4th BHMS Winter - 2022 homeopathic Materia Medica 1 [SOLVED PAPER]

Short Answer Questions (Solve any 4 Out of 6) k4 x S

 a) Describe the guiding indications of Antimonium Crudurn

 b) Describe the A/F and modalities of Sulphur

 c) Write Arsenicum album mental symptoms.

 d) Describe the indications of Bryonia Alba in gastro-intestinal tract affections

 e) Describe the Biochemic indications of Calcarea Fluor

 0 Describe the indications of Natruni Mur in Headache 

3. Short Answer Questions (Solve any 4 Out of 6) :- [4 x 5 = 201

 a) Describe the characteristic menials of Staphysagria

 b) Explain Digitalis in Dropsy

 c) Describe the indications of BrOfilitinl 111 Bronchia] asthma

 d) Describe the guiding indications ofSyphilinum

 e) Describe the diarrhoea of Podophyllurn

 0 Describe the A/F and modalities ofleslatia Amara 

 4. Long A Questions (Solve any 2 Out of 4) x to = 201

 a) Compare and Contrast indications ofArnica and Baptisia in fever. 

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b) Compare and Contrast indications of Mag Phos and Colocynth in colic 

c) Compare and Contrast indications of Veratrum collapse. m Albu and Cans horn in 

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d) Compare and Contrast indications of Caladium and Bufo in male reproductive tract affections. 

Long Answer Questions (any one from Q.No. 5, 6, and 7)11 x 20 = 201 S

. Describe in detail the drug picture of Lycopodium. 

Describe the group indications ofpphidia group_ of rernediesnescribe \xi 

detail the drug picture of Lachesis. 

7, Define Homoeopathic Materia Medica. Describe various sources and types of filVIM  

✅ Q.2 – Short Answer Questions (All 6 Solved)

[6 × 5 = 30 Marks]

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a) Guiding Indications of Antimonium Crudum

1. Thick white-coated tongue – “as if whitewashed.”

2. Aversion to cold bathing – complaints < after bath.

3. Aggravation from overeating, especially indigestible food (pastry, sour wine).

4. Irritable and sulky mood – cannot bear to be looked at or touched.

5. Gouty affections, callosities, and corns.

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b) Ailments From (A/F) and Modalities of Sulphur

A/F:

1. Suppressed eruptions, discharges.

2. Abuse of mercury.

3. Excessive mental activity and overwork.

Modalities:

• Aggravation: Morning, standing, bathing, heat, 11 am.

• Amelioration: Dry, warm weather, open air, motion.

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c) Mental Symptoms of Arsenicum Album

1. Great restlessness with prostration – changes position constantly.

2. Fear of death, alone, or being left alone.

3. Fastidious, anxious, needs order and cleanliness.

4. Despair of recovery – believes death is near.

5. Suicidal thoughts during fever or depression.

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d) Indications of Bryonia Alba in G.I. Tract Affections

1. Dry mucous membranes – constipation with dry, hard stool in large lumps.

2. Nausea and vomiting after eating, especially with stitching abdominal pains.

3. Appendicitis, hepatitis, gastroenteritis with aggravation from slightest motion.

4. Thirst for large quantities at long intervals.

5. Tongue: white with dryness and bitterness.

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e) Biochemic Indications of Calcarea Fluorica

1. Hard glands, exostosis, varicose veins, and piles.

2. Cracks and fissures in skin, especially palms.

3. Bone affections – osseous tumors, bunions.

4. Relaxed elastic fibers → hemorrhoids and hernia.

5. Dental decay, especially in enamel.

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f) Indications of Natrum Muriaticum in Headache

1. Headache from sun exposure, like hammers beating the skull.

2. Begins after grief, mental exertion, or reading.

3. Throbbing, bursting pain especially in temples.

4. Aggravated by noise, reading, light, sun.

5. Amelioration by lying in dark room, applying pressure.

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✅ Q.3 – Short Answer Questions (All 6 Solved)

[6 × 5 = 30 Marks]

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a) Characteristic Mentals of Staphysagria

1. Suppressed anger, mortification, indignation.

2. Gentle, sensitive but brooding over insults.

3. Ill effects of sexual excess or suppressed emotions.

4. Desires solitude, throws things in anger.

5. Great sense of injustice and wounded pride.

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b) Digitalis in Dropsy

1. Slow, irregular heart action with urinary suppression.

2. Dropsy from heart failure, liver disease.

3. Bluish face, cyanosis, weak pulse.

4. Symptoms worse on sitting up, better lying on back.

5. Urine: scanty, albuminous, loaded with sediment.

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c) Indications of Blatta Orientalis in Bronchial Asthma

1. Useful in asthmatic patients with cardiac complications.

2. Dyspnea aggravated in damp weather or rainy season.

3. Expectoration yellow, viscid, with rattling in chest.

4. Obese, corpulent individuals.

5. Acts best when asthma is linked with bronchitis or emphysema.

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d) Guiding Indications of Syphilinum

1. Inherited syphilitic affections – ulcers, bone pains.

2. Night bone pains > by cold bathing.

3. Despair of recovery, constant washing of hands.

4. Recurrent ulcers of mouth, nose, genitals.

5. Early decay of teeth, arrested development.

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e) Diarrhea of Podophyllum

1. Profuse, offensive, gushing diarrhea with weakness.

2. Worse in the early morning (4–5 am).

3. Yellow, watery, or frothy stools.

4. Prolapse of rectum before or during stool.

5. Alternate constipation and diarrhea in children.

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f) A/F and Modalities of Gentiana Amara

Ailments From:

• Excessive alcohol, fatty food.

• Excessive grief, loss of fluid.

Modalities:

• Aggravation: After eating, in the evening, from emotional excitement.

• Amelioration: Open air, rest, mild exercise.

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✅ Q.4 – Long Answer Questions (All 4 Solved)

[4 × 10 = 40 Marks]

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🔷 a) Compare & Contrast Arnica vs Baptisia in Fever

Aspect	Arnica	Baptisia
Cause	Trauma, exertion, shock	Septic conditions, typhoid-like
Mental State	Fear of being touched; bruised	Delirium; thinks body is scattered
Tongue	Clean or yellow-brown, dry	Brown, coated with red edges
Stool	Normal or constipated	Offensive, loose, putrid
Modalities	Worse from touch, motion	Worse from cold, damp

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🔷 b) Compare Mag Phos vs Colocynth in Colic

Feature	Mag Phos	Colocynth
Pain Type	Neuralgic, crampy, cutting	Crampy, twisting, with nausea
Better By	Warmth, pressure	Hard pressure, bending double
Modalities	Worse from cold, touch	Worse from anger, indignation
Site	Lower abdomen	Left iliac region
Emotional State	Nervous, chilly	Irritable, indignant

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🔷 c) Compare Veratrum Album vs Camphora in Collapse

Feature	Veratrum Album	Camphora
Circulation	Rapid pulse, profuse cold sweat	Icy cold, imperceptible pulse
Skin	Cold and blue, but with violent thirst	Icy cold, dry skin, offensive odor
Mind	Mania, delirium with collapse	Stupor, unconscious
Stool	Rice-water stool	Sudden suppression of all discharges
Modality	Better from warmth	Worse from cold, coldness > from heat

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🔷 d) Compare Caladium vs Bufo in Male Sexual Disorders

Feature	Caladium	Bufo Rana
Sexual Desire	Excessive with no capability	Intense, uncontrollable urge
Erection	Absent, despite desire	Erections violent, painful
Seminal Emission	Passive, without erection	During sleep, masturbation
Genital Affection	Itching, sweat, eczema of scrotum	Ulceration of glans, epilepsy post-coitus

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✅ Q.4 – Long Answer Questions (All 4 Solved)

[4 × 10 = 40 Marks]

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🔷 a) Compare and Contrast Magnesia Muriatica and Lac Defloratum in Headache

Feature	Magnesia Muriatica	Lac Defloratum
Type of Headache	Nervous, congestive headache	Migraine with intense nausea and vomiting
Location	Forehead or right side, temples	Right-sided headache, extending to neck/spine
Character of Pain	Pressing, tearing, congestive	Throbbing, pulsating, hammer-like blows
Modalities (Aggravation)	Night, noise, touch, mental exertion	Noise, light, motion, fasting
Modalities (Amelioration)	Pressure, lying quietly	Sleep, cold air, vomiting
Associated Complaints	Liver enlargement, menstrual irregularities	Constipation, extreme weakness
Cravings/Aversion	Aversion to meat, craving for sour food	Craving salt, dislikes bread

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🔷 b) Compare and Contrast Lithium Carbonicum and Radium Bromatum in Rheumatism

Feature	Lithium Carb	Radium Brom
Sphere of Action	Gouty, rheumatic affections with cardiac link	Chronic rheumatism with skin and glandular involvement
Joint Affection	Pain in finger joints, red and hot	Stiffness, swelling, aching in all joints
Modalities	Worse from wine, cold air	Worse from cold, exertion, rest
Skin Symptoms	Red, shiny swelling over joints	Eruptions, itching, burning, eczema
Urine	Profuse, high-colored	Scanty, albuminous
Glandular Symptoms	Cardiac enlargement, pericarditis	Swollen lymph nodes, bone pain
Remedy Type	Deep-acting anti-gouty	Syphilitic, anti-syphilitic remedy

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🔷 c) Compare and Contrast Onosmodium and Physostigma in Eye Affections

Feature	Onosmodium	Physostigma
Type of Eye Complaints	Weakness of eye muscles, asthenopia	Spasm of ocular muscles, ciliary neuralgia
Vision Complaints	Double vision, blurred, from eye strain	Twitching, tremor, myopia
Modalities	Worse from reading, eye use	Worse from motion, touch, change of light
Nervous System	Nervous headache, sexual weakness	Tetanic spasms, spinal irritation
Mental State	Depression, low sexual desire	Sensitive, irritable, anxious

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🔷 d) Compare and Contrast Sabina and Viburnum Opulus in Dysmenorrhea

Feature	Sabina	Viburnum Opulus
Type of Pain	Violent, extending from sacrum to pubes	Cramps in ovaries and uterus
Flow	Profuse, bright red, clotted	Scanty or suppressed
Modalities	Worse from motion, heat, music	Better from warmth, bending double
Miscarriage Tendency	Habitual, especially 3rd month	Prevents miscarriage in early pregnancy
Associated Complaints	Metrorrhagia, fibroids	Nervous dysmenorrhea, faintness

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✅ Q.5 – Drug Picture of Causticum

[20 Marks]

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A. Introduction

• Introduced by Hahnemann as one of the rare chemical preparations.

• Deep-acting, constitutional remedy.

• Suitable for progressive paralysis, joint stiffness, and chronic hoarseness.

• Emotional patients who are sensitive to injustice.

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B. Constitution

• Lean, sallow, emaciated patients.

• Suited to dark-haired, melancholic persons, with progressive debility.

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C. Mental Generals

1. Sympathetic, weeping while narrating complaints.

2. Great anxiety for others, injustice makes them indignant.

3. Forgetful, mistakes while speaking or writing.

4. Fear of something terrible happening, especially in evening.

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D. Physical Generals

1. Chilly, worse in dry, cold air.

2. Craving for smoked meat, salty food.

3. Aversion to sweets.

4. Weakness, especially on waking.

5. Modalities: Worse in dry cold weather, better in damp, rainy weather.

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E. Particular Symptoms

🔹 Nervous System

• Gradual paralysis, especially right-sided.

• Drooping eyelids, facial palsy, vocal paralysis.

🔹 Respiratory

• Hoarseness, raw throat, worse from talking.

• Cough with involuntary urination.

🔹 Urinary

• Paralysis of bladder, must wait long before flow starts.

• Involuntary urine on coughing or laughing.

🔹 Musculoskeletal

• Rheumatism with contractures, tendons shortened.

• Stiffness in neck, limbs, spine.

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F. Modalities

Aggravation	Amelioration
Dry cold air, evening	Damp weather, warmth

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G. Relationship

• Complementary: Petroleum, Carbo veg

• Follows: Sulphur

• Antidotes: Phosphorus, Nux vomica

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✅ Q.6 – Drug Picture of Mercurius Solubilis

[20 Marks]

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A. Introduction

• One of the most important anti-syphilitic remedies.

• Acts on glands, mucous membranes, bones, and skin.

• Suited to weak, trembling, sensitive, sweaty patients.

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B. Mental Generals

1. Restless, anxious, suspicious.

2. Memory weak, confused speech.

3. Violent impulses; quarrelsome.

4. Alternating states of excitement and depression.

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C. Physical Generals

1. Offensive discharges – breath, sweat, stool, saliva.

2. Sweats profusely at night, yet does not relieve.

3. Tongue swollen, shows teeth marks.

4. Chilly, sensitive to slightest draft.

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D. Particular Symptoms

🔹 Head

• Sensitive scalp, falling of hair.

🔹 Mouth

• Salivation, metallic taste.

• Spongy, bleeding gums; ulcers on tongue.

🔹 GIT

• Greenish, slimy, bloody stools with tenesmus.

• Never-finished feeling after stool.

🔹 Urinary

• Burning before, during, and after urination.

🔹 Skin

• Papular eruptions with yellow-green discharge.

• Ulcers with bluish-red borders.

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E. Modalities

Aggravation	Amelioration
Night, damp weather	Rest, warm room

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F. Miasm

• Syphilitic, destructive and ulcerative in nature.

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✅ Q.7 – Group Symptoms of Baryta Remedies + Drug Picture of Baryta Muriatica

[20 Marks]

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A. Baryta Group (Baryta carb, Baryta mur)

General Characteristics:

1. Suited to mentally and physically stunted individuals.

2. Timid, childish, shy, dependent, lack of confidence.

3. Swelling of glands, tonsils, and vascular degeneration.

4. Affects elderly and underdeveloped children.

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B. Drug Picture of Baryta Muriatica

🔹 Constitution

• Aged, arteriosclerotic individuals or dwarfish, slow children.

🔹 Mind

• Childish behavior in adults, senile dementia.

• Forgets everything, talks incoherently.

• Indecision, timidity, slowness in comprehension.

🔹 Glandular Affections

• Hardening and hypertrophy of glands, especially tonsils and cervical glands.

🔹 Cardiovascular

• Arteriosclerosis, high blood pressure in elderly.

• Palpitation, irregular pulse.

🔹 Female

• Amenorrhea or scanty menses in retarded girls.

• Uterine fibroids with hard, painful uterus.

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C. Modalities

Aggravation	Amelioration
Cold, mental exertion	Warmth, rest

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