RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN THE REPERTORY AND THE HOM. PHILOSOPHY

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RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN THE REPERTORY AND THE HOM.
PHILOSOPHY

• Dr. M. P. ARYA M.D. Hom.
• Pune

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• To learn the Materia Medica, one must
• master Hahnemanns Organon, after which the
• Symptomatology and the Organon go hand in
• hand. The Organon, the Symptomatology and a
• full Repertory must be the constant reference
• books, if careful homoeopathic prescribing is to
  be
• attended and maintained.
• - Kent

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• The continuous study of the
• Materia Medica by the aid of a
• full Repertory for comparison is
• the only means of continuing in a
• good working knowledge
• - Kent

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• .. The degree of vitality Homoeopathy enjoys in
  any
• given period will always be indexed by the
  methods of
• its disciples and exponents, not merely by the
• soundness of their teaching, but especially by
  the
• thoroughness and accuracy of their practice.
• I know of no better gauge of this vitality than
  the interest
• shown in Repertory Work, for the repertory is our
  chief
• instrument of precision.
• - Kent

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HOMOEOPATHIC PHILOSOPHY

• Law of Similars Application and Corollaries
• Hahnemannian concept of Health, Disease,
• Recovery and Cure
• Knowledge of Disease
• Knowledge of Drug
• Remedy Selection
• Remedy Administration
• Remedy Response
• Scope and Limitations of Homoeopathy
• Place of Homoeopathy in Medicine

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PRACTICE OF HOMOEOPATHY

• Concept of Individualization
• Concept of the Totality of Symptoms
• Concept of Constitution and Diathesis
• Evolution of the Portrait of the Disease
• Concept of Susceptibility and Remedy response
• Concept of Aetiology and its impact on
  therapeutics
• Concept of Clinical Diagnosis and its Importance
  in
• Homoeopathic Practice
• Symptomatology
• Case Taking and Case Record
• Case Processing
• Therapeutic Plan

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EVOLUTION OF TECHNIQUES IN HOMOEOPATHIC PRACTICE

• Technique of the Clinical Interview
• Case Record
• Case Analysis
• Evaluation of Symptomatology
• Technique of the Repertorization
• Technique of Cleavage- Miasmatic and
• Chronological
• Remedy Response and its interpretation
• Knowledge of Remedy Relationship
• Second Prescription

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• The Law of Similars in its application demands
• Precision of the highest order
• Only exactly similar medicine alone can prove
  curative
• Disease is to be observed as an Individual
  instant of the Disease
• Noting all the Characteristics of the case
  which separates this case from rest of the cases
  suffering from the same disease
• Principle of INDIVIDUALIZATION

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• Drug effect has to be studied very closely before
  its
• use as a similar remedy
• Instituting Human Pharmacological Experiments
  i.e.
• DRUG PROVING
• To keep records of the effect of every remedy
• HOMOEOPATHIC MATERIA MEDICA was prepared
• Massive Hom. Mat. Medica data base i.e.
• Symptomatology had to be organized to be of
  service
• at the bed-side through compiling
• REPERTORY

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• Accurate Case Record has also to be maintained
• It is essential to master the technique of CASE
• TAKING
• In order to set an order in the chaotic mass of
  data
• CLASSIFICATION and GENERALIZATION has to be
  resorted to
• Techniques of ANALYSIS and SYNTHESIS had to be
• employed to bring out the similarity between
  the two
• phenomena
• REPERTORIZATION was the master key for this
• process

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• Insistence on exact similarity led to use of only
  
• SINGLE REMEDY (simple in nature)
• Administration of exactly similar remedy would
  result
• in unnecessary sharp initial Hom.
  Aggravation
• This led to progressive reduction of dose till we
  have
• the MINIMUM DOSE
• With better experience it became an
• INFINITESIMAL DOSE
• This reduction in the quantity of the dose led to
  POTNENTIZATION with the help of elaborated
• technique of trituration and succussion

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• The exacting standards demanded watching closely
• the changes brought about by the
  administration of
• the similar remedy in the clinical state.
• These changes were then examined in terms of
  the
• nature and stage of the disease, inherent
  susceptibility
• of the patient and the capacity of the drug
  to affect vital principle
• This led to certain conclusions and inferences
  about
• the probable outcome
• These observations constituted the
• REMEDY REACTION

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• The clinical states that failed to respond to the
  similar
• remedy led to close study of antecedents
  factors and
• hereditary endowment
• This resulted in the concept of DOCTRINE OF
• SUSCEPTIBLE CONSTITUTIONS
• Hahnemanns theory of Chronic Diseases and
• elaboration of the three Miasms as three
  defective
• constitutions with their predisposition to
  diseases was
• another logical step
• All these principles and practices are to be
  accepted once the Law of similars is accepted
  whole heartedly

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• Detailed psycho-somatic characteristics of each
  type
• and the corresponding division of the
  homoeopathic
• materia medica permitted more satisfactory
• management of the chronic diseases
  especially the
• one sided and the relapsing chronic
  diseases

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Clinical Thinking in Homoeopathy
Developing a Therapeutic Plan
Applying Clinical Thinking to the Data
Gathering Data
Identification of Disease Diagnosis
Problem List
HISTORY
Identification of Patients responses to his
illness Patient as a Person
Follow through
Physical findings Laboratory
reports