Homeopathy Materia Medica and Repertory 5

Question 1

Which remedy is a leading medicine for the ailments of the modern overworked, irritable, chilly businessman addicted to stimulants, worse in the early morning?

Accepted Answer

Nux vomica

Answer

Nux vomica fits the irritable, ambitious, chilly, stimulant-abusing patient worse around 3-4 a.m.

Question 2

Natrum muriaticum is most characteristically indicated in patients with:

Accepted Answer

Silent grief, aversion to consolation, and craving for salt

Answer

Natrum muriaticum shows closed-in grief, worse from consolation, and a marked craving for salt.

Question 3

The 'law of similars', the foundation of materia medica, states that:

Accepted Answer

A substance causing symptoms in the healthy can cure similar symptoms in the sick

Answer

Similia similibus curentur—let likes be cured by likes—is homeopathy's guiding principle.

Question 4

Which remedy suits a screaming, irritable teething child who is better from being carried and demands things then rejects them?

Accepted Answer

Chamomilla

Answer

Chamomilla is the classic remedy for the capricious, inconsolable, irritable teething child soothed only by carrying.

Question 5

In the repertory, cross-references directing you from one rubric to a related one are known as:

Accepted Answer

See-also references

Answer

'See' or 'see also' notes cross-link synonymous or related rubrics within the repertory.

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