Side effects or toxicology (toxic effects) medicine

In each medicine we try to include a rubric of side effects (toxicology).

By clinical trials and clinical observations, side (and/or toxic) effects  from medicines can be observed. In a lot of medicines side effects are perceived which can not be classified, it is not known whether these effects are due to the medicine or the disease. 

From a homeopathic point of view (POV) it is very well possible that the suppression of the medicine CAUSES the DISEASE to develop symptoms which belong to the disease but did not appear earlier but are now redirected to new areas of the body because its original outbursts of symptoms are limited by the chemical or biological agent. It is also interesting for homeopathic POV just to know the side effects of medicine especially when a patient got toxic (side) effects or symptoms from a longer use, abuse in this case, because when this "picture" of toxic effects appear it can be treated like any other case (see materia medica). Than there are two possibilities:

1. It is known that the symptoms the patient has are from the medicine used. As cure a the medicine can be given as dilution, but this is usually Isopathy and not mostly recommended, the symptoms are often a mix of the constitution of the patient and aggravated by the medicine, the recommended remedy should be the simillimum
2. The symptoms of the patient are exactly like the symptoms or side effects known of that medicine. The medicine can be taken as homeopathic dilution and is no longer isopathic, it is the simillimum

 In journals sentences like these are repeatedly stated thus representing the ignorance of journalists: "Yet the newer drugs offer other health benefits or cause fewer side effects." * Clinical studies prove this to be true for short term side effects, long term side effects might be revealed in and by next generations, then this might be confirmed, but most probably not.

* FDA Advisors Shun Conraceptive Rules. Time, Wednesday, Jan. 24, 2007 By AP/ANDREW BRIDGES

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