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Comparative Materia Medica

An overview. Comparative Materia Medica. Dr. P.R.SAIJI ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR DEPT OF MATERIA MEDICA. Comparative Materia Medica. COMPARATIVE TYPE OF MM. COMPARATIVE TYPE OF MM. Comparative MM.

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Comparative Materia Medica

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  1. An overview Comparative Materia Medica Dr. P.R.SAIJI ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR DEPT OF MATERIA MEDICA

  2. Comparative Materia Medica

  3. COMPARATIVE TYPE OF MM

  4. COMPARATIVE TYPE OF MM

  5. Comparative MM • Understanding how to relate and compare remedies is essential in the development of homeopathic knowledge. • Comparisons and relationships from the perspectives like constitutional, mental, pathological, miasmatic, keynote, organ affinity etc.

  6. Comparative Materia Medica Offers a bridge: it allows for the exploration of new areas of homeopathic knowledge and seeks to ground our existing knowledge into a coherent pattern, so the practice of homeopathy can be objectively applied and verified.

  7. Purpose

  8. Different levels of doing Comparison

  9. Different levels of Comparison

  10. Comparison based on pictures

  11. How to do comparison

  12. Symptomatic comparison eg

  13. Clinical comparison

  14. Organ comparison

  15. Relationship comparison

  16. Based on repertory Converting symptom into rubrics and comparing with the different remedies mentioned in the rubrics

  17. Mode of action based • Inflammatory • Emetic • Convulsive • Excitatory and inhibitory

  18. Group or family based

  19. COMPARATIVE TYPE OF MM- Merits

  20. Merits (contd)

  21. Merits (contd)

  22. Comparative MM- Demerits • All the symptoms can’t be studied this way. Understanding of the whole drug not possible in this type of MM.

  23. No comprehensive drug picture.

  24. COMPARATIVE MATERIA MEDICA USING A THEMATIC CATEGORIZATION OF SYMPTOMS-Richard Pitt

  25. Eg intrinsic (psora) Calcium, Potassium, Magnesium, Manganese, Natrum, Ferrum, Phosphorus, Silicea and Sulphur,Carbon and related compounds- minerals found as part of basic biological functioning.

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