HOMEOPATHIC RESEARCH

-WRITE HUBBARD.E, I. The patient's story. II. Modalities as applied to each of the above symptoms in the following order. a. Causes b. Prodrome, onset, pace, sequence, duration. c. Character, location, laterality, extension and radiation of pain or sensations. d. Concomitants and alternations e. Aggravation or amelioration 1. time (hour, day, night, before or after midnight); periodicity; seasons; moon phases 2. Temperature and weather : Chilly or warm blooded usually, chilly or warm blooded in present illness; wet, dry, cold, or hot weather : weather changes; storm or thunder storm (before, during or after); hot sun, wind, fog, snow, open air, warm room, changes from one to other, stuffy or crowded places, drafts, warmth of bed, eat of stove, uncovering. 3. Bathing (hot, cold or sea), local applications (hot, cold, wet or dry) 4. Rest or motion (slow or rapid, ascending or descending, turning in bed, exertion, walking, or first mo...

-WRITE HUBBARD.E, Theoretically any substance or force may become a homoeopathic remedy. In a large number of instances of so called physiologically inert substances in the crude state, varying degrees of potentization are necessary to bring out the remedial powers. At present no complete list of all homoeopathic remedies exists. At a rough guess some two or three thousand remedies are in use and new ones are continually being developed. Only relatively small number of these are thoroughly proved according to the Hahnemannian standard, and but few according to a modern scientific homoeopathic standard. The remedies in accepted use are divided for convenience into certain groups as follows : (1) Mineral remedies; including elements, metals, compounds, salts, etc. (2) Vegetable remedies. (3) Animal remedies. (4) The nosodes, which are remedies derived from morbid tissues and secretions (5) Sarcodes, which are remedies prepared from healthy animal tissues and secretions, such as Uric Ac...

-WRITE HUBBARD.E, In the lecture on case taking we gave, in some detail, the hierarchy of the symptoms, and would suggest that, in connection with this article, the reader reperuse that one. The evaluation of symptoms is, perhaps, the most important part of the homoeopathic technique, and to the beginner, one of the most difficult. Certain propositions in relation to it are axiomatic. Owing to the terminology of modern medicine and the training that patients have received from non-homoeopathic physicians, the emphasis which the patient himself places upon symptoms is often entirely misleading. The doctor must separate diagnoses and common symptoms (that is symptoms which are common to any patient suffering from a certain complaint, such as vomiting in a gastro-intestinal case). These common symptoms are valueless from the point of view of homoeopathic prescribing unless qualified by modalities. The physician must discriminate between the relatively worthless common symptoms, which ma...

-WRITE HUBBARD.E, Repertorizing As no one person can carry all the symptoms of all the remedies in his mind, a concordance or index is needed. We term a symptom index a repertory. There are about half a hundred of these, general or special, based on different systems of studying the case. The two most vital to know are the basic ones of the two main methods, the Kent Repertory and the Boenninghausen. The Kent repertory : its construction The Kent Repertory is a compilation of materia medica, certain prior repertories, such as Lippe's, and clinical symptoms verified. In order to successfully search in the Kent Repertory or the symptoms of your case as evaluated in accordance with our last lecture you must be thoroughly familiar with the plan of the book, its rationale, and also its inconsistencies. The plan of the book is to work from generals to particulars, a general rubric first in most instances. The book is based on anatomical divisions, (see Table of Contents, p. VII), ...

-WRITE HUBBARD.E, This Repertory is built to work the the cases from general symptoms to particular symptoms. WE have already spoken in our lecture on the evaluation of symptoms of Kent's method of grading, MENTALS being the most important, and GENERALS next. Most chronic cases and many acute ones can be worked out by the Repertory on the MENTALS and GENERALS alone to within three to five remedies. The beginner should take at least eight of these symptoms, although experts often solve the case on three to five. The beginner must be very sure that these MENTALS and GENERALS are really true of the patient, and that he has not warped the symptom in translating the patient's colloquial expressions into the language of the rubrics. Moreover a symptom must have the same mass or importance in the patient's case as is assigned to it in the symptom hierarchy. If an important symptom cannot be found in the Repertory it can often be found under a synonymous rubric. It is to be under...

-WRITE HUBBARD.E, The Kent Repertory in its present form is unwieldy for the physician to carry with him to the bedside. Neither the Boenninghausen nor Kent repertories have any materia medica. Two books which combine materia medica and repertory are handy in the pocket or medical bag. One of these is Boger's Synoptic Key, of which his General Analysis is an abridged form, and the other is Boericke's Materia Medica with Repertory. The Boericke Repertory resembles the Kent rather than the Boenninghausen but Boericke has reclassified some of the anatomical sections. For instance, vertigo appears under HEAD; sinuses are grouped together under NOSE; lips are under MOUTH instead of FACE : tongue has a section to itself as have gums; oesophagus is under THROAT instead of STOMACH; foods that disagree are in STOMACH with the cravings and aversions, rectum and tool are under ABDOMEN. All the URINARY SYSTEM is together under that heading; breasts are rightly classed under the FEMALE SE...

-WRITE HUBBARD.E, After thoroughly digesting the first six lectures of this relief course and doing wide collateral reading and studying one should be able to select the most similar remedy. The most similar remedy, however, does not become the Simillimum until the potency is adjusted to the plane of the individual during his or her illness at the time of prescribing. Our philosophy teaches us that pathology, and even bacteria, are ultimates of disease and that the true cause is far deeper and less material than these. In order to truly wipe out the cause of a so called disease one must administer the remedy on or near the plane of the cause. It follows that for mental distresses and disease of manifestly psychic origin the high potencies (10 M and upward) would be employed, other things being equal : and that for grossly material conditions, such as marked organic and pathologic changes, the lower or medium potencies would be selected. In general, then, functional diseases, where th...