Boger Boenninghausen’s Characteristics and Repertory(BBCR)

Boenninghausen's work is the most comprehensive in logic and philosophy. He was the first to evaluate remedies in relation to individual symptoms and introduced methods of the relationship of given remedy to a particular case. His analytical thinking gave birth to the doctrine of concomitants.

Boger was the best student of Boenninghausen and created one of the greatest homeopathic literature - Boger Boenninghausen's Characteristics & Repertory (BBCR) in the year 1905. He combined Boenninghausen's concept and observations from his own years of practice which endeavored a repertory useful for cases abundant with particulars.

Boger Boenninghausen's Characteristics & Repertory popularized with the concept of complete symptom, concomitants, pathological generals and fever totality. This repertorial work is based on Boenninghausen's 'Repertory of Antipsorics', one of the finest homeopathic repertory.

BBCR is based on the following fundamental concepts:

• Doctrine of complete symptom
• Doctrine of pathological generals
• Doctrine of causation and time
• Clinical rubrics
• Evaluation of remedies
• Fever totality
• Concordances

This 2-part session on Boger Boenninghausen's Characteristics & Repertory focuses on how to effectively apply Boenninghausen's concept and repertorise using the repertory. 

Session 1:

Dr. Anoop Nigwekar in the first session on BBCR explores the repertory by its evolution, philosophy, structure, application, its scope, and limitation. He talks about Boenninghausen’s cardinal conceptual contributions, cases evaluated according to his concepts and repertorised using BBCR repertory.

Session 2:

Dr. Shashikant Tiwari thoroughly explains the fundamental concepts of Boger & Boenninghausen with the help of multiple cases.

Topics covered:

• Evolution of BBCR
• Boenninghausen's contributions to homeopathy
• Boenninghausen's cardinal conceptual contributions
• Structure of BBCR
• Evaluation of gradation of remedies
• Evaluation of Boger's concept
• Boger's concept of totality
• Differences in repertorisation through Kent, Boger and Boenninghausen's repertory
• Clinical cases analyzed, evaluated and repertorised using BBCR

Learning Objectives:

• Effective learning of Boger Boenninghausen's Characteristics Repertory
• Easy to administer Boger's and Boenninghausen's concept in clinical practice
• Identity complete symptom, concomitants
• Define and identify pathological generals
• Importance of clinical rubrics, fever totality, concordances
• Different methods of repertorisation using causative modalities, modalities, concomitants, pathological generals
• What are diagnostic rubrics
• Understanding Robert's method