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.	CHAPTER	RUBRIC	SUBRUBRIC	REMEDY
	SLEEP	DREAMS, animal	Black	Puls.
	SLEEP	DREAMS, another person lying in bed with him		Petr.
	SLEEP	DREAMS, anxious	mortification, after	Puls.
	SLEEP	DREAMS, autopsies	Seeing	Rumx.
	SLEEP	DREAMS, black forms	Beast	Puls.
	SLEEP	DREAMS, blind that he was		Phys.
	SLEEP	DREAMS, body embalmed		Carb-ac.
	SLEEP	DREAMS, body embalmed	Disfigured	Sep.
	SLEEP	DREAMS, body embalmed	knees swollen	Cocc.
	SLEEP	DREAMS, body embalmed	limb broken	Cimic.
	SLEEP	DREAMS, body embalmed	prepuce sloughed of	Linu-c.
	SLEEP	DREAMS, body embalmed	rash covered	Am-m.
	SLEEP	DREAMS, body embalmed	Swollen	Squill.
	SLEEP	DREAMS, business, of	falling asleep	Rhus-t.
	SLEEP	DREAMS, calling out	for help	Kali-c.
	SLEEP	DREAMS, cats	Black	Daph.
	SLEEP	DREAMS, cellars	of being in, and walls falling in	Bov.
	SLEEP	DREAMS, chased and had to run backward		Sep.
	SLEEP	DREAMS, child had been beaten		Kali-n.
	SLEEP	DREAMS, confused	after midnight	Chin.
	SLEEP	DREAMS, crushed	that he would be	Sulph.
	SLEEP	DREAMS, cutting	of being cut with a knife	Guaj.
	SLEEP	DREAMS, cutting	of cutting a woman up for salting	Calc-f.
	SLEEP	DREAMS, cutting	of seeing a person cut up	Merc.
	SLEEP	DREAMS, danger	lying on left side	Thuja.
	SLEEP	DREAMS, danger	of escaping	Hep.
	SLEEP	DREAMS, dead, of the	bodies, smell of	Calc.
	SLEEP	DREAMS, dead, of the	sleeping on the back, while	Arn.
	SLEEP	DREAMS, dead, of the
	SLEEP	DREAMS, death, of	own, his, and orders the rapid removal of corpse from the house	Fl-ac.
	SLEEP	DREAMS, defamatory		Mosch.
	SLEEP	DREAMS, disaster		Sars.
	SLEEP	DREAMS, disease	Boils	Prun.
	SLEEP	DREAMS, disease	daughter has an apoplectic fit	Nat-c.
	SLEEP	DREAMS, disease	Fainting	Graph.
	SLEEP	DREAMS, disease	Fever	Sulph.
	SLEEP	DREAMS, disease	hemorrhage	Phos.
	SLEEP	DREAMS, disease	hydrophobia	Anan.
	SLEEP	DREAMS, disease	loathsome	Anac.
	SLEEP	DREAMS, disease	sore throat	Bar-c
	SLEEP	DREAMS, disgusting	of being smeared with human excrement	Zinc.
	SLEEP	DREAMS, disgusting	about dirty linen	Kreos.
	SLEEP	DREAMS, dogs	Black	Arn.
	SLEEP	DREAMS, dogs	frightened by a black dog	Puls.
	SLEEP	DREAMS, killing a mad dog		Rumx.
	SLEEP	DREAMS, large dog following him		Sil.
	SLEEP	DREAMS, dragon		Op.
	SLEEP	DREAMS, drowning	of a drowning man	Sol-t-ac.
	SLEEP	DREAMS, drowning	That her mother had been drowned	Nicc.
	SLEEP	DREAMS, duels		Asc-t.
	SLEEP	DREAMS, ears cut off	Of having	Nat-c.
	SLEEP	DREAMS, eating		Iod.
	SLEEP	DREAMS, eating	human flesh	Sol-tac.
	SLEEP	DREAMS, emaciated	becoming	Kreos.
	SLEEP	DREAMS, encircled tightly	Being	Ruta.
	SLEEP	DREAMS, events of previous day	of the evening	Ph-ac.
	SLEEP	DREAMS, explosion		Stann.
	SLEEP	DREAMS, encircled tightly	Being	Ruta.
	SLEEP	DREAMS, face covered with pustules		Anac.
	SLEEP	DREAMS, falling, of	From high places, into abyss, a grave	Am-m.
	SLEEP	DREAMS, falling, of	From high places, into abyss, a grave	Iris.
	SLEEP	DREAMS, fights and conquers		Bapt.
	SLEEP	DREAMS, fire	comes down from the heaven	Sulph.
	SLEEP	DREAMS, fire	world on fire	Ruta.
	SLEEP	DREAMS, fleeing of		Zinc.
	SLEEP	DREAMS, floating		Hell.
	SLEEP	DREAMS, freezing		Grat.
	SLEEP	DREAMS, frightful	alternating with headache	Chin.
	SLEEP	DREAMS, frightful	Sleep, on going to	Chin.
	SLEEP	DREAMS, fruit		Cast-eq
	SLEEP	DREAMS, ghost, spectres	Black	Ars.
	SLEEP	DREAMS, ghost, spectres	pursued by	Sil.
	SLEEP	DREAMS, ghost, specters	White	Sars.
	SLEEP	DREAMS, giants	pursued by	Bell.
	SLEEP	DREAMS, girl that he is		Apis.
	SLEEP	DREAMS, grotesque		Lil-t.
	SLEEP	DREAMS, hair of being obliged to dress hair in company		Mag-c.
	SLEEP	DREAMS, horses	arm bitten by	Am-m.
	SLEEP	DREAMS, horses	changing into dogs	Zinc.
	SLEEP	DREAMS, horses	Kicking	Mag-s.
	SLEEP	DREAMS, horses	pursuing him	Alum.
	SLEEP	DREAMS, horses	stealing a horse	Rumx.
	SLEEP	DREAMS, hung	of being	Am-m
	SLEEP	DREAMS, hung	of being, of seeing person	Merc- sul.
	SLEEP	DREAMS, illuminations		Crot-c.
	SLEEP	DREAMS, Indian	that he is among	Jug-c.
	SLEEP	DREAMS, injuries	self-inflicted	Nicc.
	SLEEP	DREAMS, intrigue	that his character is one of	Lach.
	SLEEP	DREAMS, journey	by railroad	Apis.
	SLEEP	DREAMS, jumping		Verat.

	SLEEP	DREAMS, knives	stabbed his antagonist with a knife	Nat-c.
	SLEEP	DREAMS, lion,	that he was a	Phys.
	SLEEP	DREAMS, men	following to violate her	Kreos.
	SLEEP	DREAMS, mice	Yellow	Mag-s.
	SLEEP	DREAMS, money	counterfeit	Zinc-ox.
	SLEEP	DREAMS, mud	walking in	Iod.
	SLEEP	DREAMS, murder	of seeing murdered men	Rumx.
	SLEEP	DREAMS, music		Sars.
	SLEEP	DREAMS, nakedness		Rumx.
	SLEEP	DREAMS, nausea		Arg-m
	SLEEP	DREAMS, nightmare	menses, before	Sulp-ac.
	SLEEP	DREAMS, nightmare	menses, after	Thuja.
	SLEEP	DREAMS, pins, of		Merc.
	SLEEP	DREAMS, poison	that he has taken	Kreos.
	SLEEP	DREAMS, poisoned, of being	Praying	Ars-h.
	SLEEP	DREAMS, pregnant		Pic-ac.
	SLEEP	DREAMS, prisoner	of being taken a	Nat-m.
	SLEEP	DREAMS, pursued, of being	Enemies	Con.
	SLEEP	DREAMS, pursued, of being	Ghost	Sil.
	SLEEP	DREAMS, pursued, of being	Giant	Bell.
	SLEEP	DREAMS, pursued, of being	mad bulls	Ind.
	SLEEP	DREAMS, pursued, of being	man to violate her	Kreos.
	SLEEP	DREAMS, pursued, of being	ox, an	Eupi.
	SLEEP	DREAMS, pursued, of being	Robbers	Mag-m.
	SLEEP	DREAMS, pursued, of being	Soldiers	Mag-s.
	SLEEP	DREAMS, rain	of being socked in	Mag-c.
	SLEEP	DREAMS, rape threat of		Sep.
	SLEEP	DREAMS, rape threat of	Pursued for the purpose of	Kreos.
	SLEEP	DREAMS, rape threat of	that he has committed	Petr.
	SLEEP	DREAMS, remorse of		Sanic.
	SLEEP	DREAMS, roaming over field		Rhus-t
	SLEEP	DREAMS, robbers	of being pursued by	Mag-m
	SLEEP	DREAMS, robber	menses, during	Nat-m.
	SLEEP	DREAMS, romantic		Am-c.
	SLEEP	DREAMS, skeleton		Op.
	SLEEP	DREAMS, smelling	sulphur, tinder	Anac.
	SLEEP	DREAMS, smoking		Tell.
	SLEEP	DREAMS, snakes	of being bitten by	Bov.
	SLEEP	DREAMS, snow	of working in	Bapt.
	SLEEP	DREAMS, soldiers		Chel.
	SLEEP	DREAMS, soldier	of being pursued by a	Mag-s.
	SLEEP	DREAMS, soldier	of seeing a soldier shot	Am-m.
	SLEEP	DREAMS, spiders	as long as an ox	Cinnb.
	SLEEP	DREAMS, stars falling		Alum.
	SLEEP	DREAMS, staling fruit		Plb.
	SLEEP	DREAMS, stone lying on him		Kali-c.
	SLEEP	DREAMS, storm	snow storm	Kreos.
	SLEEP	DREAMS, struck by lightning	that he was	Arn.
	SLEEP	DREAMS, stung by ab insect		Phos.
	SLEEP	DREAMS, suicide		Naja.
	SLEEP	DREAMS, tall, of being very		Ferr-i.
	SLEEP	DREAMS, teeth breaking off	Pulled out	Nat-m.
	SLEEP	DREAMS, theft,	of being accused of	Lach.
	SLEEP	DREAMS, tombs		Anac.
	SLEEP	DREAMS, tombs	of living in	Nicc.
	SLEEP	DREAMS, tombs	of putting taper on tomb	Hura.
	SLEEP	DREAMS, unsuccessful efforts to do various things, to cry out, to find the way in his own house		Mag-c.
	SLEEP	DREAMS, vermin	Insects	Arg-n.
	SLEEP	DREAMS, vertigo		Sili.
	SLEEP	DREAMS, vexation	Violence	Led.
	SLEEP	DREAMS, warts		Mez.
	SLEEP	DREAMS, water	Black	Ars.
	SLEEP	DREAMS, water	Child bathing in boiling water	Mag-c.
	SLEEP	DREAMS, water	Daughter is in and crying for help	Nat-s.
	SLEEP	DREAMS, water	Falling into, her child	Eupi.
	SLEEP	DREAMS, water	Falling into, her child, mother	Nicc.
	SLEEP	DREAMS, water	Fishes swimming in	Chin.
	SLEEP	DREAMS, water	Men, jumping into	Mag-s.
	SLEEP	DREAMS, water	Poor people bathing	Chin-b.
	SLEEP	DREAMS, water	Poured upon him	Ox-ac.
	SLEEP	DREAMS, water	Putrid	Arg-n.
	SLEEP	DREAMS, water	rowing on	Rhus-t.
	SLEEP	DREAMS, water	stream of	Con.
	SLEEP	DREAMS, water	wading in	Merc-i-r.
	SLEEP	DREAMS, water	Wading in, in which are serpents	Alum.
	SLEEP	DREAMS, water	Yellow	Hura.
	SLEEP	DREAMS, window	Broken	Hep.
	SLEEP	DREAMS, window	broken, trying to get out of	Calc-fl.
	SLEEP	DREAMS, window	Broken, jumping from	Mag-m.
	SLEEP	DREAMS, worms	Creeping, Vomiting of	Chin.
	SLEEP	DREAMS, wounded	Of being	Ant-c.
	SLEEP	DREAMS, writing		Senec.
	SLEEP	DREAMS, writing	On dirty table and paper becoming smears	Prun.

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