My Technique For Repertorisation
NATIONAL JOURNAL OF HOMOEOPATHY 1997 Nov / Dec VOL 5 NO 6.
Dr. S.C Mishra
'Borax / Calc-sulph / Calc-sulph / Arn / Tarent-h
"When looking over a list of symptoms, first of all discover 3, 4, 5 or 6 or as many existing symptoms as are "strange, rare and peculiar".Work these out first. These are the highest generals, because, "strange, rare and peculiar" must apply to the patient himself.
...."Learn to omit the useless particulars - the common particulars. Common particulars are worthless...
"Get the strong, strange, peculiar symptoms and then see to it that there are no generals in the case that oppose or contradict" EXTRACTS FROM KENT'S LETTER TO DR TYLER H.H Dec 1997.
I have to cite some of my cases where, having no general symptoms, I had to depend on particular symptoms that could cure the patient as a whole including his particular complaints very quickly and permanently. I did not go to verify his generals. You can say, the medicines so selected on the basis of strange, rare, peculiar particular must have covered the generals of the patient, thereby resulting in cure. I don't know but I believe strongly that the strange, rare and peculiar is the highest general of the patient.
Here are cases to illustrate this:
Case 1:
Cauliflower warts cured with Borax
A slim, tall, fair-complexioned, smart Maharashtrian man aged 42, working in a bank, came to me on 30th Mar 97 for a cauliflower wart as big as a rosebud, in his left parietal region. The wart was there for many years. He did not take any notice of it, as it was not giving him any trouble. But lately, it had started paining when combing hair. He had no other trouble except occasional bodyache and flatulence daily in the afternoon. Pressing any part of the body caused empty eructation. Even when standing on accupressure plate he used to eruct loudly. Talks less, is generally well behaved. No other physical trouble. I gave him 6 doses of Borax 200 [K 491 pressing stomach, painful part when] to be taken daily once in morning.
After 15 days he reported that the big wart has reduced in size. I gave him no medicines hereafter and asked him to report after another 15 days. He informed me on 1/5/97 that the wart had completely fallen off and needed no medicine.
Case 2:
Irresistible desire for sour and salt - Calc-sulph
It is very difficult to treat skin diseases now a days, especially with patients demanding quick relief and not ready to put up with a Homoeopath for months together. Nevertheless, I happened to have a miraculous result when treating such an obstinate skin disease, in a patient who had strong desire for sour and salt. The prescription was based on this single particular symptom.
Mr M S M
A 57 year bachelor, senior executive, an engineer in M P Electricity Board, who is a known patient of diabetes for many years, consulted me on 23/4/96 for his dry itching rashes all over the body, except face and scalp. Eruptions were like very small pinhead pimples, which used to ooze slightly bloody matter on scratching hard. They formed crusty tops on the lesions. Itching was very severe. Once it started, he felt like going on and on scratching.. AGG from undressing, at night, in bed, on slight provocation for scratching. He was born in Beluchistan, which is a very cold place.Now, he has been staying in Madhya Pradesh for many years. He is warm patient; likes to live in air-conditioned room, especially in summer days. Liked open cool air. He had no other symptoms but the only striking point I observed in him was that, whenever I went to see him, I found him enjoying tea. He told me that tea was his only weakness and he liked it very much with raw lemon. He could take one or two raw lemons with salt at a time and he really enjoyed it.
I came back to consult Kent's repertory and found Calc-sulph to be his remedy as per the following rubrics in particulars.
| K 486 | Desire salt |
| K 483, S.R 270, 276 | Desire sour, acid and tea |
Though Calc-sulph has been indicated in Kent's repertory and Synthetic Repertory as third grade remedy against the said rubrics, I selected it, as it was very much prominent in eruptions crusty [K 1310]. I based my prescription on purely physical particulars of the symptoms and gave him single dose of Calc-sulph 200 [23/4/96]
On 13/5/96, he reported improvement in itching but not as much as he desired. I repeated another dose of Calc-sulph 200 and I did not see him till 31/5/96. After this, I saw him in person on 10/6/97 and found him completely relieved from itching. A few spots of scar marks were still visible on his abdomen. Till 16/12/97, he was free from itching eruptions or any other trouble.
