A Systematic Alphabetic Repertory of Homoeopathic Remedies

A Systematic Alphabetic Repertory of Homoeopathic Remedies

رپرتوری سیستمیک الفبایی داروهای هومیوپاتی

نویسنده: Boninghosen

Translated from the second German edition. Clemens Maria Franz Freiherr (Baron) von Bönninghausen (Herinckhave near Fleringen, 12 March 1785 – Münster, 26 January 1864) was a lawyer, Dutch and Prussian civil servant, agriculturalist, botanist, physician and pioneer in the field of the homeopathy. In 1827, Bönninghausen contracted tuberculosis, followed by an intractable lung disease. Certain that he was about to die, he began writing farewell letters to his friends. One of them, friend and fellow botanist Carl Ernst August Weihe urged him to use the herb Pulsatilla, believed to be the cure of his ailment. Von Bönninghausen was cured, and thus he became a convert to the new therapy. In less than two years he wrote seven extensive works. He became a close associate and confidant of his teacher Samuel Hahnemann, founder of the homeopathy, who admired Bönninghausen’s ability to systematize the expanding homeopathic knowledge of materia medica. Bönninghausen’s ‘Therapeutic Pocketbook’ of 1846 was the first homeopathic repertory to grade individual remedies by their strength of relationship with each symptom, and each other. This so called von Bönninghausen (or von Boenninghausen)-method has remained in use until the present day. Among his international clientele were some notable patients, such as the French Empress Eugénie de Montijo, wife of Napoleon III. In 1854 von Bönninghausen received an honorary degree from the Medical College in Cleveland. And in 1861 the French Emperor Napoleon III decorated him as Knight of the Legion of Honor (Legion d’honneur).