Homeopathy Materia Medica introductory pages

1. Materia Medica
for the New Age Man
By
Prof. Dr. Debasish Kundu
M.D.H., F.F.Hom, F.I.H.M.S., Ph.D.(U.S.A.), D.Sc.(Colombo)
Revised & Foreworded by
Lord Pandit Prof. Dr. Sir Anton Jayasuruya
M.B.B.S.(Cey.), D. Phys. Med., C.P. (Lond.) & R.C.S. (Eng.), D.Sc., Ph.D., D.Litt.
Thoroughly Revised By
Dr. M. Ahmed
M.Sc. (Dhaka), M.Sc. (Peshawar), D.H.M.S. (Dhaka), R.C.E.P.T. (Japan), E.O.R.D. (India)
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3. Materia Medica
for the New Age Man
By
Prof. Dr. Debasish Kundu
M.D.H., F.F.Hom, F.I.H.M.S., Ph.D. (U.S.A.), D.Sc. (Colombo)
Fellow of International Holistic Medical Society, CA, U.S.A.
Fellow of Foundation of Homeopathy, MO, U.S.A.
Fellow of World E.Homeopathy System of Medical Council, Hong Kong
Faculty, International Holistic Medical Society,CA, U.S.A.
Faculty, Association of Independent Natural Science Schools Colleges, Professions & Arts, MO, U.S.A.
Vice-President, American Nutritional Medical Association, CA, U.S.A.
Foreign Bureau Chief (India), Holistic Medical Hylite International, CA, U.S.A.,
Visiting Professor, Khulna Homeopathic Medical College & Hospital, Khulna, Bangladesh
Ex-Director General, Mooreland University, U.S.A.
Editorial Board Member, European Journal of Food Research & Review (EJFRR)
Sciencedomain International, U.K.
Member, Board of Editors, Medical Practice and Reviews, Academic Journals, Lagos
Member, Board of Editors, Journal of Medicinal Plants Research, Academic Journals, Lagos
Author, Diseases of Women, Natural Medicines(Part-One), A Clinical Treatise on Cancer Aids &
Homeopathy, Pharmacodynamics, Aids & Your Sex Life, Aids & Homeopathy Essentials of
Acupuncture, The Forgotten Children, etc.
Recipient, Royal Assyrian Order of Merit
Laureate, United Nations Dag Hammarskjold Award for Medicine (1995)
Recipient, Special Achievement Award, International Conference on E. Omeopatia, Poretta Terme,
Bologna, Italy (2008)
Revised & Foreworded by
Lord Pandit Prof.Dr.Sir Anton Jayasuruya
M.B.B.S. (Cey.), D.Phys.Med., C.P. (Lond.) & R.C.S. (Eng.), D.Sc., Ph.D., D.Litt.
Member of the International Institute of Homoeopathy
Diploma of the Homoeopathy Research Institute of Canada
Diploma of the New York Academy of Homoeopathic Medicine
Visiting Professor, Acupuncture, Homoeopathy & Manipulative Medicines, Havana, Republic of Cuba,
Honorary President, Atlantic College of Medical Homoeopathy, Republic of Columbia
Laureate, United Nations Dag Hammarskjold Award for Medicine (1984)
Chairman, Medicina Alternativa International, Dean, The Open International University
Recipient, First International Hahnemann Gold Medal of B.Jain Foundation, New Delhi, India (1993)
Thoroughly Revised By
Dr. M. Ahmed
M.Sc. (Dhaka), M.Sc. (Peshawar), D.H.M.S. (Dhaka), R.C.E.P.T. (Japan), E.O.R.D. (India)
Vice-Chairman, Bangladesh Centre for Advanced Studies in Homeopathy (BCASH)
Senior Vice-President, Bangladesh DHMS Doctors Association
Board Member (Former), Bangladesh Homeopathy Board, Ministry of Health and Family Welfare,
Government of Bangladesh
Country Representative, World Homeopathy Awareness Organization (WHAO), Germany
Executive Director (Hony.), International Homeopathic Medical Society, CA, USA, & American
Nutritional Medical Society, CA, USA, BD Chapter

4. « Awaiting me you are, on the shore of my song
My music and lyric find place at your altar
Yet you remain beyond my reach
Softly wafts the breeze, swaying me with it
Linger no more, untie your boat, and setÿþ afloat
Come into my heart, crossing over to this shore
This playing with you through song, is but from afar
Dawn to dusk, this flute plays on, revealing my ache
O when will you come yourself, and play on my flute
In silent secluded blissful darkness of night »
-Rabindranath Tagore

5. The Open International University for Complimentary
Medicines
CHARTER OF MEDICINA ALTERNATIVA
(ALMA ATA DECLARATION 1962)
Ref.No. MA/01/96 Reply to:
Date 26.01.1996 28, International Buddhist Centre Road
Colombo 6, Srilanka
PREFACE
Dr. Debasish Kundu is a celebrated practitioner. Neither he nor his writings need any introduction to the medical
profession.
He has received the highest accolades from The Open International University for Complementary Medicines.
Like acupuncture and acupressure, Homeopathy is a therapeutic science of stimulating specific regions on the soles
which have a correspondence with the internal organs and other structures of the body. Acupuncture and
Homeopathy cause their healing effects by stimulating the flow of energy.
How Homeopathy works, is an enigma. The same questions are just as complex to answer when applied to widely
used therapies like aspirin and anesthesia. Acupuncture and Homeopathy are also, therefore, used on a similar
empirical basis as they are safe, simple, effective and economical.
I have had the privilege of perusing this excellent text. Dr.Kundu has presented the quintessence of Homeopathy in
simple language and in a clinically useful form. This classic is certainly a milestone in Complementary Medicines.
This publication will serve as a veritable guide to the student and practitioner, no less to the initiated lay person.
Lord Pandit Prof.Dr.Sir Anton Jayasuriya
Consultant Rheumatologist & Acupuncturist
Colombo South Government General Hospital
Kalubowila, Sri Lanka
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6. Foreword to the Second Edition
Homeopathy is a culture that has been sustained by homeopathy books. That is the common view, and
it contains a great deal of truth. But of course, books are carried along the current of people’s lives, and in
the pages of a vital book we hear a living voice.
Dr.Debasish Kundu’s book ‘Materia Medica for the New Age Man’ is an act of reclamation and
joyous rediscovery. He searches for the immediacy of living voices or truths of the healing art.
Dr.Kundu is a wonderfully entertaining writer, this book is a well worth having and reading for
anyone who cares about curing the ailing humanity in today’s globalized health care marketplace.
At the same time that health care spending is spiraling out of control, U.S. statistics regarding quality
of health care are among the worst of any industrial country, and yet average Americans pay the most for
that care in both absolute and per capita terms. In addition, many of our conventional interventions cause
more problems than they help. In fact, most of us are in the unenviable position of paying more money for
less health and longevity. In terms of resolving this health care crisis, patients are now more likely to see
natural medicine practitioners. One of the tenets of natural health care is to treat the entire patient as a
whole, not just the symptoms, and to involve patients in their own care. In terms of trigger points,
practitioners have developed many methods of self-treatment that patients can easily learn and use.
Finally, patients are becoming full participants in the delivery of their own care. Beyond lowering health
care costs, this approach ultimately helps make people healthier by treating the patients as whole
considering the totality of symptoms and addressing the root causes of symptoms.
To the casual reader, this book will be impressive because of its sheer simplicity, but practitioners of
classical Homeopathy will be delighted by the book’s depth of detail and complexity.
Dr. M. Ahmed
Prince Tower (4th Floor) Apt. - D2
House 584, Road 6, Baitul Aman
Housing Society, Adabar,
Mohammadpur, Dhaka-1207,
Bangladesh
4/12/2012

7. Introduction
Homeopathy is a natural and effective scientific system of body-mind-spirit integrative healing. The
homeopathic approach recognizes the unique way each person reacts to illness as an expression of
disharmony at the vital force level (energy level). Physical as well as mental and emotional signs and
symptoms of disease, specific to each person, are recognized as attempts on the part of the body to heal
itself. These signs and symptoms manifest themselves because the body has been unable to restore
balance from its inner resources and needs help. Homeopathy works by enhancing the body’s natural
ability to heal itself. A single, carefully chosen homeopathic remedy offers the help needed to restore a
state of balance and well-being. Homeopaths believe that everyone has a healing mechanism that flows as
an energy force around the body, mind and spirit to keep them in perfect order. Because homeopathy
recognizes that man is not simply a physiological bundle of biochemical processes and that what we see
of man, not only his body but also his esthetic, moral and scientific expressions, are signs of the relative
health of his vitality, we may believe that homeopathy reaches as far as the soul of man and the Spirit of
the Universe. But homeopathy is a transitional form of healing. It does not address or seek to eliminate
physical signs and symptoms but understands them to be expressions of the vital force.
All human beings share the same universal spirit, a spirit arising from the very heart of the sacred
universe. In the light of this spirit, we understand that we are all brothers and sisters capable of living
together in peace, harmony, mutual respect, even love, on this precious planet Earth, which is our home.
This book contains all the essentials for understanding Homeopathy. It provides a blueprint for a
rational healthcare. As such, this small book may be one of the most important you will ever read. You
hold in your hand the key to good health, spiritual health, and mostly a family health.
Dr. Debasish Kundu
Homeo Center
493/B/18 G.T.Rd(S), G# 2,
March 7, 2013

8. General Index of Remedies
Abies nigra
Aceticum acidum
Acidum nitricum
Aconitum Napellus
Adrenalinum
Aesculus hippocastanum
Aethusa cynapium
Agaricus muscarius
Agnus castus
Agraphis Nutans
Aletris farinose
Alfalfa
Allium Cepa
Allium sativum
Alumina
Ambra grisea
Ambrosia artemisiaefolia
Ammonium bromatum
Ammonium carbonicum
Ammonium muriaticum
Amylenum nitrosum
Anacardium occidentale
Anacardium orientale
Anemopsis californica
Anthracinum
Antimonium crudum
Antimonium tartaricum
Antipyrinum
Aphis glaucia chonopodii
Apis Mellifica
Apocynum androsaemifolium
Aquilegia Vulgaris
Aranea Diadema
Arbutus Andrachne
Archillea millefolium
Argentum nitricum
Arnica montana
Arsenicum Album
Arsenicum bromatum

9. Arsenicum iodatum
Artemisia Abrotanum
Artemisia vulgaris
Arum triphyllum
Asarum europaeum
Asclepius tuberosa
Atropa belladonna
Aurum metallicum
Aurum muriaticum
Aurum muriaticum natronatum
Avena sativa
Aviara flu
Bacillinum
Badiaga
Baptisia tinctoria
Baryta carbonica
Baryta iodata
Baryta muriatica
Bellis perennis
Benzinum nitricum
Berberis aquifolium
Berberis vulgaris
Borax
Bryonia alba
Cactus grandiflorus
Cainca Racemosa
Calcarea carbonica
Calcarea fluorica
Calcarea phosphorica
Calcarea sulphurica
Calendula officinalis
Calotropis gigantean
Candida albicans
Cantharis
Capsicum annuum
Carbo vegetabilis
Carboneum sulphuratum
Carduus Marianus
Castor equi
Caulophyllum thalictroides
Causticum
Ceanothus americanus
Cedron
Cereus Bonplandii
Chamomilla

10. Chelidonium majus
Chelon Glabra
Chenopodium anthelminticum
Chimaphila umbellata
Cholesterinum
Cimicifuga racemosa
Cina artemisia
Cinchona officinalis
Cineraria maritima
Cinnamomum
Clematis erecta
Cocculus indicus
Coffea cruda
Colchicum autumnale
Colocynthis
Conium maculatum
Convallaria majalis
Cotyledon umbilicus
Crataegus Oxyacantha .
Cresol
Crocus sative
Crotalus horridus
Croton tiglium
Cuprum metallicum
Cyclamen europaeum
Daphne indica
Digitalis purpurea
Dolichos pruriens
Drosera rotundifolia
Dulcamara
Echinacea angustifolia
Elaps corallines
Elaterium
Eucalyptus globulus
Eupatorium perfoliatum
Euphorbium officinarum
Euphrasia officinalis
Ferrum metallicum
Ferrum phosphoricum
Ferrum picricum
Ficus religiosa
Fluoricum acidum
Folliculinum
Fuligo ligni

11. Galega Officinalis
Galium
Gelsemium sempervirens
Geranium Maculatum
Ginkgo biloba
Glandula lymphatica
Glonoine
Glycerinum
Gnaphalium
Granatum
Graphites
Grindelia robusta
Guarea trichiloides
Haematoxylin campechianum
Hamamelis virginica
Hecla lava
Helonias Dioica
Hepar sulphuris calcareum
Hippuric acid
Histaminium
Hoang nan
Hydrastis canadensis
Hyoscyamus niger
Hypericum Perforatum
Ichthyolum
Ignatia amara
Influenzinum
Iodium
Ipecacuanha
Iris tenax
Kali bichromicum
Kali bromatum
Kali carbonicum
Kali iodatum
Kali muriaticum
Kali phosphoricum
Kali sulphuricum
Kreosote
Lac Humanum
Lachesis
Lapis albus
Latrodectus mactans
Ledum Palustre

12. Leptandra virginica
Lilium tigrinum
Lobelia inflata
Lycopodium Clavatum
Lycopus virginicus
Magnesia carbonica
Magnesia phosphorica
Manganum aceticum
Medorrhinum
Melilotus officinalis
Mercurius Dulcis
Mercurius Iodatus Flavus
Mercurius Iodatus Ruber
Mercurialis perennis
Mercurius Vivus
Mezereum
Murex
Muriatic acid
Naphthalinum
Natrum carbonicum
Natrum Muriaticum
Natrum salicylicum
Natrum sulphuricum
Nitricum acidum
Nux vomica
Oleander
Origanum Marjoram
Oxalicum acidum
Pareira brava
Passiflora incarnata
Petroleum
Petroselinum sativum
Phosphoricum acidum
Phosphorus
Phytolacca decandra
Picricum acidum
Pilocarpini Pilocarpus
Pix liquida
Plantago major
Platinum muriaticum
Plumbum iodatum
Plumbum metallicum
Podophyllum

13. Pollen nosodes
Polygonium aviculare
Populus tremuloides
Prunus spinosa
Psorinum
Pulsatilla nigricans
Pyrogeneum
Quercus glandium spiritus
Raphanus
Rhamnus californica
Rhododendron
Rhus aromatica
Rhus Toxicodendron
Ruta graveolens
Sabadilla
Sabal Serrulata
Salicidum acidum
Sambucus nigra
Sanguinaria canadensis
Santoninum
Sarsaparilla
Selenium
Sepia
Serum anguillae ichthyotoxin
Serum isode
Silicea
Solidago Virga Aurea
Spigelia
Spongia tosta
Squilla Martima
Staphylococcinum
Stramonium
Sulphur
Sulphuricum acidum
Sumbul
Symphytum officinale
Syphilinum
Tabacum
Tarantula hispanola
Taraxacum Officinale
Tellurium
Terebinthina
Teucrium marum Verum

14. Thlaspi Bursa Pastoris
Thymus Serpyllum
Torula cerevisiae
Trillium
Tuberculinum
Uranium Nitricum
Urtica urens
Usnea barbata
Valeriana
Varicella
Veratrum album
Vipera redi
Viscum album
Wyethia Helenoides
Zingiber officinale

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17. Dr.Debasish Kundu a Ph.D in Spagyric Homeopathy from
an American University is a renowned authority on
Complementary and Alternative Medicine(CAM) , he is
a Visiting Professor of Khulna Homeopathic Medical
College & Hospital, affiliated to Ministry of Health,
Peoples Republic of Bangladesh, A Vice President of
American Nutritional Medical Association, CA, U.S.A.,
and International Homeopathic Medical Society, U.S.A.,
and a Director General(Former)of Mooreland University,
U.S.A. He has authored and edited numerous books and
journals on CAM, Sexology and Homeotherapeutics.
Lord Pandit Prof.Dr.Sir Anton Jayasuriya (1930-2005)
was the founder of Medicina Alternativa The Open
International University,Colombo , the Who’s Who in
Complementary and Alternative Medicine (CAM)
Dr.Jayasuriya, the internationally renowned acupuncturist
and Homeopath was the undisputed Guru of many so
called pioneers of Complementary and Alternative
Medicine(CAM).
Dr.M.Ahmed is a celebrated author in
Homeotherapeutics. He is the Vice-Chairman,Bangladesh
Centre for Advanced Studies in Homeopathy (BCASH),
Senior Vice-President, Bangladesh DHMS Doctors Association,
Board Member (Former),Bangladesh Homeopathy Board,
Ministry of Health and Family Welfare,Government of Bangladesh.
Country Representative,World Homeopathy Awareness Organization ,
Germany, Executive Director (Hony.),International Homeopathic
Medical Society., CA, USA, & American Nutritional Medical Society,
CA, USA, BD Chapter.