Pediatric repertory – based on Boericke’s Materia Medica

teachingsDr Rakesh Gohel.

Dear Homoeopathic Brethren,
As the “ Necessity is the Mother of All Inventions” so, since the time of Hahnemann need of indexing symptom has given rise to so many types as well as forms of repertories.

Here an attempt has been made to present an important speciality subject of medical field in form of repertory that is PAEDIATRICS. Boericke’s work has always been praised since it published. I tried to collect the rubrics related with paediatric complaints scattered throughout the Boericke repertory. I concentrated only on those rubrics which suggest to have special word as neonate, infant, child, etc.

I hope that it may be helpful to all of those who loves Boericke repertory. But be careful while using the clinical repertory because it doesn’t fit the whole man. If you don’t know the repertory well and select a remedy upon the clinical symptoms alone leads to higher range of failures. 

MIND
MOOD, DISPOSITION:

Fretful;
Child cannot bear to be touched, looked at, or spoken to – Ant. c., Ant. t., Cham., Cina, Gels., Nux v., Sanic., Sil., Thuya.

Child wants different things, but petulantly rejects them –  Ant. t., Bry., Cham., Cina, Ipec., Kreos., Rheum, Staph.

HEAD
HEADACHE (Cephalalgia):

Type; Chronic, School girls – Calc. p., Kali p., Nat. m., Phos. ac., Picr. ac., Psor., Tub., Zinc. m.

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EYES
OPHTHALMIA: Gonorrhœal (neonatorum) –  Acon., Arg. n., Bell., Calc. s., Can. s., Hep., Kali s., Merc. c., Merc. pr. rub., Merc., Nit. ac., Puls., Rhus t., Syph., Thuya.

EARS
DEAFNESS, hardness of hearing:
Cause; Nutritional disturbance, in growing children –  Calc. c., Merc. i. r.

NOSE
INTERNAL NOSE:
Bleeding (epistaxis);

OCCURRENCE AND CONCOMITANTS

Children growing rapidly, in –  Abrot., Arn., Calc. c., Croc., Phos.
Inflammation (rhinitis)

CORYZA,
Aggravation, Newborn, in –  Dulc.

Inflammation (rhinitis); Purulent in children – Alum., Arg. n., Calc. c., Cycl., Hep., Iod., Kali bich.,  Lyc., Nat. c., Nit. ac.

MOUTH
BREATH
Offensive (fetor oris) Girls at puberty in – Aur. m.

TEETH
DENTITION, teething difficult, delayed – Acon., Bell., Bor., Calc. c., Calc. p., Caust., Cham., Cheiranth., Coff., Cupr., Gels., Hekla, Kali br., Kreos., Mag. p., Merc., Nux v., Passifl., Phyt., Pod., Puls., Sil., Solan. n., Staph., Sul., Terb., Zinc. br., Zinc. m.

Concomitants;
Cerebral, nervous symptoms –  Acon., Agar., Bell., Cham., Cim., Cyprip., Dolichos., Helleb., Kali br., Pod., Solan. n., Tereb., Zinc.

Compression of gums – Cic., Phyt., Pod.

Constipation, general irritation, cachexia – Kreos., Nux v., Op.

Convulsions – Bell., Calc. c., Cham., Cic., Cupr., Glon., Kali br., Mag. p., Solan. n., Stann., Zinc. br.

Cough – Acon., Bell., Ferr. p., Kreos.

Deafness, otorrhœa, stuffiness of nose –  Cheiranth.

Diarrhœa –  Æth., Calc. c., Calc. p., Cham., Ferr. p., Ipec., Kreos., Mag. c., Merc., Oleand., Phos., Pod., Puls., Rheum, Sil.

Effusion threatened, in brain – Apis, Helleb., Tub., Zinc. m.

Eye symptoms – Bell., Calc. c., Puls.

Insomnia –  Bell., Cham., Coff., Cyprip., Kreos., Passifl., Scutel., Tereb.

Intertrigo – Caust., Lyc.

Milk indigestion – Æth., Calc. c., Mag. m. 

Salivation –  Bor.

Sour smell of body, pale face, irritability –  Kreos.

Weakness, pallor, fretfulness, must be carried rapidly – Ars.

Worms – Cina, Merc., Stann.

STOMACH VOMITING, retching: CA– USE; Cyclic, in infants –  Cupr. ars., Ingluv., iris, Kreos., Merc. d.

ABDOMEN
COLIC, PAIN:
CA– USE & NATURE; Babies’colic –  Æth., Asaf., Bell., Calc. p., Cataria, Cepa, Cham., Cina, Col., Illic., Jal., Kali br., Lyc., Mag. p., Mentha pip., Nepeta, Rheum, Senna, Staph.

ANUS – RECTUM:
ERUPTIONS, growths;
Rash, fiery red in babies – Med.

PROLAPSUS ANI;
Children [In] – Bell., Ferr. m., Ferr. p., Ign., Mur. ac., Nux v., Pod.

CHOLERA:
INFANTUM;
Summer complaint – Acon., Æth., Ant. t., Apis, Arg. n., Ars., Bell., Bism., Bry., Cadm. s., Calc. ac., Calc. c., Calc. p., Camph., Camph. monobr., Canth., Cham., Cinch., Col., Crot. t., Cuphea, Cupr. ac., Cupr. ars., Cupr. m., Elat., Euphorb. cor., Ferr. p., Graph., Hydroc. ac., Indol., Iodof., Ipec., Iris, Kali br., Kreos., Laur., Merc., Nat. m., Ox. ac., Passifl., Phos., Phyt., Pod., Psor., Resorc., Sec., Sep., Sil., Sul., Tab., Ver. a., Zinc. m.

CONSTIPATION:
TYPE;
Infants- Bottle fed.; artificial food – Alum., Nux v., Op.

Children – Æsc., Alum., Apis, Bell., Bry., Calc. c., Caust., Collins., Croc., Hydr., Lyc., Mag. m., Nux. v., Nyct. arb. tr., Paraf., Pod., Psor., Sanic., Sep., Sil., Sul., Ver. a.

DIARRHŒA, Enteritis:
OCCURRENCE;
Infants, children –  Acon., Æth., Apis, Arg. n., Ars., Arundo, Bapt., Bell., Benz. ac., Bism., Bor., Calc. ac., Calc. c., Calc. p., Camph., Cham., Cinch., Cina, Col., Colost., Crot. t., Dulc., Ferr., Grat., Helleb., Hep., Ipec., Jal., Kali br., Kreos., Laur., Lyc., Lyssin, Mag. c., Merc. c., Merc. d., Merc., Nit. ac., Nux v., Paul., Phos. ac., Phos., Pod., Psor., Rheum, Sabad., Sep., Sil., Sul., Val., Ver. a.

Dentition –  Acet. ac., Acon., Æth., Arundo, Bell., Benz. ac., Bor., Calc. ac., Calc. c., Calc. p., Cham., Ipec., Jal., Kreos., Mag. c., Merc. v., Nux m., Oleand., Phyt., Pod., Psor., Rheum, Sil.

HÆMORRHOIDS (piles):
CONCOMITANTS;
Sudden development in marantic children [With] –  Mur. ac.

JAUNDICE (icterus):
Infantile – Cham., Lupul., Merc. d., Merc. s., Myr.

UMBILICUS, NAVEL: Bleeding from, in newborn – Abrot., Calc. p.

URINARY SYSTEM
BLADDER: ENURESIS – Incontinence;
CA– USE; Sleep [during first]; child aroused with difficulty –  Caust., Kreos., Sep.

Habit the only ascertainable cause – Equis.

URINARY FLOW:
STRANGURY; Children [In] – Bor., Lyc., Sars

MALE SEXUAL SYSTEM
SYPHILIS:
CONGENITAL, infantile – Æthiops, Ars. iod., Ars. m., Aur., Calc. fl., Calc. iod., Coral., Kali iod., Kreos., Merc. d., Merc. s., Merc. v., Nit. ac., Psor., Syph.

TESTICLES: Undescended testicle in boys –  Thyr.

FEMALE SEXUAL SYSTEM
LEUCORRHŒA:
OCCURRENCE;
MODALITIES,
Infants, little girls [In] – Asperula, Calc. c., Can. s., Carb. ac., Caul., Cina, Cub., Hydr., Merc. i. fl., Merc., Millef., Puls., Sep., Syph.

MASTURBATION: In children, due to pruritus vulvæ –  Calad., Orig., Zinc. m.

RESPIRATORY SYSTEM
BRONCHIAL TUBES:
ASTHMA;
TYPE & OCCURRENCE, Humid, children [in] – Nat. s., Samb., Thuya.

COUGH: CA– USE, OCCURRENCE, AGGRAVATION;
Anger [after],Children [in] –  Anac., Ant. t.

Falling asleep [after], especially, in children, constant tickling Cough without waking –  Acon., Agar., Aral., Cham., Cycl., Lach., Nit. ac., Sul., Tub., Verbasc.

RESPIRATION:
DYSPNŒA (difficult, embarrassed, oppressed, anxious);
Aggravated, Children [in] – Lyc., Samb.  

SKIN
ACNE:
Anæmic girls at puberty [in], with vertex headache, flatulent dyspepsia, better by eating – Calc. p.

Tubercular children [In] –  Tub.

ERYSIPELAS: Neonatorum – Bell., Camph.

Traumatic; Umbilical, of new born –  Apis.

URTICARIA (hives, nettle rash):
MODALITIES; AGGRAVATIONS, Children [In] –  Cop.

NERVOUS SYSTEM
BRAIN:
EPILEPSY (grand mal); CA– USE – CONCOMITANTS, In children –  Æth., Art. v., Bell., Bufo, Calc. c., Cham., Cupr. m., Ign., Sil., Sul.

PARALYSIS; Infantile (poliomyelitis anterior) –  Acon., Æth., Bell., Calc. c., Caust., Chrom. s., Gels., Lathyrus, Nux v., Phos., Plumb. m., Rhus t., Sec., Sul.

INSOMNIA (sleeplessness);
In children – Absinth., Acon., Ars., Bell., Calc. br., Cham., Cina, Cyprip., Hyos., Kali br., Passifl., Phos., Puls., Sul.

GENERALITIES:
CONVULSIONS; CA– USE AND TYPE, Children, infants, from reflex causes, dentition – Absinth., Acon., Æth., Art. v., Bell., Calc. c., Camph. monobr., Caust., Cham., Chloral, Cic., Cina, Cocc., Cupr. m., Cyprip., Glon., Helleb., Hydroc. ac., Hyos., Ign., Kali br., Kreos., Laur., Mag. p., Meli., Mosch., Nux v., Œnanthe., Op., Santon., Scutel., Stann., Stram., Zinc. m., Zinc. sul.

GENERALITIES
ASPHYXIA : Neonatorum – Ant. t., Laur.

DROPSY: Newborn [in] –  Apis, Caffeine, Carbo v., Dig., Lach.

MARASMUS (emaciation, atrophy, wasting): Atrophy Children [of] –  Abrot., Arg. n., Ars., Ars. sul., Bac., Bar. c., Calc. p., Calc. sil., Iod., Nat. m., Ol j. as., Phos., Pod., Psor., Sanic., Sars., Sul., Thyr., Tub.

MUTISM of childhood :– Agraph.

OBESITY (adiposis, corpulence):
Children [in] –  Ant. c., Bar. c., Calc. c., Caps., Ferr. m., Kali bich., Sacchar. Of

Dr. Rakesh Gohel
H.O.D.REPRTORY
DR.V.H.DAVE HOM. MED.COLLEGE, ANAND (GUJARAT)
Email : drrakesh@jagma.com

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