INTERDEPARTMENTAL DISCUSSION –

ORGANON OF MEDICINE AND

HOMOEOPATHIC
PHILOSOPHY/REPERTORY/MATERIA
MEDICA

PRESENTED BY- Dr. SANA AFSAR KHAN

TOPIC- UNDERSTANDING BEHAVIOUR AND IT’S

ORIGIN AND IT’S REPRESENTATION IN REPERTORY
AND MATERIA MEDICA.

DEPARTMENT OF ORGANON AND

HOMOEOPATHIC PHILOSOPHY

DEPARTMENT OF HOMOEOPATHIC
REPERTORY

DEPARTMENT OF HOMOEOPATHIC MATERIA

MEDICA
BEHAVIOUR AND IT’S ORIGIN

Psychologist define behaviour as people’s reactions, results, and responses

to external stimuli (i.e., environment) and internal tendencies (i.e.,
individual differences). Behavior includes actions and thinking processes.

So from where does behavior come?

Remember the longstanding debate of nature vs. nurture when it comes to

who we are and how we behave? Well, there is no longer a debate. The
science is clear: they are both critical. That is, it’s no longer
nature versus nurture, it’s nature and nurture. A person’s natural makeup
(i.e., individual differences) and the social-environmental context both
contribute to human behavior. There are other origins of behavior
including biological and genetic components, however, as psychologists, we
leave those aspects to the biologists and geneticists.

Individual Differences

Behavior stems from a person’s individual differences or how people differ

in the way they feel and think as well as what they desire and prefer. More
technically, individual differences are the self-regulatory psychological
systems that drive emotional, cognitive, and motivational processes. These
processes direct people to engage in behaviors that move them toward
achieving goals. There are countless individual differences. However, those
that have the most impact on behavior are the ones that are studied the
most. These individual differences are typically innate or rooted in the
person’s history. Below are some examples.

 Cognitive abilities (colloquially known as intelligence)

 Personality (i.e., behavioral preferences and tendencies, emotions

and temperament, motivational traits, cognitive styles)

 Interests

 Attitudes

 Values

 Self-perceptions

Each trait does not act alone, however. People’s complex combination
of individual differences influences their behavior. Psychologists have
spent a century researching individual differences and developed ways to
measure them so we can predict human behavior. The research has
demonstrated that we can, indeed, predict behavior across a wide range of
situations. Just a few examples of the kinds of behavior individual
differences predict include job performance, health decisions, how
much screen time a person tallies, psychological wellness, fast-food
consumption, academic success, educational attainment, use of dating apps,
and the likelihood of engaging in risky sexual behavior. Those are just a few
examples.
Social-Environmental Context

Gaining an understanding of individual differences is just one way to predict

behavior. Behavior also stems from the social-environmental context (i.e.,
external stimuli). The social-environmental context includes more than just
the physical situation or environment, it also includes (but is not limited to)
cultural and societal norms, social interactions, and the time period/time
frame. Another crucial factor to consider when evaluating the influence of
social-environmental context on behavior is that the environment is not
static. Rather, it is highly dynamic, constantly changing, and evolving — in
both subtle and drastic ways over time.

Person-Environment Interaction

Now that we have talked about both the person and the social-
environmental context, we can take it one step further. Namely, behavior is
not due to a linear process where a trait is activated because of a situation
and then leads to a behavior. It is so much more complex. The social-
environmental context influences how the person behaves but the person
also acts and affects the situation as well. In addition, people choose the
situations in which they engage and their past behavior influences future
behavior. In other words, behavior arises from a dynamic system of
interactions and feedback loops between the person and the social-
environmental context. How we behave affects everything in our life from
health to family to work. Behavior can lead to positive or negative
consequences. Therefore, understanding why behaviors arise can help you
to regulate and manage your behaviors to lead to the outcomes you desire.

REPRESENTATION OF BEHAVIOUR IN
REPERTORY AND MATERIA MEDICA –
A homoeopathic repertory and homoeopathic material medica are the two
essential references for practicing homoeopaths. After the most important
symptoms are elicited, a repertory is consulted to see which remedies cover
all or most of the important symptoms in a case. Those remedies are
studied more closely in one or more of the material medicas.
In many repertories and material medicas prominent focus is given on
berhavioural or mental symptoms.
Rubrics for behavioural disorders in different
repertories from chapter mind are as follows-
 Complete repertory- Absentminded, Abstraction of mind,
Restlessness, anger, defiant, dictatorial, haughty, rage, quarrelsome,
abusive, disobedient, liar, malicious.
 Boricke Repertory- Mood and disposition-impatient, impulsive.
Mood and disposition- restlessness, mentally, physically Mood and
disposition- stubborn, obstinate, self-willed. Mania- monomania,
kleptomania. Propensity -to be aimlessly busy, to be abusive, curse,
swear, to be destructive.
 Murphy Repertory- Absentminded, Attention deficit disorder. Busy-
fruitlessly, Hyperactive, Overactive, Restlessness. Anger, dictatorial,
domination, haughty, obstinate. Abusive, antisocial, cunning, cursing,
cheating, depravity, destructive behavior, malicious, mischievious,
mocking, quarrelsome, rage, vindictive, violent behavior.
 BBCR- Absentminded, anger, abusive, Restlessness. Fretful,
obstinate, headstrong, defiant, stubborn, peevish, malicious,
quarrelsome, raging, rude, violence.
 Kent- Absentminded, abusive, anger, censorious, destructive,
disobedient, defiant, insolent, malicious, quarrelsome, rudeness,
violent.
 Synoptic key- Hurry, impatience, Restlessness, anxious, stubborn,
obstinate, abusive, scolding, quarrelsome, anger, irritable.

Commonly indicated homoeopathic remedies in

behavioural disorders –

1. Anacardium -
 Easily angered, up to blows for the least offence.
 Disposition to become angry and to object.
 Hopelessness with silly manners, awkwardness.
 Disposition to laugh at serious things and seriousness when
there is something to laugh.
 Impunity, hard-hearted, cad, deprived, perversity, villainy,
curses.
 Disbelieves his own power and discouraged.
2. Belladonna -
 Indifference, apathy; nothing impresses him; impossibility to
enjoy; silent and serious.
 Disposition of taking offence while one is smiling.
 Fury and anger with fixed look, with great deceit.
 Likes to torture men and animals.
 Impulses to set fire, to theft.
 Deranged, mad, spoiled persons.
3. Chamomilla -
 Speaks and replies only when he is forced, obstinate to speak a
word.
 Bad moods with complaints of insomnia.
 Believes to be offended.
 Tendency to become angry and dispute.
 Very much choleric and quarrelsome humour.
 Excessive irritation, extremely sensitive to external
impressions.
  Irritable persons, bad humour, disposed to become very angry,
quarrel, wicked children, sensitive to pain.
 Quarrelsome and angry; tendency to weep and become angry.
4. Hyoscyamus –
 He believes himself very strong and very wealthy which he is
not.
 Alternate fury and calmness.
 Imprecation, quarrels, rows, reproaches, and complains about
imaginary injustice.
 Tendency to being offended and injures others.
 He raises his hand against others and throws himself against
others with knife in hand.
 He wants to strike and assassinate everyone he meets.
 Cruelty.
 Jealousy of man towards women and vice-versa.
5. Lycopodium -
 Grudging persons.
 Bad tempered, especially in the evening.
 He is grave, calm, imperious, arrogant, majestic even when he
is angry.
 Head full of ideas of defiance and jealous.
 Great irritability to become angry and afraid.
 Stubbornness sometimes with suppressed anger, which he can
hardly express.
 Child becomes disobedient.
 Will full and obstinate character.
 Violence with irritability and easily excited to become angry.
 Least contradiction makes him angry and out of himself.
 Mad fury manifested by envious words, reproaches by ordeal
or by imprecations and desire to strike person with whom he
disputes.
 Propensity to strike.
 Pride, egoism, envy, jealousy, stubbornness.
6. Nux Vomica -
 Physical and mental irritability.
 Silent mood, self-centered.
  Restlessness and lamentations which force him to walk in
open air.
 Opinionated and obstinate opposition in everything that
others desire.
 He cannot bear least contradiction.
 Irascibility, quarrelsome, he is offended by everything.
 Great disposition to criticize and to reproach.
 Injures out of jealousy with shameless expressions, quarrels
and reproaches.
 Carried off by violent anger.
 He looks at everybody with a wicked eye, as if he wished to
whip them.
 Tendency to run away.
 Pride, quarrels, wicked, liar, guile and theft
 Jealousy of child towards another child.
 Jealous and obscene words.
7. Stramonium -
 Tendency to run away.
 Fit of fury with development of great force, so much so that
one cannot hold him.
 Wants to kill people or himself.
 Arrogance and pride with fear.
8. Lachesis -
 Believes to be offended by everybody.
 Disbelief and suspicion.
 Insane jealousy.
 Tendency to doubt everything, even for the truth.
 Great dispute.
 Tendency to find fault with others and reproaches them.
 Quibbler and tendency to quarrel for sheer love of
contradiction.
 Passionate of anger even without being contradicted.
 He injures others while on ambush and all his thoughts are
full of evil.
 Hastiness and restlessness must do everything fast.
 Great irritability: simple touch puts him in fury.
 Envy, pride, jealousy, cruelty, wicked, satiric.
  Opposition and contradicting nature.
9. Tarentula -
 Impulsive and egotistical.
 Sudden swings in mood.
 Hatred, skilful, clever, destructive, or deficient.
 Throws objects.
 Malingering.
 Kleptomania.
 Furious, dejected.
 Aggression, suddenness, agitation, squirming, and haste.
 Restless arms and legs, picking at fingers; want to move about.