Diet and Regimen in Homeopathy

Diet and Regimen in Homeopathy

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Importance of diet and regimen during the treatment and for the maintenance of health is not new to the world. Infact its importance is known to the world since 500BC. Great Greek physician and father of medicine Hippocrates who went far ahead to say ‘”Let your food be your medicine and let your medicine be your food.” Egyptian physicians (also) held that food, if subjected to insufficient or faulty digestion, could be transformed into morbid entities. Arab physicians, although they recognized that foods and drugs constitute the pillars of therapy, differed in the importance they accorded to each.

The importance of diet was, however, stressed by many, of whom Avicenna who expressed it in several verse of his Canticum: “To preserve health, medicine acts in two ways. To maintain the temperament give a similar diet. To alter the nature of the body, give its contrary (verses 791-798).

Dr Hahnemann also emphasized about diet and regimen but contrary to believe then he gave different places to diet and medicine required for treatment. According to him remedy is must for cure but if diet and regimen are not corrected they will maintain the disease. In chronic disease he states that ” A strict homoepathic diet and mode of living dose not cure chronic patient as our opponents pretend in order to diminish the merit of homoeopathy , but the main cause is the medical treatment . This may be seen in the case of the many patients who trusting these false allegation have fro years observed the most strict homoeopathic diet without being able there by to diminish appreciable their chronic disease , this rather increases in spite of diet ,as all disease of a chronic miasmatic nature do from their nature.
But in the disease due to transient dispositions caused due to faulty diets or habits one must correct them in order to attain health.§ 77 he gives eg: of disease due to deficiencies or due to excess etc.

But in cases of pure miasmatic disease DR Hahnemann says § 256
” But should we find, during the employment of the other medicines in chronic (psoric) diseases, that the best selected homeopathic (antipsoric) medicine in the suitable (minutest) dose does not effect an improvement, this is a sure sign that THE CAUSE THAT KEEPS UP THE DISEASE STILL PERSIST, and that there is some circumstance in the mode of life of the patient or in the situation in which he is placed, that must be removed in order that a permanent cure may ensue” .

Proper hygienic and dietary measures must be taken recourse to before administration of remedial drugs, which are used as specific stimuli to rouse the vital force to react against the morbific agent and overcome their noxious influences. In the chronic disease we have to be more careful in dietic and hygienic matter as they may easily upset the patient in a surreptitious manner as it is rightly explained in § 259-36 in organon of medicine 6th edition

Considering the minuteness of the doses necessary . and proper in Homeopathic treatment we can easily understand that during the treatment everything must be remove from the diet & regime which can have any medical action. In order that the small dose may not be overwhelmed & extinguish by any foreign medicinal irritant further in

§ 260, Hahnemann 1989 — 36 quotes.
Hence the careful investigation into such obstacles is so much the more necessary in the case of patient affected by chronic disease, as they are disease causing errors in the diet and regiment, which often passed unnoticed . Further he states, the most appropriate regiment during the employment of medicine in chronic disease consist in the removal of such obstacles to recovery and in supplying them necessary the reverse. Innocent moral and intellectual recreations, active exercise in open air almost all kind of weather daily, walks slight manual labour suitable nutrition unmedicinal food and drinks etc.

In the note to this paragraph Hahnemann gives a list of things that he felt were important to “avoided as far as possible or be removed” while attempting a cure of a prolonged chronic disease. He used the word “as far as possible” because it difficult to remove such things all in most cases. These avoidables hold true in todays life too.

1. ” Coffee; fine Chinese and other herb teas”
Coffee can be a great obstacle to the cure. Hahnemann wrote that coffee was one of the greatest aggravators of the Psora and the chronic miasms. Also it is non for its action as universal antidote.

2. “beer prepared with medicinal vegetable substances unsuitable for the patient’s state; so-called fine liquors made with medicinal spices; all kinds of punch; spiced chocolate; highly spiced dishes and sauces; spiced cakes,

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