“Women usually respond to good homœopathic prescribing during pregnancy better than at any other time. It is often possible to cure them of various chronic ailments during pregnancy,that you may have been unable to do before pregnancy.”
– A. Dwight Smith, MD
The following repertory has been generated with the help of Claude AI, Sonnet 4.6. The text that is used has been taken from an article on Obstetrics and Pregnancy by Dr. Dwight Smith, who was the last editor of the Homeopathic Recorder until its last issue in 1959. (Source: http://homeoint.org/cazalet/smith/osbstetrics.htm) The list of remedies here is admittedly very limited and the value is in the confirmed clinical aspects of the use of each remedy based on a 48-year practice in obstetrics by Dr. Smith.
The talk focused primarily on remedies for nausea and vomiting during pregnancy. Dr. Smith did not mention several commonly used remedies, including Sepia, Conium maculatum, Ipecacuanha, Lobelia inflata, Silica, and Stannum metallicum. For a more detailed discussion of nausea and vomiting of pregnancy treatment, see Section II, “Gastric Derangements” (p. 294), in The Application of the Principles and Practice of Homœopathy to Obstetrics and the Disorders Peculiar to Women and Young Children by Henry N. Guernsey.
The use of the uncommon remedies below warrants further study; such as, Aletris farinosa (nausea better by coffee, habitual tendency to abortion) and Moschus. For example, Moschus is not a remedy that I have previously encountered as mentioned for nausea and vomiting of pregnancy, but the symptoms of nausea in the morning and conditions of pregnancy are quite strong when we examine the materia medica. (See JH Clarke’s Dictionary of Practical Materia Medica and the extensive Moschus section on nausea, faintness, tension, with aversion to food the moment it is seen, in TF Allen’s Encyclopedia of Pure Materia Medica.)
This repertory can be perused to conveniently identify some of the characteristic symptoms of the remedies listed and as a teaching tool for students. Of course, many symptoms and modalities are not limited to pregnancy or to any one condition, nor to one gender.
– Alex Bekker, MD (Editor, AJHM)
This repertory covers 13 remedies across key clinical domains in obstetrics and pregnancy, including nausea, labor, hemorrhage, miscarriage, and associated pathologies. Rubrics are listed alphabetically within each section.
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