A Synoptic Key of Materia Medica

The aim of this book is to simplify and introduce method in to this work, so that the truly Homoeopathic curative remedy may be worked out with greater ease and certainty. For this purpose a combination of the analytical and synoptic methods has been thought best.

A clinical symptom is best obtained by asking the patient to tell his own story, which is then amplified and more accurately defined by eliciting the cause and course of sickness to which he will add all the things which now seem to interfere with the sufferer’s comfort & thereby he highlighted the importance of individualization at the level of pathological changes by introducing pathological generals in his repertory part.

The natural modifiers of sickness — the modalities, which characterize the symptoms in a case. Those modalities are given much importance than the mentals in this repertory.

A consideration of the mental state comes next in order of importance.

The third step consists of patient’s own description of his sensations.

Next in order comes the entire objective or expression of the sickness.

Lastly the part affected must be determined.

The details of the above five points are as follows:

MODALITIES

• Causation. Time. Temp.
• Weather. Open air. Posture.
• Motion. Eating and Drinking.
• Sleep. If Alone. Pressure.
• Touch. Discharges.

MIND

• IRRITABILITY
• SADNESS.
• FEAR.
• PLACIDITY.

SENSATION

• BURNING. CRAMPING.
• CUTTING. BURSTING.
• SORENESS. THROBBING.
• THIRST.

OBJECTIVE ASPECT

• DEMEANOR.
• RESTLESSNESS.
• NERVOUS EXCITABILITY.
• FACIAL EXPRESSION.
• TORPOR. SECRETIONS.
• COLOR. ODOR.

PART AFFECTED

• ORGANS.
• RIGHT.
• LEFT.

The synopsis is intended to make clear the general expression or genius of each remedy and thereby help the prescriber correct his bearings. The scope of its contents is much enlarged by bracketing the most nearly affiliated remedies after some of the more important symptoms; this also helps in making differentiations.

PART ONE: ANALYSIS- A short repertory containing:

• The periods of aggravation.
• Conditions of aggravation and amelioration.
• Generalities i.e. consideration of drug affinities for the entire organism.
• Regional repertory.

The periods of aggravation includes:

• Periodically.
• Morning.
• Afternoon.
• Evening.
• Night.

• Air, cold, dry aggravation.
• Anticipations, <
• Ascending <.
• Bathing >.
• Bed, Getting out of <
• Bending <
• Biting or chewing <
• Bleeding > etc.

• Aching.
• Acridity.
• Albuminous.
• Alive sensation.
• Ammoniacal odor.
• Anaemia, chlorosis.
• Aneurism.
• Apoplexy.
• Associated effects.
• Ball, lump, knot etc.
• Burns.
• Cancer.
• Carbuncle etc.

Regional repertory includes:

PART TWO: SYNOPSIS — An exposition of the important and characteristic features of the most important remedies of the Homoeopathic Materia Medica, with their physiological spheres of activities, modalities and relationships. It includes 323 remedies.

PART THREE: Includes-

• Table of the approximate duration of action of remedies.
• Complementary remedies.
• Antagonistic remedies.
• Supplemental reference table i.e. a valuable additional table for ready reference to the reportorial portion in the text.

At the end list of remedies and their abbreviations are given which have been used in the repertory. It includes 489 remedies.

Special features of this synoptic key:

Certain rubrics found in this repertory, which are not available in other common repertories. They are as follows:

Break fast after; eating long after; dinner agg; females agg; direction of sensations; pains, (spread of symptoms like, Here and there); ill or sick feeling; internal affections; irregular effects; loose as if; medicine sensitive to; opening & shutting; reaction violent; rising then falling; stretch impulses to; spare habit; walk impulses to; For the rubric dreams of snakes — Lachesis has not been mentioned in any other repertory.

How to choose the remedy & regarding posology also has been highlighted in this repertory.