THE PLACEBO

                                                                          The Placebo

Dr. Hahnemann, the father of Homeopathy, had fore seen the circumstances that we face today. His soul from up in the sky, must be crying to see the deformed use of the Homeopathy and the remedies. The definition of Homeopathy and the law cure has been modified to suit our needs and earn money. No one  should have any right to modify the definition and redefine the law of cure for personal cause or individual interest or for the purpose of earning money.

The discoverer advocated to use placebo just to control the psychology of a patient. That means the sole idea of placebo is to give extra plain pills. The placebo is also called lack sack or plain pills. By giving placebo the patient feels attended and that he is taking enough of the remedy to get quick cure. The sole idea of the placebo is to offer psychological benefit to the patient. He went to the extent of saying that unless you give placebo, you can never become a Homeopathic doctor and you can never cure a patient. Placebo forms an important part of the treatment. But remember that a placebo can never offer cure. A remedy offers cure and the placebo offers the psychological benefit because the remedy can never be given regularly. 

In present days, people use plain pills on the pretext of the actual remedy just for the purpose of earning money. The word placebo remains the same but the objective is different. Earlier it was for the control of psychology now it to earn money.

The more important—If a doctor gave only placebo to a patient—the placebo will neither harm nor benefit. That means the patient lost only time and money (Time is more important part of life than money). But at the same time the placebo did no cause any harm.

What if the doctor gave large quantity of the actual remedy along with placebo due to lack of knowledge —If the remedy did not suit to the patient—the remedy will cause great harm. Even if suitable, a large quantity will increase all his sufferings over a period of time. That means the patient lost time, the patient lost money and his disease aggravated and the condition became worse over a period of time.

Now let us understand why placebo—The action of the remedies are very deep and long acting. The remedies offer cure only if used in micro quantity. The over use can cause great harm and even kill. The micro quantity may be practically defined as the quantity which can surprise the Homeopathic doctor and the patient both and at the same time offers complete and permanent cure. The micro quantity in my opinion is 1/30,000(one by thirty thousand part of a pill), for most of the patients and many of the remedies. This quantity is safe and offers cure if the remedy can produce manifestation. More than this quantity is all dangerous to use. The only problem that can be faced by use of this quantity is that the produced symptoms may be mild and difficult to analyse. And the symptoms will appear only for few days.  In such case we can repeat the remedy again after suitable time gap.

Dr. Hahnemann offered a system of complete cure for the cause of Humanity. He was aware that common people may fail to understand the science of complex symptoms and therefore he warned that matching the symptoms of the patient and that of the remedy is of utmost importance. The extent of match is not 99.99%. The matching should be 100% complete and so much so to replicate the symptoms of the remedy and the symptoms of the patient. Failure to do so will cause great harm.

PLACEBO IS MORE THAN PLACEBO TODAY. IT HAS ACQUIRED MORE QUANTITY AND DIMENSION THAN IT SHOULD.