Throat chapter in Synthesis repertory – a comparative study

Dr Sunila BHMS,MD(Hom)

Synthesis; Repertorium Homoeopathicum Syntheticum by Frederik Schroyens is the printed version of RADAR (Rapid Aid to Drug Aimed Research) computer programme.

It is enlarged version of 6^th American edition of Kent’s Repertory. It contains all its rubrics and remedies. This repertory has been improved qualitatively in structure and language to make it more comprehensible and to facilitate easy reference at the time of need.

Throat and External Throat
These chapters contain repeatedly checked additions from all standard homoeopathic literatures. The sources are indicated in abbreviated form towards the end of each medicine.

These chapters include so many clinical rubrics and sub rubrics which help in the study of homoeopathy in relation to modern pathology.

Important clinical rubrics

Throat

1. APHTHAE: ign

–          tonsils on:bell, gels

2. CANCER: carb-an 

–          Oesophagus: phos, plat

3. CATARRH: Nat-m 

4. DIPHTHERIA: (↑Membrane) Apis, Ars, Brom, Kali-bi, Kali-chl, Lac-c, Lach, Lyc, Phos, Phyt, Rhust

extending to left: Lyc

extending to right: Lach

5. ERUPTIONS:

–          Vesicles: Rhust

 pharynx: ant-t ,canth

 Tonsils: aur-m, iris, nit-ac

 Uvula: calc

6.      INFLAMMATION Tonsils (Tonsillitis)- Alum, Bar-c, Bell, Guai, Merc, Merc-d, Lac-c, Nit-ac, Sil

Pain less: Bapt 

7. GANGRENE: Ail , Ars , Arum-t , Crot-h

Saliva: Lach

Solids: Bapt, Bar-c

Sweets: Lach

8. LUMP, rising sensation (Globus Hystericus)  Asaf, Ign, Lyc, Mosch, Nat-m, Nux-v 

9. PARALYSIS: Ars, Lach,Sec, Stram

–          Ooesophagus: Ars

    Sensation of: Ars

–          Pharynx: Ars , Lach

–          Post diphtheritic: Ars , Lac-c , Lach , Naja , Sec 

10. STRICTURE of ooesophagus –r As, Bapt, Bar-c, Nat-m

11. SUPPURATION of tonsils (Quinsy): Bar-m, Hep, Merc, Sil 

12. SWALLOWING, difficult: Am-c, Bar-c, Chin, Hyos, Kali-c, Lach, Lyss, Nit-ac, Nux-v, Rhust, Stram, Stry 

·         drink inorder to swallow: Bell, Cact, Nit-ac

·         fluids only, but solid food gags: Bapt, Crot-c, Crot-h, Plb, Sil

·         liquids: Lach, Lyss, Stram

more difficult than solids: Lach

·         pills, big: Lyss

·         saliva: Lach

·         solids: Bapt, Bar-c

·         sweets: Lach

13. ULCERS: Apis, Ars, Merc, Merc-c, Hep, Nit-ac 

14. VARICOSE: Ham 

External throat 

1.      GOITRE: NAT-M, Calc, Iod, Spong

Right: Lyc, Phos

Left: Lach

Exophthalmic (Basedow’s disease, Grave’s Disease)    Aml-ns, Iod, Lycps-cu, Nat-m, Phos

2.      INDURATION of glands: Bar-m, Bell, Calc, Calc-I, Carb-an, Con, Sil, Sulph, Tub

–          Cords, like knotted: Bar-i, Bar-m, Calc-i, Tub

3.      STIFFNESS, of sides: Bry

Right: Caust

Left: Bell, Puls

4.      SWELLING: Lyc, Rhust, Tarent

–          Cervical glands: Arum-t, Bar-c, Bar-m, Bell, Cist, Calc, Graph, Kali-c, Lyc, Merc, Rhust, Sil, Staph, Sulph

–          Thyroid gland: Carb-an, Kali-I

5.      TORTICOLLIS (wry neck): Lachn, Lyc, Phos

Right: Cupr, Lach, Lyc

Left: Lyc, Phos

There are a number of rubrics and sub-rubrics which have only single medicine; but it carries 3 marks. These rubrics are very helpful for keynote prescription.

Throat 

1.      BREAD, crumbs sensation of:

–          Hawking amel: Lach

2.      DIPHTHERIA:

–          Accompanied by

?   Tongue

Protruding: Phyt

3.      DISCOLOURATION:

–          Redness

?   Tonsils

Dark red: Carb-ac

4.      FOREIGN body, sensation of:

–          Rhino pharynx; as if some thing hanging in: Yucca

5.      HAWK; disposition to

–          Morning

?   Mucus; from thick, post nasal: Caps

6.      INFLAMMATION

–          Burning, pressing, dark: Caps

7.      INFLAMMATION

–          Painless: Bapt

8.      INFLAMMATION

–          Tonsils

?   Accompanied by salivation: Bar-c

9.      INFLAMMATION

–          Tonsils

?   Painless: Bapt

10.  IRRITATION

–          Fauces causes cough; irritation deep in:  Dros

11.  MEMBRANE

–          Left

?   Alternating sides: Lac-c

12.  MEMBRANE

–          Wrinkled: Ars

13.  PAIN, swallowing

–          Hyoid bone; when food is behind: Calc

14.  PAIN

–          Weather

?   Change of:  Calc

15.  PAIN

–          Burning

?   Pressure: Merc-c

16.  PAIN

–          Burning

?   Ooesophagus:

Pressure on: Merc-c

17.  PAIN

–          Sore

?   Alternating sides: Lac-c

18.  PAIN

–          Sore

?   Straining throat, after: Rhust

19.  PAIN

–          Sore

?   Weather, change of:  Calc

20.  PAIN

–          Splinter

?   Extending to ear

Turning head on: Hep

21.  PAIN

–          Splinter

?   Extending to ear

Yawning, on: Hep

22.  PAIN

–          Splinter

?   Cold, on becoming: Kali-c

23.  PAIN

–          Tearing

?   Tonsils: Bell

24.  PAIN

–          Tearing

?   Tonsils:

Swallowing on: Bell 

25.  SUPPURATION of tonsils:

–          Acute: Bell

26.  SWALLOWING

–          Difficult

?   Acrid foods: Lach

27.  SWALLOWING

–          Difficult

?   Pills, big: Lyss 

28.  SWALLOWING

–          Difficult

?   Sweets: Lach 

29.  SWALLOWING

–          Impeded

?   Liquids can swallow

Solids reach a certain point and are violently ejected: Nat-m 

30.  SWALLOWING

–          Impossible

?   Constriction of oesophagus

Cardiac opening: Phos

31.  SWELLING

–          Angioedema: Apis

External throat

1.      ERUPTIONS:

–          Vesicles

?   Side of:

Discharge of ear from: Tell

2.      PRESPIRATION

–          Night

?   Midnight: Rhust

3.      PAIN

–          Throat pit

?   Hawking of mucus: Caust 

THROAT AND EXTERNAL THROAT – Comparison between Synthesis and Kent 

Rubrics and sub rubrics present in Synthesis, but absent in Kent

(Additions to Kent’s Repertory)

Throat 

1. *ADENOIDS: (See Nose Adenoids)
2. *ADHESIVE: Caust, Kali-n
3. *ANXIETY and apprehension in throat: Cann-s

          Oppression in tonsils; with: am-m

4. *BALL: sensation of a (lump)
5. *BITING: sensation in back part of fauces between acts of swallowing:ambr
6. BLOOD (K):

– Hawks up dark clotted blood: Zinc

– Oozing

?   Sensation :zinc

7. CANCER (K)

    Ooesophagus

8. CATARRH: (K)

– waking; on: hydrog

– smokers, of: arg-n

– Oesophagus: seng

9. CHEESY: (K)

– lumps; hawks up cheesy (see Hawks)

– tubercles; hawks out cheesy (see Hawks)

10. CHOKING (K)

– angina pectoris : tab

– bowing the head

amel: cenchris

– cardiac pain, with: Cact 

– dinner

after: bar-c

– drinking: Hyos , NAT-M (Kent-Hyos , Nat-m )

– drinks

warm- lach

– dryness in larynx; from:ars-s-f

– eating

when: hydrog

after: agar

– expectoration; with:ambr

– froth; from:lyss

– hawking up mucus; when

morning:ambr

– hysterical:cact

– mucus; from:

mouth; in:sul-ac

– rising sensation:

– sensation of :

– walking

wind; as from walking in:plat

– warm

room:lach

– water

?   drinking: stram

11. COLDNESS; sensation of (K)

– right: bamb-a

– air agg; open: bamb-a

12. *COMPLAINTS, of throat
13. *CONCRETIONS in tonsils (see Hawks)
14. *CONSTRICTION

          Oesophagus

          Sides

?   Right: nat-m

15. *CRACKING in throat: caust
16. CRAMP (K)

–  night: sars

– eructations, from: coloc

–  Oesophagus: arg-n   ; zinc

17. CRAWLING (K)

          eating by: hepat

18. DIPHTHERIA (K see membrane)

          Accompanied by

?   saliva

Bloody: Merc-c 

viscid: Kali-bi 

?   tongue

aphthae: merc-cy

black discolouration: Merc-cy

brown discolouration: Chinin-ar 

yellowish brown: bapt

grey discolouration: Merc-c 

mapped tongue: Nat-m 

pointed tongue: Lach 

protruding: Phyt

red discolouration of the tongue: Merc-cy 

tip: merc-cy

swelling: Merc-i-r

white discolouration of the tongue: Bapt , Phyt

heavily coated: Chinin-ar , Merc-I-r 

root of tongue: Merc-I-f 

yellowish white: lac-c

dirty yellow: Lach 

19. DISCOLOURATION

          black

?   Spots: carb-v

          bluish tonsils: am-c

          purple

?   spots: sars

          redness

?   right: cench

?   patches: calc

?   dark red: zinc-c

?   tonsils

dark red: carb-ac

      – white

?   uvula: carb-ac

20. *DRAWN out sensation: mag-c
21.   DRYNESS

          right:stann

          accompanied by:

?   salaivation: colch 

–          cold;aftertaking a: nat-ar

–          coughing

·  from

·  amel: stann

–          itching: mang

–          roughness: Dros

–          sleep;during: seneg

–          swallowing

  amel: stann

–          urination after: nit-ac

–          Fauces: xan

–          Nasopharynx:

22. *DUST in; as if: coccus- cacti
23.  ELONGATED (K)

– sensation as if

24.  EMPTINESS (K)

          pharynx had disappeared; hollow feeling as if: lach, phyt, x-ray

25. ENLARGEMENT

      -Ooesophagus

                  upper part; sensation of enlargement: elat

26. ERUPTIONS

          vesicles-Rhust 

    Pharynx

    Tonsils

    Uvula

27. FISSURED: (K)

–          Pharynx(K)

left side: kali-bi

27. FOOD(K)

–          Lodges in throat (K)

bread crumb- graph

eating fast;when: lach

–          sensation of

epiglottis,about. hepat

–          Ooesophagus:

cardia: ign

28. FOREIGN body(K)

– sneezing while:bar-c

– walking rapidly, on:nat-c

– Rhinopharynx; as if something hanging in :Yuc

29. FULLNESS : (K)

–          swallowing(K)

    amel: cenchris

30. *GLUEY: sep  
31. HAIR (K), sensation of

–          right

    extending to

                                        eye, through facial bones to: hydrog

32. *HANGING sensation as if mucos

–          thread: valer+²

33. *HARD, as if: cupr
34. HAWK; disposition to

–          morning

    mucus, from thick, postnasal: caps+³

• dryness, from: alum
• eating after
• mucus in throat and mouth’ from thick: arg-n
• sit up; must: nat-p
• tickling, from: sulph.

• HEAT (K)

• air in open: ant-c
• coryza, during: mag-m

36. *HOLLOW Feeling (see emptiness)
37. *HUNGER in; sensation of: mang
38. INDURATION:

–          Glands of: Carc

39. INFLAMMATION

-alternating sides: Lac-c

– after noon: Lach

– accompanied by

    ear, pain in left (EAR-pain-left accompanied throat)

    salaivation: Bar-m 

    tongue

dirty discolouration: kali-m 

mucus on tongue

                        collection of mucus: phyt

                             white mucus: Ign  

                  white discolouration of the tongue

                        heavily coated: merc  

–          burning, pressing,dark: Caps

–          malignant: chinin-ar

–          scarlet fever: chinin-ar

–          weather

    cold wet: kali-bi

–          winter: kali-bi

–          extending to:

    downwards: merc

    larynx: kali-bi

    nose: Nit-ac 

    upwards: merc

and downwards: merc  

–          pharynx:

    acute: syph

    atrophic: sabal

–          Tonsils: (K)

    accompanied by

salaivation: Bar-c

acute: arn

    alternating sides: Lac-c

    coryza, after: sabal

    follicular: ignatia

    recurrent(K)

autumn,in: merc

40. IRRITATION (K)

–          right: choc

–          fauces causing cough, irritation deepin: Dros

41. ITCHING (K)

–          laughing, from: mang

–          swallowing agg: nux-v

–          talking from: mang

–          fauces

42. LUMP (K)

–          right side

–          left side

–          bitter lump: sul-ac

–          eating after: amb

–          hard lump

–          swallowing

    left to right; lump from: xan

    impossible: ign

–          Upper throat: lac-ac

–          Middle

–          Throat-pit

–          Tonsils

–          Oesophagus

    cardiac opening

    inferior oesophagus (see cardiac)

    middle oesophagus: chin  , puls 

    superior oesophagus (see upper)

    upper oesophagus

43. MAPPED:merc-I-f
44. MEMBRANE: (↑ Diphtheria). (K)

–          accompanied by

coryza:Arum , kali-bi , Nit-ac

–          knotty: kali-i

– painless: Diphtherium 

– patches

    white: lach

–          prophylaxis:apis, diph, merc-cy

45. *METASTASIS

–          gout:benz-ac, merc

46. MUCOUS patches

–          forepart of throat: merc

47. *MUCOUS(K)

–          black

–          bloody

    breathing, hindering: aur

–          cheese; tasting like old: psor

–          cool: phos

–          copious: cor-r

–          eating

    after:tub

–          hindering bereathing: aur

–          lumps:

    sensation

– rattling:podo

–          weather

    wet: mang

–          yellow

    uvula: sep

–          anterior part: merc

48. NARROW sensation: (K)

–          night: phos

49. NUMBNESS

– right tonsil: sep

50. PAIN (K)

– alternating sides: lac-c

–          right (K)

– extending to

left:Bell , Lyc , Merc-i-f

–    left (K)

    extending to

right: Lach , Rhust

–    evening (K)

    amel: chinin-s

–    night

    drink often; which causes him to: cinnb

–    accompanied by

          coryza: bamb-a

–    alternating with

    anus; pain in: sinapis alba

– bed in: Merc 

– body, as from a foreign: mag-c

– chronic: calc, granit-m

– cold

    things, from: Hep ,Lyc

–    cough; with

–    drinks (K)

    cold

thirst for: sulph

–    eating (K)

after: ambr

–    eructations, after: sulph

–    exertion

–    food

    cold

                                       agg: Hep ,Lyc

–    foreign body, as from: mag-c

–    hawking

    amel

–    laughing: nat-m

–    milk

    after: ambr

–    motion on

    head of: phos

    throat of: cham

    tongue of: alum, amvr

–    nervous angina: mag-p

–    opening mouth: kali-c

–    periodical days; on alternate: lach

–    pressure

–    sneezing

    amel: ambr

–    storm; during or after north east: lac-c

–    swallowing

    hyoid bone; when food is behind: Calc

    solids   agg:      amel:

–    swollen glands, as from: nat-m

–    syphilitic: lach

–    talking amel: calc

–    weather

    wet: Calc (K-damp weather)

–    extending to

    chest: sang

    ear (K)

    coughing on: bry

    oesophagus

    eyes

    head

    nostrils: phos

–    Oesophagus (K)

    Pressure on larynx agg: iod

–    pharynx (K)

    accompanied by

                                       tongue

                                       white discolouration of the tongue

                                       heavily coated: phos

?   turning head: Bell 

?   extending to ears: tub

–    Tonsils (K)

?   left: psil

                                          extending to:

            ears: Calc 

?   air; open: kali-c

?   warm

room:

    amel: kali-c

–          aching

?   chilliness; with: cadm-s

?   Tonsils:  aesc

–          biting

    Tonsils: iod

–          boring: arg-met

–          burning (K)

?   cold air amel: sang

?   drinking amel: kali-n

?   drinks

cold (K- cold drinks after)

   after

?   warm food; from: kali-c

?   hawking (K)

                                       must hawk: gink-b

    menses before: sulph

    pressure on: Merc

    rising before: ptel

    vapour; as from hot: merc

    water

   drinking on: mez

    extending to (K)

   mouth: ph-ac

    Oesophagus

   Extending to upward: cocc 

–          clawing: alumn

–          crampy: zinc

–          digging: arg-met

–          dragging down: lil-lig

–          drawing

    swallowing: alumn

    touch agg: staph

–          gnawing: ambr

–          pinching

–          plug when swallowing; as from a: chan

–          pressing

    coughing;when: caps

    sneezing;when: led

    vomiting;when: anac

    Oesophagus

   breath;taking: ther

         after:

    Tonsils

   evening and night: zinc

   swallowing: zinc

   yawning, when: zinc

–          rawness

    talking; from: arum-t

    extending to

   chest: all-c

   larynx: arg-met

   nose: choc

    back of the throat

                                           inspiring; when: conv

    epiglottis: Bell

–          salaivation amel; after: arum-m

–          scratching: tub

    awn; like an

    swallowing; on

–          sore

    alternating sides: Lac-c

    accompanied by

                                           dryness: luna

    alternating; with:

                                           eye inflammations of (see Eye-Inflammation alternating sore)

    children

                                           nursing infants: bapt

    cold

                                           every cold from: alumn, lach

    drinking; after: nit-ac

    expectoration; after: arund

    inspiration; on: mez

  spot; in a dry:

  straining throat, after: Rhust

  weather

   change of: Cale

   (K-change of weather)

  yawning; when

   extending to

         ear: hydrog

  extending to

    left: psil

–          splinter

  breathing, when: arg-n

  motion of neck: arg-n

–          stinging

   nausea; with: xan

–          stitching

    forenoon: led

    boring-stitching: stann

    coughing

    amel: stann

    eating

    amel: spong

    after: kali-n

    motion

    throat; of: graph

    pressing on the larynx; when: kali-n

    respiration

    stooping and rising, on: graph

    pressing on swollen glands amel: spig

    turning the head; on: hep

    extending to

    cervical region: stann

    ear:  (K)

    coughing; when: mag-m

         left ear: staph

         talking; when: calc

         turning head; when: Lep

         yawning; when:

–          tearing

    left: zinc

    drinking; after: nit-ac

    jerking: zinc

    sneezing; when: phos

    upward: lyc

    Oesophagus (K)

    Sensation of tearing by force of rising flatus: coca

51. PRICKLY (K)

–          swallowing

    empty; on:

            only: cench

52. PULSATING (K)

–          right: hydrog

–          lying

    left side agg: choc

53. *PUTS finger in throat:  bell  
54. RELAXATION:  (K)

–          uvula

55. ROUGHNESS:  (K)

–          forenoon: mag-c

–          cold; as from talking: bamb-a

–          dinner amel: mag-c

–          eating after: anac

–          expiration; on:

–          hiccough, from: borax

–          talking

    preventing: ph-ac

–          uncovering, from: kali-c

–          weather, wet: phos

56. SCRAPING:  (K)

–          evening

bed, in: plat   , sulph

–          coughing, when: bell

–          lying amel: nat-c

–          talk; before being able to

57. SCRATCHING:  (K)

–          night: con

–          coughing: bell

–          dinner, after: dig

58. *SINGING agg: dros
59. *SOFTNESS: cist
60. *SORE throat (see inflammation, pain)
61. SPASMS (K)

–          coughing; on: bell

–          head ache; during: cadm-s

–          Oesophagus:

eating: cadm-s

62. SPOT; sore in a dry (see plain sore,spot)
63. *STONE:  (see Foreign-stone)
64. *STRANGULATED feeling (see choking sensation)
65. SUUFOCATIVE (K)

membrane; from sensation of: hydrog

66. SWALLOW:  (K); constant disposition to

–          bitter taste from: chin

–          deep in the throat: calc

–          saliva from:

67. SWALLOWING (K)

    bending forward

     amel: nit-ac

    drinks

    cold thinks; from: sabad

    food

     cold food; from: sabad

    liquids

    amel: kali-c

    pills; big: Lyss  

    sweets: Lach 

–          impeded (K)

    cardiac orifice: con

–          impossible

    constriction of oesophagus (K)

    night: alum

    saliva: spig

    solid: tub

    warm soup: lyc

68. SWELLING:  (K)

–          right: cench

–          left: spig

–          accompanied by

    salivation: anthraci 

–          coughing on: ars

–          sensation of: Lach  (*KENT: SWOLLEN sensation of:  Lach )

    right side: tub

–          palate; soft: arn

–          tonsils

    children

    pale; scrofulous children: chenopodium

    cough

    before

    diarrhoea; with: asimina

    pharyngeal tonsils (see Adenoids)

69. TENSION (K)

–          Throat pit (see External-tension-throat pit)

70. TICKLING (Kent; see larynx)

–          Hair in throat; as from a (see hair)

71. *TONSILLITIS (see inflammation-tonsils)
72. ULCERS (K)

–          accompanied by

    tongue

    brown discolouration: lyc

–          bleeding

–          bluish: carb-v

–          corroding: merc

–          dirty: nitac

–          flat: merc

–          painless: bapt

–          perforating: kali-c

–          phagodenic

–          syphilitic

–          white: nit-ac

–          mucus membranes

     margins: lach

73. *VAPOUR, fumes etc. rising in throat; sensation of

–          hotvapour: hydrog

74. VARICOSE (K-VARICOSIS)

–          Oesophagus: Ham

75. *WATER

–          full of: hep

–          seems to run outside, not going down oesophagus: verat

76. *WEAKNESS, agg. exertion: lac-c

External throat

1. AIR (K)

?   blowing through glands and thyroid on breathing: spong

?   cold air; sensitive to: hydrogenium

2. * ALIVE in goiter

     sensation of something: spong

3. * CLUCKING in muscles: rheum
4. COLDNESS (K)

?   night: Lyc

5. * CONGESTION: kali-c

holding hands on heart: am-c

6. CONSTRICTION (K)

      finger; as from: nat-ar

7. * CRACKING in muscles: limestone   , rheum
8. DISCOLOURATION

?   itching: kali-n

?   red ness

    stripe, in: mang

    white spots: nat-c

?   glands

    purple: carb-an

9. * DISTENSION left: caust
10. * DISTORTED:  ars
11. * ENLARGED, sensation of: hydrogenium
12. ERUPTIONS

?   burning: kali-n

?   itching

?   herpes

symmetrical: lac-d

?   pimples

row, in a: thuja

?   painful

?   scratching, after: mag-c

?   stitching: phos

?   red

13. * EXCORIATION from rubbing of clothes: oleander   , squil
14. FORMICATION (K)

?   Thyroid: ambr

15. GOITRE (K)

–          Cough from: psor 

–          exothalmic

    accompanied by heart complaints: cadm 

    menses, from suppressed: ferr

    tuberculosis in goiter, with: nat-c

–          pressure in goitre, with: nat-c

–          puberty: calc-id

–          tickling: plat

–          twitching: lyc

16. * HEAT
17. *INFLAMMATION

–          erysipelas: rhust

18. ITCHING

–          menses; during: mag-c

–          stitching

–          extending to

    larynx

–          Thyroid gland: ambr

19. * JERKS left: mez
20. PAIN (K)

?   motion , on: phos

?   touch, on: phos

?   cervical glands

    air; open: kali-c

    touch agg: lach

    turning head; when: kali-c

    warm

room

   amel: kali-c

–          sides

    right: ph-ac   , sars

    motion; on

external throat, of: tarax

   jaws, of: tarax

    touch; on:

    yawning: plat

–          sternocleido muscles

    upper part: gels

–          sternomastoid muscle

    left: elaterium

–          blow; as from a:

    upper side: ruta

–          drawing: nat-m

    sides

   extending to

      elbow: lyc

      eye: phos-ac

–          drawing

–          jerking:

–          pinching:

    side

–          pressing:

    cervical glands

    sides

   right

   left

   motion, agg: sars

swallowing, impending: anac

   touch, agg: sars

extending to shoulder: sul-ac

    sublingual glands: cod

–          soreness

?   deep in the throat: cycl

?   touch: cicuta

?   side, left: angostura vera

–          stitching

?   intermittent: cupr

?   turning head when : hep

?   extending to foot: lyc

21. PERSPIRATION (K)

–          Night: nit-ac

–          One sided: nit-ac

22. *PRESSES throat with both hands: bell
23. PULSATION (K)

–          Carotid

    Left: sulph

    Epistaxis amel: tarent

    Headache during: gels

    Pregnancy: gels

    Walking rapid after dinner: carb-ac

–          Goiter

24. SENSITIVE (K)

–          Angles of jaw at: thyr

25. *SPRAINED sensation: carb-an
26. *STRAINING muscles: sep
27. *STRETCHING: sep
28. SWELLING (K)

–          Coughing when: ars

–          Cramp after: graph

–          Menses before: iod

–          Sensation of: mang, xanthoxylum

–          Carotid; left

?   Stooping on: ars

–          Cervical glands

?   Beads; around neck like string of: aeth

?   Knocking: cist

?   Painful to touch: cupr, granit-m

–          Sides

?   Right

?   Sensation

?   Stripe: mang

?   Suppurative: hyos

–          Veins

?   Pressure on left side as if veins were swollen: sil

29. TENSION (K)

–          Menses before: iod

–          Extending to head: granit-m

–          Sides

?   Bending head backward: cic

–          Glands: ambr

–          Thyroid gland: agar

–          Throat pit in

30. *TICKLING

–          Gland: kali-c

–          Goitre: plat

31. *TINGLING: calc
32. *TIGHT around neck and waist; cannot bear anything: Lach, Sep
33. TORTICOLLIS (K)  Waking on: ascelipias tuberose

34. *TREMBLING: graph
35. *TOUCHING agg: Lach, Phyt
36. TWITCHING (K)     Sides

?   Right: lyc

?   Left: mez, sars

37. WARTS (K)

–          Side

?   Left: carc 

Comparison of throat chapter in synthesis with that in murphy’s repertory
MURPHY’S Repertory is an alphabetical repertory based on Kent’s Repertory. Here the chapters, rubrics and sub rubrics are arranged in an alphabetical order.

Almost all the rubrics present in synthesis are present in Murphy’s Repertory.

Rubrics which are absent in Murphy’s repertory are: 

1. MAPPED
2. METASTISIS
3. MUCOUS PATCHES
4. SAND in throat: berb, caust
5. SINGING agg: dors

Rubrics present in ‘Throat’ and ′External Throat in SYNTHESIS are present in ‘Throat’ chapter and ‘Disease’ chapter in MURPHY’S repertory.

Important rubrics present in ‘Throat’ Chapter (in MURPHY’S repertory) which are absent in SYNTHESIS:-

1. AEROPHAGIA: plat
2. AIR, throat, external, sensitive to: (synthesis → External Throat)
3. BORING pain
4. BURNING pain
5. CATARRH (S)

-measles after: carb-v

-sudden           : ARS

6. CHOKES easily : ARG-M, BELL, HYOS, LACH
7. CLERGYMAN sore throat (see speaker’s sorethroat)
8. CLUCKING throat, external muscles in: rheum
9. CLOTHING agg: CENCH, CROT-C, CROT-H, LACH
10.  COLLAR, as if too tight, throat, external: aml- n, sep
11. CONGESTION, throat, external: kali-c
12. CRACKLING, throat, external, in muscles:rheum
13.  CRUSHED, throat, external, as if: sep
14. CRYPTS, grayish-white tonsils: ign, lac-c
15. CUTTING, pain
16. DRAWING, pain
17. DRIPPING uvula
18. OEDEMA, throat: Apis, Kali bi
19. FINGER, puts in: bell
20. FISTULA, throat, ext: phos, sil
21. GAGGING, general
22. GARGLING, agg: carb-v
23. GRASPS, throat, external during cough
24. GURGLING, drinking after: Phos
25. HERPES
26. JERKS, throat, external, left: mez (Synthesis → External Throat)
27. LANCINATING pain
28. NECROSIS, fauces: merc, merc-cy
29. PAIN, throat
30. PAIN, pharynx
31. PAIN, tonsils
32. PAIN, uvula
33. PEPPER, sensation in: hydrog
34. PERISTALSIS, reversed: ambr, asaf  (Synthesis → REVERSED, peristaltic action of oesophagus)
35. PHARYNGITIS: Sil
36. PHTIHISIS (See Tuberculosis)
37. POLYPS (See Larynx)
38. PRESSING pain
39. PRESSURE in throat pit: Brom, Lach
40. RAW pain
41. REDNESS of (Synthesis→ DISCOLOURATION, redness)
42. RHEUMATIC pain
43. SPEAKER’S sore throat: Arg-n, Arum-t, Caps, Caust, Rhust
44. SPONGY appearance: merc
45. STINGING pain
46. TEARING pain
47. THROBBING pain
48. THYROID gland (See Glands Chapter)
49. TONSILLECTOMY ailments after: arn, calc, calend, strept, sulph
50. VESICLES: apis,rhust
51. WORM, crawling up, throat as if: zinc

References:

1. Synthesis Repertory by Fredericke Schroyens

2. Homoeopathic medical repertory by Robin Murphy

3. Repertory of Homoeopathic Materia Medica by J T Kent

Dr Sunila BHMS,MD(Hom)
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