Role of Single Remedy Rubrics

As one advances in to the practice and treats a large number of the patients, one comes across the cases where there is a marked paucity of the symptoms and if ever the drug is visible the same would be very hazy and the clear cut choice seems distant.

During such times one of the most wonderful aspects of Homoeopathy is the single remedy rubrics. Many times such uniqueness found in the patient proves a real boon to the practitioners.

A patient can be successfully treated by prescribing a particular drug on the bases of a single peculiarity reveled by them. In homoeopathy all drugs have some unique and singularly peculiar symptoms that exclude all other closely comparable or related remedies. Let us take the single remedy mental rubrics of Platina as an example.

Single Remedy Mental Rubrics of Platina

Kent’s Repertory

(3 mark Rubrics)

1. Delusions, imaginations, hallucinations, illusion: Devils: That all persons are:

(2 mark Rubrics)

1. Contemptuous (see scorn): In open air or when sun shines into room: Paroxysms against her will:

2. Delusions, imaginations, hallucinations, illusion: Belong to her own family, does not:

3. Delusions, imaginations, hallucinations, illusion: Fancy illusions, of: Open air amel:

4. Delusions, imaginations, hallucinations, illusion: Horrible, everything seems:

5. Delusions, imaginations, hallucinations, illusion: Superiority:

6. Dullness, sluggishness, difficulty of thinking and comprehending: Company, in:

7. Fear (see anxiety): Husband, that he would not return, that something would happen to him:

8. Indifference, apathy etc.: Company, while in:

9. Laughing: Serious matters, over: In open air:

10. Weeping, tearful mood, etc.: Room, in:

(1 mark Rubrics)

1.  Anxiety: Speaking, when: In Company:

2. Cheerful, gay, happy (see mirth): Alternating: Pain, with:

3. Cheerful, gay, happy (see mirth): Alternating: With physical sufferings:

4. Children: Aversion to:

5. Contemptuous (see scorn): In open air or when sun shines into room:

6. Delusions, imaginations, hallucinations, illusion: Cut through, as if he were: In two:

7. Delusions, imaginations, hallucinations, illusion: Diminished: Everything in room is, while she is tall, elevated:

8. Delusions, imaginations, hallucinations, illusion: Divided: Or cut in two:

9.  Delusions, imaginations, hallucinations, illusion: Family, does not belong to her own:

10. Delusions, imaginations, hallucinations, illusion: Help, calling for:

11. Delusions, imaginations, hallucinations, illusion: Inferior, on entering house after a walk, people seem mentally and physically:

12. Delusions, imaginations, hallucinations, illusion: Large: Self: On entering the house after walking:

13. Delusions, imaginations, hallucinations, illusion: Strange: Familiar things: Horrible, are:

14. Embraces:  Anything, in morning worse in open air:

15. Irritability (see anger): Alternating with: Tenderness:

16. Jesting: Gravity, after:

17. Kill: Sight of a knife:

18. Laughing: Sadness, followed by:

19. Mirth, hilarity, liveliness, etc.: Alternating: Seriousness, with:

20. Restlessness, nervousness:Midnight: Waking, on:

21. Sadness, mental depression:Midnight:

22. Sadness, mental depression: Sunshine: Amel:

23. Shrieking: Aid, for:

24. Talk: Indisposed to, desire to be silent, taciturn: Air, in open:

When not to use single Remedy Symptoms for prescription: 

• Case is clear and complete evolution is available.
• When case is clear and definite totality for the Similimum is available.
• When vitality is high, and clear expressions are available.
• When pathology is not very advanced.
• When peculiar symptom is in low intensity or it has not been verified or confirmed clinically.