Materia Medica and Repertory Flashcards

Which remedy is chiefly indicated for right-sided complaints, worse from 4-8 p.m., with craving for sweets and much flatulence?

Answer: Lycopodium

Lycopodium is right-sided, aggravated 4-8 p.m., craves sweets, and has marked digestive bloating.

Lachesis is most characteristically worse from:

Answer: Sleep and on waking

Lachesis aggravates during and after sleep, so the patient dreads sleeping.

A mild, weepy, changeable patient who is thirstless and craves open air best fits:

Answer: Pulsatilla

Pulsatilla is gentle, tearful, thirstless, better in open air, with shifting symptoms.

In materia medica, a 'keynote' symptom is best described as:

Answer: A striking, characteristic symptom that points to the remedy

A keynote is a peculiar, characteristic symptom strongly guiding to a particular remedy.

Which remedy is the leading acute remedy for sudden, violent, high fever with red face, throbbing headache, and dilated pupils?

Answer: Belladonna

Belladonna produces sudden, intense congestion with heat, redness, throbbing, and dilated pupils.

The rubric 'Mind; ailments from anger' would be found in which chapter of the repertory?

Answer: Mind

Emotional causations and mental states are catalogued in the Mind chapter.

A remedy classically indicated for injuries, bruising, and soreness as if beaten, with a claim of being well when clearly ill, is:

Answer: Arnica montana

Arnica is the first remedy for trauma, bruised soreness, and denial of illness.