The Phoenix Repertory - Dr. J. P. S. Bakshi:
Phoenix:
A mythical bird with gorgeous plumage, fabled to be the only one of it’s kind and to live five or six hundred years in the Arabian desert, after which it burnt itself to ashes on a funeral pyre ignited by the sun and fanned by it’s own wings, rising from it’s ashes with renewed youth to live through another cycle.
Dr. J. P. S Bakshi
• A renowned Homoeopathic physician. He has also specialized in Psychiatry.
• “Manual of Psychiatry” is his first publication.
• “ the Phoenix Repertory”, is his next publication in the year 1999. It was published by Cosmic Healers Pvt. Ltd,
New Delhi in two volumes.
Major Sources• S. Hahnemann
• Boenninghausen’s Therapeutic pocket Book
• Boger’s Boenninghausen’s Characteristics and Repertory
• C.Hering, “The guiding symptoms of materia medica”
• Kent’s Repertory
• Complete Repertory
• Synthetic Repertory
• Synthesis Repertory
• Kunzli’s Repertory
• Sivaraman’s Additions & Corrections to kent’s Repertory
Plan and Construction• Preface
• Contents
• Introduction
• Notes
• the Phoenix Repertory ( Volume one/two)
• Repertory Proper
• List of Remedies and Abbreviations
• List of Authors
• Notes
Repertory Proper
This Repertory follows Hahnemannian Anatomical schema. It can be classified as an
“ Alphabetical Systematic Repertory”. Author has followed construction and philosophical background same as of Kent’s Repertory with minor changes. The Repertory part is printed in two columns on each page.
Arrangement of remedies
• The number of remedies used in this Repertory are a total of 1600 remedies.
• Remedies are alphabetically arranged.
• Sources numbering in the form of a subscript following the remedy has been done:
E.g.; Coloc.1 (S. Hahnemann),
Calc.9 (Reference works),
Calc.54a(Knerr)
Grading of Remedies
Remedies have followed the four types of Typographies to indicate the grading of medicines:
• Remedies in plain type face are the first degree remedies
• Remedies in bold italics type face are the second degree remedies
• Remedies in BOLD UPPERCASE type face are the third degree remedies
• Remedies in BOLD UPPERCASE with underline type face are the fourth degree remedies
Arrangement of Rubrics• There are a total of 1,25,514 rubrics.
• Rubrics are alphabetically arranged in the order of side, time, modality, extension and location.
• Main rubrics are given in CAPITAL BOLD.
• Sub rubrics are given in bold ordinary roman letters.
• Main and sub rubrics if continue to the next column, then they are mentioned above each column. Main rubrics in bold ordinary roman letters and sub rubrics in ordinary roman letters
Symbols given after the rubric
• Rubric phrases taken from Kent's Repertory are marked with ยบ (degree)
• Rubric phrases taken from Synthetic Repertory are marked with ~
• Different Cross references are separated with a small black dot • and are closed in one bracket.
• Direct Cross references, where no remedies are mentioned, are marked with », thus referring to go to the mentioned rubric or rubrics.
Arrangement of Chapters
There are 38 Chapters. Every chapter starts from a new page and title of the chapter is mentioned in the center of the beginning of every chapter in Bold Title Uppercase. In the following pages, it is mentioned on the right upper corner of the right page, in ordinary Title Uppercase.
Volume one
There are 21 chapters:
• Mind
• Dreams
• Vertigo
• Head
• Eyes
• Vision
• Ears
• Hearing
• Nose
• Face
• Mouth
• Teeth
• External Throat
• Throat
• Larynx & Trachea
• Chest
• Respiration
• Cough
• Expectoration
• Stomach
• Abdomen
Volume two
There are 17 chapters:
• Rectum
• Stool
• Kidneys
• Bladder
• Urethra
• Urine
• Prostate
• Male
• Female
• Back
• Extremities
• Sleep
• Chill
• Fever
• Perspiration
• Skin
• Generalities
Mind Chapter• There are 18,258 rubrics
• Latin and Greek terminology of fear are used:
E. g., Acarophobia, Acrophobia, Ailurophobia, Algophobia, Cainotophobia, Claustrophobia, Gamophobia
• Rubrics not present in Kent:
Ailments from; domination by others, a long history of:
Ailments from; misfortune of others:
Anger; vindictive
Fear; AIDS, of
Special Features• This repertory has 80,000 additions, 2 times the total number of rubrics in Kent and 4 times the number of mind rubrics than in Kent.
• The source of collected data is mentioned for each remedy, which makes the book reliable
• Many clinical rubrics are added to each chapter, it includes mental disorders, infections and pathologies in modern nomenclature
• This repertory can be utilized in repertorising all type of cases that is both with generals and particulars
• Repertory has followed the plan and construction of Kent’s Repertory. Hence, it is easy to use this Repertory.
Criticism• The Repertory contains many medicines. Majority of them are not well proved, though they have been added from authentic sources and there use cannot be definite and sure in clinical practice
• Some of the medicines are not available in common materia medica works, hence knowledge about these remedies remains incomplete
• Index for repertory is not given, which makes the rubric search difficult for beginners.
Conclusion
Creation of this Repertory has enriched our field, given it new vigour and vitality.
As it is the latest repertory, it is worth to get a place on one’s working table.
A mythical bird with gorgeous plumage, fabled to be the only one of it’s kind and to live five or six hundred years in the Arabian desert, after which it burnt itself to ashes on a funeral pyre ignited by the sun and fanned by it’s own wings, rising from it’s ashes with renewed youth to live through another cycle.
Dr. J. P. S Bakshi
• A renowned Homoeopathic physician. He has also specialized in Psychiatry.
• “Manual of Psychiatry” is his first publication.
• “ the Phoenix Repertory”, is his next publication in the year 1999. It was published by Cosmic Healers Pvt. Ltd,
New Delhi in two volumes.
Major Sources• S. Hahnemann
• Boenninghausen’s Therapeutic pocket Book
• Boger’s Boenninghausen’s Characteristics and Repertory
• C.Hering, “The guiding symptoms of materia medica”
• Kent’s Repertory
• Complete Repertory
• Synthetic Repertory
• Synthesis Repertory
• Kunzli’s Repertory
• Sivaraman’s Additions & Corrections to kent’s Repertory
Plan and Construction• Preface
• Contents
• Introduction
• Notes
• the Phoenix Repertory ( Volume one/two)
• Repertory Proper
• List of Remedies and Abbreviations
• List of Authors
• Notes
Repertory Proper
This Repertory follows Hahnemannian Anatomical schema. It can be classified as an
“ Alphabetical Systematic Repertory”. Author has followed construction and philosophical background same as of Kent’s Repertory with minor changes. The Repertory part is printed in two columns on each page.
Arrangement of remedies
• The number of remedies used in this Repertory are a total of 1600 remedies.
• Remedies are alphabetically arranged.
• Sources numbering in the form of a subscript following the remedy has been done:
E.g.; Coloc.1 (S. Hahnemann),
Calc.9 (Reference works),
Calc.54a(Knerr)
Grading of Remedies
Remedies have followed the four types of Typographies to indicate the grading of medicines:
• Remedies in plain type face are the first degree remedies
• Remedies in bold italics type face are the second degree remedies
• Remedies in BOLD UPPERCASE type face are the third degree remedies
• Remedies in BOLD UPPERCASE with underline type face are the fourth degree remedies
Arrangement of Rubrics• There are a total of 1,25,514 rubrics.
• Rubrics are alphabetically arranged in the order of side, time, modality, extension and location.
• Main rubrics are given in CAPITAL BOLD.
• Sub rubrics are given in bold ordinary roman letters.
• Main and sub rubrics if continue to the next column, then they are mentioned above each column. Main rubrics in bold ordinary roman letters and sub rubrics in ordinary roman letters
Symbols given after the rubric
• Rubric phrases taken from Kent's Repertory are marked with ยบ (degree)
• Rubric phrases taken from Synthetic Repertory are marked with ~
• Different Cross references are separated with a small black dot • and are closed in one bracket.
• Direct Cross references, where no remedies are mentioned, are marked with », thus referring to go to the mentioned rubric or rubrics.
Arrangement of Chapters
There are 38 Chapters. Every chapter starts from a new page and title of the chapter is mentioned in the center of the beginning of every chapter in Bold Title Uppercase. In the following pages, it is mentioned on the right upper corner of the right page, in ordinary Title Uppercase.
Volume one
There are 21 chapters:
• Mind
• Dreams
• Vertigo
• Head
• Eyes
• Vision
• Ears
• Hearing
• Nose
• Face
• Mouth
• Teeth
• External Throat
• Throat
• Larynx & Trachea
• Chest
• Respiration
• Cough
• Expectoration
• Stomach
• Abdomen
Volume two
There are 17 chapters:
• Rectum
• Stool
• Kidneys
• Bladder
• Urethra
• Urine
• Prostate
• Male
• Female
• Back
• Extremities
• Sleep
• Chill
• Fever
• Perspiration
• Skin
• Generalities
Mind Chapter• There are 18,258 rubrics
• Latin and Greek terminology of fear are used:
E. g., Acarophobia, Acrophobia, Ailurophobia, Algophobia, Cainotophobia, Claustrophobia, Gamophobia
• Rubrics not present in Kent:
Ailments from; domination by others, a long history of:
Ailments from; misfortune of others:
Anger; vindictive
Fear; AIDS, of
Special Features• This repertory has 80,000 additions, 2 times the total number of rubrics in Kent and 4 times the number of mind rubrics than in Kent.
• The source of collected data is mentioned for each remedy, which makes the book reliable
• Many clinical rubrics are added to each chapter, it includes mental disorders, infections and pathologies in modern nomenclature
• This repertory can be utilized in repertorising all type of cases that is both with generals and particulars
• Repertory has followed the plan and construction of Kent’s Repertory. Hence, it is easy to use this Repertory.
Criticism• The Repertory contains many medicines. Majority of them are not well proved, though they have been added from authentic sources and there use cannot be definite and sure in clinical practice
• Some of the medicines are not available in common materia medica works, hence knowledge about these remedies remains incomplete
• Index for repertory is not given, which makes the rubric search difficult for beginners.
Conclusion
Creation of this Repertory has enriched our field, given it new vigour and vitality.
As it is the latest repertory, it is worth to get a place on one’s working table.
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