useful reference works in homoeopathy

[Dr Krishna murthy]

‘MIND’ SYMPTOMS
The most misunderstood topics in homoeopathy are ‘mind symptoms’(section 213 of the Organon) and ‘uncommon-rare-strange-peculiar-symptoms’ (Section 153. )
When Section 213 is read with section 153 we can conclude that we should take only those mind symptoms which we have never heard before normally/commonly/usually in any patient. ‘Mind Symptoms’ and ‘uncommon symptoms’ (for selecting the remedy) are not what you have learnt but they are, in reality, something different which you have to learn by rote.
Again, most of the valuable ‘mind’ or ‘uncommon’ symptoms cannot be

classified under any head in the repertories and an honest and conscious homoeopath has to learn them by rote. (‘rote’ means mechanical or habitual repetition). Therefore, in many cases (if not all cases), homoeopathic software is of no use, however costly it may be and how much praised by the so-called leading homoeopaths. The following actual cases cured by the author would give the reader a clear and accurate meaning of ‘mind symptoms’ and ‘uncommon symptoms’ in a matter-of-fact way. Dr. Hahnemann advises that without prescribing on mind symptoms a cure is not possible (Section 213 of the Organon. ) ‘Anger’ ‘restlessness’ etc. are ‘common’ symptoms of mind. ‘When Section 213 is read with Section 153, we infer that we have to prescribe on ‘uncommon mind symptoms. ’
Case: A renal failure patient under dialysis and waiting for kidney transplant, was under our treatment. We could not find his remedy. There is no guarantee for kidney transplant, because after a few years, many patients die when the donor kidney stops functioning.
After transplant he was heard saying, “Now I feel as if I am released from prison . . . as if I have taken a rebirth. ” This he said because he is now freed from the torturing and exhausting bi-weekly dialysis, taking rest, body becoming weak etc.
This mental picture of the patient should at once bring to our mind the following words: …desire to be released from what seems to be a perpetual burden of sorrow… (See HOMOEOPATHIC THERAPEUTICS --Melancholia) by |Dr. Samuel Lilienthal. We are going to give Ignatia to him and we are confident that his other kidney would start functioning and even if the donor kidney fails he would live long.
Case: A patient with weeping eczema etc. , came to me and said, “Doctor, I am not taking the treatment to live long. But I have an aged daughter to be married off and a son who is looking out for a job. Who would come forward to marry my daughter, if I have a weeping eczema? Only because of that, I want to get cured. Before I die, I want to settle things in my family; my daughter getting married and son getting a job. Then I can die peacefully. ” Under the homoeopathic remedy Petroleum (Boericke’s Materia Medica) we find the following: Feels that death is near, and must hurry to settle affairs.
Now, this sentence fits in approximately with the remarks made by the above eczema patient. This remedy was given in single dose and it cured him completely.
Case: A peptic ulcer patient’s condition worsened day by day and allopathic antacids were giving only temporary relief. At the height of his suffering (hunger pain with burning sensation in the food pipe, temporarily relieved by eating) he was heard saying, “I think that my end is approaching; I must call the lawyer to write the will; that this hotel of mine should go to my wife; money deposited in the bank is for my son. My widowed sister who has been living with me for several years and helping me should take the house which I bought recently. ”
This mind picture fits with the remarks made by the patient in the last case. One single dose of Petroleum-10M cured this patient as well. We do not prescribe on names of disease or pathology but on ‘uncommon’ symptoms having no connection with pathology. The above two cases would show the reader that (a) one and the same remedy may be called for in different persons with different diseases; also, (b) different persons suffering from one and the same disease may need different remedies.
Case: A seventy-year old carpenter was under my treatment for skin complaint. During one of his visits he was accompanied by his 48-year old son. The latter was coughing with chest congestion etc. The carpenter told his son; “Why don't you also take treatment from this doctor? See how much I have improved, whereas the other seven doctors to whom I consulted earlier could not do anything in my case. ” To this, the son said: “The new house where I shifted has no raasi. ” (‘Raasi’ in Tamil means luck). In other words the
person feels that everything was going wrong ever since he started living in a particular house. So, that house has no raasi. Or, a person feels that ever since he bought and started using a car, nothing went right. He attributes his sufferings, failures, difficulties etc. to that vehicle. I hope the reader would understand this. The son continued, “Even the new work place where I am going daily is not raasi (or has no good luck. )” The other word to describe ‘raasi’ would be ‘sentimental’ or ‘luck’. The carpenter’s son was not ready to take treatment from me only because he felt that the house and the work place is the cause of his respiratory complaints. I gave him one dose of a remedy telling him to take that and he need not pay me any fees. He took it. (Later I learnt that he was completely cured. ). Can any homoeopath tell me what remedy I gave the patient?
‘Mind’ Symptoms: Superiority of Lilienthal: Read the remedy Staphisagria in the chapter Melancholia in Lilienthal. (page 701) There we find the following:
Inwardly gnawing grief and anger, he looks at everything from the darkest side. . sorrowfulness ending in paralysis of the intellect. . .
[A professor was having a two wheeler. After ten years it was no more useful, also the vehicle was outdated and could not be used because spare parts were not available and so it was to be condemned. He bought a car and also very good latest Japanese two-wheeler. But he was not ready to dispose of the ten-year old two wheeler. He said, “Everything went well and I got prosperity only after buying that vehicle. So I won’t part with it. ” ]
The enthusiastic reader would be eager to know how I selected this remedy for the above case.

(a) Reproaches others (blaming the house and work place. )
(b) Sentimental.
I write down the remedies common to both the above rubrics (Kent's Repertory—MIND) and read them in the chapter Melancholia in Lilienthal. Staphisagria suited the symptoms of the case. Case: A lady of forty-two came with a large calculus in her urinary bladder. She said that allopathic doctors advised surgery as the only answer but she declined to undergo it. She continued that she had already undergone two caesarean sections and one appendicectomy; after each one of these surgeries, her general health ran down. Therefore she could not afford deterioration of health any further with another surgery and she had to safeguard her health for the remaining period of her life. Under the remedy Nux vomica (p. 128 in the Final Mat. Medica of Mind Symptoms by the author) we find the following: Afraid he might not have enough to live on. . . Nux-vomica-1M, one single dose was given in the evening. Not only did her general health improve, but also the size of the stone started reducing. (Patient is still under treatment. )
Case: A chronic renal failure patient came to me with a few relatives, all of whom were allopathic doctors. They showed me a file containing the medical 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. 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 alright and would recover soon. But instead of encouraging me for speedy recovery they have branded me as a permanent and incurable patient. ” This patient feels that his

sons, instead of encouraging, are letting him down. What one requires from his relatives is not money nor help but moral support. In this case the patient feels that this is completely missing. 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 the HOMOEOPATHIC THERAPEUTICS—Melancholia, by Dr. Samuel Lilienthal]
Tarentula hispania 10M - single dose was given.

Case: A lady of fifty-five, 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 which is near my clinic. Before going to 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 3minute treatment once only and for this she need not pay any fees and I also assured 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 residence. )” During the earlier three visits she would come to me in the morning before going to her school which is near to my clinic. Sunday is holiday for 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 that she need not pay any fees for the one-time acupressure and 100% cure was also assured. Therefore, travelling thirteen kilometres won’t be a crime. But to do this she has hesitation. . [The reader may note here that in most cases the ‘uncommon’ symptom (on which we can make a prescription) is told by the patient at the end of the consultation, or, in some cases, after you have made the prescription! In yet a few cases, during the second or subsequent consultations! ]
Before we show the reader how we selected the remedy on this symptom, let us now see two more cases.
Case: A lady allopathic doctor was learning homoeopathy from me every Sunday morning for two hours. She consulted me for her complaints and for total relief of her ailments. 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 ten kilometers away. )
She hesitates for this small thing of bringing the boy once only to me and for which the boy is going to get total relief permanently. Only if you actually listen to the patient’s reply in person may you understand this. Let me explain and elaborate on this. Suppose you are asked by your teacher to murder a certain person. What would be your reaction? Immediately you would reply as under: “Sir, I… have to…” (The sentence would be incomplete. Because you have hesitation since doing this job would prick your conscience. ) In the above said two cases, for merely travelling ten kilometres they have lot of hesitation as if I am asking them to do some crime or immoral thing. In other words, they are over conscious of a trivial thing. The apt term would be “Conscientious scruples. ” This symptom is in the remedy Arsenicum album. [See HOMOEO THERAPEUTCS by Lilienthal.] Let us repeat, that uncommon mind symptom may be in most cases one only, and the computer-software or ‘remedy finders’ are of no use. One single dose of Arsenicum Album10M completely cured the above sinusitis patient above) and even acupressure treatment was not given.
Case: This is a cancer patient and after the consultation was over, I asked my fees of six thousand rupees. To this he replied, “Money… is…” (The sentence was incomplete and hesitation was as if they are asked to do some immoral act. ) He should say that either he has no money or that he would try to borrow from relatives. But he does neither. Ars. Alb10M, one single, dose cured him.
The above cases would illustrate the meaning and interpretation of mind symptoms of a patient. In some cases the repertory or software is not useful and you have to learn by rote these uncommon mind symptoms. The above three cases are quoted here to illustrate that if the practitioner can memorise the symptoms of various remedies given in the Final Mat. Medica of Mind Symptoms by the author he would be able to select the remedy in more than fifty percent of cases that too at the very first attempt. Can ny one practise homoeopathy without a copy of Lilienthal?
Precision and versatility is required to practise homoeopathy. What is most disappointing is that no one talks about Dr. Lilienthal’s work, be it in seminar papers, monthly meetings or articles in journals. Said Charles Gatchell in a review of HOMOEOPATHIC THERAPEUTICS, “… it is an extraordinarily useful book and those who add it to their library will never feel regret…” In a review, Samuel A. Jones said about Lilienthal’s as under: “For the fresh graduate this book will be invaluable… to the older one who says he has no use of this book, we have nothing to say. He is a good one to avoid when well, and to dread when ill. ” The authors who have correctly and elaborately written mind symptoms are:
(1) Dr. Samuel Lilienthal

(2) Calvin B. Knerr’s Repertory.

(3) Dr. Constantine Hering (Guiding Symptoms of our Materia Medica 10 volumes)

(4) Dr. William Boericke (Mat. Medica)
And Lilienthal tops the list.
If you can understand correctly and thoroughly the lines under all remedies in the chapter Melancholia in Lilienthal, you get more than 70% success in your practice. Lilienthal is ten times worth its weight in gold. Wilkinson’s too is good at mind symptoms. How to master mind symptoms with Hering? After having selected a remedy and having seen that it has cured the patient with one single dose of that remedy, read that remedy in the Chapter ‘Mind’. If you do it two or three times for a remedy, fourth time when that remedy-type patient comes in, you can straightaway prescribe that. For example, I would never miss Lycopodium and Nux vomica for patients, most of whom throw the following symptoms:
Lycopodium: • (Wilkinson’s) – Talks with an air of command. Manner stiff and pretentious.
Nux vomica: • (Boericke’s Mat. Med. ) – . . . particular, careful, zealous. . . fiery temperament. • (Wilkinson’s) – Desire to talk about one’s conditions with anxious reflections about it. (The patient comes in, sits and turning his face to one side, stares at the roof and tells his complaints in the past-present chronological order. He continues to stare up the ceiling continuously till he finishes the history of his complaints till date. )
Sometimes, you have to read the entire symptoms under Mind in all the remedies to select a remedy for a patient. (For this I use Lilienthal, Boericke’s Materia Medica and Wilkinson’s). But once you find the remedy, subsequent cases requiring that remedy becomes easy. I am not reporting here cases with their follow-up but my attempt is to tell the reader how and what exactly homoeopathic practice is. As one cannot learn swimming without getting into water, or driving a car without sitting on the wheels, so also without actual cases on hand one cannot learn homoeopathy. To that extent only I am quoting actual cases as seen in my clinic. I am a freelance medical journalist and so I took the following two cases as a challenge for homoeopathy.
Case: A patient with chronic headache, after spending much money with various doctors, specialists and homoeopaths came to me. After finishing the history of his seven years’ pain in head, he ended up saying: “Doctor, if you or anyone can cure me of this terrible headache, I won’t mind even giving away half of my property (worth three millions) to that doctor. ” Doctors of all other systems would simply ignore this statement of the patient. If a patient is ready to pay 1. 5 million. . . I thought over this. I took this as a challenge to homoeopathy. I asked him to first pay me ten thousand rupees and also give me two weeks’ time with a promise that if I do not cure him in one single dose (or a few doses) I would return double the amount paid by him. Also, if he is cured he may pay me another ten thousand rupees. He agreed to this condition and paid ten thousand rupees. I took a copy of Boericke’s Materia Medica and went to a professor of English and requested him to render me a help; that he has to read the lines given only under the chapter ‘Mind’ in all the remedies in Boericke’s Mat. Med. and underline if any relevant line is found equivalent to the statement of a person who says that he would pay half of his wealth if his headache is cured. I paid him five thousand rupees (which the professor said is more than sufficient for the work. )—It may take a few days, spending two or three hours daily to go through the lines given under the chapter ‘Mind’ in Boericke’s 688-page materia medica.

To another professor of English I gave a copy of Wilkinson’s Mat. Medica and paying him the remaining five thousand rupees, requested him to do the job of reading the lines given only under the chapter ‘Mind’ in all the remedies (and this too would take a few days, working for three hours daily) and to tell me if he finds anything equivalent to the above said statement of the headache patient.
The first professor (using Boericke’s) could not find anything apt. But the second professor underlined and pointed out the following lines in the remedy Stillingia (under ‘Mind’ in Wilkinson’s).
“Deplorably downhearted; suffering extreme torture from bone pains. ”
Stillingia 1000, one single dose cured the patient and he paid me another ten thousand rupees. Precision and versatility is the culture of Homoeopathy. After this case I cured two more patients with Stillingia both of whom said the above words (ready to give his entire wealth to the doctor who cures him).
Diligence and knowledge of English language, both to the core, are required to practise homoeopathy. The above two cases would illustrate the reader how rich, exact and accurate (and also complete) our existing materia medicas are. Thus and therefore, what is needed is exact mastery of the use of five reference books viz. , Lilienthal, William Boericke, J. T. Kent, Wilkinson’s and Knerr (and more importantly Yingling, for medical emergencies at the time of labor or abortion. ).
Case: Here is another case of headache. This 55-year old male patient remarked: “Doctor, all these years I have been having these pains; my sufferings are such that no amount of compensation would be equal to it. Even if you make me the President of all the nations in the world that would not be a sufficient compensation. ” I told him the same condition which I put to the patient in the earlier case.
After taking ten thousand rupees I went to the two English professors, one with Boericke and the other with Wilkinson’s Mat. Medica. In this case the professor going through Boericke’s Mat. Medica could help me. He pointed to the following found under the remedy Selenium.

“Extreme sadness. Abject despair, uncompromising melancholy. ”

Selenium 10M, one dose cured the patient and he paid me ten thousand rupees.
On a later occasion the above said professors asked me what I did by their help and I showed them how I practise homoeopathy. Soon both of them started learning and practising homoeopathy. Homoeopathic system of medicine is exact and accurate. Precision and versatility is its culture.
Myth and reality of ‘mind symptoms.
’ In some cases Calvin B. Knerr’s REPERTORY is excellent to work out cases with mind symptoms. Case: The other day I was sitting by the side of a senior homoeopath in his clinic. A patient entered and asked, “Do you have medicine for diabetes?”
Doctor: Yes, tell me your symptoms.
Patient: (Stretching his hand towards the doctor). “see my pulse; give medicine. ”

[The tone of the patient was in a commanding note similar to a king, who, when anything is required would order, “Bring the head of the thief in two hours. ”]
The doctor turned towards me and said, “See doctor, these patients don’t tell symptoms. How can I prescribe?” That doctor always thinks of ‘sensation’ ‘location’ ‘modality’ ‘concomitant. ’
I took Calvin B. Knerr’s Repertory to him and showed the following:
MIND, Answers, imperiously: Lycopodium.
Further I showed him the following from Wilkinson’s Mat. Medica under the remedy Lycopodium:
“Talks with an air of command. . . manner stiff and pretentious. ”
Lycopodium 10M, one single dose, cured diabetes.
Let us reiterate the following: Homoeopathy is a system where the patient himself (by way of some words or actions or as a reaction to his disease or treatment or attitude towards the doctor) indicates the remedy to us. Homoeopathy is practical and practical only and there is no place for any theory, imagination, etc.
Among pharmacologically-oriented systems of therapeutics homoeopathy will ever remain supreme to cure patients with the least number of medicines/doses. For example, we have cured lakhs of chikungunya patients completely and permanently with one single dose of the homoeo medicine called Polyporus officianale-200.
Why is Boletus Laricis [OR Polyporus officinale] IS almost a specific for chikungunya disease?
With crippling joint pains many chikungunya victims were virtually crawling to go to the toilet etc. Their face was gloomy.
Knerr’s Repertory—Mind—Gloomy, ague, in: Bol-la (Polyporus officinale).
Homoeopaths were then asking medicine for the pandemic swine flu.

Those who had died in hospitals with swine flu had lung failure; The nearest rubric (for purposes of selecting the homoeo remedy) for this is ‘pneumonia. ’
In Samuel Lilienthal’s HOMOEOPATHIC THERAPEUTICS (in the chapter PNEUMONIA,) under two remedies, viz. , Merc-sol. and Ferrum met. we find the following words: “epidemic pneumonia. ”

The two remedies were studied in the materia medicas and Merc-sol. agreed with most of the symptoms than Ferrum met. Patients who had come to me after being tested positive for swine flu were given ONLY ONE SINGLE PILL of the homoeo medicine Merc-sol-1M, and in just an hour all their symptoms disappeared and after a week when they tested, the result was negative. (Rate of success: 99%).
One of the best shortcuts to homoeopathic practice (to select the remedy—the similimum) is Dr. Samuel Lilienthal’s Homoeopathic Therapeutics. (Drop the symptom in Lilienthal and you get the remedy!)
“UNCOMMON-RARE-STRANGE-PECULIAR” SYMPTOMS ARE NOT WHAT YOU HAVE LEARNT BUT THEY ARE, IN REALITY, SOMETHING DIFFERENT, WHICH YOU HAVE TO LEARN BY ROTE.
Case: A patient came in with pain in the femoral part of urethra and backache. It was worse while riding two-wheeler. He showed his medical file (given by allopathic hospital) and therefrom we noted the following points: hydroureteronephrosis—Left kidney; pain in femoral part of urethra; pain in sacral region. His complaint (pathology) is in ureter but he has pain in femoral part of urethra and sacrum. This is something rarestrange-peculiar. Both these painful places are at the same distance from the seat of affection—ureter.
Under the remedy Belladonna (Wilkinson’s Materia Medica) we find the following: “Inflammation of internal organs… The inflammation… runs in radii as it extends to adjacent parts. ” (Femoral part of urethra and sacrum are more or less at equal distance from his left ureter). Belladonna-10M, single dose, cured him. Case: Two years after the above case, a lady came to me for cervical spondylitis. These patients get pain normally in the neck extending to head or one upper limb. Strangely this patient complained of unbearable pain in both shoulder tips. (Both shoulder tips are at the same distance away from the cervical vertebra. ) Belladonna-10M, single dose cured her.
Case: Let us now examine what uncommon symptoms mean: Some of the most useful uncommon physical symptoms cannot be classified under any head in the repertory or homoeo software and so it is better to memorise them. For example, under the remedy Ignatia we find the words great contradictions. (Boericke Mat. Med. ) A haemorrhoid patient said at the end of the consultation: [Remember, in most cases, after the narration is over and after a pause, the patient leans forward towards you and with wide open eyes (exclaims)] “Doctor… one thing. Everyone says that pain, bleeding etc. in piles would increase while straining when constipated; but my case is different. I do not get pain or bleeding whenever I strain during constipation. But during loose bowel movement I get both burning and bleeding. ” The contradictory symptom is both ways.

Hence Dr. William Boericke writes in plural: “Great contradictions. ”

Ignatia-1M, single dose cured this patient.
Case: A school boy of twelve was brought by the parents. The mother started talking:
“Doctor, he has to leave the house for school at 9:30 in the morning. He gets up at 6:00 a. m. At 7:30 a. m. he becomes so restless—jumps, cries etc. This would last for half-an-hour. Then this disappears; it is followed by 3-4 times loose bowel movement. After that he becomes completely all right and goes to school. ” In this case the following should come to our mind: “Symptoms disposed to appear periodically and in groups. . . ” The above lines are found in the remedy Cuprum met. (Boericke’s Materia Medica. ) This remedy cured the patient in one single dose in the 200th potency.
Among pharmacologically-oriented system of therapeutics homoeopathy is thorough, exhaustive and accurate.
Case: Mr. N. 57 years reported: “Doctor, daily morning I get headache; in the afternoon, after lunch I have distension of abdomen, gastric troubles. In the night I get terrible pain in the leg…” Repertory is of no use in this case.
The case is very simple. His symptom is to be classified as follows: “Aggravation of head symptoms in the morning; abdomen in the afternoon and legs in the night.”
Under the remedy Ammonium mur. (Boericke’s Mat. Med. ) the following is specified: Its periods of aggravations are peculiarly divided as to the bodily region affected; thus the head and chest symptoms are worse mornings, the abdominal in the afternoon, the pains in the limbs, the skin and febrile symptoms, in the evenings.
One single dose of Amm-mur-10M cured him. Case: A patient consulted me for constipation. Laxatives and purgatives were said to be of no use. He further said that for several years he had been taking daily anticonvulsant drug for epilepsy and if he stops it, he would get convulsions. The following symptom under the remedy Opium (in Wilkinson’s Materia Medica) agrees with this case: “…Increased excitability and action in voluntary muscles, with diminution of it in involuntary muscles…” When the intestine is full with faeces, urging is not felt (involuntary muscles. ) In the instant case these muscles are not functioning. Movement of limbs is controlled by voluntary muscles and he gets convulsions in them (increased irritability and action).
Opium-10M, given in one single dose, cured his constipation and he was asked to stop anticonvulsant drugs; he did so and to his surprise convulsions did not appear.
Case: A patient showed his right leg with ulcer. He got injury a few months earlier but so far it did not heal in spite of best medical treatment. After a pause, the patient continued, “Doctor, ever since the accident I feel numbness in my right upper arm and I am unable to use it freely. Has this non-healing of wound in my leg anything to do with numbness in my arm? But my arm was not hurt in the accident. ” We say that homoeopathy is a system of medicine where the patient tells or indicates the remedy to us.
In Wilkinson’s Materia Medica the following sentence under the remedy Pulsatilla agrees with this case: … depression of vital power on one side and increased irritability on the other;

Pulsatilla-10M, one single dose, cured both the ulcer on the leg and numbness in the arm.
USE OF REPERTORIES Repertorisation is not what you have hitherto learnt elsewhere. Without actual cases, one cannot learn practical homoeopathy. Following are actual cases treated by us: Case: A primipara (first pregnancy lady) was having morning sickness from her third month till the sixth month. After taking full meals when she gets up to wash hands she would vomit all that she had taken in the reverse order. As the patient was in a faraway place she was asked to write down in her own handwriting her symptoms as if she is telling her friend about her complaints. Her letter is given below. “After full meals as I get up I get vomiting. So after eating, I wash my hands in the plate and lie down. Only after half-an-hour or so I get up. I also feel foetus’ kicking pain in a particular spot. When a heavy truck goes on the road making a thunder noise, I feel that noise hitting in that place in my belly where the kick of the child causes pain.

Case repertorisation: Boericke’s Repertory (last chapter)
MODALITIES (p. 970)—AGGRAVATION: Jar — Ars. , Bell. , Berb. v. , Bry. , Cic. , Crot. , Glon. , Ign. , Nux-v. , Spig. , Ther.
Noise —Acon. , Asar. , Bell. , Bar. , Calad. , Cham. , Cinch. , Cocc. , Coff. , Colch. , Ferr. , Glon. , Ign. , Lyc. , Mag. m. , Med. , Nux-m. , Nux-v. , Onosom. , Phos. , Solan-lyc. , Spig. , Tar-h. , Ther.

The six remedies viz. , Bell. , Glon. , Ign. , Nux-v. , Spig. , and Ther. are common to the above two lists. All these six 50
remedies were studied in Boericke’s Mat. Medica.
The remedy Theridion was selected because of the following found therein. Sensitive to noise; it penetrates the body. . . Noises seem to strike on painful spots over the body. Theridion-30, single dose completely stopped the vomiting and pain < by noise.
Case: A boy of ten years was brought by the father. The latter described: “He is having less concentration in studies. ” Myself: What is the report of the class teacher about him? Father: He says that my son is intelligent, but lacks concentration. He is a capable boy and only if he concentrates can he shine well. He was scoring 95 marks in earlier classes. He has become dull in the last two years. (I then asked general questions about his food habits, appetite, sleep etc. ) Father: One point. He goes to bed at 9 p. m. and will immediately sleep. Morning we have to wake him up and even at 6 o’clock on waking, he is not fresh or active. He goes to drum classes. That teacher says he is excellent in his performance on certain days only. I asked the boy some questions about his difficulties to which he replied, ‘Nothing. ’ To some questions he nodded his head or answered in single words.
Kent’s Repertory — MIND — Answers, shortly, curtly ANSWERS, refuses to. In the above case, there are two generals viz. , (1) Sleep, unrefreshing; and (2) plethora. Earlier he was scoring 95% marks. The drums teacher tells that (on some days) he is excellent. First ranking and centum-scoring boys are plethoric individuals.

Kent’s Repertory — SLEEP — UNREFRESHING. . . G

ENERALITIES: PLETHORA—
‘Sleep’ is a general symptom and ‘Unrefreshing sleep’ is rare-strange-peculiar; good sleep should refresh any healthy person in the morning.
The remedy Phosphorus alone is common in top-grade in both the above rubrics.
This remedy is also found in Kent’s Repertory under MIND — ‘Answers, shortly, curtly’ and ‘Answers, refuses to’. The remedy was read in Final Materia Medica of Mind Symptoms and the following symptoms under Phosphorus agreed with the case: slow in replies. . . weakness. . .

Note: We do not use or recommend homoeo books by Indian authors, or for that matter any book published abroad after the year 1946; They are not at all useful in finding the remedy. The research in homoeopathy and seminars should only focus on how to use the references works listed on page 13 of this book. —————
Case: In some cases it is possible to treat a patient through letter communication. Such a letter from a patient is given below:
"Respected Doctor, I've been suffering from cold and bad throat for quite a long time now. It occurs during the change of season. I also have sinusitis which is hereditary (paternal uncle - Chacha). I've a tendency of sneezing a lot early in the morning and also if there's dust around. My bowels do not get cleared properly and I feel constipated. I’m probably associating constipation with the lack of a proper eating and sleeping schedule as I'm in 12th std and unable to regulate it. Also, I have severe pain in the lower abdomen and lower back during the onset on menstrual cycle which lasts for the first 2 days. Managing it without a hot water bag is difficult. So I usually end up taking doses of DYSMIN (suggested by the physician) in accordance with the pain. The period of cycle is 5-7 days. Menstrual cycle occurs every 28-30 days. The problem of acne started not long back and it has gotten worse over the past few months. Pimples have also developed on the upper arms, shoulder blades as well as on the upper chest. Regards.
Case Repertorisation: The following portions from the above letter are valuable for selecting the remedy:

“Change of season agg. ”

‘Dust allergy. ’ [All allergies are manifestation of syphilis. ]
‘Menses lasts 5-7 days’ (Beyond 3 days is haemorrhage)
There are no ‘mind’ symptoms in this case. We must note here that in his Lectures on Materia medica Kent has said that in many remedies mind symptoms have not been fully brought out in proving. But equally valuable are ‘general’ symptoms. There are three generals in this case viz.

, (a) Syphilis (dust allergy; more than one person in the family has sinusitis).

(b) Haemorrhage

(c) Change of weather agg.

Haemorrhage—wherever found in any case should be considered first. Whether it is gum bleeding or uterus haemorrhage or bleeding piles, do not look for Metrorrhagia etc. Dr. Kent has said that the best cures are made by working out cases on ‘generals’. Therefore wherever may be the bleeding, go to the list of remedies against ‘Haemorrhage’ in the last chapter GENERALITIES in Kent’s Repertory.
Kent’s Repertory—GENERALITIES—HAEMORRAGE 28 remedies are in top-grade (Let us call this List ‘A’)
SYPHILIS—15 remedies in top grade (List ‘B’).
CHANGE OF WEATHER agg. (List ‘C’) In the above three lists we do not find any remedy (remedies) in top-grade in all the three lists. What is to be done? Let us, as an exercise, take the remedies found common to all the three lists irrespective of grades and compare and find out those remedies scoring more points. [Remedies in bold type - 3 points, italics - 2 points, ordinary type - 1 point]
Remedy name Haemorrhage Syphilis Change of weather agg. Total scores

Ars. 2 2 1 5

Lach 3 2 2 7

Merc. 3 3 1 7

Nit-ac. 3 3 1 7

Ph-ac. 2 2 2 6

Phos. 3 2 3 8

Sil. 2 3 3 8

Sul. 3 2 2 7

A beginner would rush to say that we should select either Phosphorus or Silicea. That is what the so-called authors on repertorisation are teaching. The correct method is something different. You must arrange the valuable symptoms (be it mind or general or uncommon) in order of their grade or importance. See the table above. We have arranged the three symptoms from left to right in order of their importance or grade. Life threatening symptoms are of the highest value. So also, haemorrhage. Next comes broad general Syphilis. ‘Change of weather’ is only a modality (though a general) comes last in the order of importance. Now, how to make use of the table? Do not merely add up the points. You write the number (of scores) one after the other. Look at the remedy Ars. Do not add 2 + 2 + 1 = 5, but it should be read as 55
221 (Two hundred and twenty-one). If this is done for all the remedies we get as under. Ars. — 221 Lach. — 322 Merc. — 331 Nit-ac. — 331 Ph-ac. — 222 Phos. — 323 Sil. — 233 Sul. — 322 If you merely add all the three digits, together, of course, Phosphorus and Silicea gets 8 each. But if you look at the above, you find that Merc. , and Nit-ac. get 331, each (Three hundred and thirty-one) whereas Phos. is 323 (Three hundred and twenty-three only). So we must consider the remedies Merc. and Nitric acid only. Under Nit-ac. in the chapter DYSPEPSIA (Lilienthal) we find the following: Intestinal dyspepsia due to syphilitic cachexia. Again, in Lilienthal under MENSTRUATION, in Nit-ac. we find the following: Pain in hypogastrium and sides. In Boericke’s Mat. Medica under Nit-ac. we find the following. Excessive physical irritability (dust allergy). . . Cachexia due to syphilis.

Nit-ac. 10M, one single dose cured her.