Homeopathy International Journal July and August 2006

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Editor: P L Patodia

Mahatma Ghandi said "Homoeopathy is the latest and refined method of treating patients - economically and non-violently ."

Editor's note: In this editorial, we look into the disadvanges of using Reperoty and advantage of using On Line Remedy Finder

Editorial

Let us take a simple case with the following symptoms:

  • Shooting pain in stomach on movement.
  • Complete relief to pains during rest and when lying.
  • Cannot sleep after 3 AM.
  • Sickness after eating.

Let us visualize the process to be adopted for finding the remedy. If we use printed repertory, we need to search each symptom one by one and then list the remedies for each symptom. Once all the remedies are listed for each symptom, we need to find the remedy which satisfies most of the symptoms.

If we use On Line Remedy Finder, we can simply enter the following symptoms:

Shooting pain in stomach on movement. Complete relief to pains during rest and when lying. Cannot sleep after 3 AM. Sickness after eating.

This gives the following result:

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Result of search: Shooting pain in stomach on movement. Complete relief to pains during rest and when lying. Cannot sleep after 3 AM. Sickness after eating.

20 Documents found

(1) ars.html
ARSENICUM ALBUM Arsenious Acid-Arsenic Trioxide A profoundly acting remedy on every organ and tissue. Its clear-cut characteristic symptoms and correspondence to many severe types of disease make its homeopathic employment constant and certain. Its general symptoms often alone lead to its successful application.
Size: 8.71kb, Score: 20.51%

(2) sulph.html
SULPHUR Sublimated Sulphur This is great Hahnemannian anti-psoric. Its action is centrifugal-from within outward-having an elective affinity for the skin, where it produces heat and burning, with itching; made worse by heat of bed. Inertia and relaxation of fiber; hence feebleness of tone characterizes its symptoms.
Size: 7.53kb, Score: 14.07%

(3) bry.html
BRYONIA Wild Hops Acts on all serous membranes and the viscera they contain. Aching in every muscle. The general character of the pain here produced is a stitching, tearing; worse by motion, better rest. These characteristic stitching pains, greatly aggravated by any motion, are found everywhere, but especially in the chest; worse pressure.
Size: 5.76kb, Score: 13.13%

(4) brom.html
BROMUM Bromine Most marked effects are seen in the respiratory symptoms, especially in larynx and trachea. It seems to affect especially scrofulous children with enlarged glands. Blond type. Enlarged parotid and goitre. Tendency to spasmodic attacks.
Size: 3.67kb, Score: 12.72%

(5) chin.html
CINCHONA OFFICINALIS Peruvian Bark-China Debility from exhausting discharges, from loss of vital fluids, together with a nervous erethism, calls for this remedy. Periodicity is most marked. Sensitive to draughts. Seldom indicated in the earlier stages of acute disease.
Size: 5.29kb, Score: 12.61%

(6) nux-v.html
NUX VOMICA Poison-nut Is the greatest of polychrests, because the bulk of its symptoms correspond in similarity with those of the commonest and most frequent of diseases. It is frequently the first remedy, indicated after much dosing, establishing a sort of equilibrium of forces and counteracting chronic effects.
Size: 8.55kb, Score: 12.17%

(7) lyc.html
LYCOPODIUM Club Moss This drug is inert until the spores are crushed. Its wonderful medicinal properties are only disclosed by trituration and succussion. In nearly all cases where Lycopodium is the remedy, some evidence of urinary or digestive disturbance will be found.
Size: 8.64kb, Score: 11.53%

(8) nat-s.html
NATRUM SULPHURICUM Sulphate of Sodium-Glauber's Salt A liver remedy, especially indicated for the so-called hydrogenoid constitution, where the complaints are such as are due to living in damp houses, basements, cellars. They are worse in rainy weather, water in any form.
Size: 5.19kb, Score: 11.46%

(9) am-c.html
AMMONIUM CARB Carbonate of Ammonia The diseased conditions met by this remedy are such as we find often in rather stout women who are always tired and weary, take cold easily, suffer from cholera-like symptoms before menses, lead a sedentary life, have a slow reaction generally, and are disposed to frequent use of the smelling-bottle.
Size: 4.46kb, Score: 11.44%

(10) merc.html
MERCURIUS - HYDRARGYRUM Quicksilver Every organ and tissue of the body is more or less affected by this powerful drug; it transforms healthy cells into decrepit, inflamed and necrotic wrecks, decomposes the blood, producing a profound anaemia. This malignant medicinal force is converted into useful life saving and life preserving service if employed homeopathically, guided by its clear cut symptoms.
Size: 8.68kb, Score: 11.26%

(11) zinc.html
ZINCUM METALLICUM Zinc The provings picture cerebral depression. The word "fag" covers a large part of zinc action. Tissues are worn out faster than they are repaired. Poisoning from suppressed eruptions or discharges. The nervous symptoms of most importance.
Size: 7.16kb, Score: 11.11%

(12) rhus-t.html
RHUS TOXICODENDRON Poison-ivy The effects on the skin, rheumatic pains, mucous membrane affections, and a typhoid type of fever, make this remedy frequently indicated. Rhus affects fibrous tissue markedly-joints, tendons, sheaths-aponeurosis, etc, producing pains and stiffness.
Size: 7.57kb, Score: 11.04%

(13) nat-m.html
NATRUM MURIATICUM Chloride of Sodium The prolonged taking of excessive salt causes profound nutritive changes to take place in the system, and there arise not only the symptoms of salt retention as evidenced by dropsies and oedemas, but also an alteration in the blood causing a condition of anaemia and leucocytosis.
Size: 7.54kb, Score: 11.03%

(14) colch.html
COLCHICUM Meadow Saffron Affects markedly the muscular tissues, periosteum, and synovial membranes of joints. Has specific power of relieving the gouty paroxysms. It seems to be more beneficial in chronic affections of these parts. The parts are red, hot, swollen.
Size: 3.69kb, Score: 10.94%

(15) arn.html
ARNICA Leopard's Bane Produces conditions upon the system quite similar to those resulting from injuries, falls, blows, contusions. Tinnitus aurium. Putrid phenomena. Septic conditions; prophylactic of pus infection. Apoplexy, red, full face. It is especially suited to cases when any injury, however remote, seems to have caused the present trouble.
Size: 5.56kb, Score: 10.85%

(16) dig.html
DIGITALIS Foxglove Comes into play in all diseases where the heart is primarily involved, where the pulse is weak, irregular, intermittent, abnormally slow, and dropsy of external and internal parts. Weakness and dilatation of the myocardium. Its greatest indication is in failure of compensation and especially when auricular fibrillation has set in.
Size: 7.09kb, Score: 10.83%

(17) cupr.html
CUPRUM METALLICUM Copper Spasmodic affections, cramps, convulsions, beginning in fingers and toes, violent, contractive, and intermittent pain, are some of the more marked expressions of the action of Cuprum; and its curative range therefore includes tonic and clonic spasms, convulsions, and epileptic attacks.
Size: 3.97kb, Score: 10.76%

(18) ox-ac.html
OXALICUM ACIDUM Sorrel Acid Although certain oxalates are constant constituents of vegetable food and of the human body, the acid itself is a violent poison when taken internally, producing gastro-enteritis, motor paralysis, collapse, stupor and death.
Size: 3.20kb, Score: 10.74%

(19) sep.html
SEPIA Inky Juice of Cuttlefish Acts specially on the portal system, with venous congestion. Stasis and thereby ptosis of viscera and weariness and misery. Weakness, yellow complexion, bearing-down sensation, especially in women, upon whose organism it has most pronounced effect.
Size: 6.49kb, Score: 10.70%

(20) aeth.html
AETHUSA CYNAPIUM Fool's Parsley The characteristic symptoms relate mainly to the brain and nervous system, connected with gastro-intestinal disturbance. Anguish, crying, and expression of uneasiness and discontent, lead to this remedy most frequently in disease in children, during dentition, summer complaint, when, with the diarrhoea, there is marked inability to digest milk, and poor circulation.
Size: 3.73kb, Score: 10.69%

Summary:
While repertory takes 15 to 20 minutes, "On Line Remedy Finder" takes hardly two or three minutes (just the time taken in typing symptoms). When using repertory, even after spending 15-20 minutes, we are not sure of remedy, here we get list of remedies with score. An experienced doctor can instantly recognise the correct remedy.

This is what Dr. Sayee Ahmed written about Software:
I have used your software with great ease. It is a great tool in the hands of busiest homoeopathic practitioners to find out the nearest possible effective remedies and based on his experience and knowledge, the practitioner can prescribe the effective and suitable remedy.

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