STUDY OF MATERIA MEDICA

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STUDY OF MATERIA MEDICA
Dr.Bipin Jain
MD(HOM) Director PG Centre
Malad Asst. Prof. HMM Dept.
Dr. Bhavik Parikh
MD(HOM) Dr. Yogesh D. Niturkar
MD(Part II)
Acknowledgements To Dept. Of HMM, MLDMHI Institute
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MATERIA MEDICA
While the Materia Medica, 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
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Objectives

• To learn how to read, understand give meaning
  to the data given in he source books of MM
• Learn the process of building the portrait of a
  drug in its chronic dimension through a combined
  study of source books and commentaries
• Know how to handle the vast clinical data and
  subject it to analysis and synthesis according to
  time-tested principles

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• 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.

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To study
To breath life in HMM
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To read the language of the patient
HOW
To erect the totality
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To perceive the connections
To acquire this knowledge
TO GO AHEAD
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INTRODUCTION TO MATERIA MEDICA
MASS OF SYMPTOMS NO CONNECTIONS.
MEMORISING
NO UNDERSTANDING NO KNOWLEDGE
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NEXT STAGE
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NEXT STAGE
ANALYSIS
EVALUATION
Time Consuming
PHILOSOPHY ?
APPLICATION ?
CONCEPT ?
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MASS OF DATA. USEFULNESS? COMMENTARIES
SUBJECTIVE PICTURES. ? APPLICATION KEY
NOTE TRIAL ERROR.
WILL I EVER LEARN TO BUILT IMAGE (PORTRAIT)
MYSELF ?
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HOW TO UTILISE
SOURCE BOOK?
COMMENTARIES BY MASTERS? KEY
NOTES? SYNOPSIS?
IS HMM JUST ABOUT
SYMPTOMS?
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• IS KNOWLEDGE OF PHYSIOLOGY, PATHOLOGY,
• MEDICINE,ANATOMY, GYN OBS, SURGERY, PSYCHIATRY
  
• DIFFERENT CLINICAL IS NECESSARY ?
• IS KNOWLEDGE OF MIASM EVOLUTION IS NECESSARY?
• IS KNOWLEDGE OF PHARMACY, SOURCES,TOXICOLOGY,
  NECESSARY?

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Organon
CONCEPT
PERCEIVING
TRINITY
Repertory
HMM
APPICATION
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Due to Simplicity, Vastness Apparent
Similarity of Symptoms.
Sulphur - 138 Pgs. Encyclopedia
Lachesis - 90 Pgs. Herings guiding
Symptoms
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What is there in Materia Medica?
Data
Author
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HMM PURE RECORD OF PATHOS
S Y N T H E S I S
DEAD DATA INDEX
SOURCE BOOKS
A N A L Y S I S
M E A N I N G
REPERTORY
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Mental state would include the symptoms, which
would be classified under ? Emotion, Intellect
(Thought, Perception, and Memory) while we would
consider the symptoms of Expression ?
Behaviour, Activity, Gesture, Speech Dreams in
a separate category for this purpose.
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Classify Particular Symptoms
Gives Sector Totality
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COMMENTATORS
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METHODS TECHNIQUES

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DR. HUGHES
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In oneself lies the whole world, and if you
know how to look learn, Than the door is
there and key is in your hand, nobody on earth
Can give you either that key or the door to
open, except you. J. Krishnamurti
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REMEMBER, ITS NOT WHAT YOU DO FOR YOUR STUDENT
THATS IMPORTANT, ITS WHAT YOU TEACH THEM TO DO
FOR THEMSELVES.
THANK YOU