Repertory Exercise
from How
To Use The Repertory
with
A Practical Analysis of Forty Homeopathic Remedies, Glen
Irving Bidwell, M.D.
No
man can make a homeopathic prescription from diagnostic or pathognomonic
symptoms. The whole aim of the physician is to secure the language of nature. It
is necessary to know sickness not from pathology, not from physical diagnosis,
no matter how important these branches are, but by symptoms the language of
nature.
Case
1
Mrs.
C.F., 35 years old
Mind
- Thinks
of nothing but death
- Homesick
and worries about home whenever away.
- Cross
and irritable
- Memory
poor. Forgetful which is very troublesome to her.
- Company
makes her nervous; does not want to stay and visit with friends when they come
over or spend the night.
- Imagines
there are people in the room with her.
- Difficult
to concentrate her thoughts on any one thing long enough to complete it.
Head
- Headache
most of the time, severe pressure at the base of the skull.
- Pain
in the right side of head extending down to neck.
- Aggravation
from being warm in bed; from mental exertion
- Better
from lying down.
- Itchy
scalp with much dandruff and falling out of hair.
- Vertigo
in hot room and when rising from sitting down.
Stomach
- Hungry
all the time, but eating just a little bit will satisfy her.
- Much
belching of tasteless gas.
- Desires
sweets but they disagree with her.
Abdomen
- Sensitive
to pressure of clothing
- Much
rumbling of flatus with pressure both up and down.
Urination
- Profuse,
pale and alkaline.
- Sometimes
burning in bladder after urination.
Menses
- Profuse
- Irregular
- Dark,
with thick clots
- Very
much depressed and inclined to be tearful before period.
- Leucorrhea
profuse for a few days after period which burns.
Sleep
- Good
but unrefreshing
- Wakens
tired and exhausted.
- Very
sleepy after dinner
- Dreams
are scary usually about drowning.
General
- Better
in open air
- Worse
from pressure of clothes about abdomen and throat
- Very
sensitive to noise.
Case
1 questions
Select
seven symptoms but do not collect remedies from them.
What mix of mentals, generals and specifics did you choose and why? The patient is
not available so most answers can be considered good.
Case 1 answers
Rubrics
MIND - DELUSIONS, - images, phantoms, sees
MIND - SENSITIVE, - noise, to
MIND - COMPANY, - aversion to
FEMALE GENITALIA - MENSES, - dark
FEMALE GENITALIA - MENSES, - irregular
FEMALE GENITALIA - MENSES, - clotted - dark
GENERALS - AIR, - open - amel.
Analysis
Lyc 7/13
Puls 7/13
Lach 6/13
Plat 6/12
Sep 6/12
Comments
Therefore, if our analysis has been correct, Lycopodium
should cover this case in its entirety, and consulting our Materia Medica find
not only the general symptoms of the case that we have used in our analysis but
all the others which are recorded in the record of the case. Therefore, we know
that this remedy is the simillimum to the case, and if administered carefully
will cure.
