BACH FLOWER REMEDIES: DR. BACH’S PHILOSOPHY – THE IMPORTANCE OF MENTAL SYMPTOMS
The importance of mental symptoms has been very well recognised in the homoeopathic treatment of chronic diseases. In taking the case history every care is taken to note the mental symptoms of the patient and in the preparation of prescription utmost importance is given to the mental symptoms.Dr. M.L. Sehgal in his Revolutionised Homoeopathy takes into account only the mental symptoms of the patient to the exclusion of all physical symptoms in the preparation of homoeopathic prescription.It is common knowledge that some persons are so sensitive to pain that they would raise great hue and cry even with the prick of a thorn, while some persons would undergo the worst of physical torture without the least murmur. This shows that there is no relation between the physical disease and the mental state of a person. It is not the ailment which matters, it is the feeling of the ailment which is important, and the feeling of trouble emanates from the brain.It is therefore necessary to remove the feeling of ailment from the brain, if the patient is to be cured. For proper treatment of a patient, the mental state of the person has to be rectified. A Japanese doctor successfully treated many cases of cancer by simply convincing the patient that he was not suffering from cancer. One of his cases was reported thus: A patient whose swelling on the throat was diagnosed as cancerous after biopsy of a tissue and was given an appointment for operation on a certain date went to see this doctor. “What”? said this doctor,”who told you this is cancerous”? He felt the swelling with his hand and proclaimed that it was only an eruption which would suppurate and open in a couple of days and after discharging the pus, the swelling would subside. Such was the magic of the doctor’s confident tone that the patient was convinced that he had no cancer and the previous diagnosis of the experts was wrong. True, in a couple of days the suppurated eruption opened up, and the pus discharged. The patient was cured.According to this Japanese doctor, you have to remove the feeling of sickness from the mind of the patient and the physical symptoms of his disease would automatically disappear. Very often we come across patients who have heart trouble due to mental causes. Originally the trouble started with some gastric trouble. The flatulence with an upward pressure caused some pressure in the left chest. The patient was rushed to the nearest heart specialist. The E.C.G. was clear but the specialist advised the patient to come for another E.C.G test after a week, and meanwhile to take care. This advice to take precautions against heart trouble and E.C.G tests installs in the mind of the patient a doubt and fear that he has some heart trouble. In time this apprehension takes the form of certainty and the person becomes a heart patient.*21\308\8*
