Introduction “Darkness or absence of light is ignorance. From that total unknown, the character of the ailment (patient) emerges slowly through observation and information till it becomes clear as white, which leads to the concept of remedies”. Over a period of past two decades, my books “The Spirit of Homoeopathy” and “The Substance of Homoeopathy” have achieved much popularity. These books, written to introduce students of Homoeopathy to my line of thinking are not, and were never intended to be, texts of Materia Medica. With that view I had decided that I might as well write a book in my own style to convey my own experience. Install Windows Xp On Ibook G3. The material presented here has been observed and confirmed in my own practice; it is material I am sure of. I have not included remedies of which I have little experience or knowledge.

I have attempted to convey the innermost feeling or the basic delusion of the remedy while connecting the situation, source, miasm and kingdom. The rubrics and physical symptoms cited are ones which I have observed repeatedly and often used to confirm the remedy prescribed. These ideas have helped me in my clinical practice and I wish to share them with the profession. There is a common misconception to the effect that I stress mental and emotional symptoms to the exclusion of physical symptoms.

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This is, I repeat, a misconception. If I often seem to speak exclusively of the mental/emotional state, it is because understanding this requires some degree of insight into the patient as well as into the remedy and it is more difficult than noting physical symptoms. Nonetheless, in practice I give a lot of importance to the physical symptoms, to the meaning of the pathology, and to the modalities which have to be matched with those of the remedy. Giving a remedy solely on a vague idea of the mental picture is a prescription for failure. Such an approach is risky and certainly not one that I follow nor recommend. The ideas presented in this book are not superficial: they are not mere hints.

I have tried to bring out the innermost feelings of the remedy and it is not easy to discover these in patients other than by artistic case-taking which delves deeply into such things as the patients’ delusions, dreams, hobbies, etc. What appears on the surface may be quite different from what is actually inside. For example, I had a case in which the expression was one of stage fright, but I observed that, in that situation, the patient’s reaction, tremendous panic and fear, was as if he was about to be killed.

My idea of understanding a remedy is to grasp the connection that ties together its myriad symptoms: the basic delusion, its source (kingdom), the miasm to which it belongs, its symptoms – all must be understood as aspects of a single whole if we are to even begin to truly understand a remedy. It is my attempt to trace out these connections that distinguishes this work from other Materia Medicas. I believe, for example, that the “connecting link” in Sepia is the feeling that she is forced to do something against her intention. In the section on Sepia I try to show how this “link” connects every aspect of the remedy.