The study of the faces of individuals is really in interesting and profitable. It is interesting in as much as it arises curiosity in the minds of the people who come for treatment and profitable because it enables physician to hit upon the remedies easily and correctly. The suffering humanity who require medical aid fight shy of the Homoeopaths for the simple reason that they put too many questions to their patients and waste their valuable time before arriving at the correct decision.
The intelligent and the educated persons care more for prompt decision and rapid cure that the illiterate and simple-minded village folks who view this loss of time as immaterial if the cure is prompt and the physician pays more attention to his clients. A hasty prescriber cannot earn their approbation and command their confidence.
The duty of a physician is to restore the sick to health. For this purpose, he should possess a good knowledge of Physiognomy and Psychology in addition to that of the Materia Medica. It is a pity that these two subjects, as far as I am aware, are not taught in any College of Homoeopathy and hence the majority of the Homoeopaths are ignorant of them. The mind of a patient is the most important guide in Homoeopathy and unless the temperament of the sufferer is known, right selection is out of the question. In this respect both the science of Physiognomy and Psychology can offer a good deal of help.
I give below hints on the different kinds of features and the remedies that are found to be useful.
To begin with, I shall take up forehead first and then go on dealing with other features.
Broad – Colo; Hyos; Lyco; Phos
” about three inches in height – Lyco
” and slopes back – Con; Kali-bi; Nat-mur; Pso.
” and slanting with extremely thick nose and lips – Aes- hip.
Bulged out (Reflective type) – Ars; Carbo-veg; Colch; Colo; Graph; Merc-sol; Nux-vom; Nat-mur; Syp; Tuber.
” and slopes back – Kali-bi
” with thick red lip – Asaf
” of villagers – Paris-quad
” slightly and has very close wrinkles on the forehead – Asaf.
Contracted – Ars; Aur-mur; Cal-phos; Chin-ars; Cyclamen; Mallic- acid; Nux-mos; Pso; Sulph.
” with big eyes – Badiaga.
Hairy forehead (Sign of bad liver) – Ars; Chin-ars; Cup-met; Hyp; Hyos; Pet; Phos; Pso; Radium; Sabadilla
Hair on the sides of the forehead – Nat-mur
Hairy forehead with curvilinear arrangement of the hair – Kali- iod.
High (Sign of intelligence) – Lyco.
Sloping forehead (Aggressive and morally wicked) – Caust; Kali- carb; Plat; Puls; Rhodo; Sepia.
Small forehead (Greedy and unsympathetic) – Bar-mur (one inch in height); Phyto; Puls; Sepia (112 inches in height).
Wrinkles on the forehead (Recline from right to left) – Ars; Aur- Sulph; Aur-met; Cal-carb; Cal-flu; Cob; Hyp; Ledum; Nat-mur; Podo; Spi; Tarax; Sulph; Syph.
Slope on both sides – Puls.
Recline form left to right – Agnus; Aur-sulph; Conium; Sil.
Broken – Ars; Colo; Sil
” and close – Cocculus; Mur-ac; Sele; Tarax
Too close wrinkles – Cham; Mur-acid.
Wrinkles apart – Asaf.
” deep and wide apart – Sanicula.
” straight and deep – Ars.
Deep wrinkles – Euphorbium.
Deep straight wrinkles – Caust; Hyp; Merc-bin-iod.
Wrinkles curved – Tarax.
Close and cross wrinkles – Cal; Sil; Pso.
Greatly wrinkled in case of both old men and women – Caust; Syph.
Deep wrinkles are signs of rudeness, meanness and unreliability.
