REPERTORIAL RUBRICS:

It is interesting to match the symptoms of various neuroses with those of various Homoeopathic drugs as recorded in the Materia Medica and see how such neurotic disorders can be effectively cured with the appropriate remedy through proper case taking and analysis. While individualization is the sine qua non of a Homoeopathic prescription, an attempt has been made to list below some illustrative rubrics which nearly correspond to the symptoms of various neurotic disorders, from Vol I of Synthetic Repertory which are relevant for treating such neurotic disorders.

I. ANXIETY NEUROSIS

1. Anticipatory anxiety from an engagement (SR I 64)
2. Fear something will happen (danger evil, misfortune) (SR I 503)
3. Causeless anxiety (SR I 66)
4. Delusion, pursued by enemies (SR I 340)
5. Delusion, Ruined he is (SR I 345)

II. PHOBIC NEUROSIS

1. Agoraphobia (SR I 486)
2. Claustrophobia SR I 513)
3. Anthrophobia (Fear of people) (SR I 516-17)
4. Hydrophobia (SR I 583).

III. OBSESSIVE OR COMPULSIVE NEUROSIS

1. He is about to commit a crime (SR I 259)
2. Committed a crime he has (SR I 260)
3. Criminal he is (SR I 260)
4. Anxiety - conscience as if guilty of crime (SR I 69)
5. Delusion pursued by police (SRI 340)
6. Delusion is about to be arrested (SR I 239)
7. Fear of killing (SR I 508)
8. Fear of killing with a knife (SR I 508)

IV. POST TRAUMATIC NEUROSIS

1. Fear of accidents (SR I 477)
2. Fear of being injured (SR 1506)
3. Fear something will happen (SR I 503)
4. Fear, husband will never return (SR I 505)
5. Fear, Dread of men (SR I 510)
6. Fear of being murdered (SR I 513)
7. Delusion, destruction all near her, impending (SR I, 265)
8. Delusion assaulted is going to be (SR I, 239)
9. Delusion execute him people want to (SR I 279)

V. HYSTERICAL NEUROSIS

1. Somnambulism - (SR I 933)
2. Amnesia - Loss of memory (SR I 732, 734) for what has happened (SR I 736)
3. Anterograde amnesia
   1. Going, forgets where she is going (SR I 542)
   2. House was on which side of street his, (SR I 543)
   3. Immediately of everything (SR I 543)
   4. Goes off and leaves purchases behind (SR I 544)
   5. Vanishing of thoughts (SR I, 1016 - 18)
   6. Weak memory for occurrences of the day for (SR I 738). (sudden loss of recollection of his identity, past life etc.)

1. Confusion - identity as to his (SR I 169)
2. Forgetful - of own names (SR I 543)
3. Depersonalization, loss of self knowledge etc. (SR I 170)
4. Knows not where he is (SR I 171)

Multiple personality

(a) Delusion she is some other person (SR I 335)

1. Delusion two personalities opposing to each other in himself, there are (SR I 336)
2. Delusion two at the same time of being in (SR I 337)
3. Delusion of double, of being (SR I 273).

Hypochondriacal Neurosis

1. Hypochondriasis (SR I 584)
2. Imaginary illness (SR I 1586)
3. Delusion, sick of being (SR I 348)
4. Anxiety hypochondriac (SR I 181)
5. Fear of cancer (SR I 494)
6. Fear of incurable (SR I 494)
7. Delusion having heart disease (SR I 300, 504).

SOURCES:

1. The Merck Manual 1987, Chapter 140, page 1501 - 1512
2. Organon of Medicine, Dr. Hahnemann
3. Synthetic Repertory Vol 1.

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