HOMOEOPATHY FOR A STRONG CONSTITUTION
by Dr. Pankaj Aggarwal
“No knowledge is perfect unless it includes an understanding of the origin – that is, the beginning; and as all man’s diseases originate in his constitution, it is necessary that his constitution should be known if we wish to know his diseases.” – Paracelsus.
What is constitution?
The term constitution is derived from the Latin noun, constitutio, which means an arrangement or physical make-up and the verb “constituere”, which means to establish or constitute. To constitute means to establish, to create, to set up, to form, to make up, to appoint, to give being to, etc.
Constitution means the make-up of the person. It covers physical and mental make-up both. Every person gets his constitution at the time of zygote formation.
It is when the ovum and sperm fuse and conceivement occurs; the constitution (make-up of person) is framed.
How this Concept of constitution does come?
Ayurveda introduced constitution for the first time and it called ‘Prakruti’. Then, the concept of constitution is widely used in the traditional Chinese medicine from thousands of years. Afterwards, Hippocrates who was the father of medicine introduced the tradition of studying the constitution into clinical medicine, which makes it one of the oldest living traditions in western medicine. Then in homoeopathy also, the medicine is given on the basis of constitution. Psychologists have also given their concept of constitution. In present time, Endocrinologists are trying to divide the constitutions of mankind according to them.
This is fascinating to know that all the systems from Ayurveda till endocrinologists, all of them tried to describe different types of constitutions and surprisingly it resulted in only three or four types. The names according to them varied but classification could not go beyond three or four types. It is amazing that in different eras and different viewpoints, it remained three or four!
It is like the constitution of a country. Now, as the constitution of a country gives a status and position to one nation but at the same time, it has both good and bad points to create difficult issues in the country. Same in the human constitution, it gives life to one person but at the same time, it produces some good and bad points. These bad points are the causes to bring further the diseases in the person in the time to come.
Homoeopathy & constitution
Homoeopathy has the capacity to cure the constitutional affects by its way of treating and it is called ‘constitutional treatment’.
Any disease which is recurrent in nature and having no maintaining reasons (life-style errors) behind belongs to the constitutional disorders. Any disease which has hereditarily acquired is constitutional diseases. So, both mental and physical diseases/ disorders can be constitutional in nature. Few examples are:
- Diabetes mellitus
- Hypertension
- Depression
- Schizophrenia etc.
You can treat constitutional disorders and prevent to make them diseases. So that constitutional diseases can be treated in their beginning and can be cut at nip.
PLAN OF HOMOEOPATHIC CONSTITUTIONAL TREATMENT: Every human being pass through a phase of development and final decline. This shows how every man is like a wave. This wave has a biological transit phases.
The biological transit phases of life include:
- Pregnancy: Pregnancy is a condition in which there are large changes in the body that prepares for the emergence and development of new life.
- At birth & 1st week of life: Newborn babies usually have premature organs including the skin. So it is the most important phase of development.
- Dentition: Itpertains to the development of teeth and their arrangement in the mouth. In particular, it is the characteristic arrangement, kind, and number of teeth in a given species at a given age.
- Puberty: It is the process of physical changes through which achild’s body matures into an adult body capable of sexual reproduction. Hormonal changes are at peak in this stage.
- Period before marriage: Marriage is a merging. It is time when two families and two persons are merged. Also, two biologies get merged. In this time exchange of diseases also takes place. Homoeopathy cleans up before the marriage and prevents this biological pollution.
- Old age: Old people often have limited regenerative abilities and are more susceptible to disease, syndromes, and sickness than younger adults.
During biological transit phase, constitution is surfaced so constitutional treatment is important in these phases of life.
Homoeopathic treatment
Homoeopathic treatment involves proper case-taking and matching of the individual’s constitutional symptoms with the constitutional symptoms of the medicines. The constitutional symptoms of homoeopathic medicines have been previously known by proving on humans. By giving this similar remedy, individual gets cured and prevention from diseases takes place.
I must say that homoeopathy is the boon for suffering humanity to get rid of diseases. Do follow homoeopathy and be healthy.
