Preventive Medicine focuses on the health of individuals, communities, and defined populations. Its goal is to protect, promote, and maintain health and well-being and to prevent disease, disability, and death. Compiled by Dr.N.Solaiappan, Jabalpur INDIA

DISEASE

PREVENTIVE MEDICINE

AUTHORITY

Anthrax Anthracinum Denman
Chicken pox Ant-c, PuIs, Rhustox Mackanizie
Cholera Ars-alb, Cup-ac, Sul Farington
Camph, Cup, Ver-alb Hahnemann
Camphor. Cup.ac. Clarke, Ruddock
Cold. Recurrent Bacillinum Boericke G. W.
Diphtheria Apis.30, Dipth-30 Boericke
Diptherinum Allen
Lac-can. Diptherinum Tyler
Hydrophobia Bell, Canth, Hyos, Stram Boericke
Stram, Lyssin, Allen
Stram, Hydrophobinum Hering
Bell Hahnemann
Influenza Ars-alb Clarke
Influenzinum-hispanicum 200 (3 dozes 8 hours apart) Schmidt
Measles Aco, Ars, PuIs Boericke, Ruddock
Morbillnum Allen, Schmidt
Poliomyelitis Cocul, Cur, Gels, Lath-Sat Grimmer
Lath-Sat Bond
Carbo-ac, Lath-Sat or Plum-10M or Physo-lM Weir
Mumps Trifolium repens Boericke
Parotidinum Allen, Schmidt
Sepsis, Puerperal Arnica Foubister
Tetanus Led, or thuja or Schmidt
Arnic-l0M or  
Tetano-toxine-lM  
Mag- Phos Grimmer
Hypericum Boericke
Tuberculosis Tub-Bovinum Burnett, Kent
Typhoid Baptisia Grimmer
Whooping cough All-sat, Puls Lehman
Coqueluchin Clarke
Dros, Vaccin Boericke
Pertussin, Car-v, Grimmer
Cup, Dros  

The Origin of Homeoprophylaxis Hahnemann first published the doctrine of the miasms in The Chronic Diseases (1828) and The 4th Organon of the Healing Arts (1829). These works contain the first coherent theory of constitution, temperament, predisposition, susceptibility and acute and chronic contagious diseases. It also introduces the first clinical record of a stress adaptation syndrome as well as autoimmune diseases and immunodeficiency disorders. These were watershed years as they perfected the single dose wait and watch philosophy of case management and applied it to the treatment of chronic disease. At this time, Hahnemann was using dry pellets, olfaction, and pellets dissolved in a spoonful of water. Over the next 14 years Samuel Hahnemann developed a new case management philosophy that he claimed could speed the cure to ½ to 1/4 the time of cure of his former methods. In this system any visibly strikingly and progressive amelioration is a sign that the dose should not be repeated as long as this state lasts. In cases where a single dose only produces nominal healing action, the remedy should be repeated a suitable intervals to speed the cure. At the same time, the Founder developed an improved liquid delivery system that reaches more nerves increasing the action of remedies.  The Old Master applied his new medicinal solutions to higher centesimal potencies in the 5th Organon (1833) and suggested the “divided doses” to speed the cure in the Paris edition of the Chronic Diseases (1837). A similar delivery system was used for the olfaction and oral doses of the LM potency in the 6th Organon (c. 1842-1843). The use of the centesimal and LM potency in aqueous solutions greatly expands the therapeutic range of the homeopathic system. There is an old saying, “An once of prevention is worth a pound of cure”. How does this apply to Homoeopathy? What did Samuel Hahnemann have to say about the prevention of serious contagious diseases? What is the original of a first safe and effective system of prophylaxis? Perhaps, one can find some answers in Hahnemann’s Lesser Writings in an article called, The Prevention and Cure of Scarlet Fever (1801). The following is from a paragraph titled “Prophylaxis”.

 “Who can deny that the perfect prevention of infection from this devastating scourge, the discovery of a means whereby this Divine aim may be surely attained, would offer infinite advantages over any mode of treatment, be it of the most incomparable kind soever?” And: “The remedy capable of maintaining the healthy uninfectable by the miasm of scarlatina, I was so fortunate as to discover”.

Dr. Hahnemann again refers to homoeoprophylaxis in the 6th Organon of the Healing Art in aphorism 73, footnote 73b that discusses acute miasmic disease. Here he discusses his use of Belladonna for prevention of scarlet fever and Aconite for roodvonk (purpura miliaris). Dudgeon reported in his Lectures on the Theory and Practice of Homoeopathy the experience of ten allopathic doctors who gave Belladonna to 1646 children who were exposed to scarlet fever of whom 123 contracted the disease, which is under 1%.. The normal attack rate in unprotected children was as high as 90%. In The Chronic Diseases Hahnemann wrote that he used Bryonia and Rhus tox as specific remedies during an epidemic of acute typhus miasm in 1813. Hahnemann treated 180 cases and only lost two patients. The mortality rate of the orthodox doctors was 30%. These acute specifics represents early *genus epidemicus remedies* chosen by the totality of the symptoms of many persons suffering the same infectious disease. Vide page 33.

 “— the entire and complete image of the typhus fever reigning at the time could only be obtained by gathering together the symptoms of all, or at least of many of these patients.”

This group picture of an acute miasm provides remedies that have both curative and prophylactic qualities. These homeopathic “specifics” were not chosen by the name of the disease alone, but rather, by the grand totality of the symptoms of the entire epidemic in a greater number of people. The effectiveness of Homoeopathy in acute epidemics was again confirmed during the great influenza pandemic of 1918. The Journal of the American Institute of Homeopathy, May 1921 reported the following data. Dr. T. A. McCann of Dayton, Ohio recorded that in 24, 000 flu cases treated by orthodox medicine the mortality rate was 28.2% while those treated homoeopathically was only 1.05%. The Dean of Hahnemann College who collected 26, 795 with similar results supported this figure. (Some History of the Treatment of Epidemics with Homeopathy by Julian Winston.) Hahnemann continued to study the actions of the miasmic diseases on the population and postulated that the suppression of these miasms would lead to new virulent strains, more complicated forms of social diseases and new complex chronic disorders. He suggested that the inner affects of the miasms will continue to mutate into deeper chronic degenerative states, which includes autoimmune diseases and immunodeficiency disorders that are incurable by orthodox medicine. His prediction that the universal suppression of infectious disease will lead to more virulent infections and more complex chronic states has come true. The abuse of antibiotics and antiviral agents has increased resistance and helped to create increased susceptibility to new virulent stains of microorganisms. Courtesy –  http://www.simillimum.com/education/little-library/case-management/pedh/article.php Compiled by Dr.N.Solaiappan, Jabalpur INDIA