HOMEOPATHIC RESEARCH

- Sumit Goel. PHARMACOPOEIA (Greek - pharmakon: drug; poies: to make) means a book, containing the formulae and methods of preparation of medicines used in the treatment of disease. A homoeopathic pharmacopoeia necessarily deals with descriptions and preparations of medicines used for treating patients homoeopathically. It is the supreme authoritative book, published by an authority, government of any country that deals with the rules and regulations of standardization of drug substances. It contains directions for collection of drug substances from different sources, their preparation, preservation and standards that determine their strength and purity. It is officially published by the authority of the government of a country or any medical or pharmaceutical association, constituted or authorized by the government. A pharmacopoeia published by an authority is termed as 'official' and one that is published by any person, other than an authority is 'unofficial'. ...

- Sumit Goel. Homoeopathic vehicles are material agents that are therapeutically inert, having no curative properties of its own, as well as chemically non-reactive with drug substances. They are a media for extraction of the properties of the drug, its preservation and conveyance of the properties of the drug to the intended site of action. QUALITIES OF A HOMOEOPATHIC VEHICLE * A homoeopathic vehicle should have no curative property of its own, in the crude state, as also, when it is potentized with other remedial agents. Monopharmacy is the basis of homoeopathic therapeutics. In no case under treatment is it permissible to administer more than one single, simple medicinal substance at one time (aphorism 273). Hence, a homoeopathic vehicle should remain neutral in all states to ensure the complete efficacy of the selected remedy. * A homoeopathic vehicle should remain chemically neutral and non-reactive with the homoeopathic drugs to retain their active...

- Sumit Goel. Imponderabilia and Synthetic source : IMPONDERABILIA - ENERGY SOURCE IMPONDERABILIA are immaterial 'dynamic' energies that are utilized as potentized homoeopathic medicines. ('Ponder' signifies contemplating, examining, investigating.) Dynamic, powerful, physical energies have been known to influence various living and non-living forms and processes on the Earth. These energies have been tapped into potential homoeopathic medicines for the cure of the sick. The energy utilized may be natural or it may be artificially generated. The dynamic force of mineral magnets, electricity and galvanism act no less powerfully upon our life principle and they are not less homoeopathic than the so-called medicines which neutralize disease by taking them through the mouth or by rubbing them on the skin or by olfaction. There may be diseases, especially diseases of sensibility and irritability, abnormal sensations and involuntary muscular movements, which may be ...

- Sumit Goel. The full recognition of the principle of drug dynamization succeeded the proving of drugs and the enunciation of the law of similars and it was the third step in the evolution of homoeopathic principles. Hahnemann began experiments of the application of proven drugs for the cure of the sick upon the basis of the law of similars, by using drugs in their full strength. He found that many times the patient became greatly aggravated. Hahnemann reasoned that the dose was too large, and he experimented by diluting the drug on a definite scale. To his surprise he found that he secured better results. He continued this process until he discovered that the curative power of drugs bore no proportionate relationship to the crude quantity, but that under the peculiar and systematic reduction by a regular scale, and the proper manipulation, many drugs in common use, and many substances supposed to be inert in their crude states, became endowed with new and hitherto uns...

- Sumit Goel. HOMOEOPATHIC PHARMACY may be defined as the art and science of collecting, identifying, preparing, preserving, evaluating, standardizing and dispensing of medicines. It also embraces the legal and professional aspects and regulation of proper distribution of medicines. The Greek word designating the idea of pharmacy is pharmacon, "a drug, a medicine, remedy, a potion, charm, spell" that has been anglicized into such words as pharmacy, and pharmacist, one skilled in pharmacy. The study of pharmacy includes the study of the theories and exercise of the operations necessary to the intelligent preparation and dispensing of substances used in the healing art. It is concerned with the collection, identification, preparation, standardization and preservation of drugs used in homoeopathic practice. In the broadest interpretation, this definition carries the drug from its original source to the actual consumer or patient. In such an activi...

- Sumit Goel. CO2 Homoeopathic vehicles used in homoeopathy, which are in the liquid state, are * Distilled water * Alcohol * Glycerin * Solvent ether * Simple syrup * Olive oil * Almond oil * Sesame oil * Chaulmoogra oil * Coconut oil * Sandalwood oil * Lavender oil * Rosemary oil DISTILLED WATER SYNONYM - Purified water; Aqua distillata; Aqua purificata CHEMICAL SYMBOL - H2O MOLECULAR WEIGHT - 18.015 PREPARATION To prepare purified water by distillation process, water (1000 volumes) is distilled from a suitable apparatus (like Leibig's apparatus), provided with a glass condenser; collect the first 100 volumes and reject this portion. Then collect 750 volumes and keep the distilled water in glass-stoppered bottles that have been rinsed with steam or very hot water immediately before being filled. The first 100 volumes ar...