What is Homoeopathic Materia Medica?
Homoeopathic Materia Medica is a record (available in the form of books and software’s) of collection of symptoms of hundreds of medicines. These symptoms are obtained by ‘Drug Proving’ and ‘Clinical Proving”. Potentisation After selecting the homoeopathic medicine by the process of comparison of the drug picture with the patients disease picture, the medicine is administered in ‘POTENTISED’ form. This brings us to the question of what potentisation is. Potentisation is the process of minimising, rather negating the toxic effects of the crude drug substance and increasing its dynamic, curative property. This is done by two methods called ‘Succussion’ and ‘Trituration’. In Succussion those drugs that are soluble in Alcohol or Water are serially diluted with the media either alcohol or water and every dilution is followed by vigorous shaking which allows uniform mixing of drug substance in alcohol or water. In Trituration those drugs that are not soluble in liquid media are thoroughly gr
