Homoeopathique

How to easily differentiate HOT vs CHILLY
While prescribing in Homoeopathy



1. Blanket Test (clinical tip)
• If patient sleeps with blanket even in summers → CHILLY
• If patient throws off blanket even in winters → HOT

2. Fan Test
• Likes fan air directly → HOT
• Avoids fan breeze → CHILLY

3. Bathing Pattern
• Prefers hot water bath → CHILLY
• Prefers cold water bath → HOT

4. Clothing Pattern
• Wears extra layers → CHILLY
• Avoids warm clothes → HOT

5. Reaction to Weather
• Winter aggravates → CHILLY
• Summer aggravates → HOT

~~*Not every patient is clearly hot or chilly*
Some people fall in the neutral or mixed thermal group — and this is completely normal.

Here is how to understand and manage such cases:

1. NEUTRAL THERMAL PATIENT

These patients show neither clear hot nor clear chilly tendencies.

✔️ Characteristics
• Comfortable in normal room temperature
• No strong preference for hot or cold climate
• Not very sensitive to change of weather
• No major aggravation from heat or cold
• Likes moderate temperature

✔️ Examples of neutral remedies
• Natrum Mur
• Lycopodium
• Ignatia
• Staphysagria
• Calcarea Phos

These remedies don’t have strong thermal modalities.

2. MIXED THERMAL PATIENT

Patient behaves hot in some situations and chilly in others.

✔️ Examples
• hot hands, cold feet
• chilly in winter, but cannot tolerate summer heat
• wants cold drinking water but bathes with warm water
• throws blanket at night but uses warm clothes in day

✔️ Meaning in homeopathy

Mixed thermal state = not reliable as a general modality.
You should NOT use thermal state to select a remedy here.

Kent says:
“If the patient is sometimes hot, sometimes chilly, the general modality loses its value.”

Summary

Not hot + not chilly = Neutral thermal state
Hot sometimes + chilly sometimes = Mixed state

👉 In both cases, thermal modality should not be used for remedy selection.

👉 *Focus instead on mental, physical generals & characteristic particulars*.