Homeopathy Materia Medica and Repertory 2

Question 1

In Kent's Repertory, the largest rubrics are typically printed in which typeface to indicate the highest grade of remedy?

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Bold type

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Italic type

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Plain Roman type

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Underlined type

Question 2

A patient craves ice-cold drinks that are vomited as soon as they warm in the stomach. Which remedy is most characteristic?

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Phosphorus

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Nux vomica

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Bryonia

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Arsenicum album

Question 3

The term 'polychrest' in materia medica refers to a remedy that is:

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Useful in a wide range of conditions with many symptoms

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Only used in acute fevers

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Derived exclusively from minerals

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Prescribed only in high potencies

Question 4

Which remedy is the leading medicine for ailments from grief with sighing, sensation of a lump in the throat, and aversion to consolation?

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Ignatia

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Pulsatilla

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Natrum muriaticum

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Staphysagria

Question 5

In the repertory, the section covering symptoms of the whole organism not localized to one part is called:

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Generalities

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Mind

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Extremities

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Sensations

Question 6

A restless, anxious patient who is chilly, fastidiously neat, and worse around midnight most strongly suggests:

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Arsenicum album

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Sulphur

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Gelsemium

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Apis mellifica

Question 7

The process of selecting the single remedy whose totality best matches the case is called:

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Repertorization

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Proving

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Potentization

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Succussion