Approach
- Case-taking: species behaviour, modalities, causations, generals, owners’ observations.
- Integration: conventional Dx/Tx + homeopathic therapeutics with clear referral thresholds.
- Digital: imaging triage, pattern recognition, longitudinal follow-up analytics.
- One Health & AMR: antibiotic stewardship through farmer education and preventive care.
Taking the case.
The repertory is a tool to help you choose the correct remedy. To find the remedy you must look at the totality (all) of the symptoms shown by the animal. From top to toe as well as what is happening around it and how it reacts to this.
We are also looking for individuality where possible. What is unusual?
How is this animal showing its illness differently from all the others (if in indeed it is). Or what is different about this group from a few days ago, or from another group.
What does the animal do to try and make itself feel better? What seems to make it worse? It is important to look at the whole picture.
We suggests the acronym LACM as an aid to memoirise.
Location. The problem you have decided to treat?
Aetiology. What had happened around the time it started to be ill?
Concomitant. Concomitants are the symptoms accompanying the main complaint without any pathological relation to the main complaint. They are known as the ‘unreasonable attendants’. Others physical things seem to be wrong?. So we shoud try to make every symptom as far as complete and include concomitants.
Modality. What does the animal chose to do, which we assume therefore makes it feel better, or not to do? Anything make it better, or worse?
You may have a lot of symptoms, so rather than look up 10 or 15 so next try to find 4 really clear ones, each from a different aspect of the case so next you need to evaluate them, that is decide what is useful homoeopathically.
Look for the things which seem unusual, the unexpected, the thing which makes you think "that's odd"
The Symptoms shd be:--
For instance you would expect a sick animal to lie around quietly. So a sick animal which is restless and always moving is more unusual. Likewise a cow with a painful quarter - you would not expect it to lie on the affected quarter and press it against the ground when it is painful.
Write down your chosen 4 - 8 symptoms and look them up in the repertory.
In the Repertory the symptoms are written as Rubrics in alphabetical order. We use this language of homoeopathy as Rubrics so that one may easily move onto the more comprehensive professional repertories later.
Look for which remedy seems to occur in the list most often. Then check your chosen medicine in the Materia Medica to make sure that the symptom picture matches the remedy picture.
You may find your own acronym for remembering how to get a complete picture, but without getting a TOTALITY you will not find it easy to get the SIMILIMUM.
