Genus Epidemicus - Homeopathic Doctor

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www.drnavalkumar.com Genus Epidemicus No need
to panic India is still far away from corona
virus, but read advisory of Government of India
before traveling to China and other affected
countries'. Homoeopathy can offer as preventive
measures to many diseases because it's one of
natural system of treatment, not claiming to be
treatment of coronavirus. In 6th edition of
organon of medicine aph. 100, 101, 102
(footnote) and 241. Dr. Hahnemann itself never
use this word, instead of it homoeopathic
(specific) remedy is used. Kent also says that
in an epidemic, one may find half-a-dozen
remedies that are daily indicated and one of
these remedies seems to be the best suited for
prophylaxis and this may differ from the
curative one.
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www.drnavalkumar.com Genus epidemicus is an
important part of Homoeopathic laws which means
to find a probable remedy that can prevent from
that particular epidemic. So some Homoeopathic
remedy is searched in case of outbreak of some
epidemics and endemic diseases which matches the
outbreak disease symptoms. References from 6th
edition of organon of medicines 100 In
investigating the totality of the symptoms of
epidemic and sporadic diseases it is quite
immaterial whether or not something similar has
ever appeared in the world before under the same
or any other name. The novelty or peculiarity of
a disease of that kind makes no difference
either in the mode of examining or of treating
it, as the physician must any way regard to pure
picture of every prevailing disease as if it
were something new and unknown, and investigate
it thoroughly for itself, if he desire to
practice medicine in a real and radical manner,
never substituting conjecture for actual
observation, never taking for granted that the
case of disease before him is already wholly or
partially known, but always carefully examining
it in all its phases and this mode of procedure
is all the more requisite in such cases, as a
careful examination will show that every
prevailing disease is in many respects a
phenomenon of a unique character, differing
vastly from all previous epidemics, to which
certain names have been falsely applied with
the exception of those epidemics resulting from a
contagious principle that always remains the
same, such as smallpox, measles, etc.
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www.drnavalkumar.com 101 It may easily happen
that in the first case of an epidemic disease
that presents itself tothe physician's notice he
does not at once obtain a knowledge of its
complete picture, as itis only by a close
observation of several cases of every such
collective disease that he can become conversant
with the totality of its signs and symptoms. The
carefully observing physician can, however, from
the examination of even the first and second
patients, oftenarrive so nearly at a knowledge
of the true state as to have in his mind a
characteristic portrait of it, and even to
succeed in finding a suitable, homoeopathically
adapted remedyfor it. 102 (Footnote) The
physician who has already, in the first cases,
been able to choose a remedyapproximating to the
homoeopathic specific, will, from the subsequent
cases, be enabledeither to verify the
suitableness of the medicine chosen, or to
discover a more appropriate, the most
appropriate homoeopathic remedy. 241
Epidemics of intermittent fever, in situations
where none are endemic, are of the natureof
chronic diseases, composed of single acute
paroxysms each single epidemic is of a
peculiar, uniform character common to all the
individuals attacked, and when thischaracter is
found in the totality of the symptoms common to
all, it guides us to thediscovery of the
homoeopathic (specific) remedy suitable for all
the cases, which isalmost universally serviceable
in those patients who enjoyed tolerable health
before theoccurrence of the epidemic, that is to
say, who were not chronic sufferers from
developed psora.