Materia Medica and Repertory Flashcards

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

Answer: Nux vomica

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

Natrum muriaticum is most characteristically indicated in patients with:

Answer: Silent grief, aversion to consolation, and craving for salt

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

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

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

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

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

Answer: Chamomilla

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

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

Answer: See-also references

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

Which remedy is a chief medicine for burning urinary complaints with intolerable urging and cutting pains, as in acute cystitis?

Answer: Cantharis

Cantharis produces intense burning, cutting urinary pains with constant intolerable urging.

A 'modality' in materia medica refers to:

Answer: A circumstance that makes symptoms better or worse

Modalities are the conditions of amelioration or aggravation that individualize a case.