Single Remedy Rubrics of Dreams in Kent Repertory of Homoeopathic Materia Medica

Single Remedy Rubrics of Dreams in Kent Repertory of Homoeopathic Materia Medica

Abstract – This article is based on the utility of the dream rubrics in homoeopathy which is very important in case of taking of a patient to find out the constitutional similimum. Dreams are very important because it shows the psyche of the person. Dreams originate from the mind and Homoeopathy needs the information related to the mind. Dreams provide such information about a patient psyche, which we can use to prescribe a most similar remedy.

Keywords – Homoeopathy, Kent Repertory, Dreams, Rubrics.

Introduction – A dream is a series of imagined thoughts, feelings, and experiences that typically arise automatically in the mind during specific sleep stages. Oneirology is the scientific study of dreams. Sleep and dreaming are connected. Dreams mostly happen during the rapid eye movement (REM) phase of sleep, which is characterised by increased brain activity and a state of wakefulness.

Because it would be an information overload, the conscious mind is not always able to process disjointed data. In the same way that the conscious mind can extract information from the subconscious mind to aid it in self-defense or other survival situations, the subconscious mind also stores skills and other related informations.(2) Dreams are interpreted in homoeopathy as the subconscious expression of the individual’s inner essence, implying that dream interpretations might help identify the similimum by providing insight into one’s mental state and implicit wishes.(3)

Sigmund Freud’s theory –

The father of the theory of the dreaming process was Sigmund Freud. Sigmund Freud believed that a dream is mainly the covert realisation of suppressed aspirations from waking life. Dreams are symbolic releases of suppressed aspirations or experiences. By examining these dreams, one can uncover the unconscious and ultimately determine the cause of the anomalies. According to him, dreams are a conscious way for people to communicate desires or fantasies that are not easily reconciled with aware waking reality. As a result, dream activity was thought to represent a typical unconscious process manifestation. The dream allows for the partial but restricted fulfilment of the suppressed drive that gives rise to the dream since the sleep state blocks motility.(4)

Carl Jung’s theory –

The fundamental tenet of Jungian dream theory is that dreams disclose more information than they do not. According to Jung, dreams were the mind’s own direct expression. It was his belief that dreams served as a means of communicating a person’s conscious state through metaphors and symbols. Additionally, according to Jung, this language contained universal archetypes, or images, that are fundamental to all human awareness. According to him, dreams performed two purposes: they corrected a psychological imbalance in the dreamer and gave them a glimpse of the future, enabling them to predict what would happen in real life.(5) He considered dreams to be the mind’s attempt to convey significant information to the individual and to play a crucial role in the process of personality development known as individuation.(6)

Dr. James Tyler Kent – Dr. Kent was born March 31, 1849, in Woodhull, New York. He graduated from the Eclectic Medical Institute in Cincinnati and began practice in St. Louis as an eclectic doctor. He became interested in homeopathy in 1878. (7)

In his lecture on homeopathic philosophy, Kent says that when a person enters a state of hostility to life or his life is in strife and disorder, it disturbs his will and can bring him difficult dreams, which are actually a      mental condition. . Kent prioritized general symptoms because they always rule out dissent. Dreams are closely related to the mental state, the patient can say: “I had a dream last night”, this is a normal state. The things that are close to man and his life and his vitality are strictly ordinary things. Because the patient predicts something about himself, it is common. According to Kent, “all the symptoms of sleep are important because they are intimately connected with the mind.” The mind only dreams, but the mind is human, so we see how important sleep and dreams become in the case history.(8)

His repertoire was published in 1897. The sixth American edition was published in 1957, while the Indian edition was published in 1961. Kent’s repertoire is based on the philosophy of deductive logic, i.e. from the general to the particular. (9)

He used three types of typography to show the gradation of remedies. Graded, italic, and standard Latin, 3 points, 2 points, 1 point, and grades are first, second, and third grade. (10)

Kent’s repertoire begins with the mind chapter and the final chapter is general. the remaining figures are based on anatomical divisions. There are thirty-three chapters in all, one of which deals with the urinary organs, this chapter has five sections. (11)

Dreams are present under the sleep chapter, which contain 239 rubrics of dreams. Dreams are present from page no 1235 to 1245.

SN.CHAPTERRUBRICSUBRUBRICREMEDY
SLEEPDREAMS, animalBlackPuls.
SLEEPDREAMS, another person lying in bed with himPetr.
SLEEPDREAMS, anxiousmortification, afterPuls.
SLEEPDREAMS, autopsiesSeeingRumx.
SLEEPDREAMS, black formsBeastPuls.
SLEEPDREAMS, blind that he wasPhys.
SLEEPDREAMS, body embalmedCarb-ac.
SLEEPDREAMS, body embalmedDisfiguredSep.
SLEEPDREAMS, body embalmedknees swollenCocc.
SLEEPDREAMS, body embalmedlimb brokenCimic.
SLEEPDREAMS, body embalmedprepuce sloughed of Linu-c.
SLEEPDREAMS, body embalmedrash coveredAm-m.
SLEEPDREAMS, body embalmedSwollenSquill.
SLEEPDREAMS, business, offalling asleepRhus-t.
SLEEPDREAMS, calling outfor helpKali-c.
SLEEPDREAMS, catsBlackDaph.
SLEEPDREAMS, cellarsof being in, and walls falling inBov.
SLEEPDREAMS, chased and had to run backwardSep.
SLEEPDREAMS, child had been beatenKali-n.
SLEEPDREAMS, confusedafter midnightChin.
SLEEPDREAMS, crushed that he would be Sulph.
SLEEPDREAMS, cuttingof being cut with a knifeGuaj.
SLEEPDREAMS, cuttingof cutting a woman up for saltingCalc-f.
SLEEPDREAMS, cuttingof seeing a person cut upMerc.
SLEEPDREAMS, dangerlying on left sideThuja.
SLEEPDREAMS, dangerof escapingHep.
SLEEPDREAMS, dead, of thebodies, smell ofCalc.
SLEEPDREAMS, dead, of thesleeping on the back, whileArn.
SLEEPDREAMS, dead, of the
SLEEPDREAMS, death, ofown, his, and orders the rapid removal of corpse from the houseFl-ac.
SLEEPDREAMS, defamatoryMosch.
SLEEPDREAMS, disasterSars.
SLEEPDREAMS, diseaseBoilsPrun.
SLEEPDREAMS, diseasedaughter has an apoplectic fitNat-c.
SLEEPDREAMS, diseaseFaintingGraph.
SLEEPDREAMS, diseaseFeverSulph.
SLEEPDREAMS, diseasehemorrhagePhos.
SLEEPDREAMS, diseasehydrophobiaAnan.
SLEEPDREAMS, diseaseloathsomeAnac.
SLEEPDREAMS, diseasesore throatBar-c
SLEEPDREAMS, disgustingof being smeared with human excrementZinc.
SLEEPDREAMS, disgustingabout dirty linenKreos.
SLEEPDREAMS, dogsBlackArn.
SLEEPDREAMS, dogsfrightened by a black dogPuls.
SLEEPDREAMS, killing a mad dogRumx.
SLEEPDREAMS, large dog following himSil.
SLEEPDREAMS, dragonOp.
SLEEPDREAMS, drowning  of a drowning manSol-t-ac.
SLEEPDREAMS, drowningThat her mother had been drownedNicc.
SLEEPDREAMS, duelsAsc-t.
SLEEPDREAMS, ears cut offOf havingNat-c.
SLEEPDREAMS, eatingIod.
SLEEPDREAMS, eatinghuman fleshSol-tac.
SLEEPDREAMS, emaciatedbecomingKreos.
SLEEPDREAMS, encircled tightlyBeingRuta.
SLEEPDREAMS, events of previous dayof the eveningPh-ac.
SLEEPDREAMS, explosionStann.
SLEEPDREAMS, encircled tightlyBeingRuta.
SLEEPDREAMS, face covered with pustulesAnac.
SLEEPDREAMS, falling, ofFrom high places, into abyss, a graveAm-m.
SLEEPDREAMS, falling, ofFrom high places, into abyss, a graveIris.
SLEEPDREAMS, fights and conquersBapt.
SLEEPDREAMS, firecomes down from the heavenSulph.
SLEEPDREAMS, fireworld on fireRuta.
SLEEPDREAMS, fleeing ofZinc.
SLEEPDREAMS, floatingHell.
SLEEPDREAMS, freezingGrat.
SLEEPDREAMS, frightfulalternating with headacheChin.
SLEEPDREAMS, frightfulSleep, on going toChin.
SLEEPDREAMS, fruitCast-eq
SLEEPDREAMS, ghost, spectresBlackArs.
SLEEPDREAMS, ghost, spectrespursued bySil.
SLEEPDREAMS, ghost, spectersWhiteSars.
SLEEPDREAMS, giantspursued byBell.
SLEEPDREAMS, girl that he is Apis.
SLEEPDREAMS, grotesque Lil-t.
SLEEPDREAMS, hair of being obliged to dress hair in companyMag-c.
SLEEPDREAMS, horsesarm bitten byAm-m.
SLEEPDREAMS, horseschanging into dogsZinc.
SLEEPDREAMS, horsesKickingMag-s.
SLEEPDREAMS, horsespursuing himAlum.
SLEEPDREAMS, horsesstealing a horseRumx.
SLEEPDREAMS, hungof beingAm-m
SLEEPDREAMS, hungof being, of seeing personMerc- sul.
SLEEPDREAMS, illuminationsCrot-c.
SLEEPDREAMS, Indian that he is amongJug-c.
SLEEPDREAMS, injuriesself-inflictedNicc.
SLEEPDREAMS, intriguethat his character is one ofLach.
SLEEPDREAMS, journeyby railroadApis.
SLEEPDREAMS, jumpingVerat.
SLEEPDREAMS, knivesstabbed his antagonist with a knifeNat-c.
SLEEPDREAMS, lion, that he was aPhys.
SLEEPDREAMS, menfollowing to violate herKreos.
SLEEPDREAMS, miceYellowMag-s.
SLEEPDREAMS, moneycounterfeitZinc-ox.
SLEEPDREAMS, mudwalking inIod.
SLEEPDREAMS, murderof seeing murdered menRumx.
SLEEPDREAMS, musicSars.
SLEEPDREAMS, nakednessRumx.
SLEEPDREAMS, nauseaArg-m
SLEEPDREAMS, nightmaremenses, beforeSulp-ac.
SLEEPDREAMS, nightmaremenses, afterThuja.
SLEEPDREAMS, pins, ofMerc.
SLEEPDREAMS, poisonthat he has takenKreos.
SLEEPDREAMS, poisoned, of beingPrayingArs-h.
SLEEPDREAMS, pregnantPic-ac.
SLEEPDREAMS, prisonerof being taken aNat-m.
SLEEPDREAMS, pursued, of beingEnemiesCon.
SLEEPDREAMS, pursued, of beingGhostSil.
SLEEPDREAMS, pursued, of beingGiantBell.
SLEEPDREAMS, pursued, of beingmad bullsInd.
SLEEPDREAMS, pursued, of beingman to violate herKreos.
SLEEPDREAMS, pursued, of beingox, anEupi.
SLEEPDREAMS, pursued, of beingRobbersMag-m.
SLEEPDREAMS, pursued, of beingSoldiersMag-s.
SLEEPDREAMS, rainof being socked inMag-c.
SLEEPDREAMS, rape threat ofSep.
SLEEPDREAMS, rape threat ofPursued for the purpose ofKreos.
SLEEPDREAMS, rape threat ofthat he has committedPetr.
SLEEPDREAMS, remorse of Sanic.
SLEEPDREAMS, roaming over fieldRhus-t
SLEEPDREAMS, robbersof being pursued byMag-m
SLEEPDREAMS, robbermenses, duringNat-m.
SLEEPDREAMS, romanticAm-c.
SLEEPDREAMS, skeletonOp.
SLEEPDREAMS, smellingsulphur, tinderAnac.
SLEEPDREAMS, smokingTell.
SLEEPDREAMS, snakesof being bitten byBov.
SLEEPDREAMS, snowof working inBapt.
SLEEPDREAMS, soldiersChel.
SLEEPDREAMS, soldierof being pursued by aMag-s.
SLEEPDREAMS, soldierof seeing a soldier shotAm-m.
SLEEPDREAMS, spidersas long as an oxCinnb.
SLEEPDREAMS, stars fallingAlum.
SLEEPDREAMS, staling fruitPlb.
SLEEPDREAMS, stone lying on himKali-c.
SLEEPDREAMS, stormsnow stormKreos.
SLEEPDREAMS, struck by lightningthat he wasArn.
SLEEPDREAMS, stung by ab insectPhos.
SLEEPDREAMS, suicideNaja.
SLEEPDREAMS, tall, of being veryFerr-i.
SLEEPDREAMS, teeth breaking offPulled outNat-m.
SLEEPDREAMS, theft,of being accused ofLach.
SLEEPDREAMS, tombsAnac.
SLEEPDREAMS, tombsof living inNicc.
SLEEPDREAMS, tombsof putting taper on tombHura.
SLEEPDREAMS, unsuccessful efforts to do various things, to cry out, to find the way in his own houseMag-c.
SLEEPDREAMS, verminInsectsArg-n.
SLEEPDREAMS, vertigoSili.
SLEEPDREAMS, vexationViolenceLed.
SLEEPDREAMS, wartsMez.
SLEEPDREAMS, waterBlackArs.
SLEEPDREAMS, waterChild bathing in boiling waterMag-c.
SLEEPDREAMS, waterDaughter is in and crying for helpNat-s.
SLEEPDREAMS, waterFalling into, her childEupi.
SLEEPDREAMS, waterFalling into, her child, motherNicc.
SLEEPDREAMS, waterFishes swimming inChin.
SLEEPDREAMS, waterMen, jumping intoMag-s.
SLEEPDREAMS, waterPoor people bathingChin-b.
SLEEPDREAMS, waterPoured upon himOx-ac.
SLEEPDREAMS, waterPutridArg-n.
SLEEPDREAMS, waterrowing onRhus-t.
SLEEPDREAMS, waterstream ofCon.
SLEEPDREAMS, water wading inMerc-i-r.
SLEEPDREAMS, waterWading in, in which are serpentsAlum.
SLEEPDREAMS, waterYellowHura.
SLEEPDREAMS, windowBrokenHep.
SLEEPDREAMS, windowbroken, trying to get out ofCalc-fl.
SLEEPDREAMS, windowBroken, jumping fromMag-m.
SLEEPDREAMS, wormsCreeping, Vomiting ofChin.
SLEEPDREAMS, woundedOf beingAnt-c.
SLEEPDREAMS, writingSenec.
SLEEPDREAMS, writing On dirty table and paper becoming smearsPrun.

References –

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dream

[2] homoeopathy360.com homoeopathy and dreams

[3] https://www.researchgate.net/publication Dreams and its interpretation and its applicability in homoeopathy

[4] synopsis of psychiatry behavioural science/clinical Psychiatry eleventh edition Benjamin James Sudock, M.D. Virginia Alcott Sadock, M.D. Pedro Ruise M.D. theories of personality and psychopathology, chapter 4

[5] https://dreamstudies.org/carljungdream interpretation the dream theory of carl jung

[6] https://www.researchgate.net/publication Dreams and its interpretation and its applicability in homoeopathy

[7] Essentials Of Repertorization, fifth edition, prof. Dr. S.K. Tiwari

[8] lectures on homoeopathic philosophy, Kent j t, chapters 32 and 33, the value of symptoms

[9,10,11] Essentials Of Repertorization, fifth edition, prof. Dr. S.K. Tiwari

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