Discover the power of single remedy 3-mark rubrics in Kent’s Repertory, a valuable resource for homeopathic practitioners.
In this informative post, we delve into the significance of these rubrics, shedding light on how they can guide precise and effective homeopathic treatment.
Whether you are a seasoned homeopath or new to the field, understanding these rubrics is essential for enhancing your practice.
Join us on a journey through Kent’s Repertory to unlock the potential of single remedy 3-mark rubrics in your homeopathic consultations.

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SINGLE REMEDY 3 MARKS RUBRICS

MIND

  1. Anguish:
    • Driving from place to place: Ars
    • Open air amel: Cann-i
  2. Anxiety:
    • Hot air, as if in: Puls
    • Pressure on the chest: Sulph
    • Walking rapidly, which makes them walk faster: Arg-n
  3. Blood:
  4. Brooding:
    • Evening: Verat
  5. Company:
    • Aversion to people intolerable during stool: Ambr
    • During urination: Nat-m
  6. Concentration:
  7. Confusion:
    • Injury to head after: Nat-m
  8. Delirium:
    • Changing subjects rapidly: Lach
  9. Delusions:
    • Dogs, sees: Stram
    • Dreaming when awake, imagines themselves: Bell
    • Enlarged objects: Cann-i
    • Insane, that people think of them: Calc
    • Objects, bright from: Stram
    • Old rags are as fine as silk: Sulph
  10. Despair:
    • Itching of the skin: Psor
    • Religious, suppressed menses during: Verat
    • Social position of: Verat
  11. Dwells on past disagreeable occurrences:
    • Midnight after: Rhus-t
  12. Fear:
    • Death, pain from: Coff
    • Death, during pregnancy: Acon
    • Imaginary animals: Bell
    • Noise of rushing water: Lyss, Stram
  13. Foolish Behavior:
    • Happiness and pride: Sulph
  14. Frightened:
    • Night, wakes at 3 am: Ars
  15. Gestures:
    • Intoxicated, as if: Hyos
  16. Hatred:
    • Unmoved by apologies: Nit-ac
  17. Hurry:
    • Everybody must hurry: Tarent
  18. Hysteria:
    • Music amel: Tarent
  19. Imbecility:
    • Old rags are as fine as silk: Sulph
  20. Inconsolable:
    • Over fancied misfortune: Verat
  21. Indifference:
    • To caresses: Cina
    • Onanism, after: Staph
    • Personal appearance: Sulph
    • Welfare of others: Sulph
  22. Irritability:
    • Sends nurse out of the room: Cham
    • Water, hearing or seeing, on: Lyss
  23. Loathing life:
    • Must restrain themselves to prevent self-injury: Nat-s
  24. Mania:
    • Held, wants to be: Ars
    • Suppressed menses: Puls
  25. Memory:
    • Active, until midnight: Coff
  26. Obstinate:
    • Children inclined to grow fat: Cal-c
  27. Prostration:
    • After menses: Alum
  28. Quiet:
    • Cannot be quieted: Cina
  29. Restlessness:
    • Sitting, at work: Graph
  30. Sadness:
    • Errors of diet: Nat-c
    • Itching, from: Psor
    • Stories, from sad: Cic
  31. Sensitive:
    • Coffee, after: Cham
    • Cruelties, when hearing of: Calc
    • Noise, music amel: Aur, Tarent
  32. Sentimental:
    • Moonlight, in: Ant-c
  33. Shrieking:
    • Holds on to something unless they do: Sep
    • Trifles, at: Kali-c
  34. Sits:
    • And breaks pins: Bell
  35. Speech:
    • Prattling, lies naked in bed: Hyos
  36. Strange:
    • Voice seems strange: Cann-s
  37. Striking:
    • Children: Cham, Cina
  38. Stupefaction:
    • Suppressed exanthemata from: Cupr
  39. Surprises:
    • Pleasant affections, after: Coff
  40. Throws:
    • At persons who offend: Staph
  41. Unconsciousness:
    • Moving, rising on: Bry
    • Exanthema slow to appear, when: Zinc
    • Kneeling in church while: Sep
  42. Unfeeling:
    • Anac
  43. Violent Pain:
    • From: Aur, Cham, Hep
  44. Weeping:
    • Thanked when: Lyco

VERTIGO

  1. Fall:
    • Looking down on: Spig
    • Rising from bed: Rhus-t
  2. Fullness:
    • Aching in vertex: Cimic
  3. Looking:
    • With eyes turned: Spig
  4. Lying:
    • As if they did not touch the bed: Lac-c
  5. Nausea:
    • Periodic: Nat-m
  6. Syphilitic:
    • Aur
  7. Tea after:
    • Nat-m, Sep
  8. Watching:
    • And loss of sleep: Cocc, Nux-v

Q: What is single remedy 3-mark rubrics in Kent’s Repertory, and why are they significant in homeopathy?

A: Single remedy 3-mark rubrics are specific indicators in Kent’s Repertory that help homeopathic practitioners select the most appropriate remedy for a patient. They carry a higher weightage due to their relevance and accuracy in matching symptoms to remedies. These rubrics are essential in guiding precise and effective homeopathic treatments.

HEAD

  1. Air or Wind:
    • Rocking on: Cor-r
  2. Coldness:
    • Heated from being: Carb-v
    • Waking in cold air: Carb-v
  3. Congestion:
    • Excitement after a pleasant surprise: Coff
  4. Dandruff:
    • Yellow: Kali-s
  5. Enlarged Sensation:
    • During pregnancy: Arg-n
  6. Eruptions:
    • Brown: Dulc
    • White with thick white pus beneath: Mez
    • Scales, washing amel: Graph
  7. Fullness:
    • Descending on: Bor
  8. Hair Falling:
    • During pregnancy: Lach
  9. Heat:
    • Vertex, menopause, during: Lach
  10. Pain:
    • Ironing from: Bry
    • Extending frontal sinus: Spig
    • Nail, as if from a pressure amel: Thuj
  11. Perspiration:
    • Washing after: Graph
  12. Pulsating:
    • Occiput, standing amel: Camph
  13. Ulcers:
    • Occiput on: Sil

EYE

  1. Cataract:
    • Cortical: Sulph
  2. Closed:
    • In melancholia: Arg-n
  3. Discharges:
    • Acrid water: Cham
  4. Dryness:
    • Looking at bright light: Mang
  5. Dullness:
    • Sexual excesses: Staph
  6. Enlargement:
    • Right feels larger than the left: Como
  7. Eruptions:
    • Eyebrows itching: Nat-m
  8. Inflammation:
    • Burns from fire: Canth
    • Being over cold air and cold applications amel: Arg-n
    • Washing agg: Sulph
    • Wind, dry cold: Acon
  9. Pain:
    • Extending to frontal sinus: Spig
  10. Photophobia:
    • Evening 6-8 pm: Caust
    • Warm room agg: Arg-n
  11. Tears:
    • Bland: All-c
  12. Tumors:
    • Tarsal, repeated styes after: Sep
  13. Ulceration:
    • Cornea right to left: Con
  14. Weak:
    • Coition after: Kali-c

VISION

  1. Colors:
    • Black, flickering: Lach
    • Gray, serpent-like bodies: Arg-n
    • Violet: Cina
  2. Flickering:
    • Morning headache with: Cycl
    • Colors, various: Cycl
  3. Focal:
    • Hemiopia in: Aur
  4. Foggy:
    • Rubbing amel: Puls
  5. Illusions:
    • Falling asleep, when: Phos
  6. Loss of Vision:
    • Reading while: Brom
  7. Weak:
    • Evening, using agg: Apis

EAR

  1. Discharges:
    • White, milky: Kali-chl
  2. Discoloration:
    • Redness, chilblains: Agar
  3. Eruptions:
    • Lobes, vesicles caused by the discharge: Tell
  4. Noises:
    • Epileptic fit before: Hyos
    • Swashing on swallowing: Calc
  5. Wax:
    • Pale: Lach

HEARING

  1. Acute:
    • Water, running: Lyss
  2. Illusions:
    • As if tone comes from another world: Carb-an
  3. Impaired:
    • Noise amel: Graph
  4. Lost:
    • Scarlet fever after: Lyc

Q: Are single remedy 3-mark rubrics suitable for newcomers to homeopathy?

A: Absolutely! While beginners may initially find rubrics and repertories overwhelming, understanding 3-mark rubrics can simplify the process of remedy selection. They provide a clear path for newcomers to learn and apply homeopathic principles effectively.

NOSE

  1. Blow:
    • Compelled, sensation of a large body in nose: Teucr
  2. Coryza:
    • Discharge with cough and expectoration: Euphr
    • Alternating sides: Lac-c
    • Peaches, from the odor of: All-c
  3. Discharge:
    • Crusts, detached easily, but if pulled away too soon causes soreness at the root and intolerance to light: Kali-bi
  4. Dryness:
    • Suppressed foot sweat, after: Sil
  5. Epistaxis:
    • Alternating with spitting of blood: Ferr
    • Hemorrhoids, with: Sep
    • Hot weather: Croc
    • Perspiration with: Phos
  6. Heat:
    • Air expelled feels hot: Kali-bi
  7. Obstruction:
    • Foot sweat suppressed from: Sil
  8. Smell:
    • Headache, during: Phos
    • Sensitive to the odor of eggs: Colch
    • Gas causes vertigo: Nux-v, Phos
  9. Sneezing:
    • Sleep, wakes from: Am-m
  10. Swelling:
    • Knotty: Ars, Aur
  11. Ulcers:
    • Painful: Sil

FACE

  1. Coldness:
    • Sense of: Plat
    • Lower jaw: Plat
  2. Discoloration:
    • Bluish lips, convulsions during: Nux-v
    • Red, dysmenorrhea during: Xan
    • Red, shivering while: Arn
    • Yellow, saddles across cheeks: Sep
  3. Distortion:
    • Swallowing, when: Nit-ac
  4. Eruptions:
    • Acne-rosacea, groups in: Caust
    • Eczema, heat of stove: Ant-c
    • Eczema, margins of hair: Sulph
  5. Erysipelas:
    • Periodic: Apis
  6. Excoriated Lips:
    • From acrid saliva: Nit-ac
  7. Inflammation:
    • Parotid gland, metastasis to mammary glands: Puls
  8. Pain:
    • Coffee abuse of: Nux-v
  9. Paralysis:
    • Wet after getting: Caust
  10. Stiffness:
    • Cough during: Ipecac
  11. Wrinkled:
    • Forehead, chest symptoms with: Lyc

BACK

  1. Abscess:
    • Cervical, old cicatrices: Sil
  2. Coldness:
    • Sacral, extending upwards: Sulph
  3. Concussion of Spine:
    • Hyper
  4. Curvature:
    • Lies on back with limbs drawn up: Merc-c
  5. Formication:
    • Extending to limbs: Phos
  6. Injuries:
    • Lifting from: Calc, Rhustox
  7. Numbness:
    • Coccyx, sitting while: Plat
  8. Perspiration:
    • Motion on: China
  9. Paralysis:
    • Spine: Aesc
  10. Stiffness:
    • Draft from: Rhus t
  11. Weakness:
    • Emissions after: Sel
    • Typhoid fever, after: Sel
    • Cervical, waiting while: Zinc

CHEST

  1. Abscess:
    • Mammary, threatening or old cicatrices: Graph, Phyt
  2. Anxiety:
    • Excitement agg: Phos
    • Lying on left side, while: Puls
  3. Cancer:
    • Mammary, cicatrices in old: Graph
  4. Cease:
    • Fear unless constantly on the move the heart will cease: Gels
  5. Cicatrices:
    • Suppurating: Sil
  6. Eruptions:
    • Mammary, herpes: Caust
  7. Inflammation:
    • Lungs, menses suppressed: Puls
    • Sycotic pneumonia: Nat-s
  8. Orgasm:
    • Exertion, least: Spong
  9. Palpitation:
    • Chill before: Chin
    • Sighing amel: Arg-m
    • Speak, unable to: Naja
  10. Weakness:
    • After expectoration: Stann
    • Singing on beginning to: Stann
    • Waking on: Carb-v

GENITALIA – Male

  1. Atrophy:
    • Testes, sexual excesses after: Staph
  2. Condylomata:
    • Penis, butter nut-shaped hard growth on the dorsum of the penis: Sabin
    • Penis, prepuce, fraenum: Cinnb
  3. Erections:
    • Wanting, penis relaxed when excited: Calad
  4. Hair:
    • Offensive sweat from: Sulph
  5. Hydrocele:
    • Herpetic eruptions with: Graph
  6. Induration:
    • Scrotum: Rhus-t, Sulph
  7. Itching:
    • Scrotum, voluptuous: Staph
  8. Sexual Passion:
    • Excessive, complaints from: Lyss
    • Wanting, fleshy people: Kali-bi
  9. Ulcers:
    • Penis, serpiginous: Ars
    • Spreading: Ars, Merc-c

GENITALIA – Female

  1. Abortion:
    • Excitement: Gels
  2. Condylomata:
    • Cauliflower-like: Nit-ac
    • Soft, red, and fleshy: Nat-s
  3. Constriction:
    • Vagina, touch from: Cact
  4. Desire:
    • Widows: Apis, Orig
  5. Eruptions:
    • Erysipelatous: Rhus-t
  6. Hardness:
    • Ovaries, right: Apis
  7. Itching:
    • Urine contact of, agg: Merc
  8. Leucorrhoea:
    • Lying while: Puls
  9. Menses:
    • Changeable in appearance: Puls
    • Copious, excitement after: Calc
    • Painful climaxis, near: Psor
    • Suppressed, grief from: Ign
  10. Pain:
    • Bearing down, ovaries, standing while: Lil-t
  11. Prolapsus:
    • Afternoon: Sep

Q: How can I navigate Kent’s Repertory to find these valuable rubrics?

A: Kent’s Repertory is a comprehensive resource. To find 3-mark rubrics, start by understanding the structure of the repertory. Learn how to browse, cross-reference, and use its index. Familiarizing yourself with its layout will make it easier to locate and utilize these rubrics.

COUGH

  1. Breathing:
    • Irregular, from: Rumx
  2. Dry:
    • Chronic dry cough in pining boys: Lyc
    • Chronic in scrofulous children: Bar-m
    • Emaciated boys: Lyc
  3. Eructations:
    • Amel: Sang
  4. Exhausting Night:
    • Sleep disturbing: Puls
  5. Flatus:
    • Passing amel: Sang
  6. Paroxysmal:
    • Uninterrupted paroxysms: Cupr
  7. Rattling:
    • Hoarseness without: Kali-s
  8. Sit Up:
    • And cough it out when had rest: Con
  9. Spasmodic:
    • Whooping cough after: Sang
  10. Tickling:
    • Lying while: Dros
  11. Uncovering:
    • Feet and hand: Sil
  12. Wind:
    • West in the: Hep

EXPECTORATION

  1. Bloody:
    • Menses before: Zinc
  2. Difficult:
    • Adhering to throat, teeth, and lips: Kali-bi
  3. Hawked Up Bloody Water:
    • Gels
  4. White, Opaque:
    • Kali-chlo

SLEEP

  1. Sleepiness:
    • Twilight: AMM.M
  2. Sleeplessness:
    • Midnight from 3 to 5 a.m, from heat: BORAX
    • Conversation after: AMBRA
    • Home sickness from: CAPS
    • Joy excessive: COFF
    • Mental strain after: NUX.V
    • Retiring after, but sleepy before: AMBR
    • Weariness from: ARS
    • Waking with cold limbs: CARB.V
    • Waking with perspiration: CON

CHILL

  1. Morning:
    • Menses during after faintness: NUX.V
    • 4 a.m. followed by sweat: CEDRON
  2. Chilliness:
    • Evening, wakes as often as she: AMM.M
    • Frequent attacks with intermediate sleep: NUX.V
  3. Icy Coldness:
    • Cannot bear to be covered, body with clammy sweat and blueness: SEC
    • Internal evening worse lying down: HELL
  4. Quartan:
    • With constant diarrhea, on the day free from fever: IOD
  5. Shaking:
    • Inspiring on: BROM
  6. Time:
    • 11 a.m. one day and 11 p.m. next: CACT
  7. Warm:
    • Smothering in: APIS

FEVER

  1. Afternoon:
    • 2 p.m. followed by chill at 4 p.m.: PULS
  2. Burning Heat:
    • Forenoon 9 to 12: CHAM
    • Several hours: LYC
    • With chilliness: BELL
    • Outside, cold inside: ARS
    • Spreading from the hands over the whole body: CHEL
  3. Changing:
    • No two paroxysms alike: PULS
  4. Chill:
    • Forenoon 9 to 12 a.m.: CHAM
    • Afternoon 1 to 2 p.m.: ARS
    • Afternoon 2 p.m.: PULS
    • Absent at night: ARS
    • Absent night 12 to 2 a.m.: ARS
  5. Dry Heat:
    • Distended veins and burning hands seeking out cool places: PULS
    • Night, spasmodic gagging with: CIMX
    • Outside, cold inside: ARS

PERSPIRATION

  1. Daytime:
    • Awake while: SAMB
    • Closing the eyes when: CON
    • Nausea and languor with: MERC
  2. Evening:
    • 7 a.m. to 1 a.m.: SAMB
  3. Night:
    • Lasting all night with loquacity: PULS
  4. Odor:
    • Sweet odor of the feet: PETR
  5. Sweat in Axillae:
    • Sensation of: TEUCR
  6. Warm:
    • Agg: AMBRA

EXTREMITIES

  1. Coldness:
    • Feet, calms coughing: Kali-c
    • Right hand amel: Bor
  2. Cramps:
    • Convulsions during: Ign
    • Menses before: Zinc
    • Suppressed menses, during: Puls
  3. Heat:
    • Swelling of the limbs during: Kali-bi
  4. Inflammation:
    • Hip, puerperal: Puls
    • Suppressed eruption: Merc
  5. Itching:
    • Alternating with: Merc-c
    • Warm, amel: Apis
  6. Numbness:
    • Uterine colic: Plat
  7. Pain:
    • 3 a.m., sharp pains: Calc
    • 5 a.m., beginning after: Kali-c
    • Amel perspiration: Amm-m
    • Bending leg agg: Rhus-t
    • Hip joint, extending into: Bell
    • Hip joint, walking amel: Phos
    • Internal, joints: Bov
    • Kicking, amel: Caust
    • Legs, bending the, as soon as they begin to: Rhus-t
    • Paroxysms, in: Zinc
    • Running, amel: Calad
    • Sitting, amel: Lac-c
    • Stooping, amel: Apis
    • Tearing, exudations of: Sulph
    • Walking, while: Apis
    • Walking, amel: Phos
  8. Perspiration:
    • Foot, old foot sweat suppressed: Sil
  9. Restlessness:
    • With: Cham
  10. Swelling:
    • Uterus, retention of urine from: Hyos

SKIN

  1. Abscess:
    • Heals, prevents from: Phos
    • Pus, deficient: Sil
    • Suppurating: Carb-v
  2. Coldness:
    • Desires to be fanned during: Ars
    • Motion amel: Ars
    • Walking amel: Ars
  3. Eruptions:
    • Breast, herpetic: Rhus-t
    • Horny plates, evening: Am-m
    • Margins of hair, scalp: Sulph
    • White scales amel from washing: Graph
  4. Exudations:
    • Profuse, watery: Kreos
  5. Formication:
    • Cold, in: Bor
  6. Induration:
    • Scars: Thuj
  7. Itching:
    • Amm-m
    • Evening before lying down: Sulph
    • Old, when lying down: Lyc
    • Spot agg: Lach
  8. Pain:
    • As if scalded, itching when: Hep
    • As if sand in: Carb-v
  9. Sensation:
    • Bruised, amel from washing: Kreos
    • Glands, swollen, suppurating: Carb-v
  10. Sweating:
    • Moisture on upper lip, with: Ant-t
  11. Swelling:
    • Sensitive, erysipelatous, when pressed upon: Apis
  12. Ulcers:
    • Blackened edges: Ars
    • Gnawing at edges: Nit-ac
    • Old: Sil

GENERALS

  1. Cold:
    • As if lying on a cold stone: Sulph
  2. Eruptions:
    • Eruptions and discharges: Alum
  3. Inflammation:
    • Intense, with suppuration: Hep
  4. Injuries:
    • Splinters, needles, when steel or glass is embedded: Hep
  5. Lies on Back:
    • As if nothing soft could touch him: Sec
  6. Motion:
    • Agg: Bry
  7. Music:
    • Music in the air: Cann-i
  8. Sensations:
    • Swelling in spots and lumps: Aur
  9. Suppression:
    • Frequently an absolute: Chin
  10. Weariness:
    • Morning on waking: Phos

FAQs

Q: Are single remedy 3-mark rubrics a recent development in homeopathy?

A: No, these rubrics have been a part of Kent’s Repertory for many years. They have consistently proven their significance in guiding homeopathic treatments.

Q: Can I use 3-mark rubrics as a primary tool for selecting remedies?

A: While 3-mark rubrics are highly valuable, they are most effective when used in conjunction with a holistic assessment of the patient’s symptoms and overall health.

Q: Are there any online resources or software that can assist in accessing 3-mark rubrics in Kent’s Repertory?

A: Yes, there are several homeopathic software programs and online repertories that offer easy access to 3-mark rubrics, simplifying the remedy selection process.

Q: How can I stay updated on the latest developments in homeopathy, including insights on rubrics and remedies?

A: Engaging with homeopathic communities, attending seminars, and subscribing to reputable homeopathic journals and websites are excellent ways to stay informed and continually enhance your knowledge in the field.

Remember that homeopathic remedies should be prescribed by a qualified homeopathic practitioner based on a thorough evaluation of the patient’s symptoms and individual constitution. This list is for educational purposes and should not be used for self-treatment.