AIAPGET Homoeopathy (BHMS-based Paper) Syllabus

Homoeopathy (BHMS-based Paper) syllabus — full chapter and topic list

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1. 1

   Organon of Medicine & Homoeopathic Philosophy

   6 topics

   • Hahnemann's life and editions of the Organon
   • Vital force, health, disease and Miasm theory
     • Psora, Sycosis, Syphilis
     • Acute, chronic and one-sided diseases
   • Laws of cure — similia, simplex, minimum
     • Hering's law of direction of cure
   • Vital force, susceptibility and individualization
   • Potentization and theory of dynamization
   • Comparative philosophy (Kent, Boenninghausen, Stuart Close)
2. 2

   Materia Medica

   5 topics

   • Drug proving and sources of Materia Medica
   • Polychrest and constitutional remedies
     • Sulphur, Calcarea carb, Lycopodium, Phosphorus
     • Nux vomica, Pulsatilla, Sepia
   • Comparative and group study of remedies
   • Nosodes, sarcodes and rare/short remedies
   • Relationship of remedies and drug pictures
3. 3

   Repertory & Case Taking

   4 topics

   • Philosophy and construction of repertories
   • Kent's Repertory and Boenninghausen's Therapeutic Pocket Book
   • Other repertories (Boericke, BBCR, card & computer repertorisation)
   • Case taking, analysis and evaluation of symptoms
     • Totality of symptoms and miasmatic analysis
     • Rubric selection and repertorisation methods
4. 4

   Practice of Medicine & Therapeutics

   4 topics

   • Homoeopathic therapeutics of common systemic diseases
   • Management of acute and chronic conditions
   • Second prescription and management of the sick
   • Modern diagnostics integrated with homoeopathic practice
5. 5

   Homoeopathic Pharmacy & Allied Subjects

   5 topics

   • Drug substances, scales and potencies
     • Decimal, Centesimal, LM/50 millesimal scales
   • Preparation of mother tinctures and triturations
   • Posology and dispensing
   • Community Medicine and Homoeopathy in public health
   • Drug regulation, GHP and pharmacovigilance

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1. In what year was the first edition of the Organon of Medicine published, and what was its original title?

   1810; originally titled "Organon der rationellen Heilkunde" (Organon of Rational Healing).

2. How many editions of the Organon of Medicine did Hahnemann write, and which was published posthumously?

   Six editions. The 6th edition (completed 1842) was published posthumously in 1921 by Richard Haehl.

3. In which edition of the Organon did Hahnemann first introduce the 50 millesimal (LM/Q) potency scale?

   The 6th edition of the Organon.

4. What were the years and places of Samuel Hahnemann's birth and death?

   Born 10 April 1755 in Meissen, Germany; died 2 July 1843 in Paris, France.

5. Which Hahnemann work, published in 1796, is regarded as the birth of homoeopathy?

   "Essay on a New Principle for Ascertaining the Curative Powers of Drugs" (Hufeland's Journal, 1796).

6. Define the Vital Force (Vital Principle) as described by Hahnemann in the Organon.

   The spirit-like, dynamic, autocratic energy (dynamis) that animates the material body, maintains all parts in harmonious vital operation, and governs sensation and function in health.

7. How does Hahnemann define health in the Organon (Aphorism 9)?

   In health, the spiritual vital force animating the material body rules with unbounded sway, keeping all parts in admirable, harmonious vital operation so the indwelling rational spirit can freely use this living instrument for the higher purposes of existence.

8. According to Hahnemann, what is disease in its essential (dynamic) nature?

   A dynamic, immaterial derangement (mistunement) of the vital force, expressed through the totality of perceptible signs and symptoms; disease is not a separate material entity hidden in the body.

9. Name the three chronic miasms identified by Hahnemann in 'The Chronic Diseases'.

   Psora, Syphilis (Syphilitic miasm), and Sycosis.

10. Which miasm did Hahnemann consider the oldest, most universal, and the fundamental cause of most chronic non-venereal diseases?

    Psora.

11. State the fundamental Law of Similars in its Latin form and meaning.

    "Similia Similibus Curentur" — let likes be cured by likes; a medicine that can produce a set of symptoms in a healthy person can cure a similar set in a sick person.

12. What are the three cardinal principles (laws) of homoeopathic prescribing besides the Law of Similars?

    Simplex (single remedy), Simplex/Minimum (minimum dose), and Single remedy at a time — i.e., Similia, Simplex, and Minimum.

13. Define 'Simplex' as a principle of homoeopathic prescribing.

    Only one single, simple medicine should be administered at one time to the patient (one remedy at a time).

14. Define 'Minimum' (minimum dose) in homoeopathic practice.

    The smallest dose of the indicated remedy sufficient to produce a gentle curative response without aggravation or unnecessary disturbance of the vital force.

15. Define susceptibility in homoeopathy.

    The inherent capacity of a living organism to receive impressions and react to stimuli (including disease and remedies); it is the basis of infection, cure, and provings.

16. What is individualization in homoeopathic practice?

    Treating the patient as a unique individual by matching the remedy to the totality of that person's characteristic, peculiar symptoms rather than to the disease name.

17. Define potentization (dynamization) in homoeopathy.

    The process of preparing remedies by serial dilution combined with succussion (for liquids) or trituration (for solids), which releases and develops the latent dynamic medicinal power of the substance.

18. On the decimal (X/D) scale, what is the drug-to-vehicle dilution ratio per step?

    1:10 (one part drug substance to nine parts vehicle), with succussion at each step.

19. On the centesimal (C/CH) scale, what is the drug-to-vehicle dilution ratio per step?

    1:100 (one part to ninety-nine parts vehicle), with succussion at each step.

20. In the 50 millesimal (LM/Q) scale, what is the approximate dilution ratio per potency step?

    Approximately 1:50,000.

21. Who authored 'Lectures on Homoeopathic Philosophy' and is the leading exponent of constitutional/totality prescribing based on mind symptoms?

    James Tyler Kent.

22. What is Boenninghausen's chief contribution to homoeopathic methodology?

    The doctrine of complete symptoms and generalization of particular symptoms (especially modalities), forming the basis of his Therapeutic Pocket Book repertory.

23. Who wrote 'The Genius of Homoeopathy: Lectures and Essays on Homoeopathic Philosophy'?

    Stuart Close.

24. What is a drug proving (Homoeopathic Pathogenetic Trial)?

    The systematic administration of a medicine to healthy human volunteers to record the symptoms it produces, thereby establishing the drug's pathogenetic picture (Materia Medica).

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