Comparative Materia Medica

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Comparative Materia Medica

• Dr.PANKAJ C. DAVE.
• PRINCIPAL,
• DR.V.H.DAVE HOM. MED.COLLEGE,
• ANAND,GUJARAT

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MISSION OF POST GRADUATE EDUCATION

• We will educate students to become outstanding
  clinicians who have the skills and passion to
  improve the health of the worlds people through
  research, innovation, and leadership.

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ENTRY BEHAVIOUR OF P.G.STUDENT

• Knowledge of materia medica only as a mass of
• the symptoms.
• Partial application of this knowledge in
  practice.
• Lack of interpretation of these symptoms at the
• bed side.
• Lack of knowledge of pathology and pathogenesis
  

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• Tell me, I will forget.
• Show me, I may remember.
• Involve me, and I will understand.

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OUR AIM

• To lift the students from the cognitive and
  partially affective domain to the psychomotor
  domain.

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• If you serve him a fish you feed him a
  day.
• If you teach him fishing you feed a life
  time.

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• ROLE
• OF
• COMPARATIVE MATERIA MEDICA

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• Write your comments on observation of these three
  pictures.

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OUR MIND remembers the differences easily
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COMPARATIVE MATERIA MEDICA

• At the level of
• Group
• Sphere of action
• Pathogenesis
• Symptom

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SPHERE OF ACTION
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HEART / MITRAL VALVE
NAJA
CACTUS HEART
CIRCULAR MUSCLE
RT, CIRCULATION, CHEST
DIGITALIS VAGUS
NERVE, H. MUSCLE
CIRCULATION,

BARYTA CARB BLOOD VESSELS
ACONITE ARTERIAL
CIRCULATION,. VAGUS STROPHANTUS
HEART STRIPPED MUSCLE
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pathogenesis
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DISEASE PROCESS
DIFFERENT LOCATION DIFFERENT PATHOLOGY
SENSATION SP. DIAGNOSTIC SYMPTOMS
CHARACTERISTIC SYMPTOMS
SIMILIMUM
ACTION
SO NOT ONLY LOCATION, PATHOLOGY IS ALSO
IMPORTANT
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PODOPHYLUM
NITRIC ACID
RUTA
NUX VOM.
MUR. ACID
COLLINSONIA
ALOE
DIOSCOREA
CAUSTICUM
SULPHUR
AESCULUS
GRAPHITES
RATANHIA
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SymptomS
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• At the level of Materia Medica.
• What do we need to concentrate on ?
• The substance
• The action
• Characteristic Expression

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• Merc.cor. Merc.sol (substance)
• Antim tart Ipecac. (action)
• Graphites Calc.carb. (characteristic
  expression)

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STUDY OF REMEDY
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SPIGELIA
A REMEDY KNOWN FOR ITS
pain
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pain
CHARACTERISTIC
SHOOTING , STABBING , STICHING , LIGHTENING ,
NEURALGIC RADIATING FROM ONE POINT TO ANOTHER
WITHIN OUTWARD
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CLINICAL CONDITIONS

• ANGINA PECTORIS
• RHEUMATIC HEART AFFECTIONS OF
• PERICARDITIS
• TRIGEMINAL NEURALGIA
• CILIARY NEURALGIA
• MIGRAINE
• WORM INFESTATION

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CERBROSPINAL SYSTEM
SENTIENT NERVE 1ST IRRITATES THEN
DEPRESSES SPINAL CORD
ACTION
NEURALGIC PAINS
CHEST
HEART FIBROUS TISSUE
HEAD (SCALP)
TRIGEMINAL NERVE
INTERCOSTAL NEURALGIA (Bryonia,Chelidonium,
Arania,Ran.B.,)
TRIGEMINAL CILIARY NEURAGIA (Verbascum,
Allium cepa, Aconite nap., Mezereum)
HEADACHE MIGRAINE (Onosmodium, Bell.,
RHEUMATIC HEART VALVULAR AFFECTIONS, PERCARDITIS

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HEART FIBROUS TISSUE
VALVES PERICARDIUM
lt MOTION lt COLD WATER
FOUL ODOUR FROM MOUTH
LEFT SIDE
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LYING ON RT.SIDE WITH TRUNK RAISED
DYSPNOEA
PALPITATION, ANXIETY
LEAST MOTION, INSPIRATION
lt
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MUSCLES OF HEART
PART AFFECTED CHILLY
lt BENDING FORWARD lt SITTING DOWN
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VIOLENT AUDIBLE BEATING OF
HEART NERVOUS PALPITATION
Glonoine, Kali nit, Thuja, Ver
alb Cactus Digitalis
SHAKES THE CHEST , SOUNDS ARE AUDIBLE FROM
SEVERAL INCHES AWAY
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TRIGEMINAL NEURALGIA PAINS NEURALGIC SHOOTING
STABBING STICHING BURNING RADIATING WITH
IN OUTWARD BELOW TO UPWARD
lt afternoon lt noise lt stooping lt light gt Cold
water gt lying down gt evening gt open air
LEFT SIDE TRIGEMINAL NERVE (SUPRAORBITAL)
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Clinical application
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• Before teaching Materia medica at the bed side it
  is essential that
• Student is well versed with knowledge of applied
  anatomy, applied physiology, pathology medicine.
• He is expected to be aware of the expectations of
  the patients from him.
• He should be keen observer sharp listener.

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COUGH

• To Force air through glottis by series of
  expiratory efforts.
• Types of cough given in our materia medica
• Night cough
• Whooping cough
• Stridulous (Having a shrill or creaking sound.)
• Stridor A high-pitched, noisy respiration, like
  the blowing of the wind a sign of respiratory
  obstruction, especially in the trachea or larynx.)

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cough

• Aralia racemosa
• Cyclamen
• Drosera
• Hyoscymus

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COUGH
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cough
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cough

• Arnica
• Belladona
• Coccus cacti
• Corralium r.
• Eucalyptus
• Stannum
• Cuprum

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COUGH

• Coccus c.
• Chloralum
• Nux. V.
• Opium
• Phosphorus

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A Case Of Crying Child

• Baby of 8 months.
• Crying moaning constantly.
• Tendency to vomit immediately after nursing.
• Milestones delayed.
• Can not hold the head.
• Irritable child? Constantly moving head from side
  to side constantly moaning piteously.
• P/H Child did not cry at the time of birth.
• Systemic examination Flaccid muscle tone
• Lower
  limb reflexes decreased.

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• What is your diagnosis ?
• Of disease ?
• Of remedy ?

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MRS. F 40 yrs   RHEUMATOID ARTHRITIS
since 5 years
COMPLAINTS-   IP JT Middle Fingers,
Thumb
IP JT Middle Toes
Ankles,
Heels
Elbows

Shoulders Wrists

Knees, Popliteal Fossa


Neck
Jaw

Pain Stiffness Swelling



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MRS. F 40 yrs MENTAL STATE   POLITE, WELL
MANNERED Weepy Easily During 1st
Consultation Anxious about health

 
RESERVED DOESNOT SHARE HER
THOUGHTS,KEEPS

THINGS WITHIN SENSITIVE
INSULTS, CRITICISM, HURT, OFFENDED
Proud Would Not Like To Take Help From
Family Members For
House Hold Work FEAR H\O
FEAR OF FATHER
WORRY FINANCIAL,ABOUT
CHILDREN FUTURE.
ANXIETY ABOUT ILLNESS

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MRS. F 40 yrs ANGERSUPPRESSED TOWARD FATHER,
HUSBAND
BROODING DOES NOT FORGET
Love
Felt Did Not Receive F's Love
Attachment persons
Children
Anxiety anticipatory If H
Start Drinking Again?
Anxiety depressive Regarding Illness

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MRS. F 40 yrs Person Independent

motivation
will

drive

thinkingemotional
confshaky

  dreams occasionally
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MRS. F 40 yrs PATIENT AS A PERSON

THERMAL STATEGRADE C3H2

SEXDESIRE DECREASED SINCE BEGINNING FEELS SEX
IS DIRTY
MOTIONBUS lt NAUSEA, VOMITING
craving fish
Cracksheels

woundoccassionaly takes
time to heal
perspiration general bouts on and off with heat
of sun since 2yrs

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MRS. F 40 yrs COMP PREGNANCY D MORNING SICKNESS
WHOLE 9 MNTHS (BOTH PREGNANCIES) Complaints
pregnancy during oedema (both pregnancies)

Mensesstains Blackish fast
Mensesconcduring Backache gtlying On Back, gt Hot
application
Dryness Of Throat Changes in menses
pregnancy after gt3

gt Hot Fomentation

Mensesconcduring 1day Pain In Abdomen gtbending
Double,
Vomiting
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Totality

• Forsaken feeling
• Suppressed Anger
• Reserved
• Sensitive hurt / offended easily
• Chilly
• Indelible black Menses
• Aversion Sex
• Motion sickness
• lt Pregnancy During

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SUGGESTED REFERENCES

• Boericke W. Pocket Manual Homoeopathic
• Materia Medica
• Chaudhary N. M. Text book of Materia Medica
• Farrington E.A. Comparative Materia Medica
• Farrington E. A. Clinical Materia Medica
• Gaskin A. Comparative study on Kents Materia
• Medica
• Mathur K.N. Systemic Materia Medica
• Nash E. B. Leaders in Homoeopathic
  Therapeutics

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• Conclusion

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Post graduate training