GROUP SYUDY OF

MEDICINES

DR. KRISHNENDU MAITY

BHMS [Calcutta] MD (Hom) [Pune] CFN
Associate Professor & I/c of Dept. of Medicine
Lal Bahadur Shastri Homopathic Medical College, Bhopal (MP)
Teaching
Practice of Medicine, Materia Medica & Repertory
 OVERVIEW
Group is A number of similar drugs /
remedies taken or considered together
related in some definite way.
Group analysis is a language of the
remedies is a particular group.
This is a good substitute for clinical
homopathic prescription.
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 HISTORY
Dr. James Tyler Kent was the first to
coin this concept.
Dr. E. A. Farrington made an attempt to
study the remedies by classifying them
in various groups in his classical book
Clinical Materia Medica.
This work was further continued by
stalwarts like Dr. M. L. Dhawale,
Dr. Rajan Shankaran etc.
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 UTILITY
One sided diseases pose a problem in
selecting the most similimum. Group analysis
helps in such cases.
In cases of mental diseases, where mind &
behaviour are mainly affected group analysis
helps to reach correct medicine.
It helps to know the rationality & practicality
of medicines.
Group study creates awareness in the
homopathic fraternity regarding materia
medica & its utility.
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 OBJECTIVE
To simplify the cumbersome data of materia medica.
To reach to the constitutional medicine in general.
To develop the scientific relationships & correlation of
radicals & data of materia medica.
To derive unknown facts of remedy & to apply them in
practice.
To formulate some concepts & verify them through
experimentation.
To incorporate the work by researchers & verify them in
clinical practice.
To derive conceptual data out of the logical thinking &
to make a portrait of remedy in absence of drug
proving.
To extra-polate remedy relationship of a particular
group of the remedy.
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 ADVANTAGE
It can be elaborated & lead to a great
height in exploring new dimensions in
study & understanding materia medica.
Many drugs CORE can be studied
simultaneously & can save time for
individual study.
It has helped to evolve a new dimension
to grasp psycho-somatic concept of
disease.
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 LIMITATION
Study of materia medica invariably
requires process of generalization. In
group study we have to neglect or
sacrifice individual attributes.
It requires analytical skills of higher
degree which is absent in neophytes.
We should not rely fully on group study
as its contents exclude the individual
features of the remedy.
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 CONCLUSION
It is tool or wise instrument of study
materia medica.
It is not the only way of prescribing.
For good result we must be an expert in
this aspect.
We must be able to differentiate the
cases.
We should know the utilities and
limitations of group study.
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