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Asked: 3 years agoIn:
Esrat
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boerick’s repertorylimitation
  1. Dr Md shahriar kabir B H M S; MPH
    Dr Md shahriar kabir B H M S; MPH Enlightened dr.basuriwala

    @Esrat Boericke's Repertory, part of Boericke's Homeopathic Materia Medica and Repertory, is a valuable tool in homeopathic practice. However, it does have certain limitations: ( in short) 1. Clinical Focus: Boericke's Repertory is a clinical repertory, which means it contains clinical symptoms (conRead more

    Esrat
    Boericke’s Repertory, part of Boericke’s Homeopathic Materia Medica and Repertory, is a valuable tool in homeopathic practice. However, it does have certain limitations: ( in short)

    1. Clinical Focus: Boericke’s Repertory is a clinical repertory, which means it contains clinical symptoms (conditions) and corresponding groups of medicine. While this facilitates the selection of remedies based on pathological similarity, causation, modalities, and concomitants, it may not be suitable for common repertorisation. This is particularly true in cases where only common symptoms with few modalities and concomitants are found.

    2. Technical Terms as Rubrics: The repertory often uses technical or clinical terms as rubrics. While this aligns with the homeopathic requirement to prescribe for the symptoms of each specific case and not for the mere name of the disease, it can be challenging for those not familiar with these terms.

    3. Scope and Implementation: The full utility of Boericke’s Repertory may not have been realized due to a lack of understanding and implementation of its scope and limitations.

    4. Popularity: Although Boericke’s Repertory has gained popularity due to its practical arrangement of rubrics in different anatomical sections, it was not initially as popular as other repertories like Clarke’s Clinical Repertory.

    5. Dr. Boericke himself says “This work found numerous suggestions based on clinical observations.

    6. Wrong placement of certain rubrics. For example- ABDOMEN – ERUPTION – fissure, fistula, inflammation (proctitis), etc. LOCOMOTOR SYSTEM – GOUT of chest, eyes, stomach, heart, etc.

    7. Alphabetical arrangement is not maintained properly in whole through the repertory. Example in the ABDOMEN chapter, Haemorhoids; Hernia; Intestines; Jaundice followed by Hypocondria; Liver.

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Asked: 3 years agoIn:
ashfaq ahmed
Begginer

boerick’s repertory
  1. Dr Md shahriar kabir B H M S; MPH
    Dr Md shahriar kabir B H M S; MPH Enlightened dr.basuriwala

    Boericke's Repertory is a widely used bedside clinical repertory in homeopathic clinical practice. It contains clinical symptoms and conditions with a corresponding group of medicines. Boericke's Repertory facilitates the selection of a remedy on the basis of pathological similarity, causation, modaRead more

    Boericke’s Repertory is a widely used bedside clinical repertory in homeopathic clinical practice. It contains clinical symptoms and conditions with a corresponding group of medicines. Boericke’s Repertory facilitates the selection of a remedy on the basis of pathological similarity, causation, modalities, and concomitants . The following are some tips for using Boericke’s Repertory effectively:

    – Know the patient: The first step is to understand the patient’s symptoms and conditions. This will help you to identify the most appropriate rubrics in the repertory.
    – Understand the rubrics: The next step is to understand the rubrics in the repertory. Each rubric represents a group of symptoms that are related to a particular condition.
    – Use cross-references: Boericke’s Repertory contains many cross-references that can help you to find the most appropriate rubrics for a particular condition.
    – Use abbreviations: Boericke’s Repertory uses many abbreviations to save space. It is important to understand these abbreviations in order to use the repertory effectively.
    – Use the index: Boericke’s Repertory contains an index that can help you to find rubrics quickly and easily.

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Asked: 3 years agoIn:
ashfaq ahmed
Begginer

importancerepertory
  1. Dr Md shahriar kabir B H M S; MPH
    Dr Md shahriar kabir B H M S; MPH Enlightened dr.basuriwala

    The Homoeopathic Repertory is a crucial tool in homeopathic practice due to its numerous advantages: 1. Avoids Routinism: The repertory helps physicians avoid routine prescriptions and encourages careful selection of medicine. 2. Teaches Relative Importance of Medicines: It helps understand the relaRead more

    The Homoeopathic Repertory is a crucial tool in homeopathic practice due to its numerous advantages:

    1. Avoids Routinism: The repertory helps physicians avoid routine prescriptions and encourages careful selection of medicine.
    2. Teaches Relative Importance of Medicines: It helps understand the relative importance and intensity of various medicines.
    3. Quick Selection of Similimum: The repertory simplifies the laborious work of repertorising the whole case, especially when there are peculiar and striking symptoms or if there is any etiology.
    4. Helps Find Complete Symptoms: A complete symptom with all its components can be referred to in one place in the repertory, especially concomitance which is scattered in several places in materia medica.
    5. Promotes Discovery of Medicine: It helps discover medicines that one had not thought of.
    6. Suggest Related Remedies: It suggests related remedies that could be helpful for selecting a drug for follow-up or second prescription¹.
    7. Makes the Physician Efficient: Constant use of the repertory refreshes the knowledge of Materia Medica, difficult symptoms, and medicines with different grades.
    8. Helps Ask Intelligent Questions: It can be used to ask questions guided by the repertory when patients are not able to tell their symptoms correctly.
    9. Teaches Carefulness: The repertory teaches us to be careful about those symptoms belonging to the disease (common symptoms) and to consider only those symptoms that lie outside the disease (uncommon symptoms of the disease).

    In essence, a Homoeopathic Repertory is an index of homoeopathic materia medica full of information collected from toxicology, drug proving, and clinical experiences. It simplifies and strengthens our selection for a particular medicine.

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Asked: 3 years agoIn: , ,
ashfaq ahmed
Begginer

constitutiongraphites
  1. Dr Md shahriar kabir B H M S; MPH
    Dr Md shahriar kabir B H M S; MPH Enlightened dr.basuriwala

    The constitution of Graphites is characterized by the following features: 1. General Description: The Graphites type is prone to being overweight and has a large appetite. They may have a rugged, windswept appearance, rough, dry skin that can crack easily, and dry, usually dark hair. They also haveRead more

    The constitution of Graphites is characterized by the following features:

    1. General Description: The Graphites type is prone to being overweight and has a large appetite. They may have a rugged, windswept appearance, rough, dry skin that can crack easily, and dry, usually dark hair. They also have a flaky scalp.

    2. Mental and Emotional Aspects: The Graphites type takes time to work things out and solve problems. Deep concentration on a task can create irritability. They are not always willing to change habits and routines, and they are not early-morning persons. They may experience mood swings, feeling tearful and despondent at times, then impatient.

    3. Physical Weaknesses: The Graphites type may often have sores in the corner of the mouth, be exhausted, have bad breath, nose bleeds, styes in eyes, and suffer from travel sickness.

    4. Dietary Factors: The Graphites type likes sour and savory foods. They dislike sweet foods, salt, seafood, and hot drinks.

    5. The Graphites Child: The Graphites child feels the cold and gets chills quickly. They are timid, hesitant, and anxious. They do not like traveling great distances because of travel sickness.

    6. Other Factors: The Graphites subject has an almost exclusively carbonic constitution, has a robust, opulent build, and with all the hypo-functioning endocrine glands, in particular thyroid, adrenal, and gonads.

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Asked: 3 years agoIn: , ,
ashfaq ahmed

antidoteinimicalremedy
  1. Dr Md shahriar kabir B H M S; MPH
    Dr Md shahriar kabir B H M S; MPH Begginer dr.basuriwala

    In homeopathy, an antidote is any substance that inhibits or destroys the potential benefit of a homeopathic remedy. Certain substances are thought to reverse, or antidote the action of homeopathic remedies, causing the person's original symptoms to return. For example, homeopaths often suggest thatRead more

    In homeopathy, an antidote is any substance that inhibits or destroys the potential benefit of a homeopathic remedy. Certain substances are thought to reverse, or antidote the action of homeopathic remedies, causing the person’s original symptoms to return. For example, homeopaths often suggest that their patients refrain from using even small amounts of coffee, camphor, tea tree oil, and other strong-smelling substances.

    An inimical remedy, on the other hand, is one that is very similar to another. If you have given a partially correct remedy that has improved only a portion of the case and are looking to prescribe another partially correct remedy to complete the improvement, you wish to avoid remedies that are too similar (inimical). In other words, inimical remedies are those that disagree or are incompatible with each other. For instance, Nux vomica and Ignatia are considered too similar and hence inimical.

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