Classical Miasmatic Prescribing (S. K. Banerjea)
MTEK is a useful memory aid to arriving at a correct prescription. M = Miasmatic Totality T = Totality of Symptoms E = Essence (should include gestures, postures, behaviours etc) K = Keynotes (which should encompass PQRS symptoms, refer §153 and §209 of Hahnemann’s Organon) When the above criteria are considered and the steps below followed, a correct prescription can be made. Step I Make the miasmatic diagnosis of the case i.e. ascertain the surface miasm. Step II Assess the Totality of Symptoms + Essence + Keynotes and PQRS (if any) of the case and formulate the indicated remedy. Step …
Four Aphorisms for Dr. J. T. Kent
“It is worse than useless to give a second dose until the effects of the first dose have ceased.” “Never, under any circumstances, make use of local applications for an internal derangement. It is the highest order of medical profanity!” “A Sycotic is never cured unless a discharge is brought back”. “When a remedy has benefited a patient satisfactorily, never on your life, change your remedy, but repeat that remedy so long as you can benefit the patient. Do not regard the symptoms that have come up.” (Dr. James Tyler Kent – Kent’s Aphorisms and …
Guilt (Keith Souter)
— Homeopath Keith Souter discusses different types of guilt and gives keynotes for some important remedies. — So full of artless jealousy is guilt, It spills itself in fearing to be spilt. William Shakespeare, Hamlet It is the genius of William Shakespeare that we still see his plays performed four centuries after he died. His canon of plays covers virtually every human emotion. Incredibly, he gave textbook psychiatric descriptions of conditions centuries before psychiatry as a medical discipline was even conceived. In Hamlet we see one of the greatest depictions of depression. Hamlet, Prince of Denmark suffers from melancholy, or …
