GRIEF AND ITS HOMOEOPATHIC TREATMENT:
- Dr. Subir Basu, Durgapur, WB, India..9474371093
- Oct 2, 2015
- 9 min read

"I am under that state of mind that if I were under water I would scarcely kick to come to the top." — John Keats.
Grief is a multi-faceted response to loss. Although conventionally focused on the emotional response to loss, it also has physical, cognitive, behavioral, social, and philosophical dimensions. Common to human experience is the death of a loved one,
Grief is a natural response to loss. Habit makes a susceptibility or resonance or make an impression to a living individual and it is trying to vibrate with that to keep itself in a healthy or equilibrium condition. That equilibrium condition when deranged the individual living organism response to that so grief is one of the type of multifaceted response to loss. Here the field for expansion of grief is emotion; in the field of emotion grief shows it magnitude of reactions. Generally we see a more emotional person shows more sensitivity indicates to more reactions against grief. How that living organism will react depends on how its genetic code is deranged or in Homoeopathy according to its inherited miasmatic state. Mechanically speaking Grief is simple a reaction to any loss. If the exciting factor same but every individual react to a same exciting factor in different way. Grief is such a loss as if an individual as if it is drowning in water and see his reaction how he reacting to make himself surviving.
We can categories the variety of loses the chief causes of grief e.g. death is familiar to most people, but individuals grief in connection with a variety of losses throughout their lives, such as unemployment, ill health or the end of a relationship.Loss can be categorized as either physical or abstract, the physical loss being related to something that the individual can touch or measure, such as losing a spouse through death, sudden accidents while other types of loss are abstract, and relate to aspects of a person’s social interactions.
REACTIONS: Every individual reacts in different way and it depends on their habit, culture(they have been brought up) and their miasmatic background. Crying is a normal and natural part of grieving and it is a psoric one. Science has found that some healthy people who are grieving do not spontaneously talk about the loss. Pressing people to cry or retell the experience of a loss can be harmful.
Classification of grief: normally grief is classified in two ways one is simple and other is complicated type. Homoeopathic interpretation is Acute and Chronic. If we correlated with the Psychology Simple grief can be expressed to everybody and thus there is no suppression and as per the miasmatic state the individual suffers and get cure, and here we can connect the mental treatment as stated by Hahnemann in organon is useful with the acute drug ref Aph221 of organon..
Complicated grief is usually grief where the story of the loss is in some ways difficult to tell. The problem is un explainable grief or unexpressed grief , and it is suppressed, causes to journey more deeper organ and provoke the miasmatic state with different manifestations. For examples. Scientists suggest that complicated grief activates neurons in the reward centers of the brain, possibly giving these memories addiction-like properties
Types of grief: It depends on the time line, experiences and mainly the habit again. A child may show different expression where an aged person may show it in a different responses as we see the proneness of different disease condition in different ages.
Possible complications: Grief and loss can affect overall health. It can lead to depression or excessive alcohol or drug use. Grief that lasts for more than two months and is severe enough to interfere with daily life may be a sign of more serious illness, such as major depression.
Prevention Grief can not be prevented because it is a healthy response to loss. Instead, it should be properly treated if an individual shows any abnormal behavior mentally or physically, and it should be a proper direction of hahneman in organon about the treatment of mental disease condition treatment.
Homeopathic treatment of Grief:
Homeopathic treatment is not like specific "take this for that" but according to its own individual peculiarities both mental and its effects on the body.
Miasmatic selection of remedies is very much essential specially while treatment of complicated grief. Here the medicine with higher potency in centicimal and you can consider the time as a chief factor for selection of potency.
Consideration the miasmatic condition while prescription is inevitable and we should see
MIASMATIC ANALYSIS OF GRIEF:
Psoric grief: weeps, and show a normal reaction, solve and unburden him from a situation, try to stay in a safe mode, they are sad and timid individual.
Sycotic grief: In coordinate or Hyper behavior, Delusions, some time weeps in a way and try to attract others,While in the same person as if no effect and they may dance all night , party or listen loud music
Syphilitic grief: Sometimes shows no reactions at all, there inside is some time destroyed and may do a suicidal act or a violence. Physically may be affected by any destructive disease.
More complicated grief,
where Psora is added with Sycosis: ( Tubercular state)..try to run away, some time previous disease conditions may increases, try to listen music day and night with headphone some time vagabond mentality may plan their death but are unlikely to commit suicide as their attatchment to live and will to live is too strong.
When Psora is added with syphilis:( Tubercular state) Vagabond attitude to wards life,Loathing of life, try to travel a long drive, indulge in drinking wine , some time do suicide in a manner devoid of intelligence.
where as allopathy is generalized method of treatment.
Scientific interpretation of grief:
The process of feeling emotion is not simple, and involves complex feedback loops in which we interpret those signals and re-interpret them in an ongoing fashion. This process involves all sorts of knowledge and expectation, for example there are cultural differences in how people speak about emotions with respect to the body. Quantum Physics has helped to some extent but does not offer a full explanation for human emotions. We feel emotions because the brain is monitoring the ongoing changes in our physiology; feeling states are essentially representations of the internal milieu, the brain's reports of what is happening in the body. Since many of these changes involve the organs innervated by the vagus nerve, for example, changes in heart-rate, breathing, or digestion, that is "where" we feel emotions. Essentially but a broad definition, "emotions" is the name we give to our experience and awareness of our own physcial state. They are the organism's perceptions of somatic states. However, it is only a certain subset of somatic states, namely those that respond to stressors between the organism and its environment. Not all stressors either, only those that pertains to the organism's well-being.
Miasms preponderant, and the Prognosis during homeopathic treatment.
The prognosis of homoeopathic treatment is good. In the case of prolonged grief with the continuation of more and more time When a Psora is added with one of the two structural miasm, condition of the patient becomes pathological. and affect the health badly and Psora may join hands with Syphilis or sycosis, and may give rise to very serious conditions, e.g., suicide ,parkinsons, CRF, etc. where it may affects the genetic code. However the prognosis under proper miasmatic homeopathic treatment is good.
Evaluation while case taking delusions, NWS, Ailments From, plays a big role while considering the proper prescriptions.
Ignatia amara: "The sighing remedy". Remedy of silent grief. Sobbing: Utterly absorbed in grief. Unable to control emotions and excitement. Severe grief after sudden disappointments, romantic reversals, severe experience of loss; emotions are held inside, taciturn, does not want to cry; headaches from grief; weight upon the chest and deep-sighing respiration, asthma; heart palpitations from grief; spasms and cramping, prostration; moaning during sleep; dreams of waves breaking over self, as if drowning in sorrow.
Aurum metallicum: The greatest among the suicide remedies, and a remedy of the deepest depression. Melancholy: imagines he is unfitted for the world: Filled with intense delight when he thinks of death: Wants to get out of the world. Depression and compression throughout organism, burdening grief after severe loss, after disappointments in love, or after humiliations; suicidal ideation, cannot release pain; darkening of consciousness, gloominess, after grief or head injury; serious mood; chest feels as if encased in armor; heart palpitations from grief; (deep-seated bone pains); moaning during sleep; insomnia. Morose; indisposed to talk, sulky. Sits apart in deepest melancholy. The slightes contradiction excites anger and he forgets himself.
Phosphoricum acidum: Emotional standstill after grief or disappointment in love; resignation and indifference; headaches with a heavy feeling on top of head; (grief leading to hair loss or premature grayness); ulcerative colitis; (diabetes); collapse states and weakness.
Causticum: Grieves over losses, often coupled with outcry against injustice received or witnessed; intensely sympathetic for others; asthma from intense or suppressed emotions; colitis; (indurations of tendons, slowly progressing paralysis).
Crocus sativus: Tendency to sadness, yet also great changeability of symptoms; laughing alternates with sadness or anger; deep-sighing respiration, heavy feeling around heart; heart palpitations; weakness with fainting fits; (feeling as if something alive in various internal organs, also in right breast).
Colchicum autumnale: Grieves from being mistreated by others; unsupportable suffering; appetite vanishes, odors of food nauseate, especially of eggs and fish; heart palpitations; difficulty of respiration, oppressed chest; intestinal catarrh, dysentery, much withheld abdominal gas; weariness (rheumatic and arthritic complaints).
Opium: Complaints from trauma or fright, consequences of head injury; darkening of consciousness, drowsy state, almost blissful; also nervousness and impatience; (flushed face); chronic bowel obstruction and inactivity from trauma, especially in small intestine; prostration and fatigue; insomnia.
Natrum muriaticum: Locked-in emotions after grief, introversion and dwelling on adverse or grievous experiences; sensitive and vulnerable; bears grudges; headaches from grief; asthma, sighing; heart palpitations; gastric ulcers from not being able to work through grief, colitis; insomnia from recollection of hurtful events; head injury. Natrum muriaticum: "I give the flight up: let there be an end, a privacy, and obscure nook for me I want to be forgotten even by God." — Robert Browning.
Ammonium muriaticum: Grief and apprehension; internalization of grief, wants to cry and is unable to; irritability; complaints may begin after head injury (loss of flesh and muscular power after head injury); hair loss; cancer of stomach; oppression of chest, asthma; disturbed sleep.
Digitalis purpurea: Despondency and melancholy; anxious sadness, disappointed love, sadness from music; heaviness and oppression in heart and chest region, asthma; heart seems to stop when moving, must hold still (congestive heart failure); heart palpitations after grief; prostration; (wakes from sleep with gasping and fear of suffocation).
Arnica montana: Shock and trauma in mind and body after injury, accident, overexertion, sudden grief, intense remorse, or sudden financial ruin; chronic effects of trauma or injury; head injury, with stupor and depressive sadness; nervous vulnerability and depletion from shock and grief; lack of stamina in mind and body; belabored breathing and sighing; sunken epigastrium, with feeling of powerlessness; (gastritis, dysentery); lack of vitality; bruised, sore, sensitive condition.
Ornithogalum umbellatum: Feeling of dread in chest and stomach, depression; ulcerations and indurations, cancer of stomach and caecum, painful contractions of pylorus, flatulent distention that rolls as a ball from one side to another, loss of appetite and weight loss, coated tongue, vomiting of coffee-ground looking matter.
Repertorial analysis It is one of the important factor ,and if we correctly evaluate the reason we see in some rubrics like emotional ( excitement) mostly is a field which is volatile, so a Psora connected with Sycosis rarely with syphilis most of the rubrics are connected with the mental condition griefIn the below in most of the rubric what we see the drugs are choosed are mentally over sensitive, or prone to immotional mental conditionwhere the psora or the exciting cause grief mixed together :
MIND — GRIEF
Ambr. Anac.. Arn. Ars.. AUR.. Bell. Bry.. Cann-xyz. CAUST. Cic. Cimic. Coloc. Croc. Dig. Dros. Ferr. Graph.Hell.. Iber. IGN. . kali-p. Lach.. Lyc.. Merc.. NAT-M,Nux-v. Op. Ph-ac.. PULS. RHUS-T.. Sep.. STAPH.Sulph. Tarent.
MIND - IRRITABILITY - alternating with - cheerfulness
aids. ant-t. ars. Aur. aur-ar. Borx. bov. carc. caust. chin. cocc. croc. cycl. kali-c. lyc. merc. merc-c. nat-c.nat-m. ozone plat. sanic. spig. spong. Stram. sul-i. tell. zinc.
MIND - AILMENTS FROM — grief
Acet-ac. AMBR.. Apis Arn.. AUR.. Aur-m-n. Bell. Bry. Calc-p.. CAUST. Cocc.. Coloc.. Crat. Dros. Gels.Graph. Hura Hyos. IGN.. Kali-br.. kali-p. LACH.. NAT-M. Nux-v. Op. PH-AC. PHOS. Plat.. Puls.. Samb.Sep Sol-o. STAPH.. Uran-n.. Zinc.
MIND - CHEERFUL - alternating with - grief
calc-s. graph. Op.
MIND - INSANITY - grief, from
ARS. BELL. Cocc. Plat.
GENERALS - CATALEPSY - grief; from
Ign. Ph-ac. puls. staph.
MIND - AILMENTS FROM - love; disappointed
AUR. Aur-m-n. Aur-s. Bell. Bufo Calc-p.. Caust. Cimic. Coff. Con. Hell.. HYOS. IGN.. kali-p. Lach. NAT-M.PH-AC.. PLAT. STAPH.
MIND - AILMENTS FROM - rejected; from being
Aur. Aur-s. carc. Caust. LYC. Nat-m. Pall.. Sil. Sulph.
MIND - AILMENTS FROM - death of loved ones - child; of a
caust. Gels. IGN. Kali-br.. NAT-M.
MIND - AILMENTS FROM - death of loved ones - children; in
ACON. ARS.. IGN. kali-br. kali-p. LACH. nat-m.. OP. PH-AC. Plat. STAPH.
MIND - AILMENTS FROM - death of loved ones - parents or friends; of CAUST. IGN.. staph.
MIND - AILMENTS FROM - death of loved ones - parents or friends; of - mother; of
Aur-m-n.
MIND - GRIEF - money; from losing
aur. calc-f. mez. psor.
MIND - AILMENTS FROM - abused; after being — sexually
ACON.. ARN. CARC. IGN.. Med. Melis. NAT-M. nux-v. OP. Orig.. SEP. STAPH.
MIND - AILMENTS FROM — shame
Ign. nat-m. OP. Staph.
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