorial will help us to understand what do we infer when a patient narrates his chief complaints and the history of frequent consuming of prophylactic medicine Ars Alb 30 without any medical supervision and approach towards selecting an antidote.