NARAYAN SHREE HOMOEOPATHIC MEDICAL COLLEGE

AND HOSPITAL CLINICAL AND RESEARCH CENTRE

DEPARTMENT OF ORGANON
OF MEDICINE
SEMINAR ON
EVALUATION OF
SYMPTOMS
GUIDED BY:- SUBMITTED BY:-
DR. SANDEEP JHA SIR IRMEEN KHAN
DR. ANUPAMA MAM BHMS 2nd YEAR PROF.
DR. CHANDRAMOHAN SIR SESSION 2022-2023
You are taking a case. You find yourself in dilemma after seeing the list of
symptoms you have written. And then you ask yourself which of them will be
helpful to select the similimum remedy?

That’s what Evaluation of symptoms is all about.

Coming to their word meaning,

‘Evaluation’ means ‘to judge’ or ‘to determine the quality’.

The word ‘Symptom’ is derived from a Greek word called ‘Symptoma’ meaning
‘anything that happens’.
Any change that take place in the previous healthy state of the patient is
considered as symptom.
Is used to signify the subjective sensation felt by the patient.
For eg. burning pain, stitching pain.
Symptom can also be defined as, ‘the external manifestation of the internally
deranged vital force’.
 Symptoms defined by:

1. Dr. Hahnemann defined symptom is §6 as ‘ the deviated state from the former
healthy state of an individual, felt by the patient himself, remarked by those
around him and observed by the physician’.

2. Dr. Kent defines, ‘ every symptom (subjective or objective), is indicated of a

deviation from normal state of health. All curable diseases make themselves
known to the physician by signs and symptoms’.

3. Dr. Roberts says, ‘ Symptoms are the only expression of disease state.’

4. Dr. Close says, ‘Symptoms is an evidence of disease or change from a state of

health’.

5. Dr. Elizabeth Wright says, ‘Symptoms to the homeopaths are the language of the
body expressing its disharmony and calling for the similimum remedy’.
DEFINITION;
Evaluation of symptoms is a process of grading the symptoms according to their
value and priority in order to individualize the patient, so that the physician can
match them with teh drug symptoms and select the similimum remedy.

{explaining}
Aphorism 153 explains,
“ In this search for a homoeopathic specific remedy, ‘the more striking, singular,
uncommon and peculiar(characteristic) symptoms of the case of disease are
chiefly and most solely to be kept in view for it is more particularly these that
very similar ones in the list of symptoms of the selected medicine must
correspond to the more general and undefined symptoms like loss of appetite,
headache, debility, restless sleep, discomfort, and so forth demand but little
attention “.

In Aphorism153, Dr. Hahnemann explained

Dr. Hahnemann classified symptoms into two:

GENERAL SYMPTOMS UNCOMMON SYMPTOMS

1. Common to many diseases as well as 1. Unexplainable and peculiar to the

medicines patient alone

2. Examples: Loss of appetite, 2. Examples: Burning pain relieved by

Headache, hot application,
Debility, Fever without thirst,
Fever, etc. Coryza relieved by cold
Bath, etc.

3. These general symptoms of Dr. 3.

Hahnemann are equal to Dr. Kent’s
common symptoms.

4. These do not bear any importance in 4. They are very valuable and important
Homoeopathic prescribing. for prescription of a remedy.
Dr. Hahnemann’s evaluation is laborious and cumbersome process.

In footnote to aphorism 148, Dr. Hahnemann says,

“ This laborious, sometimes very laborious, search for and selection of the
homoeopathic remedy most suitable in every respect to each morbid state is an
operation which, not withstanding all the admirable books for facilitating it, still
demands the study of the original sources themselves”.

That medicine which covers the most ‘uncommon symptoms’ of the patient is the
indicated remedy.
 Dr. Boenninghausen was a great follower of Dr. Hahnemann.

His evaluation was based onhis Latin criteria of 7 points:

1. QUIS
2. QUID
3. UBI
4. QUIBIS AUXILUS
5. CUR
6. QUOMODO
7. QUANDO
1. QUIS : PERSONALITY, AGE, SEX, CONSTITUTION, TEMPERAMENT.

-> It is done to understand the patient as a person

-> Personality is best expressed by his mentality, temperament, likes, dislikes,
emotions and intellectualcapacities, etc.

2. QUID: NATURE OF THE DISEASE.

-> It is useful for therapeutic purposes
-> The skill of the physician is in determining the individual disease
determination based on the peculiarity of same nosological disease in the
particular individual.

3. UBI: LOCATION OF THE DISEASE.

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