Hans, did not tell us something new. This is the basic course if you were regular in your homeopathic classes.

Every body is doing the same technique intentionaly or un-intentionaly.

But I must say thank you hans for providing a good opportunity to revise all these things.

I don't think that is entirely true based on the reading material and choice of books that are required by some schools. And also..some schools place a lot of emphasis on the psychological picture of remedies.. is this not true..? Anna?

dear carol
you asked:
the mm in the front of boger's repertory is derived from boenninghausen's characteristics materia medica. it is the most concise way to learn the most important features of the remedies.

if after analysing a case in steps 1-3, you find that all the unusual, striking symptoms of the case match the characteristics of a remedy given in boger's characteristics, you can be confident of the remedy. re-read par 153 in this light and you find this is what it means.

for a practitioner, essential materia medica to have are the original provings - hahnemann's CD's and MMP - also allen's handbook for the remedies not proved by hahnemann. anything by jahr is also worthwhile and perhaps as a first materia medica of a serious nature for a student, hull's jahr would be a good idea.

as regards the idea that what hans teaches is taught in all homoeopathy colleges - all i can say is - not in my experience.

Dear Members:

Analysis of the remedy action:

According to the organon, the INDEPENDENT IMPROVEMENT SIGNS are the indication of a beneficial action of the chosen remedy.

Here is a list of such signs:

From par.:253
--greater degree of comfort
--increased calmness
--increased freedom of mind
--higher spirits
--kind of return of the natural state

From par.:253 footnote

--signs of improvement of the disposition of mind only noticeable soon after giving the medicine, when the dose was sufficiently small.


From my own observations:

Common to all cases:
---mood eases
---return of awareness/ concentration / memory
---nerves easier
---anxieties/ worries less
---return of normal face colour and expression
---return of normal pupil reactions
---Pulse normalizes
---reflexes normalize
---Temperature comes down/or rises and then comes down in a sweat (in feverish diseases)
---Dryness of mouth/ water brash gone
---return of normal body-temperature (cold limbs/ hot head gone)
---less susceptibility to heat, cold, damp, exertion
---Return of normal evacuations
---Odour from body normalized
---return of thirst/ hunger
---Sleep improved, sometimes sleep increased
---return of physical strength
---Sweat increased for a while
---pimples
---problems around the periods ease
---skin clears

Children/acutes:

---Mood improved: less clingy/ cross
---falling asleep
---livelier

children/ chronic:

---Asthma: --cough softens
---tightness in chest goes
---cough becomes productive.
---wheeze goes

---Eczema: ---exudates less smelly, less itch causing
----Stops spreadimg
----less inflamed

---Colds:---falling asleep
--drowsiness goes
---return of thirst and hunger
---temperature might go up first and then come down, or come down gradually.
-----Rash might appear

Adults:

---Return of old behaviours
---Depression lifts
---return of clarity of mind
---Body weight normalizes
---Attacks less frequent
---cravings diminish
---return of normal sexual desires
---return of cycle when appropriate
---menopause: hot flushes disappear
---Feeling more energetic

Taking that back to the case, the following expressions are INDEPENDENT IMPROVEMENT SIGNS:
>>Well balanced<<,>>Sleep improved<<,

Next step: compare how the symptoms have changed with the original MORBID SYMPTOM PICTURE.
I do this by repeating the former and putting the changes behind it in Brackets.

HOT FLUSHES: head, frequency: 4-6/d past 2 years [Only more at night, awakes all soaked]

DEPRESSION: < company / company of family members
> outdoors / walk outdoors / walk fast
is there since mother die 10 years ago and less since onset of the hot flushes
[still there, less during day]

TUMOUR: Breast, cancer? surgically removed 4 years ago, + glands sub-axillaries
[ Nothing noticeable in the area]

SKIN: Itch, feet, nighttime<, red colour, burning developed in the last year
[ No problem at the moment/ lessened]

LEUCORRHOEA: yellow, since the periods were gone, ie last 3 years.
[ same]

HAIR: thin+ falling, lately- [No change]

HEAD: Pain, <travelling when, occasionally, but not so lately. [did not come back/ not travelling]

[New: Pressure about forehead morning<,> during daytime] [occasionally]

EYES: Shortsighted, no change lately [No mentioning]

FACE: Brown spots, lately [unchanged]

CHEST: Infections recurrent, none lately
[ New: dry cough / < tickling in the throat,/ < night time as well as daytime/ < taking deep breath ] [after remedy]

FOODS: fatty<

BACK: trouble, 10 years ago—not so now. [No mentioning]

[Sleep: few night at the beginning, falling asleep difficult because of twisting and turning] [during remedy, not after]

Next, we will go through the same steps as in the first instance and arrive at the following DISEASE PICTURE:

Ms: Depression: No direct modalities, at present
CC: Cough dry,/ < tickling in the throat,/ < Nighttimes also daytime, taking deep breath
CC: hot flushes: only more at night+ awakes all soaked.
CC: Forehead: pressure in,<mornings, Occasionally

Commentary:
The modalities of the depression have not shown themselves as they were reported earlier any more and cannot be assumed to be still there. There has not been a great change in the other morbid symptom areas which stays out of the disease- picture,
The sleep problem, which occurred during the remedy action, but went after the remedy was finished, is clearly attributed to the remedy and not to the ongoing disease. Therefore this symptom can be added to the MMP .

Not so with the cough symptom. This is due to disease activity, came after the remedy stopped acting, and persists. Therefore, the cough symptom becomes concomitant to the main symptom and an important part of the disease picture.

The independent improvement signs are an indication, that the remedy worked beneficial, but do not mean, that the same remedy is going to be beneficial again at this point.

After the action of each successive remedy has seized one has to select the follow-up remedy anew.

The cessation of action of the previous remedy is indicated by the disappearance of the imptovementsigns, as she says: I feel a bit more iffy the past few days.

For this selection the 153 symptoms have to be marked out anew which are at this stage:
Cough, dry: < tickling in throat,< nighttimes, < taking deep breath.

For repertorisation I took:
Boger-Boenninghausen:

Page 717: Cough excited by tickling irritation of throat.
It is the one on top of the page. The rubric on the bottom of the page refers to a concomitting sensation in the throat, but not to the cause.

Page: 710 Breathing, inspiration<
Page 708: Cough nighttimes<
Page 727: Cough expectoration without.

I compared a few remedies in the MMP

Causticum: 850-885
Calc-c: 1026- 1062
Sulph: 1116- 1160
Sil: 665- 690
Sep: 986- 1015

I confirmed the symptom above in the MMP:

Sepia: 987, 1011, 1004, 993

I gave Sepia Q2 / every second day / first glass / 3 teaspoons.

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Hans Weitbrecht
Consultant Homeopath

Here it is.

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