Homoeopathy For Bad Breath
The protein in the food debris are degraded by the anaerobic
bacteria present in the mouth.Offenssive odor is produced due to
release of some gases like hydrogen sulphide,skatol ect due to
bacterial activity.Formation of a thin sticky membrane on the
tongue favoures bacterial growth.Bactrera are also seen in the
crypts of tonsils ,dental caries,dental pockets ect.Bad breath
is associated with oral
hygiene,caries,gingivitis,tonsillitis,tonsillar plaques,food
habits,water intake ,tobacco chewing,stomach and liver diseases
and ect.
Homoeopathy is a system of medicine introduced by a german
physician Dr Samuel Hahnemann.Homoeopathy treats the diseased
individual as a whole rather than treating diseased parts or
organs.The physical,mental,emotional,social spheres of a person
is considered for a permanent cure.This system believes that the
diseases are caused due to the derangement of vital force which
is an invisible power in every individual.In a healthy state the
vital force maintains the equilibrium of mind body and soul
.During this man will have normal sensations and functions.When
the vital force gets affected there will be external
manifestations in the form of signs and symptoms.The imbalance
in the body functions makes a shelter for forign
organisms(bacteria,viruses,fungi,protozoa ect) and allow them to
proliferate &produce so called diseases.Homoeopathy believes
thet the real desease comes before the bacteria & viruses,hence
the root cause of the disease has to be treated for a permenent
cure.The antibacterial and antiviral agents only remove the
secondary causes mentioned above.
Diseases are produced by noxious morbific agents called Miasms
which are dynamic influences which affect the vital force.There
are mainly three miasms PSORA ,SYPHILIS&SYCOSIS. These three
causes are accepted by other schools of medicine but called by
different names. Psora causes functional disturbances, syphilis
cause structural changes in the form of destructions and sycosis
causes changes in the form of overgrowth.These three miasms can
act individually or in combined form producing different disease
conditions.
To treat bad breath with homoeopathic medicine is easy if
correct remedy in suitable dose is given. In the homoeopathic
medical repertory by Dr Robin Murphy there are 140 homoeopathic
drugs mentioned for bad breath.So just giving one drug for bad
breath may not give good result.To come to a correct remedial
diagnosis we should have the symptomatology of the person .It is
the total symptoms of a person which includes mental
generals,physical generals,particular symptoms ect.Bad breath is
considered as a physical general symptom .Eventhough it comes
only from a part of the body it affects the whole individual.
Symptoms related with appetite,thirst,bowels ect are included in
physical generals. All signs and symptoms (mental&physical)of
the person is taken in detail.Knowledge about past
illneses,family history of diseases,food & bowel habits,relation
to climatic changes and constitution ect are noted down in a
systematic order.
Mental symptoms:
example: fear,anxiety,depression,anger,jealousy and ect....
Physical symptoms:
example: Body
makeup,appetite,thirst,desires,aversions,bowels,urination,sleep,t
aste, nature of smell,discharges any abnormal sensations like
pain, burning ,climatic changes,thermal relations, and ect....
Peculiar uncommon symptoms:
This is the speciality of homoeopathic system of medicine.For
the selection of a suitable remedy these symptoms are very
important. Common symptoms which are seen almost in all patients
are least important.
particular/local signs&symptoms:
This include signs &symptoms related to body parts &organs.
example: Coating on the tongue,nature of mucus membrane of oral
cavity, tonsils, gums, teeth, ulcers, discolourations ect are
considered here.
Systemic & general physical examination:-
Bad breath can be due to various systemic and disorders.Hence
all systems ( respiratory system ,digestive system,nervous
system, cardio vascular system and ect )and parts from head to
foot should be examined.
provisional disease diagnosis; Here probable diseases are
diagnosed. In homoeopathy disease diagnosis is not that much
important for the selection of a remedy,but needed for general
management and to know the prognosis.
Investigations:
This includes lab investigations and other methods to find out
any other major illnesses. Final disease diagnosis:
After doing all investigations the disease is diagnosed.
Remedial diagnosis:
This is the most importnant part as far as homoeopathy is
concerned. For this the selected symptoms are arranged in a
systematic order on the basis of importance. symptoms are
analysed to find out the importance of each symptom for the
selection of a remedy.Remedies are selected on the basis of
similarity.[the basic principle of homoeopathy is 'similia
similibus curenter' means like cures like.A medicine which can
produce some symptoms in a healthy man can be used as a remedy
to trea the similar symptoms in a diseased person.Each
homoeopathic drug is proved on healthy human beings and the
symptoms collected by this process(drug proving) is written in
meteria medica.]
Suitable remedies are diagnosed by a process called
repertorisation. Here books called repertories are used.
Repertory is the index of symptoms of materia medica(books which
contain the symptoms of drugs).Nowadays computer softwares are
used for repertorisalion.By this process we will get the
remedies covering maximum important symptom of the patient.
Amoung this group of remedies the most suitable remedy is
selected by referring various books and history of the
patient..The selected medicine is given in suitable potency &
dose.
ANTI MIASMATIC TREATMENT:
The root cause of disease is miasms which should be eradicated
using suitable anti miasmatic drugs.Every drug can eradicate the
miasm if there is symptom similarity.there are anti psoric
drugs,anti syphilitic drugs and anti sycotic drugs.After
diagnosing the miasm suitable anti miasmatic drug has to be
given to complete the cure.
[In homoeopathy medicines are prepared from different sources
like minerals, plants, animals, toxins, diseased parts ect.
Medicines are prepared from these substances by a special
process called potentisation.Here the soluble substances are
potentised by diluting with spirit and insoluble substances by
grinding with sugar of milk.The crude drug substance is first
mixed with a calculated quantity of spirit and water and kept
for few days .From this mixture extract is taken and is called
mother tincture(denoted as Q).From this mother tincture
dilutions are prepared by potentisation.Potentisation is a
mathematical process by which the quantity of original drug
substance reduces but medicinal power increases. Depending upon
the ratio of quantity of drug substance and vehicle(spirit or
sugar of milk)there are different scales for this process.Each
scale has got different potencies which indicate power of
medicine.Example in decimal scale 3x,6x.12x ect.in centisimal
scale there is 30c,200c ect,in LM poteny there are 0/1,0/2,0/3
ect.potency is written after the name of every medicine]
Same medicine is available in different potencies. Suitable
potency is selected according to so many facters like
sevearity,depth of disease,condition of the patient ,nature of
disease ,type of symptoms,age of patient and ect.