Teaching moments in the wards: Instant rubrics and Homoeopathic remedies for daily practice
Dr Mansoor Ali KR BHMS MD PhD
Professor, HOD Department of Repertory
Govt Homoeopathic Medical College Calicut
Repertory and clinical subjects come alive only when taught at the bedside—in the OPD and IPD. What is learned in living patients, rubrics, and remedies is remembered for a lifetime.
Ward rounds have always been more than just a clinical exercise – they are living classrooms where knowledge, observation, and experience converge. Over the past year, I had the privilege of engaging with postgraduate residents and colleagues in a series of discussions that touched upon practical rubrics, bedside insights, and clinical wisdom relevant to the practice of Homoeopathy. What began as spontaneous teaching moments gradually took shape as a rich body of reflections worth preserving and sharing.
This compilation, Teaching Moments in the Wards: Instant Rubrics and Remedies for Daily Practice, is a humble attempt to bring together these experiences in an organized manner. Each note reflects the essence of bedside learning: the art of perceiving the patient beyond symptoms, the relevance of selecting the right rubric during ward rouds, and the subtle but powerful reminders of how clinical observations guide successful practice.
The purpose of this work is not merely to document what was discussed during rounds, but to serve as a ready reference for students, teachers, and practitioners. It is my hope that these pages will inspire learners to look deeper into case-taking, rubrics, and clinical application, while encouraging teachers to keep bedside teaching alive as a dynamic process. For professionals, I trust these notes will act as practical cues in their daily encounters with patients.
If this compilation helps even a few to sharpen their clinical acumen, enrich their teaching, or strengthen their practice, the effort will be worthwhile.
A work based on Homoeopathic repertories of Kent, Synthesis, Complete and Murphy’s repertory
THE INTERESTING RUBRICS AND REMEDIES DISCUSSED DURING WARD ROUNDS
Please refer the rubrics from concerned chapter of Synthesis, Murphy and Complete Repertory (CD)
- Sleeplessness from frequent urination – Sleeplessness – urination; from frequent: Nat-m.
- Hair fall in PCOD – HAIR – falling out – ovarian dysfunction; from: Lyc.Phos.Sepia
- Heat of head children – Head – heat – children; in – nursing infants; in: Borx.
- Sleeplessness from frequent urination – Nat mur
- Hair fall in PCOD – HAIR – falling out – ovarian dysfunction; from: Lyc.Phos.Sepia
- Heat of head children – Borax
- Sneezing – sleep during – Puls
- Cough fanning – Gen fanning – Lyssin
- Taste of food persistent – bitter – Puls
- Frozen shoulder – Extr – Infl- periarthritis humero-scpularis
- Lumbar pain walking < and > : Sepia 3 mark
- HA in winter – Sulphur
- Chapped lips winter – Sep – Complete Dynamics (CD)
- Hoarseness winter – Nux Mosch
- Too many symptoms by the patient – Gen Many Symptoms
- Multiple organ dysfunction syndrome – Generals
- Ear wax removal after – ear pain cleaning ear – Sulph
- Waking him from sleep/ due to sleep – Amm mur
- Lie down inclination to Kali carb is the only 5 mark
- Mucous piles – Rectum Hds- discharging mucus
- Mind – ailments from – warmth and security at home; lack of
- Drinking on the sly – Secretly
- Alcoholism – oblivion is like; drinking to see what – till unconsciousness
- Early Alzheimer’s – Ambra Griesa
- Early menopause – Abisinthinum
- ERUPTIONS – children; in – newborns; in: dulc. tub.
- Chest – Hidradenitis suppurativa
- Fear alone of being – only 4 mark remedy is Apis
- Sleeplessness from rheumatic pain – Slee – sleeplessness pain rheumatic
- Leucorrhea – eat linen – under the rubric Corrosive
- Discoloration in Vericose Vein affected are – Vipera- Extr Discoloration Black
- Psoriasis gyrata is a rare form of psoriasis in which curved linear patterns predominate
- Wounds heal slow to : Sulph 4 mark + kunzli
- Cough fruits after – Mag mur, Arg met
- Red rashes children – Cham – Skin eruption – rash- children
- Sciatica lifting after – Nux
- Nose coryza new born – Dulc
- DM with urination frequent – Nat Phos
- Ring worm thigh – Cassia Sophora – Toilet eczema
- Pain along spine after exertion – Pic acid
- Sacro iliac symphysis inflammation – Morg p, Aesc
- Goiter pregnancy – Hydr, Calc Iod
- Hoarseness children – Cham
- Stomach pan – anxiety with – Abrot, Baryta mur
- Itching with constipation – Dolicos
- Urticaria with constipation – Copiva
- Skin itching slight scratching agg. hard scratching amel.; but Crot tig
- Abdomen – Bud Chari syndrome
- Food poison with fever – Ars, Pyrogen
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