CONTINUING HOMOEOPATHY MEDICAL EDUCATION SERVICES QUARTERLY HOMOEOPATHIC DIGEST VOL. VIII. No. 4, DEC. 1991 PART I CURRENT LITERATURE LISTING A list of current homoeopathic literature, subjectwise, is given below. Expect for the CCRH Quarterly Bulletin all the others are from the British, American, German etc. Journals, not readily accessible to every homoeopathy. Some of the article will appear in Part II of the Quarterly Homoeopathic DIGEST,asabstract/summary/conde nsation/full, etc., I. PHILOSOPHY 1. Homoeopathy and the calculations KLUNKER, W. (ZKH, 34, 5/90) 2. HAHNEMANN and HEGEL or the medicament is the disease picture – Part II HAHNEMANN’s thoughts on the healing process and the structure of the Similie Rule BUTTNER, S. (ZKH, 34, 5/90) 3. Clemens von BOENNINGHAUSEN and the future of HAHNEMANN’s miasms theory for the treatment of chronic diseases. KLUNKER, W. (ZKH, 34, 6/90) 4. A proving week-end SAMUEL, Kay (The Homoeopath, 10, 1/90) 5. The Alchemist and the Goddess: Further thoughts NORLAND, Misha (The Homoeopath , 10, 1/90) 6. Critical thoughts on theory of miasms WOUTERS, Maarten (NTKH, 2, 2/91) 7. Interview with Rajan SANKARAN (GELDERBLOM, Wim (NTKH, 2, 2/91) II. MATERI MEDICA 1. Answer to the case ‘Vegetative Dysregulation’ in AHZ 235, 4/90. GEBHARDT, K.-H (AHZ, 235, 5/90) 2. Homoeo-quiz-Multiple Sclerosis MULLER, H.V. (AHZ, 235, 5/90) 3. Lycopus europacus – a less known homoeopathic medicine
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CONTINUING HOMOEOPATHY
MEDICAL EDUCATION SERVICES
QUARTERLY HOMOEOPATHIC
DIGEST
VOL. VIII. No. 4, DEC. 1991
PART I CURRENT LITERATURE
LISTING
A list of current homoeopathic literature,
subjectwise, is given below.
Expect for the CCRH Quarterly Bulletin all the
others are from the British, American, German
etc. Journals, not readily accessible to every
homoeopathy. Some of the article will appear
in Part II of the Quarterly Homoeopathic
DIGEST,asabstract/summary/condensation/ful
l, etc.,
I. PHILOSOPHY
1. Homoeopathy and the calculations
KLUNKER, W. (ZKH, 34, 5/90)
2. HAHNEMANN and HEGEL or the
medicament is the disease picture – Part II
HAHNEMANN’s thoughts on the healing
process and the structure of the Similie Rule
BUTTNER, S. (ZKH, 34, 5/90)
3. Clemens von BOENNINGHAUSEN and the
future of HAHNEMANN’s miasms theory for
the treatment of chronic diseases.
KLUNKER, W. (ZKH, 34, 6/90)
4. A proving week-end
SAMUEL, Kay (The Homoeopath, 10, 1/90)
5. The Alchemist and the Goddess: Further
thoughts
NORLAND, Misha (The Homoeopath , 10,
1/90)
6. Critical thoughts on theory of miasms
WOUTERS, Maarten (NTKH, 2, 2/91)
7. Interview with Rajan SANKARAN
(GELDERBLOM, Wim (NTKH, 2, 2/91)
II. MATERI MEDICA
1. Answer to the case ‘Vegetative
Dysregulation’ in AHZ 235, 4/90.
GEBHARDT, K.-H (AHZ, 235, 5/90)
2. Homoeo-quiz-Multiple Sclerosis
MULLER, H.V. (AHZ, 235, 5/90)
3. Lycopus europacus – a less known
homoeopathic medicine
HERZ, W. (AHZ, 235, 6/90)
4. Treatment of a Depression with Aurum
metallicum
FRIEDRICH, U. (AHZ, 235, 6/90)
5. Answer to the Homoeo-quiz: Multiple
Sclerosis in AHZ 235, 5/90)
MULLER, H.V. (AHZ, 235, 6/90)
6. Primary chronic polyarthritis – Homoeo
quiz
SCHUTTE, M. (AHZ, 235, 6/90)
7. Chronic Delusions – Lepidium bonaricnse
KRISHNAMURTHY, P.S. (ZKH, 34, 5/90)
8. A look into BOENNINGHAUSEN’s
Practice – Part II – Relationship of remedies
WEGENER, A (ZKH, 34, 5/90)
9. Derangement of vision – Gelsemium
GYPSER, K.H. (ZKH, 34, 6/90)
10. Amica Montana – the mountain daisy
ELMORE, Dutt (Resonance, 12, 6/90)
11. Ledum palustre
ELMORE, Dutt (Resonance, 12, 6/90)
12. Some thoughts on the psychology of Nux
vomica with special reference to children.
SHORE, Jonathan (JAIH, 83, 4/90)
13. Cyclamen
LOGAN, Robin (The Homoepath, 10,
1/90)
14. Carcinosin: the complete rubrics?
TREUHERZ, Francis (The Homoeopath,
10, 1/90)
15. The Leech: Hirudo medicinalis
TWENTYMAN, Ralph (The Homoeopath,
10, 1/90)
16. Notes from the Seminar of Ananda
ZAREN
VAN DEN BORN, Alineke (NTKH, 2,
2/91)
17. Case of Anacardium orientale
BREUKER, Bert (NTKH, 2, 2/91)
III THERAPEUTICS
1. Headaches in ENT practice
FRIESE, K.-H (AHZ, 235, 5/90)
2. Homeopathic treatment of Basedow’s
disease treated with Lycopodium
KLEBER, J.J. (AHZ, 235, 5/90)
3. Homoeopathic treatment of difficulat and
therapy-resistant hip pains after endoprothetic
implantation – Medorrhinum
(ZKH, 34, 6/90)
4. Two childbirth remedies
MOSKOWITZ, Richard (BHJ, 79, 4/90)
5. The evolution of a homoeopathic
paediatrician
LEVATIN, Janet (Resonance, 12, 5/90)
6. Osteoporosis
NEUSTAEDTER, Randall (Resonance, 12,
5/90)
7. Treating vaginitis with homoeopathy
REICHENBERG-ULLMAN, Judyth
(Resonance, 12, 5/90)
8. Healing low self-esteem and shame
REICHENBERG-ULLMAN, Judyth
(Resonance, 12, 6/90)
9. Why Homoeopathy for children
LEVATIN, Janet (Resonance, 12, 6/90)
10. Fear of the dentist
STEPHENSON, David I. (Resonance, 12,
6/90)
11. Homoeopathic Antidotes
SCHOONOVER, Candace (Editorial
comment – Jonathan SHORE) (JAIH, 83,
4/90)
12. Methods of case analysis – Part II
MORRISON, Roger (JAIH, 83, 4/90)
13. Homoeopathic treatment of multiple
sclerosis patient
SAINE, Andre (The Homoeopath, 10,
1/90)
14. Family dynamics and Homoeopathy
MORRISON, Roger and HERRICK,
Nancy (NTKH, 2, 2/91)
IV. REPERTORY
1. Remedy mix-up in KENT Repertory –
Cactus grandiflorus and Castoreum.
EPPENICH, H. (ZKH, 34, 6/90)
2. How are finger numbered in KENT
Repertory?
EPPENICH, H. (ZKH, 34, 6/90)
3. Analysis of rubrics in KENT’s Repertory -
Part 5.
Headache from fasting
WALDECKER, A. (ZKH, 34, 6/90)
V. RESEARCH
1. Current perspectives for homoeopathic
research – results of earlier researches – Part 2.
WALACH, H. (AHZ, 235, 5/90)
2. Science – Homoeopathy - Placebo
SPAICH, W. (AHZ, 235, 5/90)
3. Homoeopathy as a practical alternative to
traditional obstetric methods.
VENTOSKOVSKIY, BM.; POPOV, A.V.
(BHJ, 79, 4/90)
4. Ultrasonic study of homoeopathic solutions
SILVIO, Maranta; ARNALDO, Paparelli
(BHJ, 79, 4/90)
5. Practical applications of isotherapy in
chronic and acute pathologies
DI NEPI, Luciano (BHJ, 79, 4/90)
6. An assessment of treatment of migraine
headache syndrome in patients seen in private
practice.
FOX, DUNSTAN Anthony (BHJ, 79,
4/90)
7. Dose-dependent effect of Baryta
carbonicum and Baryta muriaticum in
homoepathic trituration on experimentally
induced high serum lipid concentration in
chickens.
NANDI, M.; RAHA, D. (BHJ, 79, 4/90)
8. Research Review – Negative results
(BHJ, 79, 4/90)
VI. PHARMACY
1. Documentation of homoeopathic remedies
insufficiently substantiated.
BANZHAF, A; BROESE, R (AHZ, 235,
5/90)
2. Homoeopathy and accommodation in the
nineties
BORNEMAN, Jay (Resonance, 12, 6/90)
VII. BIOGRAPHY
1. The medical education of James Tyler
KENT
LEARY, Bernard (BHJ, 79, 4/90)
VIII. HISTORY
1. How HAHNEMANN came to the high
potencies: a chapter from the history of
Homoeopathy
SAUERBECK, K.O. (AHZ, 235, 6/90)
2. The research in Homoeopathy by the
Government Health Department of Germany
in 1936 – 39.
WALACH, H (ZKH, 34, 6/90)
3. Morbific stimuli and the Vital Force of
Homoeopathy
NOSSAMAN, Nicholas (about Dr. George
GUESS and the State of North Carolina)
(JAHI, 83, 4/90)
4. Homais, Homoeopathy and Madame Bovary
MICHOT-DIETRICH, Hela (The
Homoeopath, 10, 1/90)
IX. GENERAL
1. Correspondence – Reports: Restoration of
the HAHNEMANN Memorial in Leipzig:
Homoeopathy in the GDR; Report on the
‘Practical course of Anamnesis technique and
case analysis according to KENT’ with Dr.
DIRKEN. Rainer (AHZ, 235, 5/90)
2. Reports on 142nd anniversary of the German
Central Union of Homoeopathic Physicians
(DZVhA) 24 – 26.5.1990 in Hannover; (AHZ,
235, 6/90)
“World Homoeopathic Congress on Cancer”
KRISHNAMURTHY, P.S. (ZKH, 34, 5/90)
3. International references; Press Abstracts;
Book Reviews;
Letter to Editor
(AHZ, 235, 5 & 6/90, ZKH, 34, 5 & 6/90,
Resonance, 12, 6/90 The Homoeopathy, 10,
1/90, BHJ, 79, 4/90, NTKH, 2, 2/90)
4. Drugs and Toxicology; Therapeutical
observations
(AHZ, 235, 5 & 6/90)
5. Verifications and Clinical symptoms
(ZKH, 34, 5 &6/90)
6. Alert: Homoeopathy banned in US State
(the case of Dr. George GUESS of North
Carolina)
(BHJ, 79, 4/90)
7. Enough nonsense on immunization
FISHER, Peter (BHJ, 79, 4/90)
8. Homoeopathy: a report for the future
ULLMAN, Dana (Resonance, 12, 5/90)
9. A Homoeopath in every town
BORNEMAN (Resonance, 12, 5/90)
10. State Supreme Court rules against Dr.
GUESS (Resonance, 12, 5/90)
11. Homoeopathy illegal in North Carolina – a
time for solidarity within the homoeopathic
community.
(Resonance, 12, 6/90)
12. An interview with Eugenio CANDEGABE
O’SULLIVAN, Edward. (NTKH, 2, 2/91)
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VOL. VIII No. 4 Dec. 1991
PART II ARTICLES
HAHNEMANN’s advice is, to take all the
symptoms of each case, as if it were the only
one Comp. Organon, Aph. 83, and following
the same is to be done while proving write
down all the symptoms. Comp. Organon, Aph.
138, 139 & c. In contradiction the common old
schools examine each case in order to make a
diagnosis and to enable the doctor to tell the
patient “what is the matter”, and if they talk
about the effects of a drug, they ask: “what
diseases does it cure?” “What pathological
generality is its character?” The true
Hahnemannian examines each case to get such
symptoms as distinguish this case from all
tohers. He observes the strictest
individualization; like a portrait painter, he
wants a photograph of each single case of
sickness. Such symptoms or groups of
symptoms as distinguish the case before him
form others, are the characteristic symptoms
he aims at. The same in proving; we want the
characteristics of a medicine, i.e., such
symptoms as distinguish it from all others.
HAHNEMANN’s rule sets forth, that we
must aim to get all symptoms, particularly
such as have hitherto been overlooked,
neglected, not listened to and sneered at. to get
what we necessarily must know. It is the same
with provings of drugs. By collecting all and
every symptom and particularly the so-called
minutiae, we obtain the characteristics. The
common old schools are satisfied with a
general pathological character by which drugs
may be divided into classes, but never can be
individualized, each as a thing per. se.
HAHNEMANN’s first rule is the
characteristic of the case must be similar to the
characteristic of the drug (compare Organon,
Aph. 153, and others).
This rule has also been expressed in the
following words. The symptoms of a case and
the symptoms of a medicine must not only be
alike, one by one. but in both the same
symptoms must also be of a like rank.
(Compare Archive. XI., 3, p.92) It is thus the
rank, according to which we arrange the
symptoms obtained by the examination of a
case, - the rank, the value, the importance of
the respective symptoms of the drug, which
decides when, as it often will happen, several
different drugs have apparently the same
similarity; it is this rank which decides in the
selection.
HAHNEMANN has given us a second
rule in his Chronic Diseases. We may either
adopt his psoric theory or not; but, if we follow
his practical advice laid down in the said work,
we shall, in proportion, have far better success
and will be forced to adopt at least all the
practice rules contained in the said theory.
The pith of this theory is not refuted by
the discovery of the scarus scabiei, nor by the
generation sequlvoca, nor the contagiousness,
nor by the propagation of the animalculae, nor
by anything else; the quintessence of his
doctrine is, to give in all chronic diseases, i.e.
such as progress from without inwardly, from
the less essential parts of our body to the more
essential, from the periphery to the central
HAHNEMANN’s THREE RULESCONCERNING THE RANK OF SYMPTOMSConstantine HERINGThe Hahnemannian MonthlyI, 1/1865
organ, generally from below upwards, - to give
in all such cases by preference, such drugs as
are opposite in their direction, or way of
action, such as act from within outward, from
up downward, from the most essential organs
to the less essential from the brain and the
nerves outwards and down to the most outward
and the lowest of all organs, to the skin,
(Compare Preface to treatise on Chronic
Diseases, p.7, and following). The metaphysics
of our science tell us, that all drug diseases
(paranosses) are in their essence and offspring,
opposite to the whole mass of epidemic,
contagious, and other disease, all of the later
being originated by a conflux of causes,
(Synnoses).
HANENMANN’s doctrine of treating
chronic disease, includes another and opposite
viz., the opposite direction in the development
of each case of chronic disease. All the
antipsoric drugs of HAHNEMANN have this
peculiarity as the most characteristic, the
evolution of the effects from within towards
without. Thus, all symptoms indicating such a
direction in the cases from without towards
within, and in the drugs the opposite from
within towards without, are of the highest
rank, they decide the choice.
HAHNEMANN gives us a third rule,
which has been overlooked by all the low
dilutionists, or is, at least, never mentioned by
them, and has even been entirely neglected by
the theorizers of our school; notwithstanding
that, with this third rule, the homoeopathic
healing art would be a most imperfect one.
This rule enables the true Hahnemannian artist,
not only to cure the most obstinate chronic
diseases, but also to make a certain prognosis,
when discharging a case, whether the patient
will remain cured, or whether the disease will
return, like a half-paid creditor, at the first
opportunity.
HAHNEMANN states, in his treatise on
chronic disease, first edition, p. 228, second
edition, p.168, American translation p.171:
Symptoms recently developed are the first to
yield; old symptoms disappear last. Here we
have one of HAHNEMANN’s general
observations, which lie all of them, is of
endless value, a plain, practical rule and of
immense importance.
It might seem to some so very natural that
recent symptoms should give way first, older
ones last, that it ought to have been observed
by all and every physician at all times. But this
is not the case; it was never observed before
HAHNEMANN, nor ever stated as a rule
before.
We will set forth here all the
consequences of this rule of succession but
first repeat it in another form.
We might express the above rule also in
the following words; In diseases of long
standing, where the symptoms or groups of
symptoms have befallen the sick in a certain
order, succeeding, each other , more and more
being added from time to time to those already
existing, in such cases this order should be
reversed during the cure; the last ought to
disappear first and the first last.
Suppose a patient had experienced the
symptoms he suffers in the order a,b,c,d,e, then
they ought to leave him, if the cure is to be
perfect and permanent, in the order, e,d,c,b,a.
The latest symptoms have thus the highest
rank in deciding the choice of a remedy.
Suppose a patient complains of new
symptoms, as it often happens during the
treatment of cases of long standing,
particularly if we have chosen with great care a
so-called antipsoric medicine, and the
improvement has, of course, continued
uninterruptedly, foru, six, eight weeks, after
which time the improvement gradually ceases,
runs out, and the patient begins again to
complain rather more. In such cases we will
very often find, if we again take an accurate
image of the newly increased diseased state,
exactly as we did before, that several new
symptoms have appeared. We may represent it
by the formula: a,b,c,d,c, have lessened,
especially e, d, c, and now a, b are on the
increase again, even c reappears d, e, are gone,
but another symptom f has been added or f, g
These new symptoms are always of the highest
rank, even if apparently unimportant.
It may be observed that they generally are
such as will be found among the symptoms of
the last given remedy, thus the caution may
here be in its place, that after such a long
interval, or after such a real again, as the
disappearance of d, e, the same drug will never
be of any more benefit, the greatest counter –
indication ebing the new symptoms. Another
medicine has to be selected, and one which has
especially f, or f, g, as characteristics.
The practical influence of these three rules
of rank proves to be not only a manifold one,
but their observance becomes a characteristic
sign of difference of a mere empiric – in
homoeopathics a perverted Homoeopathician,
and a real Hahnemannian; the first will cover
symptom by symptom, without knowing or
making any distinction; the second will be
satisfied with a few such symptoms as tell him,
what he calls the scientific character and
enable him to go on the stilts of pathology; the
third will observe the rules and heal the sick as
HAHNEMANN did. It is thus worthwhile to
look at them closer, and let them pass before
our eyes once more.
According to the first rule we must inquire
not only for the seat of the symptoms, inquire
which organ seems to be the center o the
pathological action, but also for the minutiae in
locality, notwithstanding their complete
unimportance in pathology, viz., little
inflammations on the point of the nose and
lobe of the ear may help to indicate Nitrum,
etc., According to this rule we will carefully
note it down, if any of these sensations of a
patient are on one side of the body or the other,
if they predominate on one side, or if they pass
over from one side to the other.
We have further to inquire for each kind
of sensation with much more accuracy than
would be required if we had nothing else to
decide than the pathological character; some
peculiar sensations, trifles in themselves, may
be of importance in the choice of the medicine,
even such as are unexplainable by physiology
or never taken notice of by pathology, viz., a
feeling as if from the falling of a drop of water,
may help to indicate Cannabis.
We must inquire for the times of the day
when the symptoms of a patient appear to
increase, are ameliorated or disappear. This is
very often the only criterion, by which we
decide our choice. Even the hours of the day
are very often of a decisive influence, viz., the
hours after midnight, one to three, may help to
indicate Arscnicum or Kali carbonicum; the
hours in the afternoon, from four to seven in
the evening, may help to indicate Helleborus
or Lycopodium, etc.,
Likewise every function of our body,
sleeping and waking, eating, drinking,
walking, standing, rest or motion, etc., must be
taken into consideration in so far as they may
be one of the conditions of aggravation or
amelioration of any of the symptoms of our
sick.
In the same very all connections of
symptoms following each other or alternation
with one another, whether they have a
pathological importance or not, are all for us of
the highest rank, if aided by them, we may
distinguish one case from another, or one drug
from another. The first rule, then, is that not
only the characteristics must be alike, but there
must also be a similarity of their respective
rank.
The second rule of HAHNEMANN
introduces a kind of distinction between the
different medicines which have been proved
and applied, which must gradually lead to
adoption of an order of rank among them. It is
a similar division to that of the so-called
Polychrests. But it is not this alone; the same
rule is also of great influence when we
arrange the symptoms of the sick.
All symptoms of inward affections, all the
symptoms of the mind or other inward actions,
are according to it, of much higher value than
the most molesting or destructive symptoms on
the surface of the body. A decrease or an
amelioration of outward symptoms, with an
increase of inward complaints, even if the
latter apparently are of little importance, will
be an indication for us, that our patient is
getting worse, and we must try to find out,
among his symptoms, the leading one, to
indicate another, a real curative medicine.
Very frequently we will see ineffectual
attempts, as it were, of the inward actions, to
throw out and bring to the surface that which
attacks the center of life. We must try to assist
such attempts, but neither by outward
applications, nor by a mere removal of that
which the disease produces, and still less by
medicines only similar to the same outward
symptoms. on the contrary, we must inquire
principally for the hidden inward symptoms,
and compare then with the utmost case, to find
among our medicines such as correspond
exactly to the subjective or inward symptoms,
and by preference among the antipsorics, i.e.
such as act more than others from within
towards without. The principal characteristics
of the antipsorics were obtained from the sick,
and only by the use of potencies. Drugs cannot
manifest such most important peculiarities
except by high potencies, and with the most
sensible persons.
The uses of the third rule of
HAHNEMANN are the following:
1. During the examination of the sick we
must inquire as much as possible, in which
order, according to time, did the different
symptoms make their first appearance.
2. After such a careful and complete
examination of a case, we must arrange our
collection of symptoms according to their
values, that is their importance as indicative,
and we must bring such as have appeared later,
in the foreground, of course without neglecting
the others and even the oldest. Further we must
compare when selecting a medicine and find
whether the one to be chosen has a
characteristic similarity, particularly with the
symptoms which appeared last.
3. If the patient had been drugged by the
old school, we must direct our antidotes
principally against the last given drugs. For
instance, against abuse of alcohol or aromatics.
Nux vomica; against tea, Pulsatilla or Thuja
against Quinine, Pulsatilla, etc; against Jodium
and Iodate of potassium, Hepar suphuris
calcarcum; against blistering, Camphor;
against cauterizing with nitrate of silver,
Natrum muriaticum; against bleeding, purging,
or losses of blood, Cinchona; against
mechanical injuries by stretching, Rhus, by
bruising, Amica Montana, etc., etc., against
Chloroform, Hyoscyamus, etc.
4. In every chronic case, after a well
chosen medicine has had time to improve the
case, and ceases to do good, and we have to
make a new examination to obtain a full image
of the new state of the sick, we must again
inquire particularly after newly appearing
symptoms. As we will find in almost all
carefully observed cases, that the new
symptoms correspond to the last applied
medicine, and as we know, a repetition of the
same drug would only aggravate, without
giving relief, particularly if general
characteristics, viz., with regard to times of
day, sides of the body, or other localities, have
changed or if other general conditions are
altered; the new medicine must be chosen with
regard to such new symptoms, considering
them as the most indicative, or of high rank.
5. If we have succeeded in restoring a
chronic case of long standing, and the
symptoms have disappeared in the reverse
order of their appearance, we can dismiss the
case with full confidence as being cured, and
not being in danger of returning again; if not,
we had better tell the patient, even if he should
be satisfied with the partial cure, that he may,
before long, be sick again.
As an appendix to HAHNEMMANN’s
three rules of rank, another, in regard to the
sides of the body could be mentioned here, and
if this new rule should be sufficiently
corroborated and sustained by further
observations, it might become in some cases of
great imprortance.This rule is the following:
Every affection going from one side of the
body to the other, is more effectually
overcome by such medicines as will cause or
produce the same similar affection, but in the
opposite direction. It seems to correspond to
the last of the rules given above, but has been
discovered entirely independent of it, hence it
is better to give it to the profession in a genetic
form, and in a separate communication.
[The ‘Rules of the sides’ of HERING
mentioned in the last paragraph would be
reprinted in the next issue – March 1992 – of
the Qrly. Hom. DIGEST. = K.S. Srinivasan]
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Introduction: To the Kentian Clan and the
Boenninghausen Band, Greetings and News!
The Mouse may help the Lion. In
BOENNINGHAUSEN’s 482 small pages are
335 rubrics which are not to be found in
KENT’s 1423 larger pages.
The homoeopathic student is taught both
methods of repertorization – by KENT and by
BOENNINGHAUSEN – and is warned not to
mix the methods, not only because the remedy
grading is different, but because the ideology
is so disparate. These repertories, like most of
life, are full of paradoxes, The KENT
repertory claims to be based on Generals yet is
a maze of Particulars; BOENNINGHAUSEN’s
is most factual and classified; every symptom
that refers to a part may be predicated of the
whole. The interrelationship of symptoms and
RUBRICS IN BOENNINGHAUSEN NOT TO BE FOUND IN KENTElizabeth Wright HUBBARD (Edited for publication by Francis TREUHERZ; ‘The Homeopath’Vol. 10, No. 3, 1990
of remedies and the sequence of remedies are
brought out. It ones a way into the wide fields
of combinations. For BOENNINGHAUSEN,
the totality is made up of the general
characteristics of the particular symptoms plus
the condition, under the four general categories
of locality, sensation, modality (aggravations
or ameliorations) and concomitants.
ROBERTS in his brilliant Principles and
Practicability of BOENNINGHAUSEN’s
Therapeutic Pocket Book says it is based on
the doctrine of concomitants, a concomitant
being an attendant circumstance existing or
occurring with other symptoms, having always
a relation in time.
The concomitant is the differentiating
factor. HAHNEMANN says that ‘the
characteristic symptoms represent that which
is curable in each case of disease, in other
words the common symptoms of the diagnosis
do not point the way to cure.
BOENNINGHAUSEN called chronic
symptoms concomitants in acute ailments and
often prescribed exclusively on them, although
a drug should be findable covering both acute
and chronic.
The BOENNINGHAUSEN method shines
in cases without many mental symptoms;
without rare, strange and peculiar symptoms,
with few particulars; in cases where modalities
predominate and concomitants are marked;
cases showing pathological symptoms and
objective symptoms. ROBERTS used to say
that it was a good as Sensations As If, though
in larger terms.
Some of the features of
BOENNINGHAUSEN are unique, such as the
use of sides of the body throughout; rubrics of
troubles associated with stool, urination, etc.
accompanying symptoms of nose, leucorrhoea,
respiration, cough, menses, stool, fever, etc;
sleep and waking, aggravations and
ameliorations before, during and after cough,
vertigo, fever, menses, stool urine, sleep,
sweat, and so forth.
The last section on Relationships of
Remedies, pages 322 to 482, is the most
difficult for the novice and the most unused
part of the book, but discussion of it is outside
the scope of this paper.
The whole repertory is built on Generals,
yet there is no section for Generals, as there is
in KENT and certain general rubrics are
interspersed, with quite hilarious, unintentional
humour. For instance, under Aggravations is
the rubric for Children, and that for Women
(what is worse for Women? or Women are
worse for what? or are the remedies worse for
the Women?).
There are few Ameliorated by rubrics in
KENT, but there are 58 in
BOENNINGHAUSEN which are not in
KENT.
Certain symptoms crop up frequently in
case-taking which are baffling or impossible to
find in KENT, expect by combining rubrics or
taking the nearest, but not the exact, symptom.
BOENNINGHAUSEN uses commonsense
rubrics, such as ‘falling asleep late,’ ‘can’t get
to sleep again after waking,’ ‘becomes chilled
easily’; and rubrics of anatomical parts – often
obscure ones- such as Loins, Groins,
Perineum, Inner Gum, Tendo Achilles, nape
and the elusive antrum are to be easily
alphabetically found.
Among the gems are the rubrics on the
moon phases with art not in the 5th Edition of
KENT; the wind rubrics, the ‘blondes and
brunettes’, the pregnancy rubric and the
puerperal state, and such a frequent complaint
as sebaceous cysts.
Although BOENNINGHAUSEN has but
342 remedies as against KENT’s 591, it often
has a much larger rubric than the KENT. On
the other had it has none of the enormous and
useless rubrics such as unmodified ‘Vomiting’.
Even if you never repertorize by the full
BOENNINGHAUSEN method, you can save
yourself much time and trouble with specific
rubrics for shortcutting and office and bedside
work by the use of these unusual KENT, check
the equivalent one in BOENNINGHAUSEN;
you may find it there. Put a copy of this reprint
in your KENT. Let us use the best of both
methods in arriving at the Simillimum.
Rubrics:
Mind
2. Disposition generally affected
18. Amativeness
Intellect
20 Activity
Befogged
23 Drugs which have Concomitants
of Mental Symptoms
Internal Head
26 One-sided in General
External Head
27 Dark Hair
Light Hair
28 Beard
29 Scalp of Occiput; Hairy Sinciput
Scalp of Vertex
Head: sides
30 Internal Head : Left side
Internal Head : Right side
External Head : Left side
External Head : Right side
Eyes
30 Aqueous Humor
32 Vitreous
White of eye (sclerotic)
34 Orbits
Inner surface of lids
Vision
37 Illusions of Form
Ears
41 Lobules
42 Left
Right
44 Stopped feeling
Nose
45 Back
46 Odour from Nose
47 Stopped Corzya
49 Accompanying Symptoms of
Nasal Discharge face
50 All objective Symptoms of Face
together
57 Malar Bone (Antrum)
Upper Jaw
Lower Jaw
Articulation of Jaws
59 Left side
Right side
Teeth
61 Inner Gum
Stomach & Abdomen
77 Diaphragm
79 Epigastrium
80 Loins
Groins (Caccum, Ileo-Caccal
Region, Poupart’s Ligament)
81 Pit of Stomach
Rings Externally
Mons Veneria
Left side
82 Right side
Rectum
84 Flatulent Pain
85 Incarceration of Flatus
90 Troubles Before Stool
91 Troubles During Stool
Troubles After Stool
92 Ineffectual Tenesmus
93 Perineum
Urinary
100 Troubles Before Micturition
101Troubles at Beginning of
Micturition
Troubles During Micturition
Troubles At Close of
Micturiton
Troubles After Micturition
Male
102 Male Organ in General
Foreskin
Female
103 Female Organs in General
External Female Organs
108 menstruation : Gushing
111 Accompanying Troubles of
Leucorrhoea
Respiration
114 Accompanying Troubles of
Respiration
Cough
116 Evening with, and Morning
without, Expectoration
Morning with, and Evening
without Expectoration
Night with, Day without
Expectoration
Day with, night without
Expectoration
120 Troubles Associate with Cough
Before and After Coughing
After Expectoration: cf. Agg.
pp, 276 & 281.
Neck
123 Nape
124 Thyroid Gland
Neck and Nape of Neck : Left
Side
Neck and Nape of Neck :
Right Side
Chest
125 Sternum and Region
126 Heart’s Action Intermittent
External Chest (Ribs and
Muscles)
Extremities : Location
132 Back of Hand
135 Loins (Region of Hips)
Nates
136 Thigh : Anterior Part
Thigh : Posterior Part
Thigh : Outer Side
Thigh : Inner Side
138 Tendo Achilles
Back of Foot (Dorsum)
139 Great Toe
Balls of Toes
141 Knees, Hollow of
Bones of Lower Extremities in
General
Generalities: Senasations
143 Asleep Feeling in Single Parts
144 Benumbing Pain
149 Constriction of Orifices
(Sensations of )
153 Crepitation, Sensation of
155 Dislocations
157 Dust, Internal, Sensation of
159 Flabby Feeling
Forcings
162 Hardened (Muscles)
163 Immobility of Affected Parts
165 Jerking Muscles
167 Mobility Increased
167 Motion Difficult
168 Mucous Secretions Increased
181 Splinter, Feelings of
194 Vibrations
196 Whiteness (Of Parts usually
Red)
Skin, Hair, Nails
200 Glands: Ulcers, Cancerous
215 Cysts, Sebaceous
216 Hair of Head Falls out: Occiput
Hair of Head Falls out: Beard
217 Hair Feels Pulled
223 Nails Generally Affected
All Nail Rubrics together
Wounds
239 With Injuries of Bones
With Injuries of Glands
Sleep
240 Falling Asleep Late
Sleep Prevented by Various
Symptoms
Walking in Distress
241 Associated Symptoms (See
Aggravation Waking, p.306)
242 Sleepiness During the Day
243 Associated Symptoms of
Sleepiness
Sleepiness caused by Various
Things
246 Symptoms Causing
Sleeplessness
248 Dreams with Indifference
Dreams Indifferent (Incident )
to the Day’s Business
250 Dreams Waking (day
dreaming)
Pulse, Temperature
253 Pulse Unchanged (with Various
Symptoms)
254 Chilliness in Certain Parts
255 Becomes Chilled Easily
Chill with Thirst
Chill without Thirst
256 Symptoms during Chill
257 Heat in Special Parts
Heat in Special Parts:
Externally
258 Heat in Special Parts:
Internally
259 Heat: Associated Symptoms
260 Coldness of Special Parts
261 Shivering of Special Parts
Shivering of One Side
Perspiration
262 Special Parts
263 Without Thirst
264 Easy
Odorous: Acid Sweat
Odorous: of Camphor
265 Odorous: Of Onions
Odorous: Of Rhubarb
Odorous: Sweetish-Sour
Sweat with Associated
Symptoms
Fever
265 Compound Fever in General
268 Aggravation – Before Fever
Agg. During Fever
Agg. After Fever
Generalities: Aggravations
272 Bending or Turning
Bending or Turning Affected
Part
Bent, Holding the Part
Biting Teeth Together
273 Blowing Nose
Breathing: When Not
Breathing: Holding Breath
273 Bruises
Brushing Teeth
274 Chewing, When
Children Expecially, Remedies
For
Closing Eyes
Closing Mouth
Clutching Anything
276 Combing Hair
Combing Hair Backward
Conscious, When Half
Dancing, When
277 Drawing Off Boots
Drawing the limb back
Drinkers, for Hard
Drinking, When
Drinking, After
278 Drinking Fast
279 Elevation, When On
281 Expanding Abdomen
Expectoration
Expectoration After
Expiration
Fainting, After
Fatigue
283 Crumbs
Garlic, Odor of
284 Oil
Thought of Food She would
like
285 Water, Cold
Wine Containing Lead
Wine Containng Sulphur
Gargling
Grasping Anything Tightly
Heated by the Fire
286 Hiccough
Holding Together Parts
House, In the
Idleness
Injuries Bleeding Profusely
Inspiration
287 Inspiration of Cold Air
Intoxication, After
Jar
Jumping
Labor, Manual
Leaning, After
Leaning (Against Anything)
Leaning, Backward
Leaning against a Sharp Point
Leaning To One Side
Licking Lips
288 Looking around
Looking Straight Forward
291 Lying-in women (The
Puerperal State)
Moon, New
Moon, Full
Moon, Waning
Generalitites : Aggravations (Contd.)
292 Motion After
Motion False
Motion of Head
Motion of Eyes
Motion of Eyelids
Motion of Arms
293 Music
Narrating Her Symptoms
Odor of Wood
294 Opening Eyes
Opening Mouth
Organ, Playing the
Persuasion
Piano, Playing the
Picking Teeth
Pregnancy
295 Putting out the Tongue
Raising Arms
296 Retching
Retracting Abdomen
Riding One Leg over the Other
Ringing of Bell
298 Sewing
Shipboard, On
Shooting
Shrugging Shoulders
Singing, When
Singing, After
299 Sitting Bent Over
Sitting Upright
300 Sneezing
301 Splinters
Squatting Down
Stepping Hard
Stooping
302 Stooping Prolonged
Stretching of Limbs
Sunburn
Sunrise, After
Supporting a Limb
303 Swinging (Rocking)
304 Turning Around
Turning over in Bed
305 Turning Head
Turning Eyes
Turning Neck
Unnatural Position
Vertigo During
306 Violin, Playing the
Being Awake at Night
307 Walking Bent Over
Walking on Level
Walking on a Narrow Bridge
307 Walking on Sideways
Walking on a Stone Pavement
Walking over Water
309 Wind, any dry
Wind, North
310 Women, For
Writing
Yawning
Yawning, after
Generalities: Amellorations
311 Bending or Turning Affected
Part
Bending Backward
Bending Inward
Bending Sideways
Bending Head Backward
Holding Part Bent
Bending Head Sideways
Biting
Blinking Eyes
Blowing Nose
Boring in with the Finger
(Ear or Nose)
Breath, Holding the
Carrying the child in the
Arms
Chewing
312 Crossing Limbs
Dancing
Darkness
Drawing in the Affected Part
Drinking, After
313 Expiration
Fasting (Before Breakfast)
Food, Bread
314 Food, Meat
Food, Salt
Grasping
Haemorrhage
Hand, Laying, On part
Kneeling
Knitting
Leaning Against Anything
Leaning Against Anything
Hard
Leaning Head on Anything
Leaning Head on One Side
Leaning Head on Table
Licking with the Tongue
315 Looking Downward
Looking Sideways
316 Lying on Hard Bed
Lying Bent Up
Lying Horizontally
317 Retracting Abdomen
Rising from Bed
Rising from a Seat
318 Rising from a Seat, After
Shrugging Shoulders
319 Sneezing
Stepping Hard
Stool, After
Stooping
320 Sucking with Tongue
Talking
Turning at a Lathe
Twilight, In the
Tying up the Hair
321 Walking Bent Over
Wiping with the Hand
Writing
Yawning
Prepared for the 26th Pan American
Homeopathic Medical Congress, October 1955
and presented with permission to the Bureau of
Clinical Medicine. 112th Anniversary Meeting,
A.I.H. Swampscott, Mass., 3rd July 1956, and
first published in the Journal of the American
Institute of Homeopathy, August, 1956.
Acknowledgements to Julian WINSTON for
locating a copy.
Bibilography:
1. James Tyler KENT, Repertory of the
Homoeopathic Materia Medica, 5th edition,
EHRHART and KARL, Chigaco, III. 1945.
2. Clemens Maria Franz von
BOENNINGHAUSEN, Therapeutic Pocket
Book, 5th American Edition, T.F. ALLEN,
Editor, 1931, BOERICKE and TAFEL,
Philadelphia, Pa. 1935.
3. Cyrus M BOGER, Ed., C.M.F. von
BOENNINGHAUSEN, Characteristics and
Repertory, Roy & Co. Bombay, 1937.
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Without laying claim to completeness,
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from other sources to complement the rubric.
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