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        <journal-title>Materia Novum: The Journal of Homoeopathy</journal-title>
        <abbrev-journal-title abbrev-type="publisher">Materia Novum</abbrev-journal-title>
      </journal-title-group>
      <issn pub-type="epub">2583-4398</issn>
      <publisher>
        <publisher-name>Materia Novum: The Journal of Homoeopathy</publisher-name>
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      <article-id pub-id-type="publisher-id">MNH330007</article-id>
      <title-group>
        <article-title>Principles of Prescribing</article-title>
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        <contrib contrib-type="author">
          <name>
            <surname>Pimpalkar</surname>
            <given-names>Rashmi C.</given-names>
          </name>
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      <pub-date pub-type="epub" iso-8601-date="2026-04-06">
        <month>04</month>
        <day>06</day>
        <year>2026</year>
      </pub-date>
      <volume>3</volume>
      <issue>3</issue>
      <elocation-id>1</elocation-id>
      <abstract>
        <p>The general concept in Homeopathy towards treatment of the sick is Treat the patient not the disease. 
On a superficial sense, this may be preposterous, but in a deeper sense it conveys its holistic concepts 
towards the patient. A patient with hypertension, diabetes mellitus and COPD may express multitude of 
symptoms common to each of these diseases. Based on the clinical findings and diagnostic evidences, he 
is considered as a patient of hypertension, diabetes and COPD. Such a concept necessitates different 
prescriptions to balance the patho- physiological changes in the patient’s health. Whether the patient is 
lean or obese, irritable or gentle does not matter in selection of remedies. Even the patient is not 
personally present for consultation; the medicines can be prescribed merely based on the diagnostic 
evidences. Most of these prescriptions shall give relief to the suffering.</p>
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        <kwd>Prescribing</kwd>
        <kwd>Susceptibility</kwd>
        <kwd>Keynote</kwd>
        <kwd>Constitutional</kwd>
        <kwd>Miasmatic</kwd>
        <kwd>Palliative</kwd>
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