Philosophy | Repertory and Rubrics | Materia Media and Remedy Differential | Materia Medica Keynotes | Short Cases |
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Cure will happen from above down, inside to periphery, most important to least important organs, most recent symptoms to oldest symptoms.
What is Hering's Law
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Mind
Vertigo Head Eyes
There are 41 main chapters in the Complete Repertory. By memory in your group, list as many as possible.
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Belladonna more indicated with hallucinations and biting/mania violence; Stramonium has more fear and vulnerability and a fear of water.
Belladonna is agg. at 3pm, Stramonium at night and in the dark; Stramonium is amel. warmth, Belladonna is agg. heat of the sun. Belladonna face is all flushed or alternates flushed and pale; Stramonium has one side hot the other cold. Stramonium has increased thirst, Belladonna is thirstless.
Identify 2 mental, 2 general, and 2 particular differences between Belladonna and Stramonium.
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Allium cepa
What remedy has profuse, watery and acrid nasal discharge, with profuse, bland lachrymation
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Hypericum
You get a call from a woman for an acute consult due to injury.
She was snowboarding and fell repeatedly on hard ice. She says it's painful to sit for any length of time, and the pain radiates up her spine, and walking is painful and difficult. Since the falls, she has been feeling mildly depressed and is overwhelmingly sleepy. |
Location, Modality, Sensation, Concomitant
Pain in the leg, worse on motion, burning pain, accompanied by a throbbing headache
Describe the four parts of a Complete Symptom and give an example.
BONUS: who determined what a complete symptom is? |
Main Rubric
Laterality (right/left) Time Modalities, conditions, modifiers Extensions Locations Sensation
What is the arrangement of the types of rubrics as they are listed in the repertory?
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Kali carb:
cough worse 2-4 am; worse on waking thick mucus difficult to dislodge stitching pains agg. draft and uncovering Carbo veg: rarely tenacious mucus or watery burning in the chest better cool air, fanning
Differentiate the cough symptoms of Carbo veg. and kali carbonicum.
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Chamomila
Child exceedingly irritable, fretful; quiet only when carried; impatient, wants this or that and becomes angry when refused, or when offered, petulantly rejects it
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Colocynthis
Your sister calls for help. She needed an extension on her rent as her paycheck would be a week delayed due to a job change. The landlord required the check and said she would not cash for 10 days. Your sister discovered the landlord cashed the check immediately, and her account went into overdraft!
She is fuming mad and when she called the bank to deal with the late fees, the teller was condescending. Since then, she's had a cramping stomach pain that makes her double over. She tunnels her fists into her stomach to put on pressure, and eating and drinking makes it worse. |
Assuming the client's response
Choosing favorite remedies Rubrics
How can prejudice be a part of homeopathic case taking and analysis, and why do we need to be on guard to avoid it? Describe at least 3 different ways prejudice can creep into your case.
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Pain, toothache, drinks warm, amel
Stomach, pain, fruit after urethra, pain, urination close of
Locate rubrics for the following symptoms:
My tooth hurts but is better when I have tea. My stomach is always upset after I eat fruit. There is a spasm of pain at the end of urination. |
ignatia has elements of spascticity and hysteria
over-sensitive, difficult to release emotions- leads to cramping. is 'stuck' nat mur depression reserved dignified
Differentiate the grief of ignatia vs. natrum muriaticum
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Hepar sulph
Croup after exposure to dry cold wind; deep, rough, barking cough, with hoarseness and rattling of mucus;
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Natrum sulphuricum
A man contacts you for help with his asthma. It has been particularly aggravated by the wet spring weather, and is short of breath when walking. He coughs up green sputum, better when sitting up. He also has diarrhea that seems to come on with the damp weather as well.
He feels gloomy in the morning and avoids speaking to anyone if he can get away with it. |
Helps to identify pathology and the level of pathology.
Helps to identify what is common/uncommon in the patient.
Describe the roll of diagnosis in homeopathic case taking and prescribing. Include both what is valuable about diagnosis and what is not.
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Pulsation, Brain, extending to Forehead
Eyes, heat, itching Ears, pain, aching, noise agg Smell, sour bread smells
Find 4 rubrics across 4 different chapters where Belladonna is the only remedy listed.
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calc
phytolacca pulsatilla see class sample repertorizations
Symptoms of mastitis include:
Breast tenderness or warmth to the touch. Breast swelling. Thickening of breast tissue, or a breast lump. Pain or a burning sensation continuously or while breast-feeding. Use rubrics to find 2 strong remedies and differentiate them, considering additional information you may need to know to make a final decision. |
Thuja
Fixed ideas : as if a strange person were at his side; as if soul and body were separated; as if a living animal were in abdomen; of being under the influence of a superior power
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Veratrum
A woman has come down with an acute illness. She's been traveling, and not sure if she came in contact with something contagious or has food poisoning.
She has cold perspiration and no energy. Since falling ill, she's barely left her bed. When she gets up to go to the bathroom, she feels weak and faint. She has attacks of both diarrhea and vomiting, and craves cold water. She feels cutting pains in the abdomen. She's better when warm and covered, and from drinking milk. |
Repertories
case taking approaches/analysis Boenninghausen used the complete symptom and the analogy approach Kent favored the Mind, then Generals and Particulars
Compare and Contrast the contributions of Kent and Boenninghausen on homeopathy both past and present.
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stomach retching gagging cough agg.
cough mucus from cough suffocative Stomach cough vomiting during
Identify 4 symptoms of whooping cough and locate appropriate rubrics.
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silica worse draft, pulsatilla craves open air/being fanned
anxiety and reserved, vs. desire for company etc.
Compare and contrast silica and pulsatilla and describe why you think they are acute/chronic complements. Consider both where they are similar and where they are different and aspects where they overlap
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Borax
Dread of downward motion in nearly all complaints.
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Rhododendron
You are looking for a remedy for your grandmother who has arthritis.
She says her joints are swollen and painful, and the pain moves from joint to joint rather than being in just one place. They are better with motion and worse at rest, as well as before storms with wet and windy weather. She often forgets what she is saying, and fears thunder. Her feet are always cold. |