Applied aspect of homoeopathic materia medica

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Utility of Homoeopathic
Materia Medica.
The life-work of the student of the
homoeopathic Materia Medica is one of constant
comparison and differentiation. He must
compare the pathogenesis of a remedy with the
recorded anamnesis of the patient..
To enable the student or
practitioner to do this correctly and
rapidly he must have as a basis for
comparison some knowledge of the
individuality of the remdey;
something that is peculiar,
uncommon, or sufficiently
characteristic in the confirmed

TO KNOW THE
PATHOGENETIC
POWER
TO INDIVIDUALISE
FOR
COMPARISON

The vast collection of symptoms of which the
Materia Medica is composed is
incomprehensible without an understanding
of the principles upon which it is based, along
with meaning of symptoms, their method of
classification and interpretation…
- Carol Dunham

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Classification of
Materia Medica
FUNDAMENTAL
Source books
APPLIED
• Physiological
• Condensed
• Comparative
• Keynotes
• Therapeutics
• Drug Pictures

Fundamenta Materia Medica
Applied Materia Medica

Physiological Materia
Medica
Physiological
Materia Medica-
Dr. William Burt
A Manual of
Phamacodynamics
Hughes,R.
A Text Book of
Materia Medica &
Therapeutics by
Cowparthweite
E
X
A
M
P
L
E

A Dictionary
of Clinical
Materia
Medica by-
Clarke, J.H.
Pocket
Manual of
Materia
Medica with
Repertory by
Boericke, W.
A Clinical
Materia
Medica by
Farrington
Hand Book
of Materia
Medica By-
T.F.Allen
EXAMPLE

Comparative Materia Medica
The Comparative
Materia Medica
by
Farrington,E.A.
Comparative
Materia Medica
by Gross, H.
Leaders in
Homoeopathic
therapeutics by
Nash, E.B.
EXAMPLE

KEY NOTE TYPE MATERIA MEDICA
Keynotes
of Leading
Remedies
by Allen
H.C.
Synoptic Key
to Materia
Medica by
Boger, C.M.
A Primer of
Materia
Medica by
T.F. Allen
Keynotes
and Redline
Symptoms of
the Materia
Medica by
Lippe, A.D.
EXAMPLE

THERAPEUTIC TYPE MATERIA MEDICA
Homoeopathic
Therapeutic by
Lilienthel,S.
Practical
Homoeopathic
Therapeutic by
Dewey, W.A
Bell’s Diarrhea
EXAMPLE

DRUG PICTURE MATERIA MEDICA
Lectures on
Homoeopathic
Materia Medica with
New Remedies by
Kent, J.T.
Homoeopathic Drug
Pictures by, Tyler
M.L.
Homoeopathic Materia
Medica of Graphical
Drug Pictures and
Clinical Comments by
Pulford.
EXAMPLE

HOW TO LEARN??
&
HOW TO USE??
MORE PRACTICALLY…

LEARN…

Maze of Symptoms
Difficulty to Memorize
Difficulty to understand
Difficulty to Apply

solution…
Tell me, I will forget.
Show me, I may remember.
Involve me, and I will understand.

Patient
World
Homoeopathic
Materia Medica
World
Self
World

Living Materia Medica –
Demand Analysis- Synthesis-
Integration of Experience

 Control comes
through: Discipline
Balance & Analysis
comes through:
Practice
Integrity comes
through: By
adapting it as a way
of life & living

HOW?? METHODS & TECHNIQUES
Books
Source Books
Schematic
Evolution
Anatomical
All other..
Applied Books
Clinical
Thrapeutics
All others..
Image Formation
Data Collection
Data Analysis
Data Synthesis
Case receiving
Case recording
Case processing
Case synthesis
Philosophical Frame Work

While the MateriaMedica, in the books, is a
simple record of observed facts, in the mind
of practitioners it becomes the subject of the
reflection, of comparison & of hypothetical
reasoning, which will be more or less just &
valuable according to the measures of the
practitioners natural ability & of his
intellectual cultures.
- Carol Dunham

Learn to erect the Totality of a case.
Learn to match the portrait of the patient with that of
the image constructed through a study of the source
books and commentaries.
Learn the process of differentiation between
closely coming remedies.
Learn the process of building the acute totality of
a patient and of the drug in the Materia Medica.

…We admit that it would be desirable, and that it is
necessary to a complete elaboration of our Materia
Medica, that our modern diagnostic contrivances should
be applied to our drug-provings, but we cannot admit for
all that, that our present Materia Medica is not adequate
to an exhaustive diagnosis of the natural disease. For in
the drug-disease we lay no less stress upon the
physiological connection of the symptoms than in the
natural disease. In the drug-disease, likewise, we have to
possess a lucid apprehension of the relative value and
significance of the symptoms, of their origin, succession,
final tendency, in short, of all the circumstances a
knowledge of which we have to acquire in the case…
-BAEHR B., The Science of Therapeutics, according to the Principles of
Homoeopathy Vol I e of a natural disease.

APH.210 FOOT NOTE
• Thus Aconite will seldom or never effect
either a rapid or permanent cure in a patient
of a quiet, calm, equable disposition, and
just as little will Nux vomica be serviceable
where the disposition is mild and
phlegmatic, Pulsatilla where it is happy, gay
and obstinate, or Ignatia where it is
imperturbable and disposed neither to be
frightened nor vexe.
In this Aphorism Hahnemann means
how to learn MATERIA MEDICA in
whole applied Aspect… DrAnkit Srivastava@internationalcopyright2014!!

Medicine
Clinical
Subject
Forensic
Clinical Application
Surgery
Gynencology
Opthalmology ENT
Orthopedics
PSM
Pahtology

USE…
Demand of Homoeopathic
Practice
Aph.6
UnPrejudice
Observer
Potrait of
Patient
L
A
W
O
F
S
I
M
I
L
A
R

Study
Through
Applied
Materia
Medica
Comparison
at various
level
Application
at Bedside

“The fact is, we need any and every
way of finding the right remedy, the
simple simile, the simple symptomatic
siilimum & the farthest reach of all
the pathological siilimum & I
maintain that we are still well with in
the lines of Homoeopathy that is
expansive, progressive, science
fostered & science fostering”
-J.C.BURNETT.

For More Practical Use….
During Case Taking Totality / Portrait
Record “as they are”
To maintain Symptom intensity
 Clarity - Intensity – Spontaneity

Application of Similia Similibus
Natural Disease
Totality
Portrait
Conceptual Image
Artificial Disease
Totality
Portrait
Conceptual Image

ACCURATE HOMOEOPATHIC PRESCRIBING
HOMOEOPATHIC
PHILOSOPHY
REPERTORIAL
CONCEPTS
&
TECHNIQUE
RATIONAL STUDY
OF
HOMOEOPATHIC
MATERIA MEDICA
35

HOM. REPERTORY
HOM.
MAT. MED
CLINICAL
CASE RECORD
PHYSICIAN
36

Organon of medicine 6edition.
Materia Medica Pura.
Chronic Disease.
Dr Boenninghausen Lesser Writing.
Principles and Practice of Homoeopathy.
J T Kent Lectures on Homoeopathic Philosophy.
Lesser writing.
C M Boger The Collective Writings.
Robert H A The Principles and Art of Cure of
Homoeopathy.
Stuart Close The Genius of Homoeopathy.
H.C.Allen keynote.

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