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Body Language

Selvi.M.P.Rani Supriya

Introduction

Selvi Rani supriya has just completed her Degree Bachelor of Homoeopathic Medicine and Surgery at Government Homoeopathic Medical College, Tirumangalan and doing her internship. She is a very enthusiastic academician and written many articles, had also participated in many social, cultural activities.

Communication as we find, is not only and always by means of sound or by language. Most patients have few words to narrate their complaints. Mostly they express themselves unknowingly by their gestures. A true physician and especially a homoeopathic have to begin his case taking as the patient enters his room.
Non –verbal communication is a way whereby the qualities of the person is being ensured by his gestures, posture, manner of Walt, and his way of communication with the doctor. even a person may tell lie but his body in most occasions expresses out clearly his inner state.
Body is just like a mirror either reflecting the derangement of mental health or just gives clue of the inner state of mind. So by knowing these gestures & language one can easily find the nature of the patient by seeing itself. Confirmation can be done by putting right question. Hereby I would like to attempt to explain simple & single gestures.

1. PALM RUBBING GESTURES:

This person may have positive expectations from others. The speed at which he rubs his palms together may be a measure of positive results occurring to a person infront of whom the palms are being rulled. This is given in Fig.1.

2. HOLDING HANDS CLENCHED INFRONT OF FACE:

This may show that the person may be of evaluating
once. Tws is seen in Fig.2.

This may show that the person was an Authoritative. This is seen in Fig.3.
Note: Most of these gestures are apt to 90% of the patients but further evaluation is only upto the physician.

Miasmatic Diagnosis:
Some gestures may also pave way for miasmatic diagnosis. For example:
Psoric patient who is restless shows himself by certain gestures like shaking hands and legs.
Syphilitic patient being also in action sycotic patient is being very suspicious shows himself by his eye signals & evaluating gestures.
These are very common in practice. Even “Dr. Kent” in his “Repertory of the homoeopathic Materia Medica” on chapter ‘MIND’ gives one rubric “GESTURES”.
For Example:
1. Hands, grasping, by standers, at: - Phos
2. Hands, motions, rubbing together: - cann-I
3. Hands, motions, playing with his fingers: -Hyos
4. Hands, motions, pulls hairs of by stranders: -Bell
5. Hands, crossing the hands: - Mosch
These gestures are just hints from the patients without any verbal communication and only this will not give way for the selection of similimum but it adds more information about the patient,. Thus selected similimum suits more to the patient by further case taking and conversation.
Each individual has skills in noting these gestures but to make it more useful towards homoeopathic prescription it is more based on the physician skill.
Through this small paper I would like to kindle the young flowering Homoeopaths not even to miss these king of hinds when a patient enters your clinic. Hope so this article may be simple or small enough to provide a new way or kindle new interest in the field of homoeopathy and its prescription.