CAUSTICUM

1. BEHAVIOURAL
MATERIA MEDICA:
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Dr. Subrata K. Banerjea, GOLD MEDALIST
B.H.M.S. (Honours In Nine Subjects Of Calcutta University)
Fellow: Society of Homoeopaths, U.K.
Fellow: Homoeopathic Medical Association of the United Kingdom
Fellow: Association of Natural Medicine, U.K
Fellow: Akademie Homoopathischer Deutscher Zentralverein (Germany)
Director: Bengal Allen Medical Institute
Principal: Allen College of Homoeopathy, Essex, England
“SAPIENS”, 382, BADDOW ROAD, GREAT BADDOW,
CHELMSFORD, ESSEX CM2 9RA, ENGLAND
Tel & Fax No. 44 (0) 1245 505859
E. Mail: allencollege@btconnect.com
Web: https://allencollege.co.uk www.homoeopathy-course.com

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GESTURE
• Anxious.
• Need to have
bond, powers
control.
• Rational, law-
abiding.
• Campaigner of
justice.
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FACE
•Dark, stiff
and rigid.
•Dark eyed.
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APPEARANCE
• Dark hair.
• Rigid and strong
fibre.
• Yellow complexion.
• Dark:
o Mood & temper
(hopeless).
o Appearance.
o Fears (as if
committed crime).
o Sense (Eye sight:
black spots).
o Modality (twilight).
o World goes dark.
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VOICE
•Husky, rigid.
•Hemming and
hawking.
•Sense of
shakiness and
unsteadiness.
•Speech –
affected, slow,
confused.
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TONGUE
•Pain in the
dry, sore
tongue.
•Painful.
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MAKING APPOINTMENT
• Believe strictly
and rigidly in
Alternative
Medicine but very
pessimistic
approach of
talking; hopeless
feeling.
• Will appear on
time, on the day!
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NAIL
• Strong, rigid, thick,
corrugated (Sycotic)
+ Groove or
indentations (pot
holes) on nails
(Syphilitic).
• Crippled.
• Ingrowing
(Tubercular).
• Ingrowing toe nails,
twitching sensation.
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DRESS
•Black,
dark
colours.
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SIT & BEHAVE
•Unsteady <.
•Sympathetic
coarse,
analytical,
pessimistic.
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PERSONALITY
• Sympathetic,
compassionate.
• 3: I
oIncensed.
oIntense.
oIdealistic.
• Self righteous.
• Law-abiding.
• Perfectionist.
• Pessimistic.
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LOOK & DIAGNOSE
•Dark hair.
•Rigid fibres.
•Yellow
complexion.
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BEHAVIOURAL
• Becomes vegetarian
(excessive
sympathetic).
• Stiff and rigid:
immovable: dark
mood.
• Introvert.
• Rebellious, holds
grudges.
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14. Paralysis of single parts:
eyelid (ptosis); larynx:
aphonia; bladder: stress
in continence
Facial
paralysis:
Bell’s
palsy
Constipation
(rectal
paralysis) >
by defecating
or standing
Paralysis:
Physical
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15. Weak memory
(mental paralysis)
Appre-
hension
Negative
Paralysis:
Mental
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16. Periodic
Rheu-
matic
Rest-
less
Para-
lytic
Hydrogenoid
constitution
Charac-
teristics
Noc-
turnal
aggra-
vation
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Raw  injured mind 
sad, hopeless
Mental
Pessimistic Fear: that something
bad will happen,
mental dullness &
forgetfulness
Rawness
& soreness
The Caustic property 
the Doctrine of
signature  Burning 
rawness & soreness
Sensation as if lime
been slaked in the
stomach (doctrine
of signature)
Physical
Throat,
urethra, skin,
internal
organs raw
and sore
Rectum,
piles: raw
& sore
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18. Dark hair
Rigid
fibres
Yellow
complexion
Look and
diagnose
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19. Mental: Long lasting
grief, long &
suppressed sorrow
Physical:
sustained
night
watching,
NBWS:
burn
Dermato-
logical:
ulcers,
maltreated
with lead
Long lasting
NBWS
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20. Rheumatism
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21. Contraction
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Dupuytren’s Contracture Hands
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22. Face
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23. Appearance
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24. Gesture &
Behaviour
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25. Worry For bond
Pessimistic Idealistic
Campaigner
of justice
MENTAL AETIOLOGIES PSYCHIC MANIFESTATIONS
Anticipation
(effects on
nerves)
Excite-
ment
O.C.D.
(Obsessive
Compulsive
Disorders)
Sympathetic
 vegetarian
Mental Aetiologies
Injustice &
Exploitation
Grief (long drawn)
Disappoint-
ment of
Love
Mortifi-
cation
For control
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For power
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26. Mood & temper
(hopeless)
World
goes
dark
Modality
(twilight)
Appearance
Senses (Eye sight:
black spots)
Dark
Fears (as if
committed
crime)
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27. Excessive sympathy
 becomes
Vegetarian; energized
by helping others
Feeling of
being right
and
concerned
with
`justice’
Immovable
(Stiff); Dark
mood
Stiff & rigid
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28. Campaigner of justice
Romantic
Suppor
-tive
Compulsive
neurosis
(Compelled
to re-check)
Sensitive to
authoritarian control
Close succession
of opposite
phenomenas (joy &
& sad alternates)
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Reason
-able
Impends
Dark Mis-
fortune
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29. Pessimism
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REACTION TO EMOTIONS
• Grieving or sad mood:
Sadness in amenorrhoea.
• Anxious mood: Anxiety,
after stool, from
ineffectual desire.
• Aggressive mood: Before
menses.
• Personality: Independent.
• Envious mood: Defiant.
• Miserable nature:
Pessimist to make people
& animal suffer (the other
extreme).
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31. THANK YOU!
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