Mental and Emotional Diseases
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| Mental and Emotional Diseases |
- The patient's mental and emotional states are vital aspects of diagnosis and can vary during treatment.
- The state of the patient's disposition is the decisive factor in choosing the remedy.
- Any medicinal substance has the ability to produce changes in an individual, whether healthy or diseased.
- The presenting mental and emotional changes direct the physician to the correct similar remedy.
- Mental and emotional diseases are to be cured in exactly the same way as all other diseases.
- As the tangible disease increases, the symptoms move away from the physical realm and into the mental realm.
- A life threatening so-called physical disease can deteriorate into insanity/mania, which removes the threat to life.
- To treat this one sided state; the physician must identify the individuality of the case.
- As the mental disease progresses, a detailed history must be taken of the patient before the disease degenerated.
- Periodically, as mental symptoms subside, the physical symptoms will re-present.
- The detailed history together with the presenting symptoms provides a complete picture of the disease from which the similar remedy can be prescribed.
- With an acute mental flare-up, the appropriate acute remedy must be given in high potency.
- The acute remedy does not cure the underlying miasm.
- The mental illness is almost certain to recur in a more prolonged serious form if the anti-miasmatic treatment is not given.
- Any physical symptom which progresses into the deep mental realm cannot be assisted by counselling; however, mental states caused by external influences may benefit from such counselling.
- Mental illness can also be produced from prolonged emotional disturbances, which often greatly harm the physical.
- Before these emotional disturbances become too deep, they can be alleviated by counselling.
- An undeveloped psoric miasm underlies these cases and anti-miasmic remedies should be given.
- Mentally and emotionally ill patients should be treated with calm and firmness and without reproach.
- The physician will find the treatment more beneficial where he has given the appearance of believing the patient to be sane, as it prevents aggravations of the condition.
- Homeopathic treatment can produce rapid and striking results in the case of mental and emotional disease.
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