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Author : Dr. Nahida M.Mulla, M.D. Principal, HOD REPERTORY, HOD Paediatric OPD, A M.Shaikh Homoeopathic Medical College, Hospital & PG Centre, Nehru Nagar, BELGAUM (Karnataka) India
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Repertory: A CLINICAL REPERTORY TO THE DICTIONARY OF MATERIA MEDICA

Author : J.H.CLARKE

DR.CLARKE says this repertory is designed "for use in the study of the Materia Medica" and as an instrument for finding out the indicated remedies.

This repertory is compiled as an index to the dictionary of Materia Medica [3 Vol] by Clarke. This repertory will enable the practitioner to compare any remedy with any similar remedy in five different points; all of great importance in practice.

  1. I . CLINICAL REPERTORY
  2. II . REPERTORY OF CAUSATION
  3. III. REPERTORY OF TEMPERAMENTS, DISPOSITIONS, CONSTITUTIONS, AND STATES
  4. IV. REPERTORY TO THE CLINICAL RELATIONSHIPS
  5. V. REPERTORY TO THE NATURAL RELATIONSHIP

PART - I CLINICAL REPERTORY

The clinical repertory presented here with constitutes the index to the heading of "clinical" in the dictionary of practical Materia Medica. In the dictionary every drug is described from a number of different point of view. The clinical point of view is one of these, and under the heading clinical Clarke has prefixed to each remedy a list of the affections in which it has been found most frequently indicated in practice. In compiling these clinical lists Clarke had in view the project of preparing, later on, an index of these headings.

Unlike in the dictionary and prescriber the names of the remedies are italicized in the clinical repertory in front of a clinical rubric. The drugs which are given in italics shows that these drugs are also given in the prescribe and dictionary and those which appear in ordinary print are the drugs which are added afterwards by the author.

The chief problem of scientific therapeutics consists in the discovering of indications for remedies. All ways of finding indications are open to practitioner and the clinical avenue is one of them. In Homoeopathy any remedy may be required in any case of any disease. The occurrence of the name of any remedy under the heading of any disease shows that in its action it has a general correspondence with the most marked feature of cases of that disease.

It will frequently happen that the practitioner will have in mind a number of remedies which more or less closely correspond to a given case, and when he consults the clinical repertory this knowledge will enable him at once to pick out of the list there presented the most similar remedy to his case. If still any doubt the prescriber has to consult dictionary, in which each of the remedies named in the repertory will be bound described individually in detail.

The use of the nosological correspondence is one method by means of which a similar, if not the most similar remedy may be discovered. Another method is by ascertaining the similarity of specificity of seat. Some drugs have a predominant affinity for certain organs, and these drugs will often relieve a great variety of affections seated in, or arising from diseases of these particular organs. In compiling clinical repertory many general heading such as "liver diseases of ", spleen affection of, are given. The lists of remedies given under these headings will show the drugs, which have been observed to hit these organs hardest, and will there by give a very important point for comparison.

While the compilation of this work was in progress Dr.Clarke thought that it would greatly extend the usefulness of the clinical repertory if he were to add one or two other indications at the same time. So he compiled indices under other headings like causation, temperament, and relationship of remedies.

CLINICAL RUBRICS FOUND IN PART- I ARE:

  1. 1. Acetonaemia
  2. 2. Acidity.
  3. 3. Acne
  4. 4. Acromegaly
  5. 5. Addison's disease.
  6. 6. Adrenal neuralgia.
  7. 7. Adrenal neuralgia.
  8. 8. Alopecia.
  9. 9. Anaemia.
  10. 10. Beriberi
  11. 11. Biliary colic
  12. 12. Blepharitis
  13. 13. Brachial neuralgia
  14. 14. Brights disease.
  15. 15. Burns
  16. 16. Bursitis
  17. 17. Calculus
  18. 18. Cellulitis
  19. 19. Chalazion
  20. 20. Cheloid
  21. 21. Chickenpox
  22. 22. Ciliary neuralgia
  23. 23. Coccygodynia
  24. 24. Cold abscess
  25. 25. Decubitus
  26. 26. Dengue fever
  27. 27. Diabetes
  28. 28. Diptheria
  29. 29. Dissect wounds
  30. 30. Dupuytrens contracture
  31. 31. Dysmenorrhoea
  32. 32. Dyspepsia
  33. 33. Eclampsia
  34. 34. Ecchymosis
  35. 35. Eczema
  36. 36. Elephantiasis
  37. 37. Embolus
  38. 38. Emphysema
  39. 39. Empyema
  40. 40. Entericfever
  41. 41. Fatty degeneration
  42. 42. Fatty tumour
  43. 43. Fibroma
  44. 44. Fissures
  45. 45. Fistula
  46. 46. freckles
  47. 47. Gallstones
  48. 48. Ganglion
  49. 49. Gangrene
  50. 50. Gastritis
  51. 51. German measles
  52. 52. Glaucoma
  53. 53. GOITRE
  54. 54. Gout
  55. 55. Hematocoele
  56. 56. Hayfever
  57. 57. Hemiplegia
  58. 58. Herpes
  59. 59. Hodgkins disease
  60. 60. Hydrocoele
  61. 61. Hypopyon
  62. 62. Impetigo
  63. 63. Impotence
  64. 64. JAUNDICE
  65. 65. Keratitis
  66. 66. Knock knee
  67. 67. Landrys paralysis
  68. 68. Laryngitis
  69. 69. Lead colic
  70. 70. Lipoma
  71. 71. Malaria
  72. 72. Marasmus
  73. 73. Mastitis
  74. 74. Measles
  75. 75. Meniers disease
  76. 76. Migraine
  77. 77. Morvans dis
  78. 78. Mumps
  79. 79. Myopia
  80. 80. Myxdeama
  81. 81. Naevus
  82. 82. Nasal polyps
  83. 83. Necrosis
  84. 84. Night blindness
  85. 85. Optic neuritis
  86. 86. Orchitis
  87. 87. Osteomylitis
  88. 88. Osteoma
  89. 89. Pancreatitis
  90. 90. Paralysis agitans
  91. 91. Parotitis
  92. 92. Pellagra
  93. 93. Pemphigus
  94. 94. Pernicious anaemia
  95. 95. Phlebitis
  96. 96. Plague
  97. 97. Pleurisy
  98. 98. Pneumonia
  99. 99. Potts disease
  100. 100. Psoriasis
  101. 101. Rabies
  102. 102. Raynaud's disease
  103. 103. Renal calculi
  104. 104. Rheumatoid arthritis
  105. 105. Rickets
  106. 106. Riggs disease
  107. 107. Scabies
  108. 108. Sciatica
  109. 109. scurvy
  110. 110. Smallpox
  111. 111. Sterility
  112. 112. Stomatitis
  113. 113. Sycosis
  114. 114. Syphilis
  115. 115. Syringomyelia
  116. 116. Tabes mesentrica
  117. 117. Thrombosis
  118. 118. Tic dourolx
  119. 119. tonsillitis
  120. 120. Trifacial nerve paralysis
  121. 121. Tuberculosis
  122. 122. Typhoid fever
  123. 123. Typhus fever
  124. 124. Leukaemia
  125. 125. Cellulitis
  126. 126. Urticaria
  127. 127. Varicella
  128. 128. Varicocoele
  129. 129. Varicose vein
  130. 130. Warts
  131. 131. Uraemia
  132. 132. Urethritis
  133. 133. Wens
  134. 134. whooping cough
  135. 135. writers cramps
  136. 136. Xerostoma
  137. 137. Yellow fever
  138. 138. Zoster

PART II - REPERTORY OF CAUSATION

DR. CLARKE has described in his dictionary the remedies under the heading causation. This tells how remedies are related to conditions due to definite causes. Therefore he has added an alphabetical list of causes, under any one of which will be bound named all the drugs, which have been observed to be curative in conditions produced by it.

Almost all remedies have relations of some kind to the various accidents and conditions of ordinary life. Their symptoms are made worse or better by heat or cold, rest or motion, by night or by day or other circumstances or conditions. Many remedies are related to the effects of certain conditions. Although causation and aggravation are not the same, they are closely allied. Thus is related to the effects of damp weather, and appears in the list of remedies having this causation; but it also has its symptoms, when not caused by damp, aggravated in a supreme degree by conditions of damp. Therefore the prescriber who uses this list of causes as a rough list of aggravations also will not go wrong.

The names of a few remedies have been added which do not occur in the dictionary of Materia Medica. They are given in brackets. When a cause is associated with any particular effect, that effect is placed in brackets and precedes the name of the remedy, which corresponds to it. For ex - "washing clothes" causes ill effects to which certain remedies correspond. Phosphorous corresponds to headache resulting from washing clothes. In the list of remedies this fact is marked thus "headache - phos". When in a list of remedies, one of them has a qualifying word or phrase thus prefixed to it, the qualification must be understood to apply to that remedy only, and not to those which follow.

RUBRICS. FOUND IN THIS PART ARE:

  1. 1. Acid food
  2. 2. Alcoholism
  3. 3. Arms, raising.
  4. 4. Anger.
  5. 5. Bathing.
  6. 6. Business embarrassment
  7. 7. Bread.
  8. 8. Butter.
  9. 9. Cabbage
  10. 10. Carrying heavy wt.
  11. 11. Checked eruptions.
  12. 12. Cheese.
  13. 13. Chill.
  14. 14. Climbing mountains.
  15. 15. Coffee
  16. 16. Contradiction effects of
  17. 17. Coryza
  18. 18. Damp
  19. 19. Dentition.
  20. 20. Discharges suppressed.
  21. 21. Disappointments.
  22. 22. Dog bites.
  23. 23. Draft of air.
  24. 24. Dry cold winds.
  25. 25. Early rising.
  26. 26. Eggs, bad.
  27. 27. Emotional disturbance.
  28. 28. Examination
  29. 29. Exertion,
    • - Bodily
    • - Mental.
  30. 30. Eyes, injuries to.
  31. 31. Fasting.
  32. 32. Feet, wetting.
  33. 33. Fevers.
  34. 34. Flowers (fainting)
  35. 35. Fright.
  36. 36. Fruit.
  37. 37. Gas light.
  38. 38. Gonorrhoea.
  39. 39. Grief.
  40. 40. Haemorrhages.
  41. 41. Hair cutting.
  42. 42. Head blow on.
  43. 43. Hot weather.
  44. 44. Ice cream.
  45. 45. Ice water.
  46. 46. Indigestible food.
  47. 47. Injured pride.
  48. 48. Injuries to nerve.
  49. 49. Influenza.
  50. 50. Jarring.
  51. 51. Jealousy.
  52. 52. Journeys, long.
  53. 53. Joy, sudden.
  54. 54. Labour, mental.
  55. 55. Laughing.
  56. 56. Lead.
  57. 57. Lemonade.
  58. 58. Light, bright.
  59. 59. Lifting.
  60. 60. Lochia, suppressed.
  61. 61. Mechanical injuries.
  62. 62. Melons.
  63. 63. Menses, suppressed.
  64. 64. Mental, excitement / application.
  65. 65. Mercury.
  66. 66. Milk.
  67. 67. Music.
  68. 68. News, bad.
  69. 69. Nettle rash, suppressed.
  70. 70. Night watching.
  71. 71. Noise.
  72. 72. Odor strong.
  73. 73. Onions.
  74. 74. Operation.
  75. 75. Opium.
  76. 76. Otorrhoea, suppressed.
  77. 77. Over eating.
  78. 78. Over exertion.
  79. 79. Over strain.
  80. 80. Over study.
  81. 81. Pain.
  82. 82. Passion, fit of.
  83. 83. Pastry
  84. 84. Perspiration checked.
  85. 85. Pork.
  86. 86. Pregnancy.
  87. 87. Ptomaine poisoning.
  88. 88. Punctured wounds.
  89. 89. Quinine.
  90. 90. Rage.
  91. 91. Rains, drenching.
  92. 92. Rice.
  93. 93. Rich food.
  94. 94. Riding in carriage.
  95. 95. Salt.
  96. 96. Salty food.
  97. 97. Skin affections checked.
  98. 98. Shock.
  99. 99. Sleep loss of.
  100. 100. Ship, riding in a.
  101. 101. Snowy air.
  102. 102. Spinal injuries, old.
  103. 103. Sprains.
  104. 104. Stone cutting.
  105. 105. Strains.
  106. 106. Strong odors.
  107. 107. Sugar.
  108. 108. Summer.
  109. 109. Sun.
  110. 110. Suppressed anger.
  111. 111. Surgical operations.
  112. 112. Sweat suppression of.
  113. 113. Tea.
  114. 114. Temperature change of.
  115. 115. Thunder.
  116. 116. Tight boots.
  117. 117. Tobacco.
  118. 118. Traveling.
  119. 119. Typhoid fever.
  120. 120. Unpleasant news.
  121. 121. Unripe fruit.
  122. 122. Unusual excitement.
  123. 123. Vaccination.
  124. 124. Vegetables
  125. 125. Venesection.
  126. 126. Wading.
  127. 127. Walking.
  128. 128. Washing.
  129. 129. Water.
  130. 130. Weather.
  131. 131. Winds.
  132. 132. Wines.
  133. 133. Winter.
  134. 134. Worry.
  135. 135. Wounds.
  136. 136. Yawning.

PART III - REPERTORY OF TEMPERAMENTS, DISPOSITIONS, CONSTITUTIONS, AND STATES

In this list are given the remedies, which have been found to act most beneficially in certain types of persons, temperaments, sex and age. There are also included complaints and conditions of particular types of persons and constitutions. In the dictionary of Materia Medica these are generally given in the section characteristics under the description "suited to"

Acute observers, from the time of Hahnemann onwards, have noticed that some remedies act well on some types of persons and not at all so well on other. The respective types of nux vomica and pulsatilla are well known; but many other remedies have preferences more or less well marked for particular temperaments.

This index is very important because the type of constitution is very often determining factor in the choice of a remedy. There are some patients whose constitution correspond so accurately to a particular medicinal type, that the corresponding remedy will cure almost any indisposition they may happen to have. So this sect6ion becomes a complement of the clinical repertory. The user of this repertory, therefore, who may not find the remedy he is in search of in the clinical repertory, may possibly find it in the repertory of temperaments, under the heading of the complaint the patient is suffering from.

CONSTITUTIONS:

  1. 1. Asthmatic.
  2. 2. Bilious.
  3. 3. Broken down.
  4. 4. Carbo nitrogenoid.
  5. 5. Debilitated.
  6. 6. Delicate.
  7. 7. Dry.
  8. 8. Feeble.
  9. 9. Gouty.
  10. 10. Hydrogenoid.
  11. 11. Lax, fibre with.
  12. 12. Leucophlegmatic.
  13. 13. Nervo-sanguine / sanguinine.
  14. 14. Nervous.
  15. 15. Neuralgic.
  16. 16. Phthisical.
  17. 17. Psoric.
  18. 18. Scorbutic.
  19. 19. Scrofulous.
  20. 20. Slow, torpid.
  21. 21. Weakly.

DISPOSITIONS:

  1. 1.Affectionate.
  2. 2. Gay.
  3. 3. Gentle.
  4. 4. Hasty.
  5. 5. Haughty.
  6. 6. Haughty, when sick.
  7. 7. Irritable.
  8. 8. Malicious.
  9. 9. Melancholic.
  10. 10. Mild.
  11. 11. Sad.
  12. 12. Spiteful, malicious.
  13. 13. Tenacious & Irrascible.
  14. 14. Voluptous.
  15. 15. Yielding.

TEMPERAMENTS:

  1. 1. Bilious.
  2. 2. Brunette.
  3. 3. Choleric.
  4. 4. Excitable.
  5. 5. Hasty.
  6. 6. Hysterical.
  7. 7. Impatient.
  8. 8. Indolent.
  9. 9. Irresolute.
  10. 10. Irritable.
  11. 11. Lax,
  12. 12. leucophlegmatic.
  13. 13. Lymphatic.
  14. 14. Lyphatic - Nervous.
  15. 15. Melancholic.
  16. 16. Mild.
  17. 17. Mischievous.
  18. 18. Nervous.
  19. 19. Phlegmatic.
  20. 20. Restless.
  21. 21. Sanguine.
  22. 22. Sensitive.
  23. 23. Slow, torpid.

OTHER RUBRICS FOUND UNDER PART- III

  1. 1. Accomplishes little though busy all the time.
  2. 2. Acidity, colic or spasms with, of infants.
  3. 3. Aged persons.
  4. 4. Agitation, nervous.
  5. 5. Alcoholism, chronic insomnia of.
  6. 6. Anaemia.
  7. 7. Animal heat diminished, constitutions with.
  8. 8. Assimilating power lack of.
  9. 9. Babies, colic of.
  10. 10. Big bellied children.
  11. 11. Body has a filthy smell, not removed by washing.
  12. 12. Breathlessness & fatigue, with flushed cheeks.
  13. 13. Bronchitis in old persons.
  14. 14. Cancers & glandular enlargements.
  15. 15. Catarrh, disposed to.
  16. 16. Chalky look, persons of.
  17. 17. Children:
    • - Abdomen, large with.
    • - Big bellied
    • - Big heads with.
    • - Chubby, fat.
    • - Clumsy.
    • - Convulsions of.
    • - Cross, outrageously.
    • - Dainty & capricious.
    • - Delicate, sickly.
    • - Emaciated.
    • - Excitable.
    • - Fair.
    • - Fat & bloated.
  18. 18. Damp, cold changes persons who take cold from.
  19. 19. Debility, nervous after influenza.
  20. 20. Defective nutrition.
  21. 21. Despair of perfect recovery.
  22. 22. Destructive tendency, persons of.
  23. 23. Diarrhoea:
    • - Chronic sufferers, from.
    • - Early, stages of.
    • - Profuse, watery, of old people.
  24. 24. Diathesis:
    • - Gouty.
    • - Lithic or sycotic.
    • - Psoric.
    • - Rheumatic.
    • - Scrofulous.
    • - Scrofulous or Mercurial.
  25. 25. Elderly persons.
  26. 26. Emaciated children.
  27. 27. Exhausted by disease.
  28. 28. Exercise, mental / physical, aversion to.
  29. 29. Extremities, cold, sallow people with.
  30. 30. Fasting, persons who have bowel complaints from.
  31. 31. Fear, terror & timidity.
  32. 32. Feeble, digestive powers.
  33. 33. Feet, soles of, hot.
  34. 34. Glands affections of, Persons having.
  35. 35. Gouty complaints.
  36. 36. Growth children of, irregular.
  37. 37. Haemorrhagic patients
  38. 38. Hands, fetid sweat on.
  39. 39. Imbecility.
  40. 40. Indolent persons.
  41. 41. Infancy, complaints during.
  42. 42. Jealous.
  43. 43. Jovial.
  44. 44. Jaundiced complexion.
  45. 45. Keen intellect with feeble muscular development.
  46. 46. Lack of animal heat.
  47. 47. Lack of reaction.
  48. 48. Lean persons.
  49. 49. Marasmus, children with.
  50. 50. Memory weak, persons of.
  51. 51. Milk, children who cannot take.
  52. 52. Neuritis, traumatic.
  53. 53. Nose-bleed of children.
  54. 54. Newborn children.
  55. 55. Obesity.
  56. 56. Old age.
  57. 57. Old looking children.
  58. 58. Pale children.
  59. 59. Pallor, lips of.
  60. 60. Perception quick.
  61. 61. Quick tempered persons.
  62. 62. Quinine, cases previously maltreated with.
  63. 63. Rapid progress of disease.
  64. 64. Red face.
  65. 65. Relaxed fibre.
  66. 66. Sallow people with cold extremities.
  67. 67. Scorbutic conditions.
  68. 68. Sedentary habits, persons of.
  69. 69. Tea drinkers, colic of.
  70. 70. Teething children.
  71. 71. Timid persons.
  72. 72. Tired feeling extending into limbs.
  73. 73. Ulcers, deep, thin patients with.
  74. 74. Urine, red sediment in.
  75. 75. Uterine disorders.
  76. 76. Vaccination, ailments from.
  77. 77. Venous constitution with tendency to haemorrhoids.
  78. 78. Warts on the palms.
  79. 79. Weak children.
  80. 80. Weakened by long sickness.
  81. 81. Wrinkled skin.
  82. 82. Yawning, complaints which are concomitant to.
  83. 83. Yellow skin.
  84. 84. Yellow saddle across nose, pot bellied mothers with.

PART IV REPERTORY TO THE CLINICAL RELATIONSHIPS

This section of the repertory gives in tabular form the chief clinical relations of all remedies of the Materia Medica so far as they have been noted. They are included under the following heading:

  1. 1. Complementary remedies
  2. 2. Remedy follows well
  3. 3. Remedy is followed well by
  4. 4. Compatible remedies
  5. 5. Incompatible remedies
  6. 6. Remedy antidotes
  7. 7. Remedy is antidoted by
  8. 8. Duration of action

The term compatible is generic term and includes all the remedies of the first three columns. Some remedies have been observed to prepare the way for other remedies; some to follow other well such remedies are termed compatible remedies. Some spoil the effects of other, and such are called incompatibles.

When a remedy has done well and has ceased to be indicated, the choice of the remedy to follow will be greatly assisted by knowledge of clinical relationships. In comparing the table Dr. Clarke has made use of the excellent table published by Dr. Gibson Miller.

PART V - REPERTORY OF NATURAL RELATIONSHIP

The homoeopathic Materia Medica consists potentially we may say, of anything and everything that may be found in the universe. Man himself epitomises the universe, and nothing in the universe can therefore be said to be unrelated to him.

The repertory of natural relationships shows at a glance the place in nature of any remedy in question mineral, vegetable or animal and how it stands in regards to its closest congeners. In the dictionary is given the natural order of each plant. In the repertory will be found an alphabetical list of all the natural orders represented, and under each is given In alphabetical order a list of all the plants of that order included in the Materia Medica

But there is also given a list of the natural orders in their systematic or evolutionary order; so that very order is here given in juxtra position with its allied orders. In this list a number is prefixed to each order; and in the alphabetical list is given each order the same number.

The following list shows remedies belonging to different kingdoms of nature arranged in order of their natural kinship. The list will enable readers to find how almost any given remedy in Materia medica is related to any other remedy in nature. The list comprise:

  1. 1) Metals or elements.
  2. 2) The Vegetable kingdom.
  3. 3) The Animal kingdom.
  4. 4) Sarcodes.
  5. 5) Nosodes.

1. Metals or elements

An alphabetical list of the elements represented is given, each with its symbol & atomic weight. Prefixed to each name is a number. This number shows its position in the succeeding list, which gives the elements in the order of their atomic weights. In addition to this distinguishing number in the second list is affixed the letter "G " & a Roman numeral. This refers to a third list - a list of the Mendeleeffian Groups; & the numeral shows in which of these groups any given element is to be found. E.g.

Alphabetical list

  • 10. Aluminium ..........Al 27.10
  • 44. Aurum.................Au 197.20
  • 48. Bismuthum............Bi 208.50
  • 28. Bromium...............Br 79.96
  • 33. (Cadmium) ............Cd 112.40
  • 16. (Calcium) ..............Ca 40.10
  • etc.

Note: The numerals prefixed to the names in this list show the place of each element in the list following, arranged in the order of the atomic weights.

The brackets signify that the element named is represented in the materia medica only by its salts.

List in order of Atomic weights

  1. 1. G I - Hydrogenium ----- 1.008
  2. 2. G I - Lithium -------------- 7.03
  3. 3. G III - Boron -------------- 11.00
  4. 4. G IV - Carbon ------------ 12.00
  5. 5. G V - Nitrogenium ----- 14.04
  6. 6. G VI - Oxygenium ----- 16.00
  7. 7. G VII - Flurinum -------- 19.00
  8. etc.

Note: The letters " G I" refers to the list following & show the group of elements to which the particular element belongs.

Groups according to Mendeleeff ( Group I - Group VIII)

  • Group I
    • Lithium
    • A.
      • Natrum
      • Kali
    • B.
      • Hydrogenium
      • Cuprum
      • Argentum
      • Aurum
  • Group II
    • A.
      • Magnesium
      • Calcium
      • Strontium
      • Barium
    • B.
      • Zincum
      • Cadmium
      • Mercurius
  • etc. till Group VIII

II -VEGETABLE KINGDOM

There are two lists given in this section - a list of natural orders in alphabetical order & a list of natural orders in systematic or evolutionary order. In the first or alphabetical list, under the name of each order, all the remedies of the order are given, also alphabetically. The alphabetical list is distinguished by numbers which correspond with the numbers of the systematic list, so that the place of any remedy in each list can at once be found. E.g.

NATURAL BOTANICAL ORDERS

1) Alphabetical list of natural botanical orders represented in materia medica

  • Algae (119)
  • Fucus vesiculosus
  • Amaryllidaceae (101)
  • Agave Americana
  • Narcissus
  • Anacardiaceae
  • Anacardium Occidentale
  • Anacardium Orientale
  • Comocladia
  • Rhus Aromatica
  • Rhus Diversiloba
  • Rhus Glabra
  • Rhus radicans
  • Rhus Toxicodendron
  • Rhus venenata
  • Schinus
  • Berberidaceae (5)
  • Berberis aquifolium
  • Berberis vulgaris.
  • Caulophyllum
  • Podophyllum
  • Cistaceae (11)
  • Cistus Canadensis
  • Droseraceae (38)
  • Drosera.
  • etc.

Note: The number affixed to each natural order shows the place of the order in the systematic arrangement given in the succeeding section.

2) List of natural Botanical orders represented in the materia medica in systematic arrangement.

Division 1 - Phanerogamia --> Sub-Division 1 - Angiospermia --> Class 1 - Dicotyledones --> Sub-class 1 - Polypetalae -->

> Series 1 - Thalamiflorae

  1. (1) Ranunculaceae
  2. (2) Magnoliaceae
  3. (3) Anonaceae
  4. (4) Menispermaceae
  5. (5) Berberidaceae
  6. (6) Nymphaeaceae
  7. Etc. till (19)

> Series 2 - Disciflorae

  1. (20) Linaceae
  2. (21) Zygophyllaceae
  3. (22) Geraniaceae
  4. etc. till (32)

> Series 3 - Calyciflorae

  1. (34) Leguminosae
    • Papilionaceae
    • Mimoseae
  2. (35) Rosaceae
    • Drupaceae
    • Pomeae
    • Roseae
  3. (36) Saxifragaceae
  4. etc. till (50)

--> Sub class 2 - Gamopetalae (or Corolliflorae)

> Series 1 - Inferoe (or Epigynoe)

  1. (51) Caprifoliaceae
  2. (52) Rubiaceae
  3. (53) Valerianaceae
  4. etc. till (55)

> Series 2 - Superae ( or Heteromerae)

  1. (56) Ericaceae
  2. (57) Plumbaginaceae
  3. (58) Primulaceae

> Series 3 - Dicarpiae

  1. (60) Oleaceae
  2. (61) Jasminaceae
  3. (62) Apocynaceae
  4. etc. till (75)

--> Sub class 3 - Monochlamydeae (or incompleteae)

> Series 1 - Curvembryeae

  1. (76) Chenopodiaceae
  2. (77) Phytolaccaceae
  3. (78) Polygonaceae
  4. etc. till (95)

--> Class 2 - Monocotyledones

  1. (96) Orchidaceae
  2. (97) Zingiberaceae
  3. (98) Musaceae
  4. etc. till (102)

--> Division- 2

  1. (103) Liliaceae
  2. (104) Smilaceae
  3. (105) Melanthaceae
  4. etc. till (113)

--> Sub division 2 - Gymnospermia

  1. (114) Coniferae
  2. (115) Gnetaceae

--> Division 2 - Cryptogamia

  1. (116) Equisetaceae
  2. (117) Filices
  3. (118) Lycopodiaceae

III - ANIMAL KINGDOM

Of the animal kingdom a similar arrangement has been adopted - an alphabetical list distinguished by numbers corresponding to numbers in the succeeding systematic list.

1. Alphabetical list of natural orders

  1. Acaridea (16)
  2. Trombidium
  3. Bufonidae (25)
  4. Bufo
  5. Carnivora (31)
  6. Mephitis
  7. Diptera (7)
  8. Culex musca
  9. Erytherineae (22)
  10. Erythrimus
  11. Fibrospongiae (91)
  12. Badiaga
  13. Spongia
  14. Gorgoniaeceae (3)
  15. Corallium Rubrum
  16. Helodermidae (30)
  17. Heloderma
  18. Isopoda (13)
  19. Oniscus
  20. etc.

2. Natural Zoological orders in systematic arrangement.

  1. Sub Kingdom 1- Protozoa
    (not represented)
  2. Sub Kingdom 2 - Coelenterata
    1. Class - Spongiae Class
      1. 1. Fibrospongiae
    2. Class - Hydrozoa Class
      1. 2. Physophorae
    3. Class - Actinozoa
      1. 3. Gorgoniaceae
  3. Sub Kingdom 3 - Echinodermata
    1. 4. Asteroidea (or Radiata)
  4. Sub Kingdom 4 - Vermes
    1. Class - Annelida
      1. 5. Hirudinea
  5. Sub Kingdom 5 - Articulata, Section Arthropoda
    1. Class - Insecta
      1. 6. Coleoptera
      2. 7. Diptera.
      3. 8. Hemiptera.
      4. 9. Hymenoptera.
      5. 10 .Lepidoptera
      6. 11. Orthoptera.
    2. Class - Myriapoda.
      1. 12. Chilopoda
    3. Class - Crustaceae
      1. 13. Isopoda.
      2. 14. Merostomata
      3. 15. Decapoda.
    4. Class - Arachnida
      1. 16. Acaridea.
      2. 17. Araneidea
      3. 18. Scorpiodia
  6. Sub Kingdom 6 - Mollusca
    1. 19. Cephalopoda.
    2. 20. Gasteropoda.
    3. 21. Lamellibranchiata.
  7. Sub Kingdom 7 - Vertebrata.
    1. (i) Pisces
      1. 22. Erythrineae
      2. 23. Gadidae
      3. 24. Trachinidae
    2. (ii) Batrachia ( or Amphibia)
      1. 25. Bufonidae
    3. (iii) Reptilia
      1. (a) Ophidia
        1. 26. Crotalidae
        2. 27. Elapidae
        3. 28. Viperidae
      2. (b) Sauria
        1. 29. Lacertilia
        2. 30. Helodermidae
    4. (iv) Mammalia
      1. 31. Carnivora.
      2. 32. Rodentia
      3. 33. Ruminantia

IV - SARCODES

"Sarcode" is the term designating the remedies prepared from healthy animal tissues & organs. These are remedies of very great importance & a list of them is given below, together with a supplementary list of remedies derived from altered tissues & secretions, as urea & uric acid from Urine, Thyro-iodin from Thyroid gland etc.

  1. 1. Adrenalinum.
  2. 2. Aranurumtela
  3. 3. Calcarea carbonica ( Ostrearum)
  4. 4. Calcarea Ovi Testae.
  5. 5. Carbo animalis
  6. 6. Castor equi.
  7. 7. Cervus.
  8. 8. Colostrum.
  9. 9. Conchiolinum.
  10. 10. Fel Tauri.
  11. 11. Gadus Morrhua
  12. 12. Helix tosta.
  13. 13. Hippomanes.
  14. 14. Lac caninum.
  15. 15. Lac felinum.
  16. 16. Lac vaccinum.
  17. 17. Oleum Jecoris aselli.
  18. 18. Oophorinum.
  19. 19. Orchitinum.
  20. 20. Ovi gallinae pellicula.
  21. 21. Ovi gallinae testa see Calc. Ovi testae
  22. 22. Pulmo Vulpis.
  23. 23. Sphingurus.
  24. 24. Thyroidinum.
  25. 25. Urinum.

SARCODE - derivatives

  1. 1. Cholesterinum.
  2. 2. Lac vaccinum coagulatum.
  3. 3. Lac Vaccinum defloratum.
  4. 4. Lacticum acidum.
  5. 5. Lactis vaccini flos.
  6. 6. Pancreatinum.
  7. 7. Pepsinum.
  8. 8. Pyrogenium ( or Serpsinum)
  9. 9. Sacharum Lactis
  10. 10. Thyroidinum
  11. 11. Urea.
  12. 12. Uricum acidum.

V - NOSODES
Nosodes are remedies derived from morbid tissues & secretions containing the specific virus of diseases. A list of these remedies is given below:

Animal:

  1. 1. Ambra Grisea (?)
  2. 2. Anthracinum.
  3. 3. Aviaire
  4. 4. Bacillinum.
  5. 5. Bacillinum testium.
  6. 6. Diphtherinum.
  7. 7. Hippozoeninum.
  8. 8. Hydrophobinum ( or Lyssinum)
  9. 9. Malandrinum.
  10. 10. Medorrhinum.
  11. 11. Melitagrinum.
  12. 12. Pestinum ( or Plaguinum)
  13. 13. Psorinum.
  14. 14. Septicaeminum.
  15. 15. Syphilinum ( Luesinum or Lueticum)
  16. 16. Tuberculinum.
  17. 17. Vaccininum.
  18. 18. Variolinum.

Vegetable:

  1. 1. Ergotinum ( derivative)
  2. 2. Nectrianinum.
  3. 3. Secale cornutum.
  4. 4. Ustilago maidis.

Limitations / Disadvantages:

  1. 1. Number of medicines given under each rubric is very few, even in general rubric as compared to other repertories.
  2. 2. There is no grading of remedies, so we cannot find most important remedy for each condition.
  3. 3. Most of the remedies used are rare and the curative effects of which are to be proved.
  4. 4. Many medicines given in sub-rubrics are not included in general rubric. Eg : Asthma - hysterical - Nux mosch.
  5. 5. This repertory can only be used for quick reference and not for good systematic repertorization.

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