A vanguard study of Individualized homoeopathic medicines based on temperament analysis

Aditya Dilipkumar Patil¹ , Snehal Nimbalkar² , Nilam Sahani³ , Gurpreet K. Oberoi⁴ , Arun Bhargav Jadhav⁵

Section:Research Paper, Product Type: Isroset-Journal
Vol.4 , Issue.11 , pp.15-24, Nov-2018

Online published on Nov 30, 2018

Copyright © Aditya Dilipkumar Patil, Snehal Nimbalkar, Nilam Sahani, Gurpreet K. Oberoi, Arun Bhargav Jadhav . This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
 

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Abstract :
Temperament has a psychopathological role in biological system assessing through the genetically traits. Temperament analysis is used as a clinical approach in homoeopathic system of holistic medicines dealing with the principle of individualization. The present study emphasizes on the application of new Case Performa for prescribing homoeopathic medicines through the temperament analysis. This pilot study was conducted in Bharati Vidyapeeth (Deemed to be University) homoeopathic medical hospital and postgraduate research center which enrolled the participants from January 2014 to December 2015. Temperamental analysis showed melancholic temperament perceiving participant about 50% and melancholic combined with other temperament had 20%, while 20% of participants had choleric temperament. About 10% of participant had sanguine and combined with other temperament and 10% of participant had phlegmatic temperament. Homoeopathic medicines viz. Ferrum phosphoricum, Hepar sulphuricum, Kali phosphoricum, Kali sulphuricum, Lachesis, Lycopodium, Magnesium Phosphoricum, Natrum muriaticum, Rhus toxicodendron and Spongia tosta in their various potencies (6X, 30C, 200C, 1M) were found to be effective. The outcome of this study still needs to be well designed with clear feasible objectives, more clearly analytical plans before performing on further large scale population in assessing the effects of homeopathic treatment and medication with the help of temperament.

Key-Words / Index Term :
Holistic, Homoeopathy, Individualization, Temperament, Vanguard

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