Paediatric Priority - A Repertory Based on Boericke

Dear Homoeopathic Brethren,

As "Necessity is the Mother of All Inventions" so, since the time of Hahnemann need of indexing symptom has given rise to so many types as well as forms of repertories.

Here an attempt has been made to present an important speciality subject of medical field in form of repertory that is PAEDIATRICS.

Boericke's work has always been praised since it was published. I have tried to collect the rubrics related with paediatric complaints scattered throughout the Boericke repertory. I concentrated only on those rubrics which suggest having special word as neonate, infant, child, etc.

I hope that it may be helpful to all of those who love Boericke's repertory. But be careful while using the clinical repertory because it doesn't fit the whole man. If you don't know the repertory well, selecting a remedy upon the clinical symptoms alone can lead to higher range of failures.

 MIND

MOOD, DISPOSITION:

Fretful;

Child cannot bear to be touched, looked at, or spoken to -

Ant. c., Ant. t., Cham., Cina, Gels., Nux v., Sanic., Sil., Thuya.

Child wants different things, but petulantly rejects them -

 Ant. t., Bry., Cham., Cina, Ipec., Kreos., Rheum, Staph.

 

HEAD

HEADACHE (Cephalalgia):

Type;

Chronic, School girls -

Calc. p., Kali p., Nat. m., Phos. ac., Picr. ac., Psor., Tub., Zinc. m.

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EYES

OPHTHALMIA:

Gonorrhœal (neonatorum) -

 Acon., Arg. n., Bell., Calc. s., Can. s., Hep., Kali s., Merc. c., Merc. pr. rub., Merc., Nit. ac., Puls., Rhus t., Syph., Thuya.

EARS

DEAFNESS, hardness of hearing:

Cause;

Nutritional disturbance, in growing children -

 Calc. c., Merc. i. r.

NOSE

INTERNAL NOSE:

Bleeding (epistaxis);

OCCURRENCE AND CONCOMITANTS

Children growing rapidly, in -

 Abrot., Arn., Calc. c., Croc., Phos.

Inflammation (rhinitis)

CORYZA,

Aggravation, Newborn, in -

 Dulc.

Inflammation (rhinitis);

Purulent in children -

Alum., Arg. n., Calc. c., Cycl., Hep., Iod., Kali bich.,

 Lyc., Nat. c., Nit. ac.

MOUTH

BREATH

Offensive (fetor oris)

Girls at puberty in -

 Aur. m.

 

TEETH

DENTITION, teething difficult, delayed -

Acon., Bell., Bor., Calc. c., Calc. p., Caust., Cham., Cheiranth., Coff., Cupr., Gels., Hekla, Kali br., Kreos., Mag. p., Merc., Nux v., Passifl., Phyt., Pod., Puls., Sil., Solan. n., Staph., Sul., Terb., Zinc. br., Zinc. m.

Concomitants;

Cerebral, nervous symptoms -

 Acon., Agar., Bell., Cham., Cim., Cyprip., Dolichos., Helleb., Kali br., Pod., Solan. n., Tereb., Zinc.

Compression of gums -

Cic., Phyt., Pod.

Constipation, general irritation, cachexia -

Kreos., Nux v., Op.

Convulsions -

Bell., Calc. c., Cham., Cic., Cupr., Glon., Kali br., Mag. p., Solan. n., Stann., Zinc. br.

Cough -

Acon., Bell., Ferr. p., Kreos.

Deafness, otorrhœa, stuffiness of nose -

 Cheiranth.
 

Diarrhœa -

 Æth., Calc. c., Calc. p., Cham., Ferr. p., Ipec., Kreos., Mag. c., Merc., Oleand., Phos., Pod., Puls., Rheum, Sil.

Effusion threatened, in brain -

Apis, Helleb., Tub., Zinc. m.

Eye symptoms -

Bell., Calc. c., Puls.

Insomnia -

 Bell., Cham., Coff., Cyprip., Kreos., Passifl., Scutel., Tereb.

Intertrigo -

Caust., Lyc.

Milk indigestion -

Æth., Calc. c., Mag. m.

 

Salivation -

 Bor.

Sour smell of body, pale face, irritability -

 Kreos.

Weakness, pallor, fretfulness, must be carried rapidly -

 Ars.

Worms -

Cina, Merc., Stann.

 

STOMACH

VOMITING, retching:

CAUSE;

Cyclic, in infants -

 Cupr. ars., Ingluv., iris, Kreos., Merc. d.

 

ABDOMEN

COLIC, PAIN:

CAUSE & NATURE;

Babies'colic -

 Æth., Asaf., Bell., Calc. p., Cataria, Cepa, Cham., Cina, Col., Illic., Jal., Kali br., Lyc., Mag. p., Mentha pip., Nepeta, Rheum, Senna, Staph.

ANUS - RECTUM:

ERUPTIONS, growths;

Rash, fiery red in babies -

Med.

PROLAPSUS ANI;

Children [In] -

Bell., Ferr. m., Ferr. p., Ign., Mur. ac., Nux v., Pod.

CHOLERA:

INFANTUM;

Summer complaint -

Acon., Æth., Ant. t., Apis, Arg. n., Ars., Bell., Bism., Bry., Cadm. s., Calc. ac., Calc. c., Calc. p., Camph., Camph. monobr., Canth., Cham., Cinch., Col., Crot. t., Cuphea, Cupr. ac., Cupr. ars., Cupr. m., Elat., Euphorb. cor., Ferr. p., Graph., Hydroc. ac., Indol., Iodof., Ipec., Iris, Kali br., Kreos., Laur., Merc., Nat. m., Ox. ac., Passifl., Phos., Phyt., Pod., Psor., Resorc., Sec., Sep., Sil., Sul., Tab., Ver. a., Zinc. m.

CONSTIPATION:

TYPE;

Infants-

Bottle fed.; artificial food -

Alum., Nux v., Op.

Children -

Æsc., Alum., Apis, Bell., Bry., Calc. c., Caust., Collins., Croc., Hydr., Lyc., Mag. m., Nux. v., Nyct. arb. tr., Paraf., Pod., Psor., Sanic., Sep., Sil., Sul., Ver. a.

 

DIARRHŒA, Enteritis:

OCCURRENCE;

Infants, children -

 Acon., Æth., Apis, Arg. n., Ars., Arundo, Bapt., Bell., Benz. ac., Bism., Bor., Calc. ac., Calc. c., Calc. p., Camph., Cham., Cinch., Cina, Col., Colost., Crot. t., Dulc., Ferr., Grat., Helleb., Hep., Ipec., Jal., Kali br., Kreos., Laur., Lyc., Lyssin, Mag. c., Merc. c., Merc. d., Merc., Nit. ac., Nux v., Paul., Phos. ac., Phos., Pod., Psor., Rheum, Sabad., Sep., Sil., Sul., Val., Ver. a.

Dentition -

 Acet. ac., Acon., Æth., Arundo, Bell., Benz. ac., Bor., Calc. ac., Calc. c., Calc. p., Cham., Ipec., Jal., Kreos., Mag. c., Merc. v., Nux m., Oleand., Phyt., Pod., Psor., Rheum, Sil.

HÆMORRHOIDS (piles):

CONCOMITANTS;

Sudden development in marantic children [With] -

 Mur. ac.

JAUNDICE (icterus):

Infantile -

Cham., Lupul., Merc. d., Merc. s., Myr.

UMBILICUS, NAVEL:

Bleeding from, in newborn -

Abrot., Calc. p.

 

URINARY SYSTEM

BLADDER:

ENURESIS - Incontinence;

CAUSE;

Sleep [during first]; child aroused with difficulty -

 Caust., Kreos., Sep.

Habit the only ascertainable cause -

Equis.

URINARY FLOW:

STRANGURY;

Children [In] -

Bor., Lyc., Sars

 

MALE SEXUAL SYSTEM

SYPHILIS:

CONGENITAL, infantile -

Æthiops, Ars. iod., Ars. m., Aur., Calc. fl., Calc. iod., Coral., Kali iod., Kreos., Merc. d., Merc. s., Merc. v., Nit. ac., Psor., Syph.

TESTICLES:

Undescended testicle in boys -

 Thyr.

FEMALE SEXUAL SYSTEM

LEUCORRHŒA:

OCCURRENCE;

MODALITIES,

Infants, little girls [In] -

Asperula, Calc. c., Can. s., Carb. ac., Caul., Cina, Cub., Hydr., Merc. i. fl., Merc., Millef., Puls., Sep., Syph.

MASTURBATION:

In children, due to pruritus vulvæ -

 Calad., Orig., Zinc. m.

 

RESPIRATORY SYSTEM

BRONCHIAL TUBES:

ASTHMA;

TYPE & OCCURRENCE,

Humid, children [in] -

Nat. s., Samb., Thuya.

COUGH:

CAUSE, OCCURRENCE, AGGRAVATION;

Anger [after],Children [in] -

 Anac., Ant. t.

Falling asleep [after], especially, in children, constant tickling Cough without waking -

 Acon., Agar., Aral., Cham., Cycl., Lach., Nit. ac., Sul., Tub., Verbasc.

 

RESPIRATION:

DYSPNŒA (difficult, embarrassed, oppressed, anxious);

Aggravated,

Children [in] -

Lyc., Samb.

 

SKIN

ACNE:

Anæmic girls at puberty [in], with vertex headache, flatulent dyspepsia, better by eating -

Calc. p.

Tubercular children [In] -

 Tub.

ERYSIPELAS:

Neonatorum -

Bell., Camph.

Traumatic;

Umbilical, of new born -

 Apis.

URTICARIA (hives, nettle rash):

MODALITIES;

AGGRAVATIONS,

Children [In] -

 Cop.

 

NERVOUS SYSTEM

BRAIN:

EPILEPSY (grand mal);

CAUSE - CONCOMITANTS,

In children -

 Æth., Art. v., Bell., Bufo, Calc. c., Cham., Cupr. m., Ign., Sil., Sul.

PARALYSIS;

Infantile (poliomyelitis anterior) -

 Acon., Æth., Bell., Calc. c., Caust., Chrom. s., Gels., Lathyrus, Nux v., Phos., Plumb. m., Rhus t., Sec., Sul.

INSOMNIA (sleeplessness);

In children -

Absinth., Acon., Ars., Bell., Calc. br., Cham., Cina, Cyprip., Hyos., Kali br., Passifl., Phos., Puls., Sul.

GENERALITIES:

CONVULSIONS;

CAUSE AND TYPE,

Children, infants, from reflex causes, dentition -

Absinth., Acon., Æth., Art. v., Bell., Calc. c., Camph. monobr., Caust., Cham., Chloral, Cic., Cina, Cocc., Cupr. m., Cyprip., Glon., Helleb., Hydroc. ac., Hyos., Ign., Kali br., Kreos., Laur., Mag. p., Meli., Mosch., Nux v., Œnanthe., Op., Santon., Scutel., Stann., Stram., Zinc. m., Zinc. sul.

GENERALITIES

 

ASPHYXIA :

Neonatorum -

Ant. t., Laur.

DROPSY:

Newborn [in] -

 Apis, Caffeine, Carbo v., Dig., Lach.

MARASMUS (emaciation, atrophy, wasting):

Atrophy

Children [of] -

 Abrot., Arg. n., Ars., Ars. sul., Bac., Bar. c., Calc. p., Calc. sil., Iod., Nat. m., Ol j. as., Phos., Pod., Psor., Sanic., Sars., Sul., Thyr., Tub.

MUTISM of childhood :-

Agraph.

OBESITY (adiposis, corpulence):

Children [in] -

 Ant. c., Bar. c., Calc. c., Caps., Ferr. m., Kali bich., Sacchar. Of