Week 2 HOM 203 Sept 14

Note-taker: Melanie Kusznireckyj

melanie.kusznireckyj@gmail.com

September 14, 2006

Repertory: inside out and above down, except urinary bladder

NOTE: we will be getting the note packages (also available on e-college)

Unit 1 – Introduction to the repertory

Continuation from Lecture 1

Slide 10
Asthma and difficult respiration: interchangeable.
Sleep apnea patients can get help with homeopathy.
Quality of cough and expectoration.

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Chest
PNEUMONIA (definition: fluid/inflammation in the lungs) LUNGS; Chest; inflammation
Back
Extremities
Popliteal fossa: back of the knee

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Yawning: in sleep and generals.
Nates: bum.
Chill: or HEAT; lack of vital heat
Chillness = coldness
Ecchymosis: bruising
Pupura hemorrhagica: low platelet count, hemophilia
Generalities: huge area; cancer, tumors, epilepsy, paralysis, whether infections (humid, wet),
temperature (warm, cold blooded – HEAT; vital lack of).

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Rubric structure (see handout):
Kunzli: based on Kunzli’s experience, Swiss homeopath, excellent repertory, deceased. His
experience and confirmation in clinical practice.
MIND; fear; high places and MIND;vertigo – interchangeable, similar remedies

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Keep in mind…hypothetical remedies.

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General symptom: Extremities; pain; knee  right and left (alternating sides), morning (time of
symptom – within time you can have breakdown of the structure further, and quality of the pain
at that time; which is under modality time and character of pain).
EXTREMITIES; pain; knee; right; time
“Every morning I have pain in right knee that feels sprained”  extremities knee pain right,
extremities knee pain morning.
SUBRUBRIC:
4.1 Side: “right”
4.2 Time: “morning”
4.3 Modalities, circumstances, conditions, concomitants, causalities, sensation: “aching”
(character of pain)
4.4 Extend to: “ankle” look for upside down triangle triangle
Now we want to know of there is localization after character of pain section. Go to end of knee
section.
4.5 Localization: “above” first part of localization and should have the open circle

“Pain in patella extending to lower leg”

Start at patella, not knee, and look for anything extending down the leg.

Slide 20
1. Pain in the joints of the upper limbs: EXTREMITIES; pain; upper limbs; joints  agar
2. Pain in the right wrist: EXTREMITIES; pain; wrists; right  abrom-a
3. Pain in the thumb, better with pressure: EXTREMITIES; pain; thumb; pressure; amel 
mag-c
4. Burning pain in the popliteal fossa, worse sitting, while: EXTREMITIES; pain; knees;
hollow of knees; sitting; agg; burning  bar-c
5. Sore pain in the buttocks, worse while sitting: EXTREMITIES; pain; nates; sitting; agg;
sore  agar
6. Headache, worse from hunger (not before eating section): HEAD; pain;  adam
7. Headache above of the left eye  aconite
8. Tearing pain between metacarpophalangeal joints 

Homework – finish section and finish repertory sheet 1 and then 2.