Repertory Round-up, part 1

Let’s see what we can find hidden in the Repertory….

Welcome, everybody, to “Repertory Round-up!” This is an exciting new series where our lovely assistant, Shana…

Hi!

…will open up Murphy’s Repertory, 3rd ed., at random and surprise us with rubrics we may not have known existed!

Mom, don’t you think this is kind of boring? And isn’t it time for my pizza?

Our crabby assistant, Shana, will now randomly open the repertory. Drum roll please!

Mom!!!

I can hardly wait to see! And our first rubric is??????

Feet: uncover, inclination to

Good one, Shana! Everyone knows this rubric that Sulphur is so famous for, but no one knows where to find it! Well here it is! Other remedies in this rubric are: Medorrhinum, Pulsatilla, Chamomilla, Saniculla and a few others. OK, Shana, open the book and show us another one! What do you have for us this time?

Female: vaginal, discharge, leucorrhea (see vaginitis).

Now, this is a very common complaint! And you may not have realized that the subrubrics go on for pages!!!! This means that hearing that the patient has a vaginal discharge doesn’t really tell you anything unless you do an investigation of the subrubrics! Consider what some of them are:

acrid, excoriating

burning

brown

blistering

gushing

itching

jelly, like

cream, like

candida albicans

greenish yellow

while lying

menses, before

ropy, stringy

painless

offensive

orange

walking agg.

thin, watery

What this means is that this symptom, by itself, without further investigation, is useless! You need to ask for the following: Color, odor, consistency, sensation, the cause, the modalities (what makes it better or worse), the time modality (does it only happen at night? once a month, etc.?) Does it leave a stain of some color? A stiffness of the clothing material? Is there a diagnosis? And you know, if you can’t figure out what remedy to give, or if none of your remedies work, you can always make a remedy out of the discharge! (See my article, “How To Make Your Own Remedy”: https://hpathy.com/homeopathy-papers/how-to-make-your-own-remedy/)

And now for our next exciting rubric, we have…….? Shana? Hello!!!!!

Okaaaaaaaay!

And the winner is:

Mind: please others, desires to.

Oh! This is a good one! We’ve all seen people like this! They don’t stand up for themselves, they get manipulated into doing things they don’t want to do, they say “yes” to everything, they get taken advantage of….am I right? Can you guess what remedies I’m talking about? Oprah Winfrey used to call this “The Please Disease”–a need to be agreeable at all costs. My first thoughts are:

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bed, driving one out of bed

bells

blowing nose, when

boiling water, like

bursting of a bubble

buzzing

chirping

falling asleep, when

hissing

hammering

gurgling

…you get the idea. It’s very extensive! If someone tells you they have ringing in the ears, you have to say, “What does it sound like, exactly? When does it happen? What does it make you do?” Shana, what’s next?

Bladder: urging, frequent

This is a complaint a lot of people have–frequent urging to urinate. Again, the subrubrics go on forever! Here’s an example of some of them:

menses, during

menopause

heart complaints, with

ineffectual

lifting, after

lying agg.

painful

standing amel.

night

sudden

walking, while

violent

So again, just hearing this complaint is not enough, you have to know what the sensation is, the modalities, the time modality, the cause, the concomitant symptom; ask what they’re eating and drinking. Certain foods and drinks are diuretics, like coffee, beer, tea and watermelon. This could be the whole problem! Shana, what’s next?

Intestines, distention

This is your “gas and bloating” rubric Lycopodium is so famous for! But, once again, the subrubrics go on forever! Here’s a sample of them:

belching amel.

beer, after

breathing, hindering

coffee agg.

coffee amel.

after drinking

while eating

with emaciation

ileo-cecal region

inguinal region

after milk

painful

tympanitic

umbilical

from water

And now, here’s your other “gas and bloating” rubric: Intestines: flatus. Again, check the subrubrics; for example, the one that Thuja is so famous for: Intestines: flatus, noises, crying of an animal, like. And now, if the gas is pressing upwards making it hard to breathe, what is the rubric? Intestines: flatus, pressing, upward. And what would you think the remedy would be? Carbo veg! Shana, your turn!

Generals: air, indoor air agg.

This is our big Pulsatilla rubric isn’t it? Remember? “Worse warm stuffy rooms”? This is the rubric! What else would you expect to find here? Lachesis! Doesn’t Lachesis have a big issue with suffocating? They hate flying in planes because of this, the lack of fresh air. As you might expect, Sulphur is there too, and I can’t believe Allium cepa isn’t here! Boy, is that a mistake! I’m telling you, people, the Repertory is not “complete” and it’s not finished; it’s why we can’t always do a straight up and down repertorization and say the “winner” is the obvious remedy. The actual winner could be in the number-3 position, or number-4. You have to consider at least the top 5. Shana, next!!!