Comparison of 1st and 2nd grade remedies of rubric Haughty of Kent’s repertory

Dr Maria Shaju

HAUGHTY
Meaning: haughty is arrogantly proud of something that one possesses may be looks, wealth, power, position or religion, with tendency to look down upon others.

Miasmatic background: sycosis

Remarks: it is a disapproving unfriendly behavior where one considers him superior to others.

1^ST GRADE REMEDIES

LYCOPODIUM

PLATINA

SULPHUR

VERATRUM ALBUM

2^ND GRADE REMEDIES

CAUSTICUM

HYOSCYAMUS

IPECAC

LACHESIS

PALLADIUM

STAPHYSAGRIA

STRAMONIUM

LYCOPODIUM

• Adapted to ailments gradually developing, functional power weakening, with failures of digestive powers seriously disturbed.
• Head strong and haughty when sick.
• Little things annoy, extremely sensitive.
• Averse to undertake new things.
• Haughty and dictatorial to those below to him.
• Sensitive to noise and odors.
• Feels if he is small, his survival will be difficult, he will be humiliated, he will be nowhere.
• Theme: they become ambitious, desire to grow bigger, takes a lot of efforts which is concentrated fully on becoming bigger, being more powerful, reaching a higher position.
• To achieve this goal, he can be dictate, dominate and will take the help of anyone.
• Cowardice may be an outward shadow of bravado- this becomes necessary to protect his ego.
• Egotism is his censorious attitude towards others.
• Lyco has constant struggle between cowardice and egotism, between lack of confidence and haughtiness.
• Lack of self confidence with compensatory haughtiness.

PLATINUM METALLICUM

• Suited to women, oversensitive women with dark hair and eyes.
• Haughtiness, pride, over estimation of themselves: they look down on others and regard them s inferior to themselves.
• It is not figuratively but concretely. The objects in the room looks too small.
• Pride is said to be self conscious emotion which felt when self image in the society is at risk.
• Pride is accompanied by feeling of ignored or abandoned by others.
• She is sensitive to rejection.
• Superiority complex is denoted in delusion as well – delusion of being a great person.
• Illusion – everything around her is very small and everybody inferior to her.
• Mania with great pride, with fault finding.

SULPHUR.

• Suited to person who lead sedentary lives, lean, stoop shouldered.
• His huge power of rational thinking and ability to look at things from philosophers view makes him think of himself as a great person better than others.
• Thus he develops self esteem so much he will become presuming- he is a boaster.
• Sulphur patient is the ragged philosopher.
• Sulphur is an egotist and ego is manifested as foolish happiness and pride.
• He thinks himself to be in possession of beautiful things and everything looks pretty which the person takes a fancy to.
• Sulphur is indifferent to personal appearance and to the opinions of others.
• Selfish individuals who thinks they are greatest.
• Disgust is not for people, but for ignorance, stupidity and dogmatism.

VERATRUM ALBUM

• “Rigidity”- personality is quite stiff in thinking and cannot tolerate contradiction at all.
• Dogmatic- Dictatorial- Haughty
• Mental confusion, delirium of insanities, mostly mute, religious or with pride.
• Overly critical, censorious- he believes himself to be superior to those around him.
• Believes him to be the only one who is sane, all others being insane.
• Delusion that he is communicating with God. It is the symptom of haughtiness of veratrum.
• He misuse power, he covets power, and he wants to have power over somebody else.

CAUSTICUM

• They possess strong sense of social justice, which manifests in particular as intolerance to any kind of authority.
• Feel victimized: a strong sense of injustice and need to control angry, dictatorial,haughty,defiant with high sense of responsibility.

HYOSCYAMUS

• Great hiliarity; inclined to laugh at everything.
• Jealousy and suspicious- jealousy seems to motivate much of the behavior.
• Person is not active, energetic or violent

IPECAC

• They feel let down, pushed out of their position.
• They feel they have such great qualities, but others cannot see it in her ignorance.
• Haughty, elite.
• Irritable; olds everything in contempt. Full of desires, for what they know not.
• Fixed ideas, classifies everything, orderly.
• Impatience and haughty.

LACHESIS

• Haughtiness born out of improper self love and from a search for an outlet to relieve.
• Haughtiness as the need to compete and to be attractive.
• Haughtiness born out from deep narcissism, an improper love of self.
• 2 physical symptoms; hemorrhage and fluctuations in body heat corroborate Lachesis haughtiness.
• It is the result of tremendous concern with a deep love of self.

PALLADIUM

• Haughtiness from wounded pride, mortification and love of approbation.
• It seeks out the praise and approval of others and becomes haughty when it is not received.
• Haughty because, they crave attention- she wants to be flattered.
• They can be quite egoistic, although they don’t show it, so directly; they are quiet, timid and lack of self confidence.

STAPHYSAGRIA

• Indignation, pent up wrath and suppressed anger and feelings manifesting as haughtiness.
• Haughtiness emerges from indignation as does the feeling of being scorned.

STRAMONIUM

• Delusion about his identity; thinks himself tall , double.
• Loquacious, laughing, singing, swearing, praying, rhyming.
• Desire light and company.
• Delirium is more furious, the mania is more acute.
• Haughtiness with shrieking, tearing, cursing, smashing things.

Dr. Maria Shaju
MD Part 2 .Department of case taking and repertory.
Under guidance of : Dr. Munir Ahamed R
GHMC, Bengluru.