Answer to Repertory Exercise - March 2009

This is a new repertory quiz that we have started this month. By using Repertory, try to find a suitable rubric for each numbered sentence. The rubrics will help you to decide which remedy is the most similar for this situation.

Male, 45 years old, comes to consultation with terible pains and offers these symptoms: "I think I'll go crazy with these pains" (1), He has terrible burning in the root of his nose and he feels as a if something is burning inside (2). It hurts so much, in fact it shoots (showing his forehead) and it spreads from the root of the nose along left orbital arch to external angle of the left eye (3). He's constantly blowing his nose, but it doesn't help (4). His nose is full of crusts that are very painful when he's trying to take them out. It is so painful that the light bothers him, so he has to turn out the light (5). Discharges from his nose are elastic (6). Sometimes stupid things irritate him and when he wants to calm down, he takes something to eat (7). Food helps him even when he is sad, and in general he feels betterafter eating (8). During the interview he was almost without his voice (9) He always has a lot of clothes on. (10). He likes bitter drinks (11). He doesn't like and doesn't feel well after eating fruit (12).

 

Rubrics:

1. MIND - DELUSIONS - insane - become insane; he will - pain; from

2. NOSE - PAIN - burning, smarting - Root - inside

3. HEAD - PAIN - shooting - Forehead - eyes, over - violent shooting pains - root of nose along left orbital arch to external angle of eye

4. NOSE - BLOW the nose - inclination to blow the nose; constant - amel.; but does not

5. NOSE - DISCHARGE - crusts, scabs, inside - detach - easy to detach - soreness at root; but if pulled away to soon, they cause - photophobia; with

6. NOSE - DISCHARGE - crusts, scabs, inside - elastic plugs

7. MIND - IRRITABILITY - eating - after - amel.

8. MIND - SADNESS - eating - after - amel.

9. LARYNX AND TRACHEA - VOICE - hoarseness - talking - agg.

10. GENERALS - lack of vital heat

11. GENERALS - FOOD and DRINKS - bitter drinks - desire

12. GENERALS - FOOD and DRINKS - fruit - aversion

Remedy: Kali-bi.

Five people who got the remedy right are:

Patricia Hechmer, Agnes Moberg, Nishita Gupta, Sinziana Patrulea and Partha Chakraborty

But the person who got the rubrics right too is - Sinziana Patrulea

Congratulations Sinziana! You are the first every winner of our repertory quiz.