doctrine of signature and homoeopathic remedies from materia medica

1. DOCTRINE OF SIGNATURE
Dr. Rubina Subhani
Department of Practice of Medicine
PG Part I

2. “Let Food Be Thy Medicine”
— Hippocrates

3. • The “Doctrine of Signatures” is a profound ancient health system, which
states that every fruit and vegetable has a certain pattern that
resembles a body organ, or system
• This pattern acts as a signal or sign as to the health benefits of a
particular fruit or vegetable.
• The Doctrine of Signatures was first theorized Paracelsus (1493-1541).
• It is today considered to be pseudoscience.
• The principles of Doctrine of Signatures were used for healing.

4. AVACADO
Avocadoes target the health and function of the womb and cervix of the female. Avocadoes help women
balance hormones, shed unwanted birth weight, and deter cervical cancers. It takes exactly nine months
to grow an avocado from blossom to ripened fruit.

5. KIDNEY BEAN
Kidney Beans actually heal
and help maintain kidney
function—and they look
exactly like human kidneys:
THEY CONTAIAN
MAGNESIUM AND
POTTASIUM, WHICH
DECREASES THE CHANCE OF
DEVELOPING KIDNEY STONES

6. POMEGRANATE
Pomegranates look like little blood cells, and a study out of Israel showed
that pomegranates help blood flow and blood health in several ways.

7. WALNUT
• A walnut looks like a little brain. Even folds on the nut are just like the cortex.
• Walnuts are high in omega-3 fatty acids. Omega-3’s aid the function of
neurotransmitter receptors.
• Beneficial effect in delaying the onset or even preventing Alzheimer’s as well
as helping to improve memory.

8. MUSHROOM
• A sliced mushroom looks like the human ear.
• They contain Vitamins C, D, and E, all which help guard against cellular
damage in the ears and blood vessels.

9. GRAPES
• Grapes look like the alveoli of the lungs, and are full of antioxidants
and resveratrol, which supports free movement in the cells of the
nasal passages and lungs.

10. CARROT
• The most well-known signature, carrots contain beta-carotene, a vitamin that
protects eye health, especially in older people.
• Carrots greatly enhance blood flow to the eyes and aid in the general function
of the eyes.

11. CELERY
• Celery looks like your bones, This
veggie is full of Vitamin K, which
is necessary on a cellular level
for bone health.
• It also has calcium, folate,
manganese (for the synthesis of
connective tissue in the bone),
and magnesium.

12. • Bones are 23 percent sodium
and these foods are 23 percent
sodium. If you don’t have
enough sodium in your diet, the
body pulls it from the bones,
thus making them weak. Foods
like celery replenish the skeletal
needs of the body:

13. SWEET POTATO
• Sweet Potatoes look like the pancreas and actually balance the
glycemic index of diabetics
• It is a low glycemic carb.

14. FIGS
• Figs are full of seeds and hang in twos when they grow. Figs increase the
mobility of male sperm and increase the numbers of Sperm as well to
overcome male sterility:

15. GINGER
Ginger looks just like the stomach. One of its biggest benefits is
aiding digestion, to calm the stomach and cure nausea, while it is
also a popular remedy for motion sickness.

16. ONION
Onions look like body cells. Today’s research shows that onions help
clear waste material from all of the body cells. They even produce
tears which wash the epithelial layers of the eyes.

17. TOMATO
A tomato has four chambers and is red. The heart is red and has four
chambers.
Useful vegetable for heart and blood.

18. ORANGE
• Citrus fruits look just like the
mammary glands of the female
and actually improve the health
of the breasts and its lymphatic
circulation.

19. PEANUTS AND BANANA
Resemble the male sexual organ and also increase
the strength.
Peanuts have a profoundeffect on the testicles
and sexual libido.
Arginine, which is the main ingredient of Viagra,
is extracted from peanuts.

20. OLIVES
Olives assist the health and function of the ovaries.

22. ORGANOLEPTIC SENSE OF DRUGS
• The respective relation between the source of a drug and drug symptom
is known as Doctrine of signature or external characteristics of a
substance serve to indicate possible therapeutics effects.
• Determining The medicinal powers of crude drugs from their signatures,
that maybe their, colour, shape, form,taste, smell, touch, action, reaction
etc.

23. CARBO VEG - WOODEN CHARCOAL

24. CLOSE FANNING NEEDED
CARBO VEG PATIENT WANTS
AIR AT CLOSE DISTANCE TO
GET RELIEF FROM
COMPLAINTS
>FANNING
DESIRES FANNING

25. WOODEN CHARCOAL
SEEMS COLD ON SURFACE
BUT HOT FROM INSIDE
CARBO VEG PT SKIN IS COLD TO
TOUCH BUT INTERNALLY HOT

26. WOODEN CHARCOAL USED IN MAKING
CHAPATI ARE MORE DIGESTABLE
HENCE CARBO VEG IS A GOOD
MEDICINE FOR INDIGESTION AND
FLATULENCE.

27. USED TO CLEAN
UTENSILD IN
VILLAGES
CARBO VEG MEDICINE FOR GANGRENE
AND PUTREFIED ULCERS

28. PULSATILLA NIGRICANS

29. • SOIL - DRY AND DESERT SOIL,
PULSATILLA NEEDS LITTLE WATER
TO GROW.
• MOUTH AND MUCOSA DRY AND
THIRSTLESS PT, NEEDS WATER
ONLY TO WET THE MOUTH .

30. PLANTS ARE DROOPING DOWNWARDS
PULSATILLA PT IS SHY,
TIMID, GENTLE IN
NATURE
VERY YEILDING IN
NATURE

31. ALWAYS FOUND GROWING IN GROUPS
PULSATILLA PATIENT ALWAYS
SEEKS COMPANY AND
GETS AGGRAVATED
WHEN ALONE

32. DELICATE, CHANGES DIRECTION BY DRAFT OF
WIND
• HENCE PULSATILLA PATIENT HAS
CHANGEABILITY MARKEDIN
THEIR NATURE AND
SYMPTOMATOLOGY.

33. HAIR ON THE STEM
• CHILLY PATIENT WANTS
COVERING ALTHOUGH LIKES
OPEN AIR.

34. SEPIA

35. FISH IS VERY ACTIVE - RESTLESS
• RESTLESSNESS
• IRRITABILITY
• >EXERCISE
• POSITIVE
• AMBITIOUS IN THEIR PROFESSION
P.S - WHEN SURROUNDING IS FAVOURABLE

36. FISH IS VERY INACTIVE AND DEAD
• INDIFFERENT
• INDOLENT
• WEEPING TENDENCY
• AVERSION TO JOB AND FAMILY
P.S - WHEN SURROUNDINGS ARE
UNFAVOURABLE

37. CALC CARB

38. CALCAREA DERIVED FROM OYSTER SHELL -
CALCIUM - USED FOR PROTECTION
• HENCE CALCAREA CARB ALWAYS
FINDS PROTECTION IN EVERY
THING IN LIFE SUCH AS
RELATION, SHELTER, HEALTH ETC.

39. CALCIUM IS FOUND MORE IN BONE AND TEETH -
FOR STABILITY
• HENCE THE PATIENT OF CALC.
ALWAYS FIND STABILITY AND
SECURITY BECAUSE BONE AND
TEETH ARE SYMBOL OF BOTH.

40. CALCIUM WORK FOR MUSCLE PHYSIOLOGY
• HENCE CALCIUM CAUSES
DEFICIENCY CAUSES PAIN IN
MUSCLE AND JOINTS.

41. BELLADONNA

42. BELLADONNA PLASTER
WAS USED FOR LOCAL
PAIN AND
INFLAMMATION ON
BOILS AND IN JOINT
PAIN
IN HOMOEOPATHY
BELL IS A GREAT
REMEDY FOR PAINFUL
AFFECTIONS AND
ACUTE
INFLAMMATIONS

43. • BELLADONNA BERRY JUICE USEDIN FACIAL CREAMS AND EYE DROPS TO
MAKE THEM RED, SHINY AND GLOSSY
• IN HOMOEOPATHY BELLADONNA IS A GREAT REMEDY FOR SKIN
AFFECTIONS CHARACTERISED BY RED SHINY GLOSINESS

44. CONGESTION IS THE KEYNOTE OF BELLADONNA
B - BURNING
I - INFLAMMATION
R - REDNESS
D - DELIRIUM

45. BELLADONNA PLANT GROWS IN A CALCIUM RICH SOIL
IN HOMOEOPATHY, CALC
CARB IS THE
COMPLEMENTORY
MEDICINE OF BELLADONNA

46. APIS MELLIFICA

47. HONEYBEE HIVE IS FOUND IN COOL PLACES
• APIS MELLIFICA IS A HOT
PATIENT, WANTS OPEN AIR.

48. HONEYBEE QUEEN MATING WITH MANY MALES
• APIS MELL HAS SEXUAL MANIA,
PREDOMINANTLY FEMALE.
MALE HONEY BEE DIES AFTER MATING
JEALOUS - DESTRUCTION

49. • APIS MELL USED IN EDEMA, BURNING,
STINGING PAIN AND REDNESS
• USED IN INFLAMMATORY CONDITIONS

50. HONEYBEE TOXIN DAMAGES THE KIDNEY
• USED IN ANASARCA
( GENERALISED EDEMA ) AND
DROPSY

51. LYCOPODIUM

52. AMBITIOUSNESS

53. SON OF A SUCCESSFUL FAMILY
WILL I BE LIKE MY FATHER

54. SIZE AND SHAPE OF CLUBMOSS
• PLANT IS SHORT BUT FRUIT IS
LONG,
• SO THE PT IS COWARD YET
AMBITIOUS.

55. SYCOTIC REMEDY
• FEARFUL
• SENSE OF WEAKNES
• ANTICIPATORY ANXIETY FOR
NEW TASK ESPECIALLY
• BUT ALWAYS HIDES HIS/HER
FEELINGS.
EG. A FIT PERSON SAYING DOCTOR I FEEL
WEAK, I NEED SOME ENERGY TONIC

56. DREAMS OF FLYING - SYCOTIC MIASM
• AMBITIOUS
• HIDES THEIR FEELINGS BUT
LOOKS EXTROVERTED,
CONFIDENT.
• WILL NEVER TELL YOU HIS
ACTUAL PROBLEMS, WILL SAY
I’M FINE.

57. LYCOPODIUM POWDER CONTAINS SULPHUR
• USED TO MAKE CRACKERS AND
FLASH LIGHT
• FAST START AND END
EARLY SATIETY
PREMATURE EJACULATION
Eg. LOOKS LIKE A SPARK, BUT DULL
PERFORMANCE

58. • USED AS A TALCUM POWDER TO
PRODUCE DRYNESS
• DRYNESS OF MUCOSA AND SKIN
TO PRODUCE CONSTIPATION
AND DECREASE PERSPIRATION
• < WARM ROOM
• >OPEN AIR

59. SILICEA

60. UNDERSTAND THE NATURE OF STONES
• MADE OF SILICA
• NATURE OF STONE - MAY BREAK,
BUT NEVER BEND.
• PERSONALITY - HARD, RIGID
AND OBSTINATE.
• VERY OBSTINATE TO KEEP THEIR
IMAGE.
• Eg. 18 YEARS OLD BOY, THOUGH
NOT RESPONSIBLE WILL ACT
RESPONSIBLE.

61. ANY LESION
• INDURATION
• LACK OF REACTION
• OBSTINATE HEALING
• Eg. pus formation around the
foreign body.
• SENSITIVITY FOR EXTREME
TEMPERATURE
• Eg. PLACE SITUATED NEAR SEA
AREA.

62. LACHESIS

63. • HOT PATIENT - SNAKES PREFER
TO LIVE IN THEIR PITS
• SUSPICIOUS AND JEALOUS -
TENDENCY TO BITE ON SLIGHT
PROVOCATION
• HIGHLY SEXUAL PATIENT,
FEMALE, ATTRACTRIVE - SNAKES
ARE THE SYMBOL OF SEXUALITY
IN HINDU MYTHOLOGY.

64. • LEFT SIDED COMPLAINTS -
ORGANS ON LEFT SIDE, SNAKES
AlWAYS MOVES TOWARDS LEFT
SIDE.
• <FASTING
• >EATING
• MORE TENDENCY TO BITE
WHEN HUNGRY

65. BLEEDING DIATHESIS
• BLEEDING AND DISCHARGES > -
TOXICITY OF VENOM MINIMISE
BY SUCKING AND BLOOD
LETTING
• DISCHARGES ARE OFFENSIVE -
STOOL OF SNAKE IS OFFENSIVE
• TOUCH AND SOUND < - SNAKES
ARE DEAF, SENSITIVE FOR
TOUCH AND SOUND. CAN FEEL
VIBRATION

66. • CONSTRICTING PAIN IN THROAT
< SOLID >LIQUID - SNAKES DO
NOT TAKE MILK BUT ARE
CARNIVORE
• LOQACIOUS - TONGUE IN AND
OUT CONSTANTLY TO SENSE
TEMP AND SMELL.
• <NIGHT - SNAKES COME OUT AT
NIGHT.