The document discusses nosodes in homeopathy. It defines nosodes as preparations made from microbes, viruses, fungi, or pathological secretions and excretions. Nosodes are classified into four types based on what they are derived from. The document lists several examples of specific nosodes like Psorinum, Tuberculinum, Variolinum, and others. It states that nosodes can be used when the best selected remedy fails to act, when there are few symptoms, or to address sequelae of infection.

1. NOSODES

2. THE TERM IS DUE TO HERING
• “Whether derived from purest gold or
purest filth, our gratitude for their
excellent service,forbid us to inquire or
care”

3. DEFINTION
• Derived from the Greek word NOSO – which signifies
the prefix added to the word to form an idea of
disease or indicating a relation to the disease
Compared to Latin word NOXA _ means damage
• Alledy defines as “ the nosode is characterized by a
pathological substance used as medicines prepared in
advance and according to Homoeopathic methods of
dilution”.
• Fortier Bernoville : Specificity & immunity”

4. DEFINITION
• “ The nosodes are some Homoeopathic preparations
obtained from microbe cultures, from viruses, fungi,
pathological secretions and excretions.

5. CLASSIFICATION OF NOSODES
• N-I – Preparations made from lysates of microorganisms capable
of producing bacterial endotoxins
• E.g. Typhoidinum.
• N-II – Preparations made from microorganisms capable of
producing exotoxin E.g. Diptherinum.
• N-III – Preparations made from purified toxins.
• N-IV – Preparations made from microorganisms / viruses /
clinical materials from human convalescents or diseased subjects
e.g. Variolinum, Psorinum.

6. A NOSODE CAN BE USED FOR…..
• 1.Chronicity form Resistance – to improvement by
apparently similar remedies Response – Poor response to
a remedy Rallying – the patient does not rally around
Recuperation – Recuperation powers are week Repair –
repairing process stalls
• 2.Sequela of infection : When there is progressive debility
or vague, symptoms and uneasiness with no apparent
cause, continues after a past illness – patient says never
well since…
• 3. When best selected remedy fails to act
• 4. When there is paucity of symptoms

7. PSORINUM – FROM EXUDATE OF ITHC
ERUPTION

8. MEDORRHINUM/GLINICUM-PURULENT
URETHRAL DISCHARGE OF ACTE GONORRHOEA

9. SYPLLINUM/LUETICUM: FROM SEROSITY OF
TREPONEMA PALLIDUM IN EARLY OR SECONDARY STAGE

10. TUBERCULINUM- FROM CULTURE OF
MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS

11. AMBRA GRISEA- SECRETION FROM THE LIVER OF
SPERM WHALE,EXTRACTED FROM THE RECTUM OF THE
WHALE ,FOUND FOLATING IN THE SEA OF MADAGASGAR

12. PYROGENUM-PREPARED ORIGINALLY FROM
DECOMPOSITION OF MEATOF BEEF

13. VARIOLINUM- LYSATE OBTAINED FROM
SEROSITY OF SMALL POX PUSTULES

14. VACCINIUM-FROM THE LYMPH OF
COWPOX PUSTULES

15. BACILLINUM BURNETT- FROM SPUTUM OF TB
PATIENT CONTAINING THE BACTERIA

16. DIPHTHERINUM- DIPHTHERIA TOXIN;
DIPHTHERIC MEMBRANES OF A PATIENT.

17. HIPPOMANES- PREPARED FROM A STICKY MUCOID SUBSTANCE OF
URINOUS ODOUR FOUND IN THE AMNIOTIC FLUID OF THE MARE. IT IS
ALSO FOUND ATTACHED TO THE MEMBRANE OF THE FOETAL ORGAN OF
THE MARE IN LAST MONTH OF PREGNANCY.

18. HYDROPHOBINUM (LYSSIN)- LYSATE OF
SALIVA TAKEN FROM A RABID DOG.

19. MALANDRINUM- LYSATE FROM EXUDATES OF THE
HORSE MALANDRA: DISCHARGE OF ECZEMA IN THE
FOLD OF THE KNEE OF HORSE.

20. MELITAGRINUM- NOSODE OF ECZEMA
CAPITIS

21. MORBILLINUM- FROM EXUDATE OF MOUTH
AND PHARYNX OF MEASLES AFFECTED
PATIENTS

22. CARCINOSIN SCHIRR-MAMMAE-
SCHHIRUS OF MAMMAE.

23. AGARICUS MUSCARIUS- FROM ENTIRE
FRESH FUNGUS FOUND IN DRY PINE WOOD

24. SECALE CORNUTUM- PREPARED FROM
FUNGUS CLAVICEPS PURPURA GROWING
UPON THE SEEDS OF SECALE

25. NECTRIANINUM- NOSODE OF
CANCER OF TREES

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