PRESENTATION BY: DR. BIPIN JETHANI

Reader, Department of Organon of Medicine,

Nehru Homoeopathic Medical College & Hospital,

New Delhi

UPDATE ON

HOMOEOPATHIC

PHARMACY

‘HOMOEOPATHIC

PULSE’

WHAT IS THE ‘PLUSSING METHOD’Plussing Method consists of dissolving globules

of the remedy in eleven teaspoons of water.

The patient sips one teaspoon as each dose.

Between each dose, the water is shaken

thoroughly. The patient takes ten

teaspoonsful and reserves the last teaspoon

for the next day. The next day, ten teaspoons

full of freshwater are added to the original

mixture ( but not any fresh medicine) and the

process is repeated. The procedure

continues for seven days -- after which the

remedy is changed and the same procedure

is repeated with the new medicine.

PLUSSING METHOD OF

REMEDY ADMINISTRATION

REMEDY DISSOLVED IN WATER (11TEASPOON)

AFTER TAKING 10 TEASPOON OF THISSOLUTION WITH ONE TEASPOON AS ADOSE, FURTHER 10 TEASPOON TO BEPLUSSED AND REMEDY IS READMINISTEREDWITHOUT PUTTING ANY FRESH MEDICINEIN THIS SOLUTION

PLUSSING METHOD:IS IT A NEW DISCOVERY??

IT IS IN FACT A MODIFICATION OF HAHNEMANN’S INSTRUCTIONS

AS LAID DOWN IN HIS WORK ON CHRONIC DISEASES &

ORGANON

OF MEDICINE.

HAHNEMANN: A MULTIFACETED

MAN OF HUMANISTIC MEDICINE

‘Hahnemann was so far ahead of his

time that his teaching, in its higher

phases, could not be fully

understood until science in its slower

advance had elucidated and

corroborated the facts upon which he

based it’

…………Stuart Close in his work

The Genius of Homeopathy

In light of his experience,

Hahnemann suggested two

modifications in the mode of

administration of centesimal scale

of potencies :

ADMINISTRATION of SIMILIMUM IN LIQUID FORM

CHANGING DEGREE OF DYNAMISATION WITH EACH DOSE ADMINISTERED TO THE

PATIENT

need to administer medicine in liquid form

‘Such a globule, placed dry upon the tongue, is

one of the smallest doses for a moderate

recent case of illness. Here but few nerves

are touched by the medicine. A similar

globule, crushed with some sugar of milk and

dissolved in a good deal of water and stirred

well before every administration will produce

a far more powerful medicine for the use of

several days. Every dose, no matter how

minute, touches, on the contrary, manynerves.’ § 272 (Sixth Edition)

ADMINISTRATION IN LIQUID FORM

“Experience has shown me that it ismost useful in disease of anymagnitude to give to the patients thepowerful homoeopathic pellet orpellets only in solution and thissolution in divided doses……….

Preface to the 3rd volume of ‘The ChronicDiseases - Their Peculiar Nature andTheir Homoeopathic Cure’

need to change degree of dynamisation with each dose

‘It is impractical to repeat the same unchanged dose of aremedy once, not to mention its frequent repetition (andat short intervals in order not to delay the cure). The vitalprinciple does not accept such unchanged doses withoutresistance, that is, without other symptoms of themedicine to manifest themselves than those similar to thedisease to be cured, because the former dose has alreadyaccomplished the expected change in the vital principleand a second dynamically wholly similar, unchangeddose of the same medicine no longer finds, therefore, thesame conditions of the vital force………...

§ 247 (Sixth Edition)

§ 247 (Sixth Edition) of organon of medicine

……….The patient may indeed be made sick inanother way by receiving other such unchangeddoses, even sicker than he was, for now only thosesymptoms of the given remedy remain activewhich were not homœopathic to the originaldisease, hence no step towards cure can follow,only a true aggravation of the condition of thepatient. But if the succeeding dose is changedslightly every time, namely potentized somewhathigher (§§ 269-270) then the vital principle maybe altered without difficulty by the same medicine(the sensation of natural disease diminishing) andthus the cure brought nearer.

EVOLUTION OF PLUSSING METHOD

These two principles of posology(administration of similimum in liquidform and changing degree ofdynamisation with each dose) served asbasis for evolution of PLUSSINGMETHOD OF REMEDYADMINISTRATION.

HAHNEMANN IN HIS WORK ON CHRONIC DISEASES WROTE

‘I have, therefore, lately found the followingmode of administration preferable with carefulpatients. From a mixture of about fivetablespoonfuls of pure water and fivetablespoonfuls of French brandy -which is kepton hand in a bottle, 200, 300 or 400 drops(according as the solution is to be weaker orstronger) are dropped into a little vial, whichmay be half-filled with it, and in which themedicinal powder or the pellet or pellets ofthe medicine have been placed………

HAHNEMANN IN HIS WORK ON CHRONIC DISEASES WROTE

………This vial is stoppered and shaken until themedicine is dissolved. From this solution one,two, three or several drops, according to theirritability and the vital force of the patient, aredropped into a cup, containing a spoonful ofwater; this is then well stirred and given to thepatient, and where more especial care isnecessary, only the half of it may be given; half aspoonful of this mixture may also well be usedfor the above mentioned external rubbing…..

HAHNEMANN IN HIS WORK ON CHRONIC DISEASES WROTE:

…….On days, when only the latter isadministered, as also when it is takeninternally, the little vial containing thedrops must every time be briskly shakenfive or six times; so also the drop ordrops of medicine with the tablespoonfulof water must be well stirred in the cup.

PLUSSING METHOD: instructions for administration

Pour globules of indicted medicine and dissolve these

in eleven teaspoons of spring water.

Before each dose gently stir the water. Take ten

teaspoonful and reserve the last teaspoon for the next

day.

Next day add ten teaspoons of fresh spring water to the

original mixture (but add no fresh granules) and repeat

the process above.

Repeat this procedure for seven days after which start

the procedure from the beginning again.

If the treatment is changed, discard any remaining

medicine and repeat the process with the new remedy.

PLUSSING METHOD OF

REMEDY ADMINISTRATION

This procedure, which has it's roots in

Hahnemann's early disciples, then

passed on to homeopaths worldwide --

boasts a number of variations. But

essentially it involves diluting a given

remedy in water and taking a spoonful

of it at regular intervals, stirring before

every dose (this last is done in order

slightly to change the potency or

vibration of the medicine).

ADVANTAGES OF PLUSSING METHOD

Plussing not only minimizes further the

risk of aggravation but also ensures a

medicine's more powerful impact.

Several physicians have used this

method of remedy administration

with wonderful success in their

clinical practise.