Appendix
DR. GIBSON MILLER’S HOT AND COLD REMEDIES
Extracted from Kent’s “Use of the repertory”
REMEDIES PREDOMINANTLY AGGRAVATED BY COLD
Abrot., Acet-ac., Acon., Agar., Agn., Alumen, Alum., Al-ph., Alum-sil., Am-c., Apoc., Arg-m., ARS., Ars-s-fl., Asar., Aur., Aur-ars., Aur-sulph., Bad., BAR-C., Bar-m., Bell., Benz-ac., Borax., Brom., Cadm., Calc-ars., CAL-C., Calc-fl., CALC-PH., Calc-sil., Camph., Canth., CAPS., Carb-an., Carb-veg., Carbn-sul., Card-m., Cauloph., CAUST., Cham., Chel., CHINA., Chin-a., Cimic., Cistus., Cocc., Coff., Colch., Con., Cycl., DULC., Euphras., FERR., Ferr-ars., Form., GRAPH., Guaj., Hell., Helon., HEP., Hyosc., HYPER., Ign., KALI-ARS., Kali-bich., KALI-CARB., Kali-chlor., Kali-phos., Kali-sil., Kalm., Kreos., Lac-defl., MAGN-CARB., MAGN-PHOS., Mang., MOSCH., Mur-ac., Natr-ars., Natr-carb., NITRIC-AC., Nux-m., NUX-VOM., Oxal-ac., Petrol., PHOS., Phos-ac., Plb., Pod., PSOR., PYROGEN., RAN-B., Rheum., Rhodo., RHUS., RUMEX, Ruta, SABAD., Sars., SEPIA, SIL., SPIG., Stann., Staph., Stram., STRONT., Sul-ac., Therid., Valer., Viol-t., Zinc.
REMEDIES PREDOMINANTLY AGGRAVATED BY HEAT
Aesc-h., All-c., Aloe, Ambra., APIS, ARG-NIT., Asaf., Aur-iod., Aur-m., Bar-iod., Bry., Calad., Calc-iod., Calc-sul., Cocc-cacti., Comoc., Crocus., Dros., Fer-iod., FLUOR-AC., Grat., Ham., IOD., KALI-IOD., KALI-SUL., Lach., Led., Lil-t., Lyc., NAT-MUR., NAT-SUL., Niccol., Op., Picric-ac., PLAT., Ptelia, PULS., SABINA, SECALE, Spong., Sul., Sul-iod., Thuj., Tuberc., (Rabe), Ustil., Vespa., Viburn.
REMEDIES SENSITIVE TO BOTH EXTREMES OF TEMPERATURE
MERC., Ip., Nat-carb., Cinnabar.
Ant-cr., agg. by both heat and cold : agg. by overheating and radiated heat, though many symptoms amel. by heat.
(MERC. in chronic troubles agg. by cold : in acute agg. by heat).
Plan and Construction of the Repertories
Kent’s Repertory
Kent’s repertory has been written from top to bottom, based on Kent’s strategy from generals to particulars. Every section of the book has the same arrangement and is produced to show forth all the particulars with the circumstances connected with it.
The most important sections are found at the beginning and the end: MIND and GENERALITIES, with Mental symptoms in the very beginning, showing that Kent gave the highest rank to mental symptoms.
The symptoms pertaining to different regions of the body and their medicines are given under 37 or 39 different sections, starting from head to foot according to the schema of Hahnemann. Each section (division) is arranged in the same manner and divided into rubrics and further sub-rubrics (sub-divisions).
Kent’s repertory was divided into 37 sections up to the 6th edition. P. Schmidt however gave smell and voice a separate rubric in Kent’s Final General Repertory resulting in 39 sections (smell is listed under nose and voice under larynx in earlier editions).
The repertory is divided into the following sections:
Mind
Vertigo
Head
Eye
Vision
Ear
Hearing
Nose
(Smell)
Face
Mouth
Teeth
Throat
External throat
Stomach
Abdomen
Rectum
Stool
Urinary organs
-bladder
-kidney
-prostate gland
-urethra
Urine
Genitalia
Genitalia – female
Larynx and trachea
(Voice)
Respiration
Cough
Expectoration
Chest
Back
Extremities
Sleep
Chill
Fever
Perspiration
Skin
Generalities
Boenninghausen’s Therapeutic Pocket Book
The early editions of the repertory are divided into 7 parts:
1. Mind and Intellect
2. Parts of the Body and Organs
3. Sensations and Complaints
- in general
- of glands
- of bones
- of skin
4. Sleep and Dreams
5. Fever
- Circulation of Blood
- Cold Stage
- Coldness
- Heat
- Perspiration
- Compound Fevers
- Concomitant Complaints
6. Alterations of the State of Health
7. – Aggravations according to time
8. Aggravations according to situations and circumstances
9. Amelioration by positions and circumstances
10. Relationship of Remedies
Though each chapter can be as a whole by itself, it gives only one element of a symptom. The other elements may have to be obtained from other chapters.
In all sections as far as possible a systematic order has been united with an alphabetical arrangement is seen.
The chapters on Relationships is divided into sections, each section being devoted to a remedy, in alphabetical order, and each of them is subdivided into the following rubrics: Mind, localities, sensations, glands, bones, skin, sleep and dreams, blood, circulation and fever, aggravations. The rank of the remedies in these rubrics represents a general relationship of these remedies in the unclassified symptom groups, to the remedy under consideration.
Boger: Boenninghausen’s Characteristics and Repertory
Boger followed the construction of Boenninghausen’s Repertory of Antipsoric Medicines.
His repertory is the latest written of the three repertories and has some special advantages over Kent’s Repertory and Boenninghausen’s Therapeutic Pocket Book.
He made several sections for different parts of the body and added many rubrics and sub-rubrics. Each location is followed by the particular sensations, modalities and concomitants, and where particulars are dominating, this repertory can be utilized with advantage. Boger made concomitants more useful for practice by attaching them to the parts.
The rubric Infant, affections of with its many sub-rubrics, is unique and very useful in pediatric practice.
Different types of constitutions in the chapter Sensation and Complaints in Generals helps to select the simillimum by using it in the first place in totality.
The Fever chapter is unique and of immense use for practice. It has been completely changed in its arrangement and its contents.
He did not expand the Mind Symptoms very much in his Boger Boenninghausen’s repertory, beyond Boenninghausen’s list. The Mind-section does not compete with Kent’s section on mind, but contains some rubrics which are not mentioned in Kent.
The rubrics and sub-rubrics of the repertory are as follows:
Mind
Sensorium
Vertigo
Head
Eyes
Ears
Nose
Face
Teeth
Mouth
Appetite
Thirst
Taste
Eructation
Waterbrash and Heartburn
Nausea and vomiting
Stomach
Hypochondria
Abdomen
Inguinal and pubic region
Flatulence
Stool
Anus and rectum
Perineum
Prostate gland
Urine
Urinary organs
Genitalia
Sexual impulse
Menstruation
Respiration
Cough
Larynx and trachea
Voice and speech
Neck and external throat
Chest
Back and scapular region
Upper extremities
Lower extremities
Sensations and complaints in general
Glands
Bones
Skin and exterior body
Sleep
Fever
Conditions in General
Conditions of Aggravation and Amelioration in General
Concordances
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Katja Schütt (Germany)
MBA, HP, DIHom(pract.)
Katjaschutt@yahoo.com
[1] J.H. Clarke, Dictionary of practical Materia Medica, in I. Watson, A Guide to the methodologies of homeopathy, Devon, 2004, p.ix
[2] Lippe in S.M.Gunavante, Perceiving crucial symptoms, p.31
[3] B.D.Desai, How to find the simillimum with Boger-Boenninghausen’s Repertroy, p.27
[4] J.T.Kent Lectures on homeopathic Materia Medica, p. 210
[5] The interested reader may read Kent’s lessons about the value of symptoms in his book “The art and science of homomeopathic mdeicine”, or at:
homeoint.org/books3/kentlect/lect32.htm
homeoint.org/books3/kentlect/lect33.htm
and the article of Dr. Margaret Lucy Tyler and Sir John Weir on Repertorizing in “Use of the repertory”, or at: http://homeoint.org/cazalet/tyler/repert.htm
[6] S.Close, The genius of homeopathy, p.261
[7] Kent in M.Tyler, A study of Kent’s repertory, p.8
[8] Kent in M.Tyler, A study of Kent’s repertory, p.6
[9] Kent in M.Tyler, A study of Kent’s repertory, p.7
[10] Kent in M.Tyler, A study of Kent’s repertory, p.8
[11] M.Tyler, A study of Kent’s repertory, p.9
[12] J. T. Kent, Lectures on homeopathic Materia Medica, p.260
[13] J.T.Kent in S.Close The genius of homeopathy, p.261
[14] J.T.Kent, M.Tyler, J.Weir, Use of the repertory, New Delhi, 2003
[15] T.F. Allen, Boenninghausen’s Therapeutic Pocket Book, New Dehli, 2000, 9
[16] see C.F.M.von Boenninghausen, Lesser Writings: A Contribution to the Judgement Concerning the Characteristic Value of Symptoms, p. 105, or at: homeoint.org/cazalet/boenninghausen/valusympt.htm
[17] Boenninghausen laid the focus on the characetristic symptoms of the disease (vide §3 Organon)
[18] see C.M.Boger, Studies in the Philosophy of Healing
[19] C.M.Boger, Boenninghausen’s Characteristics, p.viii
[20] note again the difference to Boenninghausen where all symptoms are generalized and not listed separately as subrics to every detailed symptom
[21] C.M.Boger, Studies in the philosophy of healing, homeoint.org/books/bogphilo/phitakin.htm
[22] Please note the difference here to Boenninghausen who generalized in a large scale: according to Boenninghausen every symptom of the part is predicated to be a general symptom, i.e. if there is burning in one part it is a generalized sensation that can be applied to other parts as well, the same applies for modalities
[23] C.M.Boger, Boenninghausne’s Characteristics Materia Medica & Repertory with Word Index, p.V
[24] see C.M.Boger, Studies in the philosophy of healing
[25] C.M.Boger, Studies in the philosophy of healing, homeoint.org/books/bogphilo/index.htm
[26] S.M. Gunavante, Perceiving curcial symptoms, p.41
[27] J.T.Kent, How to study & use the repertory, M.Tyler & J.Weir, Repertorising – Use of the Repertory, p.48
[28] J.T.Kent, How to study & use the repertory, M.Tyler & J.Weir, Repertorising – Use of the Repertory, p.43
[29] T.F.Allen, Boenninghausen’s Therapeutic Pocket Book, p.59
[30] S.K. Tiwari, Essentials of Repertorization, p.193
[31] S.K. Tiwari, Essentials of repertorization, p.265
[32] S.K. Tiwari, Essentials of repertorization, p.262
