PRESCRIBING
FOR ACUTE CONDITIONS
ACUTE
prescribing
is where homeopathy is used for acute conditions like stings,
bruises, sprains, food poisoning, influenza, measles, mumps,
diarrhoea and vomiting, and in fact any acute inflammatory
or infectious disease.
An 'acute'
illness is usually a short lived condition and a condition
where you would normally recover by yourself (given time)
and which, if you failed to recover, would either kill you
or become instead a 'chronic' condition
In
acute prescribing:
- the effect of the remedies is quickly used up; they may
need frequent repetition and they only affect the immediate
condition.
- the remedy can usually be found with a minimum of information
- it doesn't usually profoundly improve your physical and
emotional well being and susceptibilities, beyond resolving
the immediate condition (unlike constitutional prescriptions).
- sometimes several remedies may be used in quick succession
(e.g.. flu may need Gels. to start, then Eup-per, the Kali-p
then influenzinum, as the disease progresses through its
various stages).
- it is reasonable to treat
yourself and
your family for common uncomplicated conditions.
When a patient has an acute condition
before we can decide on a course of action, we have to first
determine what the dynamic is
| FIRST |
- has the patient recently
been prescribed a constitutional remedy?
- if YES:
- is it a reaction to a constitutional
rx? ( if so see Aggravation
and DOC
and ROS.
Acutes caused by a constitutional remedy are a healing
process and should not be treated unless harm could
come to the patient) |
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- is it just that there is a genus
epidemicus going round and they've caught
it despite having had a constitutional remedy, i.e.
unlucky timing? (if you don't know other patients
with similar symptoms then it probably isn't a genus
epidemicus, unless they've been unlucky enough to
be the first to get it!)
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| SECOND |
-
if NO: |
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then it's not a reaction to
a constitutional remedy so treat as any acute (see
the specific Ailments section) i.e.
- take symptoms and modalities
- determine causation
if possible
- look for keynotes
- if it is a genus epidemicus try to find out what
others have used successfully
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