BEHAVIOURAL

MATERIA MEDICA:
CAUSTICUM
Dr. Subrata K. Banerjea, GOLD MEDALIST
B.H.M.S. (Honours In Nine Subjects Of Calcutta University)
Fellow: Society of Homoeopaths, U.K.
Fellow: Homoeopathic Medical Association of the United Kingdom
Fellow: Association of Natural Medicine, U.K
Fellow: Akademie Homoopathischer Deutscher Zentralverein (Germany)
Director: Bengal Allen Medical Institute
Principal: Allen College of Homoeopathy, Essex, England
“SAPIENS”, 382, BADDOW ROAD, GREAT BADDOW,
CHELMSFORD, ESSEX CM2 9RA, ENGLAND
Tel & Fax No. 44 (0) 1245 505859

E. Mail: allencollege@btconnect.com Web: www.homoeopathy-course.com

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GESTURE
• Anxious.

• Need to have
bond, powers
control.

• Rational, law-
abiding.

• Campaigner of
justice.
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FACE

• Dark, stiff
and rigid.

• Dark eyed.

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APPEARANCE
• Dark hair.
• Rigid and strong
fibre.
• Yellow complexion.
• Dark:
o Mood & temper
(hopeless).
o Appearance.
o Fears (as if
committed crime).
o Sense (Eye sight:
black spots).
o Modality (twilight).
o World goes dark.
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VOICE
• Husky, rigid.
• Hemming and
hawking.

• Sense of
shakiness and
unsteadiness.

• Speech –
affected, slow,
confused.
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TONGUE

• Pain in the
dry, sore
tongue.

• Painful.

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MAKING APPOINTMENT
• Though believe
strictly and rigidly
in Alternative
Medicine but very
pessimistic
approach of
talking; hopeless
feeling.

• Will appear on
time, on the day!
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NAIL
• Strong, rigid, thick,
corrugated (Sycotic)
+ Groove or
indentations (pot
holes) on nails
(Syphilitic).
• Crippled.
• Ingrowing
(Tubercular).
• Ingrowing toe nails,
twitching sensation.
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DRESS

• Black,
dark
colours.

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SIT & BEHAVE

• Unsteady <.
• Sympathetic
coarse,
analytical,
pessimistic.

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PERSONALITY
• Sympathetic,
compassionate.
• I3:
o Incessed.
o Intense.
o Idealistic.
• Self righteous.
• Law-abiding.
• Perfectionist.
• Pessimistic.
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LOOK & DIAGNOSE

• Dark hair.
• Rigid fibres.
• Yellow
complexion.

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BEHAVIOURAL
• Becomes vegetarian
(excessive
sympathetic).

• Stiff and rigid:

immovable: dark
mood.

• Introvert.
• Rebellious, holds
grudges.
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Paralysis of single parts:

eyelid (ptosis); larynx:
aphonia; bladder: stress
in continence

Paralysis:
Physical
Facial Constipation
paralysis: (rectal
Bell’s paralysis) >
palsy by defecating
or standing

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Weak memory
(mental paralysis)

Paralysis:
Mental
Appre- Negative
hension

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Periodic

Rheu- Para-
matic lytic

Charac-
teristics
Noc-
Rest- turnal
less aggra-
vation

Hydrogenoid
constitution
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sad, hopeless

Mental
Pessimistic Fear: that something
bad will happen,
mental dullness &
forgetfulness
Rawness
& soreness

The Caustic property  Sensation as if lime

the Doctrine of been slaked in the
signature  Burning  stomach (doctrine
rawness & soreness of signature)

Physical
Throat, Rectum,
urethra, skin, piles: raw
internal & sore
organs raw
and sore
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Dark hair

Look and
diagnose

Rigid Yellow
fibres complexion

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Mental: Long lasting

grief, long &
suppressed sorrow

Long lasting
NBWS
Physical: Dermato-
sustained logical:
night ulcers,
watching, maltreated
NBWS: with lead
burn

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Rheumatism

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Contraction

Dupuytrens Contracture Hands

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Face

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Appearance

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Gesture &
Behaviour

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MENTAL AETIOLOGIES PSYCHIC MANIFESTATIONS

Worry For bond For power For control

Anticipation Excite-
(effects on ment
Pessimistic Idealistic
nerves)
Mental Aetiologies

Injustice & Grief (long drawn)

Exploitation
O.C.D.
(Obsessive Sympathetic
Disappoint- Mortifi- Compulsive  vegetarian
ment of cation Disorders
Love
Campaigner
of justice

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Mood & temper

(hopeless)

World
goes Appearance
dark
Dark
Fears (as if
Modality
committed
(twilight)
crime)

Senses (Eye sight:

black spots)

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Excessive sympathy
 becomes
Vegetarian; energized
by helping others

Stiff & rigid

Feeling of Immovable
being right (Stiff); Dark
and mood
concerned
with
`justice’

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Campaigner of justice

Romantic
Compulsive
neurosis
(Compelled
Suppor Reason to re-check)
-tive -able

Impends
Close succession
of opposite
phenomenas (joy &
Dark Mis- & sad alternates)
fortune

Sensitive to
authoratarian control

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Pessimism

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REACTION TO EMOTIONS
• Grieving or sad mood:
Sadness in amenorrhoea.
• Anxious mood: Anxiety,
after stool, from
ineffectual desire.
• Aggressive mood: Before
menses.
• Personality: Independent.
• Envious mood: Defiant.
• Miserable nature:
Pessimist to make people
& animal suffer (the other
extreme).
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