How the Homeopathic Doctor do Case taking and What's the purpose of Case Taking

The Art of Case Taking in Homeopathy

    Case taking is a unique art of getting into conversation observation and collecting information from                patient as well as from bystanders to define the patient as a person and the disease.

The history obtained thus makes the basis for a physician to go further into the physical examination and laboratory studies in order to define the problem accurately.

Each case is unique in all respects only true individualized approach can explore the true picture and help a physician to arrive at a totality in its true sense. Every individual is different in health as well as in disease and hence every case has to be examined individually giving importance to its unique expressions during health and disease.

Aims & Objectives of Case Taking:

Aims &Purpose of case taking.

1.    To get the knowledge of the disease.

2.    To perceive the true dynamic state of the patient ie, whether he is seriously ill or not

3.    To find out the totality of symptoms for the selection of a homoeopathic remedy.

4.    To find out the nature of the disease whether it is acute or chronic, curable or incurable.

5.    To find out the causation of the disease.

6.    To find out the mode of development of the symptoms.

7.    To find out the mode of development of the symptoms.

8.    To analyze and evaluate the symptoms.

9.    To collect important symptoms for repertorisation.

10.  To cure the curable and to palliate the incurable patients by selecting the medicine according to the law of similar.

11.  To keep systematic records of the case for guidance, treatment, future reference and defense.

12.  To give prognosis.

13.   For nosological diagnosis.