Role of homeopathy in the treatment of psychiatric disorders

Psychiatry is a very important field for homeopathy, but is neglected all over the homeopathic world. Hahnemann can truly be called the father of modern psychiatry. In his works he sowed the guiding seeds, beginning with the book “The Friends of Health”. In this book he says regarding rabies: “I never allow any insane person to be punished by blows or other painful or cruel inflictions. Since there can be no punishment where there is no sense of fault, therefore, such patients only deserve our pity and cannot recover, but must be rendered worse by such rough treatment. The physician of such an unfortunate creature ought to act so, as to inspire them with respect.” Hahnemann invested a great deal of interest to the mental symptoms in all cases of disease, which is very unusual. ln §211, he says: “This is so important that the psychic condition of the patient is often the decisive factor in choosing a homeopathic remedy, because it is a particularly characteristic symptom, and one that can ultimately remain hidden from the careful observant physician” And in §212: “The creator of the healing forces has also made special provision for the particular aspect of all diseases: the outer emotional and mental state, because there is no potent medicine or substance in the world, which does not, very markedly, influence the emotional and mental state of the healthy individual testing it. And each remedy effectuates this in its own distinctive way.”