In "Lesser writings" Dr. Kent states that there
are no fixed types of constitution. They vary according to the
combinations of characteristic, generals, and characteristic particulars
symptoms of the sick individual. The general characteristic symptoms are
also called as constitutional symptoms of the patient. General symptoms
are the most valuable because they pertain to the patient as a whole to
be cured. General symptoms consist of:
General Modalities of the patients
General Mental Symptoms of the patient
General Physical makeup of the patient
The characteristic totality of the dynamic symptoms of
the psycho-physical personality given by the comprehension of the
patient through his character, his affection, his hatreds, and
aversions, habits of life, profession, emotional accidents, disease,
intoxifications and everything which constitutes his personal history
gives the picture of his chronic disease condensed in the characteristic
complex.
This characteristic complex represents the totality of
the symptoms of the patient, the clinical synthesis of the morbid
processes and so the rear expression of the primary vital perturbation
which dynamically produces the actual pathology. It is this synthesis of
the clinical problem that the homoeopathic diagnosis points to, with the
clear conscience that homoeopathy only seeks to cure the chronic disease
in its etiological and constitutional aspects and not in its terminal
physio-pathological manifestations which are its consequence.
The Kent's repertory is based upon general and
particular characteristic symptoms in which he advises the homeopaths to
collect all general symptoms of the patient as well as particular
characteristic symptoms. He should repertorise the general symptoms
first and find the Simillimum, if one remedy comes out then there is no
further need for Repertorization. But if two or more remedies come up
then all the particular symptoms should be taken up and repertorise. The
remedy that scores maximum marks on the basis of both general and
particular symptoms should be selected as the Simillimum and
administered to the patient in high potency or in a series of potencies
when its effect declines.
Some of the important constitutional symptoms are:
Constitutional
Symptoms
Remedy
Chilly, Worse in wet
whether, cold water, during full moon and better lying on painful
side ( Bry, Puls). Head sweats profusely while sleeping, wetting
pillow for around (Sil, Sanic). Coldness of single parts, girls
who are fleshy, plethoric and grow too rapidly. Dispose to grow
fat. Deformed bones. Slowness in general and calculation is the
most difficult task (Mathematics). Fear of suffering, pain,
operation, hospital, dentist. Sensitive to cruelties; can't bear
to see cruelties in movies.
Calcarea
Carb
Children weak and
emaciated, with well developed head but puny sickly bodies. Babies
cries all the day but sleeps all night, hard for inferiors, kind
for superiors, quarrel aversion to, victorial, dominating, power
love of, boaster, rich vicious to be considered, dread full of
men; of solitude, fear of being alone. Worse from 4 to 8 PM,
better from loosening garments; uncovering the head, affects right
side or symptoms goes from right to left
Lycopodium
Adapted to thin,
irritable, careful, jealous persons of bilious or sanguine
temperaments. Ailments from honor wounded, fear; opinion of
others, dispose to quarrelsome, spiteful, malicious; nervous and
melancholic. Prone to indigestion and piles. Persons of an ardent
character. Anxiety with irritability and inclination to commit
suicide, but is afraid to die. Hypochondriac, literary, studious
persons, who are too much at home, suffer from gastric complaints,
ineffectual constipation; especially in drunkards. Oversensitive
to external impressions; to noise, to odors, light or music;
trifling ailments are unbearable; every harmless word offends.
Worse at morning; waking at 4 AM, mental exertion after eating or
overeating, touch, noise, anger, spices, narcotics, dry whether;
in cold air. Better in evening, while at rest; lying down, in damp
wet whether, walking.
Nux
Vomica
Great sadness and
weeping, dread of being alone, of men; of meeting friends; with
uterine troubles. Indifferent; even to ones own family, to those
whom she loves best; to ones occupation. Great falling of
hair after chronic headaches or at the climacteric. Dreams; rape
of, threats of rape, pursued for the purpose of rape. Ailments;
after sexual excesses, anxiety, irritability, restlessness,
sadness, prostration of mind, after coition, aggravation
before a thunderstorm (Psor), better from hot
applications, violent exercise, warmth of bed. Antidotes mental
effects of over use of tobacco, in patients of sedentary habits
who suffer from over mental excretion.
Sepia
Persons of nervous
temperaments, quick motion, quick tempered, plethoric, skin
excessively sensitive to atmospheric changes. For lean stoop
shouldered persons who walk and sit stooping; walks stooping, like
old man. Standing is the worst position, they cannot stand. Cannot
bear to be washed or bathed (in cold water; Ant Crude),
emaciated big belly, restless, hot, kick off the clothes at night.
Complaints that are continuously relapsing, where well selected
remedies fails to produce a favorable effect. Sensation of
burning; on vertex, and smarting in eyes in face, without redness,
of vesicles in mouth, in rectum, in chest, of skin or whole body.
Irritability; remorse easy and quick. Religious speculations
dwells upon asking "Who made God". Better in dry warm
whether, lying on right side.
Sulphur
Adapted to persons of
light complexion; blue eyes, blond in preference to brunette;
tall, slims, flat, narrow cheat; active and precocious mentality,
weak physically; the tubercular diathesis. Symptoms are ever
changing; ailments affecting one organ, then another, beginning
suddenly, ceasing suddenly. Takes cold easily without knowing how
or where. Emaciation rapid and pronounced; loosing flesh while
eating well. School girls headache, aggravated by study or slight
mental exertion; when using eyes in close work and glasses fails
to ameliorate. Change desire for, wander desire to, travel desire
to, emmui. Precocity, hopeful, anger; throws things away, knocking
his head against walls and things, desire to pull one's hair,
breaking things, tear things. Fear; of dogs, cats, something will
happen.
Labeled with ICRA