Dr. (Mrs.

) Arpana Pareek
Reader, Dept Of Repertory
Smt. KBAHMC, Chandwad

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Borland’s Pneumonia
By
Douglas N. Borland
Total no. of remedies: 24
Reprint edition published in 1997

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 Introduction
 It is one of the therapeutic index where
second part is a short repertory to
pneumonia and their associated
complaints.
 In first topic, every details of
pneumonia are explained.
 This book is printed from shorthand
notes of post graduate lectures
delivered at the London Homoeopathic
Hospital.
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 This book consists of
1. Pneumonias
2. Group I: Incipient Stage
3. Group II: Frankly developed
Pneumonia
4. Group III: Complicated Pneumonia
1. Mixed Infection or alcoholic patient
2. Creeping type of Pneumonia or definite
bronchopneumonia in adult
5. Group IV: Late pneumonia
6. Repertory Part
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 PNEUMONIAS
 In this section the author has
described how to tackle the case of
acute pneumonia from
homoeopathic point of view before
prescribing.
 According to Author, in
homoeopathic prescribing, your aim
is to find a drug which will cover not
only the actual pathological picture
but also the reaction of the
individual patient to that disease.
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 Suppose you consider an acute
illness, you want a drug which will
cover the symptoms that are
produced by the infective organism,
that is to say, the ordinary symptoms
on which you found your diagnosis.
 The patient has the symptoms of
pneumonia so you want a drug which
will cover the pneumonic symptom
complex. This is similar to ordinary
system of medicine.
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 Ourfirst aim is to find the group of
drugs which produces the
symptom complex of a
pneumococcal infection; and
second aim is to choose from that
group the individual drug which
covers not only the pneumococcal
symptoms but also the manner in
which the patient A reacts to his
pneumococcal infection.
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 The drug which covers the
combined picture is the one you
want for the patient A, but it would
not be successful for patient B
who is reacting differently to the
same infection.
 So your whole aim is to establish
the differences between one
patient with a pneumococcal
infection and another.

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 Firstof all you find the common
ground, on which you make your
diagnosis; then you look for the
contrasting points in your different
cases in order to make your
individual prescription.

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 The whole of your success in
homoeopathic prescription
depends on your power of
recognizing which symptoms are
common to every case of infection
by a specific organism and which
are dependent on the individual
reaction of the patient who is
infected and hence
 The experienced clinician is a far
more successful homoeopathic
prescriber than the inexperienced.
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 Potency Selection
 In acute diseases – simplified.
 In chronic diseases – difficult.
 In acute diseases, there are two
methods.
1. Theory of Lysis (gradual healing): Low
Potency
(play for safety)
1. Theory of Crisis (crucial stage): High
Potency (above 30)
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 THEORY OF LYSIS
 Benefits:
 Avoided the complications of the disease.
 Patient is more comfortable
 Decreased mortality rate.
 Limitations:
 Cannot reduce duration of disease
 The crisis would be very much more of a
lysis than a crisis, but it would not occur
before the normal period of seven to ten
days.
 The patient would never cause a moment’s
anxiety, he would just steadily get better.
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 THEORY OF CRISIS
 Benefit:
 Reduce the duration of disease.
Instead of getting the crisis from the 7-
10th day we get it from 12-48 hrs after
starting treatment, irrespective of the
day of the disease
 No question of complications.

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 Limitations:
 We have precipitated crisis, and a crisis
is always attended by an certain
amount of stress, possibly a certain
amount of risk, although this is not so
likely when the crisis occurs early in the
disease as when it occurs after 7-10
days of continue fever.
 The temperature crashes over a few
hrs, but we don’t get a collapse
because we have a perfectly healthy
patient to start with instead of one
whose vitality is impaired by long
toxaemia.
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 Conclusion regarding Potency
 By using the lower potencies, matching of
the drug symptoms with the symptoms of
patient does not require to be quiet so
accurate as it does when using the higher
potencies.
 It is easier to prescribe the lower
potencies and get a general similarity,
whereas if you are prescribing the higher
potencies you have to get a much more
accurate matching.
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 Repetition
1. Low potencies:
1. Continue the medicine up till the course of
disease
2. You will probably find that you have to give
more than one drug; your first drug
modifies the picture and you then get
indications for a second prescription, and
possibly a third, before the crisis takes
lace.
3. As regards the frequency of administration
of the drug where you are using a low
potency, it is quite sufficient to give the
drug about once in four hours.
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2. Higher potencies:
 It is advisable to continue the
administration of the selected drug until
the temperature has reached normal and
remained normal for at least six hours.
 As regards the frequency of
administration of the drug, it is wiser to
give the drug every two hours, the
reason being that you want a number of
stimuli in a comparatively short period of
time in order to obtain crisis within 12-24
hours.

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 Stages of Pneumonia
1. INCIPIENT Stage i.e. stage of
congestion or invasion
 Aconite
 Ferrum Phos
 Belladonna
 Ipecac.
2. Frankly developed (Consolidation)
 Bryonia
 Phosphorus
 Veratrum viride
 Chelidonium
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3. Complicated Pneumonia
1. Mixed infection or alcoholic patient
 Baptisia
 Pyrogen
 Lachesis
 Mercurius
 Hepar Sulph
 Rhus tox
2. Creeping type of pneumonia or definite
bronchopneumonia in adult.
1. Nat sulph
2. Pulsatilla
3. Senega
4. Lobelia
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4. Late Pneumonia (Resolution)
Antim tart
Carbo Veg
Kali Carb
Lycopodium
Arsenic Alb
Sulphur

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 Repertory Part
1. General
2. Mentals
3. Head and Vertigo
4. Face and lips
5. Mouth
6. Tongue
7. Eyes
8. Nose
9. Throat
10. Stomach
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11. Abdomen
12. Rectum
13. Chest
14. Cough
15. Sputum
16. Heart
17. Pulse
18. Temperature
19. Extremities
20. Skin
21. Sleep
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 Plan and Construction

 Total Remedies: 24
 Total Chapters: 21
 Rubrics: Capital
 Subrubrics: Italics
 Gradation: Roman letter along
with page no. (reference)
 Cross references: in bracket.
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