Causticum BMM Update.pptx

1. CAUSTICUM
BEHAVIOURAL MATERIA MEDICA

2. Presented by:
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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3. •Anxious
•Need to have bond, powers control
•Rational, law-abiding
•Campaigner of justice
GESTURE
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4. •Dark
•Stiff
•Rigid
•Dark eyed
FACE
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5. •Dark hair
•Rigid, strong fibre
•Yellow complexion
PHYSICAL ASPECT
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6. •Dark:
oMood & temper (hopeless)
oFears (as if committed crime)
oSense (Eye sight: black spots)
oModality (twilight)
oWorld goes dark
PSYCHOLOGICAL
ASPECT
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7. •Husky, rigid
•Hemming and hawking
•Shaky and unsteady
•Speech affected – slow, confused
(eventually)
VOICE
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8. •Dry
•Sore
•Painful
TONGUE
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9. •Believes rigidly in alternative
medicine but hopeless of cure
•Pessimistic about taking medicines
•Appears on time on the day
MAKING AN
APPOINTMENT
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10. •Strong, rigid, thick, corrugated
(Sycotic) + Groove or indentations (pot
holes) on nails (Syphilitic)
•Crippled
•Ingrowing (Tubercular)
•Ingrowing toe nails, twitching
sensation
NAILS
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11. •Black
•Dark colours
DRESS
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12. •Unsteady <
•Sympathetic
•Course
•Analytical
•Pessimistic
SIT & BEHAVE
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13. •Sympathetic
•Compassionate
•3: I
oIncensed
oIntense
oIdealistic
•Self righteous
•Law-abiding
•Perfectionist
•Pessimistic
PERSONALITY
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14. •Dark hair
•Rigid fibres
•Yellow complexion
LOOK & DIAGNOSE
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15. •Becomes vegetarian (excessively
sympathetic)
•Stiff and rigid – immovable dark
mood
•Introvert
•Rebellious, holds grudges
BEHAVIOURAL
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16. PARALYTIC TENDENCY
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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

17. PARALYTIC TENDENCY
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Weak Memory
Apprehension Pessimism
Paralysis:
Mental

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Periodic
Rheumatic
Restless
Paralytic
Hydrogenoid
Charac-
teristics
Nocturnal
aggravation
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Raw  injured mind 
sad, hopeless
Mental
Pessimistic Fear: something bad
will happen, mental
dullness &
forgetfulness
Rawness
& soreness
Caustic property 
Doctrine of signature 
Burning  rawness &
soreness
Sensation as if lime
slaked in the
stomach (doctrine
of signature)
Physical
Throat, urethra,
skin, internal
organs raw and
sore
Rectum,
piles: raw
& sore

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Dark Hair
Rigid Fibre Yellow Complexion
Look and
Diagnose

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Mental: Long-lasting grief
and long-suppressed
sorrow
Physical:
Sustained night-
watching; NBWS
burn
Dermatological:
Ulcers maltreated
with lead
Long-lasting
NBWS

22. Rheumatism
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23. CONTRACTION:
Dupuytren’s
Contracture of hands
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24. Face
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25. Appearance
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26. Gesture and
Behaviour
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27. Worry For bond
Pessimistic Idealistic
Campaigner
of justice
MENTAL AETIOLOGIES PSYCHIC MANIFESTATIONS
Anticipation
(effects on nerves)
Excitement
O.C.D.
(Obsessive
Compulsive
Disorders)
Sympathetic
 vegetarian
Mental Aetiologies
Injustice &
Exploitation
Grief (long drawn)
Disappointment
of love
Mortification
For control
For power
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Mood & temper
(hopeless)
World goes
dark
Modality
<twilight
Appearance
Senses – Eyesight:
black spots
Dark
Fears (as if
committed
a crime
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Excessive sympathy 
becomes vegetarian;
energized by helping
others
Feeling of
righteousness;
concerned
with ‘justice’
Immovable (stiff);
dark mood
Stiff & rigid

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Campaigner of justice
Romantic
Supportive
Compulsive
neurosis
(Compelled
to re-check)
Sensitive to
authoritarian control
Close succession
of opposite
phenomena (joy &
& sad alternates)
Reasonable
Impends
Dark
Misfortune

31. Pessimism
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32. •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)
REACTION TO
EMOTIONS
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