REPERTORY AND MATERIA MEDICA (RPERTORY vs. MATERIA MEDICA part 1)

The basic method of homeopathy is to take a complete case, do a good case analysis and find a correspondence in the materia medica. If you do not find the rubric, don't worry, the rubric is there to lead you to the materia medica. If you have only found one remedy in the materia medica and it corresponds, be sure you have a cure, regardless of what is in the repertory.

(Dr.Andre Saine)

LECTHIN - 'THE ARNICA OF MIND'

It is not an uncommon remedy for brain fag. It is probably one of the four or five most regarded remedies for brain fag, especially when occurring in students. I'm telling you that, because many of you are students and it's picture results from excess studying, very commonly from excess studying. Lecithin is sometimes called the 'Arnica of the mind', so for brain fag following emotional shock, or strong emotions, or exertion of the mind. They can absolutely not concentrate or think. There will be some irritability with this, but you will especially notice that brain fag. It may be difficult to pick out Lecithin from other remedies.

There will be a few characteristic symptoms that I remember by heart. It is one of the remedies; I don't think it is in the repertory that burps loud, loud eructation. They will have a lot of flatulence and a lot of eructation, a bit like Argentum nitricum. There will also be a total loss of sexual power in Lecithin. Lecithin is very close to Phosphoricum acidum and to Phosphorus. Phosphoricum acidum, depression or brain fag after a grief. Lecithin will be the same thing and you may be misled, because one contains the other. If Phosphorus would have brain fag, or depression, in terms of the sexual power it is the opposite. The more Phosphorus gets weak, the higher is the sexual desire. But with Lecithin, that will be an easy differential symptom with Phosphorus, with Lecithin the sexual desire is gone with the brain fag

(Dr. Andre Saine)

Lecithin is not unknown to us... But we owe to Dr. Andre Swine for elaborating this aspect for us.
We  hav been using  Lecithin in anaemia succesfully ..... I guess it is a neglected galactagogue.

Trying to understand some words in our Homeopathic Materia Medica : CHAGRIN

CHAGRIN
Chagrin (noun)
annoyance or shame at having failed
(Compact Oxford dictionary)

distress of mind caused by humiliation, disappointment, or failure
(Merriam Webster )

In our Synthesis repertory CHAGRIN is the cross reference of 'ailments from mortification '

(Many a times we take for granted the meanings of certain words in our Homeopathic literature..... Which is such a wrong habit... Isn't it?)

PRESCRIBING TIP FROM Dr. H. A. Roberts and Sir Boenninghausen

Our way, too, must lie in the golden mean between these two points, the one too general and the other too individual to assure us of a true totality. If we can find a remedy that has the "more striking, particular, unusual and peculiar (characteristic) signs and symptoms of the case" and in addition covers the chief complaint as well, we may consider ourselves as having a sound basis for the prescription of the simillimum.

Phosphorus acts most beneficially when patient suffers from chronic loose stool or diarrhoea -  Dr. Hahnemann

SOMETHING ABOUT KALI CARB(something different from what we have been reading...)

1)NEVER WELL SINCE PNEUMONIA

2)PERHAPS THE BEST ENERGISER AFTER SULPHUR (Dr.George Royal)

3) Delayed menarche(Caust,Graph,Nat m ,Puls,Senecio)
(Early menarche  Calc c,Cham,Phos,Sabina,Sil)

4)Complementary to Carb v ,Nit a and Phos

5) Especially sub acute conditions (Kali bi,Kali m),also acute and chronic

6) Cures permanently recurrent attacks of colic after it is being relieved by Colocynth

7) Various fears associated with hoarding instinct,essentially possessive

 - Art and science are inseparably bound together, Every art has its foundation in science, and every science finds its expression in art.

Consciously or unconsciously the artist or the craftsman at work is applying principles and laws, formulated and systematized knowledge of which constitutes science.

 Exceptionally an artist, by virtue of inherent capacity and genius, may not be aware that he is applying scientific principles in his work. The "Art Instinct," when powerful, may express itself spontaneously and naturally by force of an internal feeling or native impulse, grasping principles intuitively and subconsciously and developing its own methods of technique through individual experience. But such endowment is rare, and even the greatest natural genius does not reach his highest development until he has awakened to the existence of theories, laws and principles and viewed his work consciously from the scientific stand point.

One of the best remedies with which to begin the treatment of a chronic case : Calc;Puls; Sulph

DREAMS AND HOMOEOPATHY
(part 1)

 I consider any dream worthy of inclusion in the analysis of the case if

I. Dream is recurrent
II. The dream has made a big impression on the patient

Having decided that a particular dream is worthy of being included in your case analysis, there are three ways of using the dream as a symptom

• Consult the repertory
• Ask the patient to interpret the dream
• Attempt an interpretation of the dream

(Dr. Harsh Nigam)

SOMETHING ABOUT THE FEES POLICY OF Dr. HAHNEMANN

Hahnemann's policy on fees for his services had not changed throughout his career, since his days in Hettstedt.As far as possible he kept to the principle of ' no cure, no fee'and the fees were calculated on a sliding scale according to the patient's   means,whereby the poor would pay nothing at all.