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
Case 3:
Another case of an eight-year-old girl, having big pustular eruptions on dorsum of the hands and finger joints, is worth mentioning here. The child had lost her mother at the age of 5 years. Her mother had asthma. Her father married recently. He looked after the child very carefully. There was no complaint or ill treatment by the stepmother. She was brought by her worried father [July 97]; the child was in tears due to tensive pain of big eruptions full of creamy pus. She could neither eat nor sleep for the past 5-6 days. I gave her Puls 200 but no relief. There was no other symptom except her worries for ensuing monthly exam. On asking about her food habit, her father told me very enthusiastically that she was very crazy for CHAAT, PHULKI, Pickles and acidic food. Looking to her crusty eruptions with pus [that looked very much like that of Graphites], I based my prescription on her prominent desire for sour and salty food and gave a single dose of Calc-sulph 200. After going back, she almost forgot her pain and played chess with her father and slept well at night. Prior to this, she could not move her fingers as they were drawn inwardly due to eruptions. Till 16/12/97 she had had no complaint of any kind.
In my busy hours of practice, I prefer to consult mostly the Phatak's concise Repertory, which helps me immensely to prescribe successfully. As you know, this repertory has no generalities section separately.
Case 4:
A case of blackish hyper pigmentation has been cured on the basis of single sign symptoms. Dull looking Miss K, aged 16 years, below average student, studying in 10th std, was brought by her father. She had blackish discolouration on back of both the hands for a year. Also there was a hypopigmented patch below the wrist [l]. Menses scanty, irregular mostly delayed by one or two months. Flow lasted only 5 days. Appetite poor. Thirst +. Equal liking of sweets and salty items. Warm patient. Irritative but suppressive. Timid.
Past History: Chicken pox, Typhoid
Family History: Father - piles: trembling of hands. Mother-Hysterectomy due to uterine fibroid. GM GF died of old age.
She had never used any medicine for long time except some medicine for regulating her menses in the recent past. Her kidney function etc. was perfectly normal.
I had no symptoms to prescribe upon. But one thing attracted my attention that the blackish patches were peculiarly distributed on both of her hands. I picked up the rubric "Symmetrical" [PH 340] and prescribed 6 doses of Arnica 200 to be taken daily once at bedtime [2/10/97}.
On 30/10/97, I saw the patient improving her colour very fast. No medicine.
18/11/97. Her blackish patch completely gone and her menstruation discharge seemed to have improved after this medicine.
Without consulting the Generalities, I got equal success in curing the mental disposition too with the help of Phatak's repertory.
Case 5:
Here is a case of a piqued lady starving after a quarrel. A woman patient of chronic hypertension, aged about 49, refused doggedly to eat and drink from the very morning of 2/12/97. She had a quarrel with her daughter-in-law on a trifle family matter. She defied her husband, sons and others and turned a deaf ear to all of their importunities and remained lying on bed all day long till evening. She did not talk to anybody. Her son approached me in the evening and requested for some medicines so that she could come to her normal self and eat something. At first I refused to give him any medicine and asked him to get his mother's anger pacified in every possible way and then try to feed her. The son informed me of having tried all these things but to no avail. She did not take a drop of water even till evening. I could not think of any medicine that can help this situation.
However, I considered the following rubrics:
| Ph 11-12 | Anger, irritability |
| Ph-8 | Quarrelsome |
| Ph 333 | Stubborn |
| Ph 303 | Self torture |
All the above said rubrics pointed towards Tarentula-hispanica. I gave him 2/12/97 two powders of Tarentula-h 200 to be given 15 minutes apart, on the plea of giving her medicines for B.P. Next morning i.e. on 3/12/97, her husband informed me that after 15-20 minutes of taking the medicine, she herself wanted to eat and slept well at night.
