Otitis media is any inflammation of the middle ear without reference to aetiology or pathogenesis. It is the most common cause of hearing loss and it occurs typically during winter or spring. Homoeopathic perspective of otitis media ensures to prevent its complication and recurrence.
An intelligent use of repertory makes the prescriber’s work easy and improves the precision of prescriptions. Repertories help as a valuable stool to obtain a group of homoeopathic medicines. Three basic repertories are
- Repertory Of Homoeopathic Materia Medica – J T Kent
- Therapeutic Pocket Book – Boenninghausen
- Boger Boenninghausen’s Characteristic Repertory – C M Boger
Rubrics can be taken from these repertories.
- EARS- CONGESTION TO
- EAR – DISCHARGES
- EAR – DISCHARGES – bloody
- EAR – DISCHARGES – brownish
- EAR – DISCHARGES – caries threatening
- EAR – DISCHARGES – cheesy
- EAR – DISCHARGES – chronic
- EAR – DISCHARGES – clear
- EAR – DISCHARGES – copious
- EAR – DISCHARGES – ear – wax
- EAR – DISCHARGES – eruption, causing on
- EAR – DISCHARGES – excoriating
- EAR – DISCHARGES – flesh coloured
- EAR – DISCHARGES – fetid/offensive
- EAR – DISCHARGES – gluey, sticky
- EAR – DISCHARGES – green
- EAR – DISCHARGES – moisture
- EAR – DISCHARGES – mucus
- EAR – DISCHARGES – painful
- EAR – DISCHARGES – pappy
- EAR – DISCHARGES – periodic every 7th day
- EAR – DISCHARGES – purulent
- EAR – DISCHARGES – putrid
- EAR – DISCHARGES – sensation as of a
- EAR – DISCHARGES – sensation as of a cold
- EAR – DISCHARGES – serous
- EAR – DISCHARGES – suppressed
- EAR – DISCHARGES – thick
- EAR – DISCHARGES – thin
- EAR – DISCHARGES – watery
- EAR – DISCHARGES – white
- EAR – DISCHARGES – yellow
- EAR – DISCHARGES – yellowish green
- EAR – INFLAMMATION – media
- EAR – INFLAMMATION – internal
- EAR – MIDDLE EAR
- EAR – PAIN
- EAR- PERFORATION, of drum
- EAR- SUPPURATION , middle ear
- EAR- SUPPURATION, external
- EAR – SWELLING
- EAR – HEARING – difficult/hardness
- EAR – HEARING – deafness
- HEARING – IMPAIRED
AUTHOR:
DR ASHNA S
Assistant Professor
Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology
Yenepoya Homoeopathic Medical College and Hospital
Mangalore
