CCH Homeopathic Therapeutics & Remedy Selection 3

Question 1

A patient has grief after a breakup with suppressed emotions, sighing, contradictory symptoms, and hysterical episodes. The foremost remedy is:

Accepted Answer

Ignatia amara

Answer

Ignatia amara is the primary acute grief remedy, particularly when emotions are suppressed and symptoms are contradictory or paradoxical.

Question 2

Which potency range is typically used in classical homeopathy for acute prescribing when a clear simillimum is identified?

Accepted Answer

30C to 200C

Answer

In acute prescribing, 30C to 200C potencies are commonly used when there is a clear simillimum and the vital force is reactive.

Question 3

A patient reports joint pains worse in cold damp weather, better with continued motion, and with a strong desire to move despite initial stiffness. The remedy is:

Accepted Answer

Rhus toxicodendron

Answer

Rhus toxicodendron is the classic remedy for stiffness worse on initial motion but improved by continued movement, in cold damp weather.

Question 4

A remedy with the keynote 'better from lying perfectly still, worse from any motion, and with extreme irritability' is:

Accepted Answer

Bryonia alba

Answer

Bryonia alba is characterized by aggravation from the slightest motion and relief from absolute stillness, with great irritability.

Question 5

In the context of Hering's Law of Cure, healing is considered to proceed correctly when symptoms move:

Accepted Answer

From more vital to less vital organs, from above downward, and from inside outward

Answer

Hering's Law states that cure proceeds from more vital to less vital organs, from center to periphery, from above downward, and in reverse chronological order.

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CCH Homeopathic Therapeutics & Remedy Selection 3