Rashmi C. Pimpalkar

The general concept in Homeopathy towards treatment of the sick is Treat the patient not the disease. On a superficial sense, this may be preposterous, but in a deeper sense it conveys its holistic concepts towards the patient. A patient with hypertension, diabetes mellitus and COPD may express multitude of symptoms common to each of these diseases. Based on the clinical findings and diagnostic evidences, he is considered as a patient of hypertension, diabetes and COPD. Such a concept necessitates different prescriptions to balance the patho- physiological changes in the patient’s health. Whether the patient is lean or obese, irritable or gentle does not matter in selection of remedies. Even the patient is not personally present for consultation; the medicines can be prescribed merely based on the diagnostic evidences. Most of these prescriptions shall give relief to the suffering.