BEHAVIOURAL

MATERIA MEDICA:

CAUSTICUM

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Dr. Subrata K. Banerjea, GOLD MEDALIST

B.H.M.S. (Honours In Nine Subjects Of Calcutta University)

Fellow: Society of Homoeopaths, U.K.

Fellow: Homoeopathic Medical Association of the United Kingdom

Fellow: Association of Natural Medicine, U.K

Fellow: Akademie Homoopathischer Deutscher Zentralverein (Germany)

Director: Bengal Allen Medical Institute

Principal: Allen College of Homoeopathy, Essex, England

“SAPIENS”, 382, BADDOW ROAD, GREAT BADDOW,

CHELMSFORD, ESSEX CM2 9RA, ENGLAND

Tel & Fax No. 44 (0) 1245 505859

E. Mail: allencollege@btconnect.com Web: www.homoeopathy-course.com

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GESTURE • Anxious.

• Need to have

bond, powers

control.

• Rational, law-

abiding.

• Campaigner of

justice.

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FACE

• Dark, stiff

and rigid.

• Dark eyed.

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APPEARANCE • Dark hair.

• Rigid and strong

fibre.

• Yellow complexion.

• Dark:

o Mood & temper

(hopeless).

o Appearance.

o Fears (as if

committed crime).

o Sense (Eye sight:

black spots).

o Modality (twilight).

o World goes dark.

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VOICE • Husky, rigid.

• Hemming and

hawking.

• Sense of

shakiness and

unsteadiness.

• Speech –

affected, slow,

confused.

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TONGUE

• Pain in the

dry, sore

tongue.

• Painful.

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MAKING APPOINTMENT

• Though believe

strictly and rigidly

in Alternative

Medicine but very

pessimistic

approach of

talking; hopeless

feeling.

• Will appear on

time, on the day!

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NAIL • Strong, rigid, thick,

corrugated (Sycotic)

+ Groove or

indentations (pot

holes) on nails

(Syphilitic).

• Crippled.

• Ingrowing

(Tubercular).

• Ingrowing toe nails,

twitching sensation.

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DRESS

• Black,

dark

colours.

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SIT & BEHAVE

• Unsteady <.

• Sympathetic

coarse,

analytical,

pessimistic.

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PERSONALITY

• Sympathetic,

compassionate.

• I3:

o Incessed.

o Intense.

o Idealistic.

• Self righteous.

• Law-abiding.

• Perfectionist.

• Pessimistic.

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LOOK & DIAGNOSE

• Dark hair.

• Rigid fibres.

• Yellow

complexion.

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BEHAVIOURAL • Becomes vegetarian

(excessive

sympathetic).

• Stiff and rigid:

immovable: dark

mood.

• Introvert.

• Rebellious, holds

grudges.

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Paralysis of single parts:

eyelid (ptosis); larynx:

aphonia; bladder: stress

in continence

Facial

paralysis:

Bell’s

palsy

Constipation

(rectal

paralysis) >

by defecating

or standing

Paralysis:

Physical

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Weak memory

(mental paralysis)

Appre-

hension Negative

Paralysis:

Mental

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Periodic

Rheu-

matic

Rest-

less

Para-

lytic

Hydrogenoid

constitution

Charac-

teristics

Noc-

turnal

aggra-

vation

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CAUSTICUM Raw injured mind

sad, hopeless

Mental

Pessimistic Fear: that something

bad will happen,

mental dullness &

forgetfulness

Rawness

& soreness

The Caustic property

the Doctrine of

signature Burning

rawness & soreness

Sensation as if lime

been slaked in the

stomach (doctrine

of signature)

Physical

Throat,

urethra, skin,

internal

organs raw

and sore

Rectum,

piles: raw

& sore

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Dark hair

Rigid

fibres

Yellow

complexion

Look and

diagnose

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Mental: Long lasting

grief, long &

suppressed sorrow

Physical:

sustained

night

watching,

NBWS:

burn

Dermato-

logical:

ulcers,

maltreated

with lead

Long lasting

NBWS

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Rheumatism

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Contraction

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Dupuytrens Contracture Hands © Subrata

Face

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Appearance

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Gesture &

Behaviour

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Worry For bond

Pessimistic Idealistic

Campaigner

of justice

MENTAL AETIOLOGIES PSYCHIC MANIFESTATIONS

Anticipation

(effects on

nerves)

Excite-

ment

O.C.D.

(Obsessive

Compulsive

Disorders

Sympathetic

vegetarian

Mental Aetiologies

Injustice &

Exploitation

Grief (long drawn)

Disappoint-

ment of

Love

Mortifi-

cation

For control

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For power

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Mood & temper

(hopeless)

World

goes

dark

Modality

(twilight)

Appearance

Senses (Eye sight:

black spots)

Dark

Fears (as if

committed

crime)

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Excessive sympathy

becomes

Vegetarian; energized

by helping others

Feeling of

being right

and

concerned

with

`justice’

Immovable

(Stiff); Dark

mood

Stiff & rigid

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Campaigner of justice

Romantic

Suppor

-tive

Compulsive

neurosis

(Compelled

to re-check)

Sensitive to

authoratarian control

Close succession

of opposite

phenomenas (joy &

& sad alternates)

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Reason

-able

Impends

Dark Mis-

fortune

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Pessimism

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REACTION TO EMOTIONS • Grieving or sad mood:

Sadness in amenorrhoea.

• Anxious mood: Anxiety,

after stool, from

ineffectual desire.

• Aggressive mood: Before

menses.

• Personality: Independent.

• Envious mood: Defiant.

• Miserable nature:

Pessimist to make people

& animal suffer (the other

extreme).

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THANK YOU!

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