James Tyler Kent Repertory of the Homeopathic Materia Medica Reading excerpt Repertory of the Homeopathic Materia Medica of James Tyler Kent Publisher: Narayana Verlag http://www.narayana-verlag.com/b9575 In the Narayana webshop you can find all english books on homeopathy, alternative medicine and a healthy life. Copyright: Narayana Verlag GmbH, Blumenplatz 2, D-79400 Kandern, Germany Tel. +49 7626 9749 700 Email [email protected] http://www.narayana-verlag.com Narayana Verlag is a publishing company for books on homeopathy, alternative medicine and a healthy life. We publish books of top-class and innovative authors like Rosina Sonnenschmidt, Rajan Sankaran, George Vithoulkas, Douglas M. Borland, Jan Scholten, Frans Kusse, Massimo Mangialavori, Kate Birch, Vaikunthanath Das Kaviraj, Sandra Perko, Ulrich Welte, Patricia Le Roux, Samuel Hahnemann, Mohinder Singh Jus, Dinesh Chauhan. Narayana Verlag organises Homeopathy Seminars. Worldwide known speakers like Rosina Sonnenschmidt, Massimo Mangialavori, Jan Scholten, Rajan Sankaran & Louis Klein inspire up to 300 participants. Contents Publishers’ Foreword. vii Preface to the 1st Edition by James Tyler Kent . ix Use of the Repertory by Glen Irving Bidwell with an Introduction by J. T. Kent . xi Repertory Mind. .1 Kidneys. .757 Vertigo . .107 Prostate Gland . .763 Head . .119 Urethra . .765 Eye . .273 Urine . .779 Vision . .313 Genitalia - Male . .793 Ear . .329 Genitalia - Female . .817 Hearing. .369 Larynx and Trachea . .851 Nose . .373 Respiration . .869 Face . .407 Cough. .885 Mouth. .457 Expectoration . .921 Teeth. .495 Chest . .931 Throat. .515 Back . .999 External Throat. .541 Extremities . .1079 Stomach . .547 Sleep. .1395 Abdomen . .619 Chill . .1423 Rectum . .693 Fever . .1443 Stool . .727 Perspiration . .1459 Urinary Organs. .737 Skin . .1469 Bladder . .737 Generalities . .1511 Appendix Remedy Abbreviations. 1599 v Repertory of the Homeopathic Materia Medica by James Tyler Kent ISBN 978-3-941706-76-7 First Edition 2013 © Narayana Publishers 2013 Reprinted from the 3rd American Edition 1924 Narayana Publishers Blumenplatz 2, 79400 Kandern, Germany [email protected] www.narayana-publishers.com All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced by any mechanical, photographic, or electronic process, or in the form of a phonographic recording, nor may it be stored in any retrieval system, transmitted, or otherwise be copied for private or public use without the written permission of the publisher. Publishers’ Foreword Kent’s Repertory was the main tool of a generation of classical homeopaths and has infl uenced the structure of the most common newer repertories due to its clear layout. It remains well- suited as the basis for solid repertorization. Thanks particularly to its reliability it remains in widespread use by many homeopaths. It was the lifework of James Tyler Kent. He worked on it for many decades right through to the end of his life, constantly supplementing it with information from remedy provings and clinical experience. This work is a fresh, faithful reprinting of this established classic with modern remedy names. Together with the repertory, it includes a guide to repertorization by Glen Irving Bidwell. Kent called this guide “outstanding” and wrote his own preface to it. This fi rst edition incorporates the corrections that were previously published in the “Zeitschrift für Klassische Homöopathie.”1 We would like to thank Dr Klaus Holzapfel for his additions and corrections. Lastly, we have incorporated a thumb index to aid navigation through this rich work. We hope that this work will help many homeopaths fi nd the correct remedy for their patients, just as Kent himself would have wished. Kandern, August 2013 Narayana Publishers 1 ZKH Zeitschrift für Klassische Homöopathie (Journal for Classical Homeopathy), Haug Publishers Stuttgart, issues through and including April 2007. vii Kent’s Preface to the 1st Edition This work is offered to the profession as a general repertory of the homeopathic materia medica. It has been built from all sources, and is a compilation of all the useful symptoms recorded in the fundamental works of our materia medica, as well as from the notes of our ablest practitioners. Many unverifi ed symptoms have been omitted, but only when there was decided doubt about their consistency. On the other hand clinical matters have been given a place when it was observed to be consistent with the nature of the remedy. The plan of the repertory is uniform throughout, and allows for the indefi nite expansion of each division so that remedies can be added from time to time as they come into use or have been confi rmed and verifi ed. It has been attempted to proceed in every case from generals to particulars, and in carrying this out the aim has been to give fi rst of all a general rubric con- taining all the remedies which have produced the symptoms, followed by the particulars, viz. the time of occurrence, the circumstances, and lastly the extensions. Here it may be remarked, in regard to extensions, that the point from which a certain symptom extends is the one under which that symptom will be found, never under the point to which it extends. As is well known to older practitioners, the method of working out a case from generals to particulars is the most satisfactory. If a case is worked out merely from particulars it is more than probable that the remedy will not be seen, and frequent failure will be the result. This is due to the fact that the particular symptoms may not always be observed. Also, only a smaller number of remedies may have proven the particulars. Therefore, by looking fi rst at the general rubric, you are less likely to shut out all possible remedy options. By working in the other direction, however, i.e., from general to particular, the general rubric will include all remedies that are related to the symptoms, and, if after having done this the particulars are then gone into and the remedy which runs through the general rubrics is found to have the particular symptoms, this will aid in its choice as the one to be prescribed. One object, then, of this repertory has been to assist in obtaining good general groups of remedies, and by general groups and rubrics it is not to be understood as the general of the remedies. When pathological names are used, only the leading remedies in the condition referred to will be found in the rubric. To those who have used Boenninghausen’s Therapeutic Pocket Book the working out of cases from generals is a familiar method. But for the benefi t of the younger men the following suggestions are offered which may prove helpful: After taking the case according to the lines laid down in the Organon (§§ 83 - 140), write out all the mental symptoms and all symptoms and conditions predicated of the patient himself and search the Repertory for symptoms that correspond to these. Then search for such physical symptoms as are predicated of the blood, colour of discharge, and bodily aggravation and amelioration that include the whole being, as ix Preface to the 1st Edition well as desire for open air, desire for heat, cold air, for rest, for motion which may be only a desire or may bring a general feeling of amelioration. It should be understood that a circum- stance that makes the whole being feel better or worse is of much greater importance than when the same circumstance only affects the painful part, and these are often quite opposite. Then individualize still further, using the symptoms predicated of the organs, functions and sensations, always giving an important place to the time of occurrence of every symptom until every detail has been examined. Then examine the symptom picture collectively and individually, and lastly study the materia medica of such remedy or remedies as run through the symptoms of the case until there is no doubt about which is the most similar of all rem- edies. Cross references have been inserted wherever it was thought they would be needed, but doubt- less more could profi tably be added. Many busy men will fi nd groups of remedies under headings different from the one they would naturally look for. If a cross reference is made at the time it would always help to fi nd that rubric in the future, and if all such cross references are sent to the author they will assist in making later editions more complete. Physicians are requested to send in verifi ed and clinical symptoms, and to call attention to any errors which they may discover in the text. Only in this way can we expect to have a complete and correct repertory. It is suggested that those who use this repertory should fi rst of all read the headings of the general rubrics from the beginning to the end and thus become acquainted with the plan upon which it is formed. Only by constant use can any repertory become a companion and a helper. J.T. Kent x MIND ABANDONED (See Forsaken) alternating with frivolity: Arg-n. ABRUPT: Nat-m., tarent. as to what would become of him: Nat-m. ABSENT-MINDED (See Forgetful): Acon., eating, after: Aloe act-sp., aesc., agar., agn., all-c., alum., am-c., menses, during: Mur-ac. am-m., anac., ang., Apis, arg., arn., ars., arum-t., asar., aur., bar-c., bell., bov., bufo, ABSTRACTION of mind: Alum., aml-n., calad., calc-s., calc., Cann-i., cann-s., caps., camph., cann-i., carb-ac., caust., cic., con., carb-ac., carbn-s., carl., Caust., cench., cycl., elaps, guai., hell., hyos., kreos., laur., Cham., chel., chin., cic., clem., cocc., coff., lyc., lyss., mez., nat-m., Nux-m., oena., colch., coloc., con., croc., crot-h., cupr., cycl., onos., op., ph-ac., Phos., plat., sabad., sec., daph., dirc., dulc., elaps, graph., guai., ham., sil., stram., sulph., vesp., visc.