MIND SYMPTOMS—UNCOMMON SYMPTOMS—Section 213 and 153 of the Organon

[krishna murthy]

Most homoeopaths are being lured by ‘mind symptoms’ in

practice.
In Section 153 of the Organon Dr. Hahnemann advises that

we must consider ‘rare-strange-peculiar, uncommon’ symptoms

and in S. 213 he continues that without selecting a remedy on

‘mind’ symptoms a cure is not possible
When S. 153 is read with S. 213 we get the following:

“rare-strange-peculiar, uncommon mind symptoms.”

Mind symptoms not at all related to the pathology of a disease

(that the patient is suffering from) are ‘uncommon.’ Actual treated

cases alone can illustrate ‘mind’ symptoms. [Mind symptoms as

listed out in the repertories may not be told by the patient.]
Case : A chronic renal failure patient came to me with a few

relatives, all of whom were allopathic doctors. Those doctors

showed me the file containing the diagnostic and other papers of

the patient. After this, one by one, the relatives went out.

The patient was still sitting. He said, “Doctor, my sons say

that I am sick and so I should not ride bicycle, go out and do our

business work. They say they will do everything and ask me to sit

at home taking rest. As my children, they should only tell me that

I am all right and that I would recover soon. But instead of

encouraging me for speedy recovery they have branded me a

permanent and incurable patient.”
The reader may note here that in most cases the ‘uncommon’

symptoms (on which we can make a prescription) is told by the22

patient at the end of the consultation, or, in some cases, after you

have made the prescription!)
This patient feels that his sons, instead of encouraging, are

letting him down. What one requires from his or her sons and

relatives is not money or help but moral support. The patient feels

that this is completely missing in his case.
This symptom we find in two remedies. They are

“… a feeling of moral deficiency…” – Kali brom.

“… despondency, sadness, moral depression and

relaxation…” – Tarentula hisp.
(See Lilienthal, page 698 and 702)
We are quoting this not as a case report but it is an actual case

to illustrate how to translate the words of the patient into a mind

symptom.
The ‘uncommon mind symptom’ may, in most cases, be one

only. In the above renal failure case, the above quoted two

symptoms cannot be classified in any existing rubrics in the

repertory. Homoeo software would be of utter failure. The

practitioner must memorise the symptom of the above two

remedies and keep it in his finger tips. Homoeopathic practice is

not a mechanical work but it is artistic. Therefore homoeo

software would but be a mockery.
To illustrate this point, let us examine more cases; in the

following two cases, only one “uncommon” mind symptom was

present and the reader, after studying the three cases, would at once agree that with computer and homoeo software he cannot do

anything to find the similimum.
Case: A lady of 55, school teacher, was under my treatment for

three months for sinusitis with little relief. She lives thirteen

kilometers away from my clinic and she works in a school which23

is less than one kilometer from my clinic. Before going to the

school she would come to me once a month, take medicine and go

to school. Seeing no relief in spite of three visits, I told her that a

certain acupressure doctor would come and give just 3-minute

treatment once only; for this she need not pay any fees and also she would get total relief. Since the acupressure doctor comes to my

clinic on Sundays only I asked her to come on a Sunday. To this

she replied, … “I have to come all the way… from ... (her place

of residence.)
During the last three visits she would come to me in the

morning before going to her school which is near my clinic.

Sunday is holiday for the school and she feels it an ordeal to come

for acupressure treatment all… the… way from her residence

thirteen kilometers away.
It is hesitation. I told her no need to pay anything and 100%

cure was also assured. Therefore, travelling 13 kilometre cannot be

a crime. But to do this she has hesitation. Before we show the

reader how we selected the remedy on this symptom let us see the

other two cases also.
Case : A lady allopathic doctor was learning homoeopathy from

me. She consulted for her complaints and got partial relief. Once

she said, “Doctor, can you give one-dose treatment for my son?

Since birth he is having perennial cold; now he is five years and

almost every week he has to take drugs?” I told her that she must

bring her son at least once and I would cure him completely.

Bringing her son once (and I am not going to charge her since she

is my student) is not an ordeal or something immoral. To this she

replied, “For this I have to… bring him all the way from my home

(which is just twenty kilometers away.)”
For this small thing of bringing the boy once only (and for

that he is going to get total relief permanently) she hesitates.24

Only if you actually listen to the patient’s reply in person you

may understand this. Let me explain and elaborate on this.
Suppose you (the reader of this book) are my student and one

day I ask you to murder a certain person. What would be your

reaction? Immediately you would reply as under:
“Sir, I… have to do…” (The sentence would be incomplete.

Because you have hesitation since doing this job pricks your

conscience.)
But in the abovesaid two cases for merely travelling 15-20

kilometre they have lot of hesitation as if I am asking them to do

some crime or immoral thing. In other words, they are

overconscious of a trivial thing. The apt term would be

“Conscientious scruples.” This symptom is in the remedy

Aresenicum album. [See Lilienthal - p.694.]
Let us repeat, that uncommon mind symptom may be in most

cases one and the computer-software or ‘remedy finders’ are of no

use. To the above sinusitis case one single dose of Arsenicum

Album-10M completely cured her.