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Study of Materia Medica in Relation to Repertory-- Dr. Manish Bhatia |
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Homeopathic Materia Medica consists of genuine, pure, reliable and authenticated symptoms of simple substances ascertained after complete proving on relatively healthy human beings. Knowledge of the Materia Medica is quite essential for repertorisation. But it is impossible to keep in one’s head the mass of symptoms as recorded in an encyclopedia of symptoms. No mind can memorize ALL the symptoms of ALL the drugs with their characteristics and gradations. Many practitioners find it difficult to practice Homoeopathy in a straight way. Any attempt to find out a similar remedy by going through the provings of the drugs, is a thing of despair. Repertory is a valuable help as it is an index, a catalogue of the symptoms of the Materia Medica, neatly arranged in a practical form and also indicating the relative gradation of drugs but it is also not the final answer to find the similimum "From the comparative study of our drugs, we many of course, at times recognize a suitable remedy for a given case. But to do this, we must possess a sound knowledge of Materia Medic. Without a good command over our principal subject – Drug pathogenesis, it is impossible to arrive at a right conclusion". By close and persistent study of the drugs of our Materia Medica as individual personalities, it is possible to become quite familiar with them and retain a mental picture. When you see a case, immediately the picture of the drug is awakened in your mind. If you had not had the idea of the remedy in your mind, you would not also see it in your patient. And you have to study and restudy the remedies and perceive the personality of each one, intelligently. "If you are to be a good prescribe, by the way, your drugs have got to be people for you, with whim, fancies and terrors, with tempers and idiosyncrasies and characteristics, you have got to see them talking about the world, speaking and moving and halting, with the bodies-minds-souls of men. You have got to travel with them in bus, train and tram and they will betray themselves, buttoned up and shrinking together or loose and jolly and open, fidgety, restless, fearful, dull and inert, quarrelling for an open window, growling at the draught with the windows closed. You have got to dine with them and the will reveal themselves in their relation to food and drink and in the mental revelations such convivial moments of relaxation call forth. You may spot them standing for preference or sinking always into the nearest seat, stoop shouldered and drooping or erect and full of ‘go’, depressed and querulous, restless and anxious as their deeply sinned faces testify, smooth and smug, dirty complexioned and careless of appearance, chalky faced and flabby of superlative tissue, compact and hard as nails, fault-finding-affectionate and mild – responsive to every wave of sentiments and emotions – dull and indifferent. Look for them everywhere and learn them and they will betray themselves at every turn, and you will often save yourselves hours of solid work, by spotting them as they enter your consulting room.( Dr M Tyler )" |
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