Beginner's guide to the concise, handy and the most useful repertory arranged alphabetically. A useful tool for a budding as well as experienced homeopath

1. Phatak's repertory A helping guide in homeopathic practice

3. Salient features: Based on the ‘Boger’s - Synoptic key’ Additions – From his own case taking Clinical observation Pathological rubrics Addison’s disease Fatty degeneration Unique rubrics Indian food items Drugs abuse of

4. Salient features: Minimal number of remedies by careful selection Drugs included are His own clinical experience thru prescription Strongly justified by Kent, Boger or Clark Single section arrangement – helps symptoms pertaining to two or more systems – e.g. awkwardness His own repertorial notes from all repertories including TPB

5. Symptom evaluation: Modalities: Causative modality Time modality Postural modality Generals Case presented Grand generalization Characteristic particulars

6. Time modality: IT professional - US VISA interview in couple of days Severe frontal throbbing headache <<< 10 am until 3.30 – 4 pm No photo- or phono-phobia Belladonna did not relieve in 24 hrs Time agg and amel: Forenoon: 10 am to 3 pm aggr Chin-s, Nat-m, Tub

7. Characteristic particulars… 60 years old female Complaints of dryness of finger tips +++ with cracks that bleed and severe pain in the cracks. Since 2006 Tried – petroleum, graphites, heparsulf, sulfur, bach flower remedies, … No amelioration – in fact, left fingers too got affected in due course

8. Characteristic particulars…2 Fingers: tips, dry as if made of paper Fingers: tips, cracked Fingers: tips, painful

12. Pathological rubrics…2 Lying: head high with, amel Chest: oedema, pulmonary Restlessness Ant-t  Arsenic Synthetic prescription  ANTIM ARS Antim-ars 30 QID  >> within a week

13. Signs – observations… Born on 16th Dec 2009 Does not sleep sound since birth – sleeps well during the day but not during the night Moaning +++ in general, in sleep as well as while awake – in the background Is on Lactogen 75ml / 2 hrs since birth Constipation ++: passes motions once in two days; hard – never loose; cries while passing stools ++

14. Signs – observations…2 Constipation: infants of; bottle-fed or artificial food Moaning: loudly, persistent Moaning: involuntarily Alumina 200 fortnightly doses

15. Case exercise: Girl aged 2 years old Mother reported on phone: “Rujuta is passing normal stools, but her rectum is coming out almost by an inch every time she passes stools. There is no complaint otherwise. She has never complained of any pain.”

16. Case exercise: College going girl [Silica – constitutional] “I am getting asthmatic attack every time I get exposed to draft or AC or if I eat guava or any preserved fruit. There is a feeling as if I am choked. There is increased hunger during the attack and I feel better after eating, but I do not prefer sweets, though otherwise I like it.”

17. My experience: The best repertory for a beginner as well as a decade-old homoeopath. Easier to carry, search and refer Indian perspective – food, weather, etc Results  Repertory  Results

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