Need of Anatomy in

Homoeopathic undergraduate
course

Dr. A. G. JAGADEESAN
BHMS(1981)
GHMC CALICUT

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 Key Words
• Anatomy
• Homoeopath(y)ic
• Undergraduate
• Need

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 Anatomy

• Anatomia(G)
• Ana+Tomein
• Separate
• Cut open
• Cut up

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 Dissection(L)
• Dis+sectare
• cut
• More as practical

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 Great Men
• Charaka
• Aristotle
• Hippocrates
• Leo Na Da Vinci
• Michael Angelo
• Henry gray

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 Homoeopath(y)ic
• Homoeos + pathos
• Similar suffering
• Suffering
• Man

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 Great Men
• CFS
HAHNEMANN
• J T Kent
• W. Boericke
• Boenninghaussen
• Allen
• Dr. K.S. Prakasam

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 Undergraduate
BHMS

• 1975 M B S (Hom)(CCH)

• 1981 B H M S (University of Calicut)

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• 1st B H M S(1½)yr
• Anatomy
• Physiology & Biochemistry
• Pharmacy
• Organon of medicine; Principles of
Homoeopathic Philosophy
• Homoeopathic materia medica

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• = Functional anatomy
• Eg:- Digestive system
• Various divisions of system
• Various parts of the system
• Control of the system
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Divisions of the system
parts of the system
• Mouth ( oral cavity)
• Salivary glands
• Pharynx
• Oesopahagus
• Stomach
• Small and Large intestine
• Rectum
• Anus
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 Biochemistry

• Na+; K+ pump
• Cell membrane
• Cell structure
• Cytology
• Anatomy

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• Aphorism 3
• Knowledge of Disease
• Knowledge of health
• Normal human being
• Anatomy

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 Sick Health
• Aph 1
• Restoration of sick to health
• What is Health?

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 Health

• Aph 9
• Harmonious functioning of body and
mind
• Body and mind
• Body
• Normal body structure
• Anatomy]
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 Homoeopathic Materia
Medica
• Provings
• Sphere of action
• Systems involved
• Patho physiology
• Physiology
• Anatomy

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 Pharmacy

• differed

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 2nd yr B H M S
• Pathology
• Forensic medicine and
toxicology
• Homoeopathic Materia
Medica
• Organon of medicine
• Obstetrics and
Gynaecology
• Practice of Medicine
• Surgery

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 Pathology

• Altered Form and

Structure
/Histopathology
• Alteration in function
• Disease

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• Knowledge of normal structure
• Normal cell structure
• Histology (cytology)
• Anatomy

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 Forensic Medicine
• Post Mortem
examination
• Cause of death
• Thorough
knowledge of all
systems and
organs
• Knowledge of
Anatomy

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• Toxic (poisonous)
substances
• Action of poisons
• Action on
systems and
organs
• Systems and
organs
• Anatomy

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 3rd B H M S

• Homoeopathic Materia
Medica
• Organon of medicine
• Obstetrics and
Gynaecology
• Practice of Medicine
• Surgery
• Community medicine

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 Surgery

• Correction
• Rectification
• Knowledge of normal
shape size etc is
essential
• Normal Form Structure
• Anatomy

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 Correction

• Colley’s fracture
• Dinner fork
deformity
• Identification /
Diagnosis
• Knowledge of wrist
joint is essential
• Anatomy

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 Rectification
• Femoral hernia
• Diagnosis
• Management
• Herniorraphy
• Thorough
knowledge of
femoral sheath
• Anatomy of
inguinal region
• Anatomy
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Gynaecology
• Female genitalia
• Female
Reproductive
system
• Reproductive
physiology
• Physiology
• Anatomy

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 Galactocoele
• Abnormal swelling of
breast with milk
• Knowledge of
structure of breast
• Normal form and
structure
• Anatomy

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 IVth (final) B H M S

• Practice of Medicine
• Homoeopathic
Materia Medica
• Organon of Medicine
• Case taking and
Reportorisation
• Community medicine

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 Practice of Medicine

• Case diagnosis and

treatment
• Case:
• patient:- sir I am having pain
in the chest
• Doctor :- where exactly?
• Patient:-here (pointing his
left half of the chest nearer
to breast bone)
• Doctor:-Ok
• Doctor:-Then what happens

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• Patient:- It moves to shoulder,
• same side
• Doctor:- then what else?
• Patient :-sometimes it goes to arm
• Doctor thinks
• provisional diagnosis
• ?angina pectoris

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• Knowledge of
position of
heart
• Knowledge of
coronary
artery
• Knowledge of
course of
major arteries
• Anatomy

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 Materia Medica
• Synptomatology
• Location
• Sensation
• Modalities
• Concomittance

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 Location

• Patient:-pain sir
• Doctor:- where?
• (location)
• Patient:- Here (showing abdomen
&thorax)
• Doctor:- more specifically

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• Patient:-placing his hand on
epigastrium and a little bit of
umblical region
• And later to the lower thorax close
to the lower end of sternum
• Doctor:-ok
• Doctor:- ? Gastritis/hyper
acidity/gastric ulcer
• Knowledge of regional anatomy
• Anatomy

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 Sensation

• Patient:- pain as if burning

• Burning sensation
• Doctormucosal erosion)
Knowledge of structure of gastric
mucosa
• Doctor:- knowledge of anatomy

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 Modalities
• Patient:-It (pain) increases immediately
after taking food and also I get burning
sensation behind the chest (behind the
breast bone )so I am afraid of taking food
• Doctor (retrosternal burning aggravates
during ingestion) ok when will you get relief?

• Patient:-after an hour
• Doctorsuspects gastric ulcer )

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 ?Gastric Ulcer
• Histopathol
ogy of
stomach
mucosa

• Physiology
of stomach
secretions

• Knowledge
of anatomy
of stomach

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 Concomittance

• Doctor:- any associated complaints

• Patient:- Frequent urge for stool
with unsatisfactory feeling
• Doctor:- ok.(Gastrocolic reflux)
• Physiology
• Anatomy

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 Organon of Medicine
• Miasms
• Psora
• (Tubercular)
• Sycosis
• (Tubercular)
• Syphilis
• Please don’t quarrel on this terms
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• Reactions propensities
• Functional disturbances
• Structural changes
• Form alterations
• Body shows signs and symptoms
• Evolution of diseas

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 Evolution of disease
(miasm evolved)
• Knowledge of disease
• Knoweledge of health
• Knowledge of patho physiology
• Knowledge of physiology
• Anatomy

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 Reportorisation

• Kent’s repertory
• Sections
• Mind
• ?seat of mind
• Let us discuss later

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 Kent’s Repertory
• All sections except generalities a
thorough knowledge of anatomy is
necessary
• let us examine on rubric

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• Abdomen – pain, cramping, gripping
> milk after

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 Community medicine
• Communicable disease
• Routes of spread
• Air
• Water
• Contact
• Food
• Etc

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 Air spread

• Knowledge of Respiratory tract

• Anatomy of upper and lower
respiratory tract

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 Water and food
• Knowledge of G I T
• ANATOMY OF GIT

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 Contact
• Eg:-H I V infection
• Knowledge of male and female
genital/ sexual organs
• Anatomy of

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 Pharmacy

• You may discuss

• Let us discuss

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