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?

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Nux vomica

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Lycopodium

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Chamomilla

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Coffea cruda

Question 2

Natrum muriaticum is most characteristically indicated in patients with:

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Silent grief, aversion to consolation, and craving for salt

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Cheerful disposition and aversion to salt

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Desire for company and consolation

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Complete absence of thirst

Question 3

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

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

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Like cures unlike

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Smaller doses are always weaker

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Only mineral remedies act curatively

Question 4

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

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Chamomilla

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Pulsatilla

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Cina

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Belladonna

Question 5

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

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See-also references

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Keynotes

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Modalities

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Provings

Question 6

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

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Cantharis

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Sarsaparilla

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Berberis vulgaris

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Equisetum

Question 7

A 'modality' in materia medica refers to:

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A circumstance that makes symptoms better or worse

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The name of the source substance

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The potency of the remedy

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The proving symptom list