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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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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