Book Review
NATIONAL JOURNAL OF HOMOEOPATHY 1999 Jan / Feb VOL VIII NO 1.
Reviewed By
Dr Nina Doshi
Title: Perfect Materia Medica of Mind
Authors: Dr Yogesh Sehgal, Dr Sanjay Sehgal & Dr Mrs Preeti Sehgal
Publishers: Indian Books & Periodicals Publishers, New Delhi
Edition; First
Pages: 1243
Price : Not stated
Dr M L Sehgal has been treating his patients under his system called Revolutionized Homoeopathy in which, at the time of consultation, he takes into account the present, predominating and persistent symptoms of the mind. He has a unique way of interpreting the repertorial rubrics for arriving at the remedy. He has written a series of books under the title "Rediscovery of Homoeopathy". This system of prescribing has several followers.
His sons and his daughter in law have now compiled this new Materia Medica of the Mind in which they have attempted to connect the different facets of the peculiar symptoms (which forms the essence) of each remedy into a meaningful whole with a view to give a better understanding of the various remedies. There is a foreword by Dr H L Chitkara and a Preface by Dr Rajan Sankaran. Dr ML Sehgal does not fully agree with the observations of Dr Rajan Sankaran and has given his comments in his introduction to this book.
This text is compiled by taking the rubrics from the Synthetic Repertory and placing them under the respective remedy in alphabetical order. The symptoms, which are singular, are given under the heading "Alone" and those which are common, are given under the heading "with others". Additions from Sehgal are marked (s) to indicate the source with similar notation for Synthetic Repertory and that of Robin Murphy.
The GEMS (interpretation and meaning of rubrics) from Dr Sehgal's book under ROH series IV have also been incorporated. In all, 916 remedies have been covered.
An extract from this book on Gels may give some idea of the rubrics listed:-
Alone:
Better, feeling when the mind is out of the body;
Concentration alternating with uterine pains
Delusion, self control, he would lose all
Exhilaration, recall things long forgotten, can
Fear heart, cease to beat, unless constantly on the move
Fear rejected, of being
Fearless
Restlessness, suffocation threatened
Singing alternating with talking
Stupefaction, eyes cannot open (s)
With others:
Ailments from;
Anger, vexation
Anxiety with fright with
Silent grief with
Anticipation, foreboding, presentiment
Bad news
Excitement, emotional, fear, fright, grief, mortification
Reproaches; shock, mental
Anguish
Answers, abruptly, shortly, curtly, monosyllable
Anticipation, complaints from:
Dentist, physician, before going to
Examination, before
Stage, fright
Singers and speakers, in
Anxiety - anticipation, an engagement of
Future about
Cheerful, alternating with sadness
Clinging to persons or furniture etc
Grasps the nurse when carried
Held, wants to be
Company, aversion to; presence of other people AGG
-- desire for solitude
Company desire for; aversion to solitude;
--- alone aggravates
Concentration difficult
On attempting to concentrate has a vacant feeling
Confidence- want of self
Cowardice
Death, agony before
Delirium tremens, mania-a potu
Delusions
- die about to die, he was
- double of being
- distances are enlarged
- grave, he is in his
- snakes in and around her
Despair
Disturbed, averse to being
Embarrassed, ailments, after
Fear - alone of being,
- appearing in public of
- crowd, public places , of, agoraphobia
- death
- examination before
- failure of
- happen ,something will happen
- self control losing of
- thunderstorm of
Frail, as if body were
Grief, cry, cannot
Heedless
Horrible things, sad stories affect her profoundly
Hysteria pregnancy and labour during
Indifference, apathy, fever during
Indolence- aversion to work
Light desire for (it is a must for him)
Light for, photomania
Memory active - weakness for mental labour
Morose, cross, fretful
Quiet disposition (Asks for nothing)
Quiet wants to be Restlessness, morning, -Bed, tossing about in - menses during
Sadness - impotence with
- masturbation from Sensitive-oversensitive
-children- noise to
