Homœopathic Diagnosis

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A two-part instructional manual with over fifty case exercises illustrating the application of The Boenninghausen Repertory, the revived English retranslation of Boenninghausen's Therapeutisches Taschenbuch (Therapeutic Pocketbook). - details the development and genius of Boenninghausen 's Therapeutic Pocketbook
- shows the link between the Homoeopathy of Hahnemann and Boenninghausen's practical method for its clinical application
- describes how this method may be applied in every case of disease with ease and confidence

Part two:
- illustrates the application of this repertorial method with over fifty instructional cases from the clinic of George Dimitriadis

This entire work is extensively referenced to source material with numerous excerpts from original works and manuscripts not otherwise readily accessible. The first instructional manual detailing the concept, construct, and use of the repertorial method of Boenninghausen.

A must for practitioner, teacher, and Student alike

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Author

George Dimitriadis

George Dimitriadis has taught Homoeopathy for over 20 years, both in Australia and overseas, and contributed numerous articles to various professional journals.

He heads the Hahnemann Institute Sydney, and is author of four previous books on Homoeopathy, and most recently Editor of The Bonninghausen Repertory - Therapeutic Pocketbook Method (TBR).

George has spent the last nine years researching and more recently teaching his method in Australia and NZ. His revealing findings have been published in a series of articles in Germany (ZKH) and the US (AJHM).

George is a leading authority on this reportorial method of Bonninghausen, and has used TBR exclusively in his clinic for more than five years.

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Contents

Prologue -- 5

Part One
Homoeopathic Diagnosis -- 11
1.The Object of the Homoeopath -- 11
2.The Homoeopathic Diagnosis -- 11
3.The Sufficiently Defined Symptom -- 11
Remittent cough case example -- 12
4.The Sufficiently Defined Case -- 12
Infertility case example -- 13
Recurrent bronchitis case example -- 13
5.Symptomarchy -- 15
6.The Abstraction of Characteristics -- 16
7.The Completion of Symptoms by Analogy -- 17
Sub-acute eczema case example -- 19
Haemorrhoids case example -- 20

Repertory Lineage -- 39
1.From the Beginning -- 39
2.Boenninghausen’s First Repertory -- 39
3.TFR Successors -- 39
4.Boenninghausen’s Final Repertory - Therapeutisches Taschenbuch (TT) -- 40

Therapeutisches Taschenbuch -- 51
1.Abstraction & Recombination - the basis of TT -- 51
2.Remedy Grading -- 54
3.Characteristics Mapping -- 55
4.Remedy Concordances -- 57
5.125 Remedies - limitation? -- 59

The Boenninghausen Repertory -- 67
1.Rubric Exegesis -- 67
2.Extension of Provings by Deduction -- 70

Part Two
TBR Case Exercises -- 76
1. Prefatory Remarks -- 76
2. Early Cases using TBR -- 78
3. Cases using a single TBR Rubric -- 81
4. Cases with a single Complaint (no concomitants) -- 84
5. Cases with Multiple Complaints (presenting + concomitants) -- 92
6. Cases using Remedy Concordances -- 118
7. Examples of Cases not requiring Repertory -- 123

Bibliography -- 127

Appendices
1. The Sources of our Materia Medica -- 132
2. Primary & Secondary Reactions -- 143
3. Facsimiles: The Repertorial Lineage of TBR -- 155

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