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It, thus, helps to restore adaptation. Homoeopathy offers unrivaled opportunities in the curative management of psychotic, psychoneurotic and psychosomatic disorders.
Many chronic diseases have a constitutional basis playing an important role in facilitating their occurrence and continuation. A well-selected constitutional remedy affects them favorably and thus, homoeopathic treatment offers unlimited potentialities. Homoeopathy has evolved itself to the stature of a system of scientific constitutional drug-therapeutics having unassailable foundations.
2. 2. 3 Approach to Epidemic Disease
Approach to epidemic diseases with homoeopathic intervention involves identification of genus epidemicus, which is used as a prophylactic and may also be used as a therapeutic for the epidemic. Genus epidemicus is a specific homoeopathic remedy selected after observing the complex of symptoms peculiar to a large number of patients suffering from that epidemic. As the strains of causative organisms change, there are definitely some variations in the symptomatology and therefore, in Homoeopathy, genus epidemicus needs to be identified each time an epidemic breaks out, which makes it more reliable to prevent the disease.
2. 3 SCOPE AND ADVANTAGES
"Tact, sympathy, and understanding are expected of the physician, for the patient is no mere collection of symptoms, signs, disordered functions, damaged organs, and disturbed emotions. [The patient] is human, fearful, and hopeful seeking relief, help and reassurance"29. This is applicable to practitioners of all therapeutic systems including Homoeopathy. The aim of Homoeopathy is not only to tackle individual diseases in a person, but to understand the person as a whole and relieve him/her of his/her complaints.
Over the years, homoeopathic medicines have been used successfully for treatment of various conditions such as acid peptic diseases, anxiety, atopic dermatitis, autism, behavioral disorders, bone fracture healing, conjunctivitis, chicken pox, depression, dysmenorrhoea, headaches, herpes zoster, influenza, injuries, migraine, menstrual irregularities, pre-menstrual syndrome, psoriasis, psychosomatic disorders, phobias, renal calculi, stress disorders, substance abuse, upper respiratory
29 Practice of Medicine. In Longo D, Fauci A, Kasper D, Hauser S, Jameson J, Loscalzo J. et al. Harrison's Principles of Internal Medicine, 18e. New York, McGraw-Hill; 2011