Difficulties in Homoeopathic Practice Questions and Answers with Dr Rajan Sankaran Part 2

This talk is a continuation of “Difficulties in Homoeopathic practice-Questions and Answers with Dr. Rajan Sankaran- Part-1” where Dr. Rajan Sankaran shares his vast experience and deals with many more questions that homoeopathic practitioners commonly face during practice. The questions are mentioned below. Many of the remedies arrived by Sensation method are recent proving's which are not a part of Kent’s Repertory or Complete Repertory. How can we use the method when not having Mac or Vital Quest? Dr. Rajan Sankaran enumerates various books that provide information regarding these rare remedies and says that we must read these books thoroughly to have an understanding about such remedies. How can we be sure that we have explored the case in detail and in depth? He shares many case examples to explain the sensation level. He explains that we know we are at the sensation level when different unconnected aspects of a case come together to the same point. How to approach one sided diseases or local diseases like vitiligo or alopecia? Dr. Sankaran explains that both of these diseases are auto immune disorders. He explains that in such cases we are not treating the vitiligo or alopecia, we are treating the auto immune disorder. There was a case of Tineacorporis and based on repertorization, China was coming up as the indicated remedy. Can China, belonging to the malarial miasm, be given in a ringworm miasm case or do we need to choose a remedy belonging to the ringworm miasm from the same plant family, which may or may not cover the patient totality? Dr. Sankaran explains that if a patient is suffering from Tinea corporis does not necessarily mean that he belongs to the ringworm miasm. During day to day practice we find many patients who don’t give good history or we are not able to derive a good history. How to prescribe when there are almost no individualizing symptoms in a case? Dr. Sankaran explains how every person has individualizing symptoms and we must just learn to elicit the individualizing symptoms. In cases of autism where the patient (minor) cannot give the exact sensation or experience, the history is given by the parents who many times cannot describe the sensation or experience accurately. In such cases how to go ahead with the case and give the exact similimum? Dr. Sankaran says that in such cases the observation of the attendants should be taken into account and not their interpretation or their theory. Some people, whose educational status is poor, are not able to describe the exact words of their sensation or experience. How to get the exact similimum in such cases? Dr. Sankaran says that educational status is irrelevant to a person describing his experience, symptoms or sensation. If you have any interesting ideas, questions, comments or feedback, please write to us. We would be happy to hear from you.